Posted by: ne0 March 2, 2016
Why Bernie is the only sensible candidate
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I really respect anyone's support for Hillary. I do like Hillary as a strong person but that is not the only thing that's important in a presidential election. I know of this one guy who got to take a picture with Hillary and has become a hard core supporter just because she smiled in the picture with him! With that same logic he would be a hard core fan of Hitler if Hitler shook hands with patted him on the back and took a picture with him. LOL.

At this crucial time in the history of US, we need to think a bit more than to let emotions guide our choices.

Clinton may have promised many policies which may allow us to maintain the status quo which is actually decreasing middle class, perpetual wars, untrustworthy pharmaceutical and food industry, increasing unnecessary incarcerations and increasing climate change. This has been going on due to politicians making decisions favorable to these industries and over the past few years we have seen this trend move at an even faster speed.

If you vote for Hillary, she will have to make some decisions that are favorable to these industries - after all she has taken millions from them she cannot just say "NO" like she says she will. We cannot be naive into believing these industries spend millions of dollars for nothing! In addition, Hillary has not been very trustworthy - from lying about sniper fire in Bosnia to flipflopping in many major issues; continuing to proliferate perpetual wars by not learning from her support for Iraq war which she has said is a mistake but she is continuing to send innocent soldiers to war in various countries and she continues to believe in regime change. As we all know she has numerous lobbyists from the Military Industrial Complex and Defense contractors who make billions of dollars off of the perpetual wars and her inclination towards more and more interventionist policies in the middle east.

This is very important specially if you have kids. The proliferation of warfare creates more enemies of the US and it will increase the chances of attacks and leave our families more vulnerable. Lot of foreign interventions are not necessary but she will have to cater to the campaign contributors and send more and more kids to war. When she has to 'pay back' the pharmaceutical and food industries, decisions can be made which results in sub-standard food and medicine which ends up in our system which can cause any number of undesirable side effects. Thirdly she will have to support the fossil fuel industries and thus make unfavorable decisions towards the ecosystem leaving the future generations high and dry. In additions when she has to 'please' her prisons-for-profit contributors, she will have to make decisions that will send more people to jail for the slightest offence.

Anyways, please think with your brain and not emotions. Bernie does not have to please any of these interest groups so his decisions will be far more beneficial to the common person than Hillary's will ever be. People are scared of change even in the face of clear and imminent danger of sticking with the status quo. So yes, it will be a difficult battle for Bernie but this is more than just an election this is really a revolution. Even though Bernie may not win, he will have lit that small spark of revolution in everyone who can reasonably think about these berning issues that will affect them now and over the years.

This video is contextual:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ex8MoJ4elIo

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