Some people are really, really good at talking about talking about problems, and so forth. But they rarely offer solutions.That’s kinda like Bernie Sanders. He talks about issues people can relate to, but he doesn’t have a plan or a history of resolving issues. For the average person that may be somewhat acceptable, but this man is running for the highest office in the free world, president of the United States.
Bernie Sanders describes himself as a Socialist. He also would have you know he’s not a Democrat. if he’s not a Democrat but he’s running as a Democrat, that makes him an opportunist.
The problem with Socialists is they don’t live in the real world. In their world, with pink elephants and orange skies, the government and business are the enemy. Yet, nearly every Socialist government on the planet, that isn’t an economic basket case, has embraced capitalism and business to make progress, the very things Sanders has been railing against.
Socialists believe, naively, that the working poor and non-working poor are natural allies. In theory, that could be true. But try telling that to Trump's dirt-poor white supporters and how they have more in common with Blacks than millionaires and billionaires. Socialist doctrine, founded on an English model, failed to properly weigh the impact and the role of racism in their imaginary class struggle.
Sander’s appeal to younger Americans is somewhat understandable, because they do not have a grasp of history nor do they seem to care things that happened before they were born.
Sanders, in a recent interview with the New York Daily News, came across as someone long on rhetoric but short on ways to turn his rhetoric into reality. For example, Sanders has touted a need to break up banks. The Daily News asked him how he would accomplish that as president.
Sanders replied, “How you go about doing it is having legislation passed, or giving the authority to the secretary of treasury to determine, under Dodd-Frank, that these banks are a danger to the economy over the problem of too-big-to-fail.”
Sanders is delusional if he thinks a US Senate and House of Representatives, now mostly Republican led, will pass legislation that will break up banks. Even if the impossible became possible, Sanders revealed in the interview that he is clueless about the consequences of such a breakup and its impact on the economy. Banks employ hundreds of thousands of workers. What effect will their lost jobs have on the economy? Sanders never considered those consequences.
Sanders cannot unite with fellow Democrats, yet he wants his supporters to believe he can convince a mostly conservative Republican congress to accept his socialist proposals.
He talks about free tuition. It’s a nice idea, but he doesn’t address how it will be paid for nor how he intends to accomplish it. He’s telling people what they want to hear. Like Trump and Cruz in the Republican Party, Sanders is moving the Democrats farther to the left. With extremes on the left and extremes on the right, this country is bound to face stalemate after stalemate.
Bernie Sanders is probably a decent man, and most Democrats probably agree with much of what he’s saying to some degree. But Hillary is more electable and is the best person to defeat Trump. Hillary also is progressive. Sanders supporters may not get everything they want by voting for Hillary, but they could get much of it, and they could virtually guarantee neither Trump nor Cruz was elected. This election is crucial, and it demands shrewd political actions.
By continuing his no-win strategy and attacking Hillary to the degree he is doing, he is hurting the Democrats’ chance to defeat Trump.
Donald Trump has been caught in so many lies that Politifact, a Pulitizer Prize-winning organization that reviews what candidates say, concluded 76 percent of Trump’s statements are “mostly false,” “false,” or “pants-on-fire” false, which is to say his statements are off the chart false.
Republicans have fixated on Hillary Clinton’s emails for months now with no evidence she did anything wrong or that she lied about anything. Yet Trump has been caught in lie after lie. On March 7, Trump declared, “I’m self-funding my campaign. I’m not taking money. ... I’m not taking. I spent a lot of money. I don’t take.” But on Jan. 31, Trump’s campaign accepted $7.5 million from donors.
In February, after his Nevada win, Trump claimed he is “number one with Hispanics.” But 93 percent of the Latinos in Nevada didn’t vote for Trump. A Washington Post-Univision poll in February found that 80% of registered Hispanic voters viewed Trump unfavorably.
On November 23: Trump claimed 81 percent of murdered white people were killed by black people. The truth is 84 percent of murdered white people are murdered by other white people. Trump cited the “Crime Statistics Bureau in San Francisco” as his source. But no such bureau exists. It’s a false bureau created by a white supremacist on Twitter.
In the last presidential election, Trump chided Mitt Romney for not releasing his tax returns. But in the 2016 presidential campaign, Trump has refused to release his own tax returns. He is the first major candidate in 40 years to refuse to release his tax returns. Tax returns would reveal a lot about Trump’s finances—and whether he is as rich as he claims. That could be a reason why he has repeatedly failed to release his tax returns.
In an interview, ABC’s This Week, asked Trump what tax rate he pays. Trump replied, “It’s none of your business.”
Trump has been allowed to get away with his repeated lies because the mainstream media has allowed him to get away with it. They have refused to push Trump on his lies. They have allowed him to simply call in on interview programs, which breaks tradition.
Like his supporters, the mainstream media have treated Trump with an unbelievable and unprecedented amount of deference. In their slavish pursuit of ratings, the mainstream media have helped to create Trump. They’ve failed to hold him to the same standards they’ve held other politicians/entertainers.
The public needs to make it’s voice known to the media, and it needs to make its voice known at the ballot box.