Vote for Bernie Sanders

You should vote for Bernie Sanders, in the Democratic primary.  Here's why I'm going to:

If our country is going to survive as a democracy, we've got to get money out of politics.  Bernie wants to reform the campaign finance laws, not take advantage of them.

He wants to break up the huge financial institutions that threaten our national security.  Their existence, as is, is a sword over our heads.  They take risks for which they won't have to suffer the assumed moral hazard.  Why?  Because we'll be forced to bail them out.  They're to big to fail.  They hold the whole economy hostage.

Bernie believes these thieves are criminals.  He would prosecute them, rather than continuing a two tiered system of justice, where the politically, and financially, connected get a pass and everyone else goes to jail.

Bernie wants to enact single-payer healthcare.  Medicare would be for all.  Why should we be paying the insurance companies, when we can do this better, together?  There are many other reasons I support Bernie Sanders, but these are the ones that first attracted me to him.

Actually, there is one more.  His opposition is Hillary Rodham Clinton.  In October 2002, she voted to authorize the Iraq War.  That war killed hundreds of thousands of Iraqi men, women and children.  It made refugees of millions and destroyed relics and archaelogical sites going back to ancient Ninevah, in biblical times.  Hillary Clinton now claims the war was a mistake, but she doesn't say it was her mistake.  Millions of us went into the streets to protest, on February 15, 2003, ahead of the war.  We knew it was a mistake.  Bernie Sanders knew it was a mistake.  Hillary Clinton served on the Senate Intelligence Committee.  So did Russ Feingold; he voted against the war (he was also the only Senator to vote against the Patriot Act, as did then Rep. Bernie Sanders; Hillary voted for it).  Thirteen years later and Saddam Hussein's unemployed officers are now the general staff of the Islamic State.

Hillary Clinton represents everything that is wrong with politics in our country.  She is the recipient of legalized bribery.  Why would multiple financial institutions give her and her husband millions of dollars?  Because they are such spell binding speakers?  While I assume the reason she doesn't want to release the transcripts of her speeches before Democrats vote in their primaries is because she probably mocked the Occupy Wall Street movement, comforted the well heeled audience by telling them she thought they were being unfairly maligned and assured them that she didn't believe in over regulation, the content of her speeches is really irrelevant.  It doesn't matter what she said.  The speeches were just an excuse to funnel her money.  Her husband's administration was a temporary way station for many Wall Street big wigs to sit while they directed the economy to their advantage.  Not only is there a business and political connection to Goldman Sachs, there is a familial one.  Their daughter is married to a Goldman Sachs man, and lives in a $10,500,000.00 apartment .  Are these the people that will defend us from the oligarchs?

Hillary Clinton, while incredibly well spoken, speaks with a forked tongue.  There is not a nice way to say it.  She lies.  Just in the last week, she told two whoppers.  One was that Nancy Reagan was in the vanguard of those calling for tolerance and help for AIDS victims, and the other was that Bernie Sanders was somehow AWOL when Hillary was working on a healthcare package for here husband, in the early 1990s.  As most will recall, the Reagans were not in the vanguard, but straglers, during the AIDS epidemic.  And video and still footage, as well as audio demonstrate that she bore false witness against Bernie Sanders.  And this compilation of several of her "misstatements", making the rounds this weekend, surprised even me. 

Those inclined to vote for Hillary, thinking she is the surer bet to beat the Republicans in November, need to think again.  As this data from national polls shows, Bernie would beat Trump by a wider margin than Hillary, and he is the only Democrat that would beat Cruz, Rubio or Kasich.

Vote for Bernie.