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“Are you really going to vote for Clinton just because she isn’t Trump?”

Yes? I would literally elect Chef Boyardee because he isn’t Trump.

Why you should Vote for Hillary if you are a Bernie supporter

College costs:

Bernie:  Free.  Hillary:  Significantly cheaper than currently, free for those who need it.  Trump:  Defrauded poor and working class people for 10s of thousands of dollars of tuition.

Minimum wage:

Bernie: 15   Hillary:  12-15  Trump:  Imported undocumented workers and underpaid them to work on his projects.  Currently makes his clothing line in China for tiny wages.

Foreign wars:  Bernie:  Probably not.  Hillary:  As prudent.  Trump:  NUCLEAR FUCKING PROLIFERATION!!! NOW!!!

Immigration:  Hillary and Bernie:  Path to citizenship.  Trump:  THROW THEM OUT! BUILD A WALL!

Taxes:  Bernie:  Deep tax increases on the wealthy (and middle class).  Hillary:  Some tax increases on the wealthy.  Trump:  Cut’em.  Cut’em all!

Racism:  Bernie:  Solving income inequality will solve racism.  Hillary:  we need a good plan to increase opportunities to minorities beyond solving income inequality.  Trump:  Yeah, dun care.

Sexism:  Bernie:  Solving income inequality will solve sexism.  Hillary:  Full support of all equal rights issues.  Trump:  Ladies, all your vag are belong to me (no fatties).

Gun control:  Bernie:  Mayyyyyybbbie, if you convince me hard enough.  Hillary:  Yep.  Trump:  Shoot’em if you gott’em.

Please do not listen to 25 years of GOP propaganda.  Hillary has worked on progressive causes for 40 years.  She was the 11th most liberal senator while in the Senate. Due to Republican hatred, she is the most investigated person in the country and nothing has ever come of it.  She is not a criminal, she could not be a criminal, they would have found something they could have trumped up charges on in 25 years of endless, ongoing investigations.  She’s been abused by the GOP and burned by the press over and over and is still pursuing her goal.  She is smart and ambitious and experienced and tenacious and knowledgeable and practical and none of those are bad things for a President.  Jill Stein may be a nice woman, but she has no governmental experience and practically no platform.  Gary Johnson is a Republican who cares less about social issues.  Hillary and Bernie have more politically in common than any other candidates.    Please, if you care about the issues that Bernie cares about, think about voting Hillary.

I’m a Bernie supporter but its a cold day in hell I’ll let Trump win the presidency

reassuring to hear

“Jill Stein has practically no platform.” You see this kind of ignorance is why Barack Obama let you down so hard after 8 years.

College Costs: free and student debt abolished.

Foreign Wars: AHAHAHAHAHA no. Fuck, we’ll even cut the military budget in half to fund college costs. Oh, and rejoining the anti-missile treaty that we walked out on.

Minimum Wage: Why stop there? Why not minimum guaranteed income?

Taxes: Rich pay their fair share, tax cuts for working-class and middle-class families and use it to actually get to building infrastructure.

Racism: Official recognition of Black Lives Matter. End the racist War on Drugs.

Sexism: Officially end discrimination on gender.

Gun Control: Had to find this one separately, but FUCK YES.

More on the platform link above. When his own followers Felt The Bern, well, at least there’s an alternative.

Obama has accomplished a great deal of what he promised to do upon taking office, and he’s done it despite years of congressional sabotage, some of it arguably treasonous. We can expect conservatives to fight progressive reforms every single step of the way for the foreseeable future. A president isn’t a monarch that can do whatever they like, and therefore succeeds or fails entirely on their own merit, they have to continuously negotiate with congress and the senate and the other heads of states to get anything done at all. 

This is why, even though Jill Stein has a platform I personally fucking love, she’s massively unqualified to be president and therefore unlikely to accomplish any of it. She has no political experience, no political connections. She has never held any office. She’s served on a couple activist and research boards, she’s started a couple nonprofits, and that’s awesome. But she’s never even been a governor. She’s never even been mayor.

Hillary Clinton is moderate, and that sucks, but she’s got some pretty socially progressive goals, and that’s cool, and she’s trended more progressive over time, which is great. She seems pretty serious about representative democracy. She’s also been the first female chair of a legal services corporation, first female parter of a law firm, first lady of arkansas, first lady of the united states, first female senator for new york, and 67th secretary of state. She knows how to do politics. She knows how to do politics while being a woman, often the first woman, and she’s done it all well enough to keep going. 

I’d rather a president I agreed with on half the stuff, who got that half of the stuff done, than a president I agreed with on all the stuff, who got nothing done. There is no viable alternative to Hillary. 

reblogging to support and reiterate what roach said: hillary clinton knows how to do the work. the president is not a figurehead or a dictator or a mere celebrity. they are a public servant with a very difficult and time-consuming job, and experience matters.

i rooted for bernie as hard as anyone, but hillary is not merely the lesser of two evils, she has the potential to be a really good thing for us. no president is ever able to enact their entire platform. hillary has a chance at enacting the most important parts of it. she knows how to build consensus and avoid being roadblocked.

don’t doubt that the republicans in congress are going to be digging in their heels as hard as they can. we need someone who is experienced, stubborn, confident, well-connected, and a little bit slytherin, or they’re going to deadlock our government for four years.

vote hillary. she will get shit done.