bernie vs hillary cheat sheet v 9
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What are Socialism & Social Democracy?
There are several related but different
definitions of socialism (i.e. Merriam-Webster,
Heritage, Oxford, etc). Some definitions of
socialism consider regulation to be socialism,and therefore include anything from Cuban
Communism to Canadian ‘social democracy’.
Under any of these definitions, Socialism is
a very broad term. Republicans like to refer to
Communist countries as Socialist, so they
can lump them all together, but it doesn’t
make sense to lump Cuba and Canada
together.
All of the world’s top democratic economies
are ‘social democratic’: they combine a free
market with extensive government regulationand government healthcare and welfare
programs. The US isn’t as social democratic
as Canada, the UK, or Japan, but we already
are social democratic in many ways.
Is Hillary Clinton a progressive leader?
Unlike Bernie, Hillary supported:
● NAFTA for 12 years & TPP for 3
● DOMA for 8 years
● the Iraq war authorization● the 1996 bill that crippled welfare,
threw 1 million kids into extreme
poverty, & was repudiated by the
Children’s Defense Fund.
Bill Clinton passed the CFMA & FSMA that
deregulated Wall Street and repealed
Glass-Steagall. Hillary failed to address this
as a Senator, from 2000 until the 2008 crisis.
She laughably says she “told Wall Street to
cut it out”, but that’s not a concrete action.
Hillary recently copied Bernie’s free publiccollege & university tuition idea (with some
modifications), Bernie’s public infrastructure-
repair jobs plan,& his call for criminal reform,
suspiciously shortly after he unveiled them.
Is Hillary Clinton honest?
Her most egregious lies were about:
● being under sniper fire in Bosnia
● her past NAFTA support
Sometimes people lie by assuming
something or guessing incorrectly. These lies
were about important things in her own past,
so Hillary knew she was lying . After having
supported NAFTA for 12 years, in 2008
Hillary insisted she’d always been a critic of
it, and angrily accused Obama of ‘Karl-Rove’
tactics for criticizing her past NAFTA support.
Does Hillary flip-flop or “evolve”?
Hillary hasn’t led on tough issues & doesn’t
fight politically risky battles. She often takes
the establishment side (i.e. Iraq, NAFTA,
TPP, DOMA, WallSt deregulation) or no side
(KeystoneXL),& switches sides(“evolves”)
once her side loses, or the outcome of the
battle for Democratic consensus seems clear.
Hillary is consistently pro-choice, but that has
an overwhelming Democratic consensus, and
abortion is legal, so that battle was already
won, and Hillary didn’t win or lead that battle.
Are the Clinton scandals ALL made-up?
Just because Republicans say something,
that doesn’t automatically make it false.
Jimmy Carter called Bill Clinton’s Marc Rich
pardon “disgraceful”, & Barney Frank called it“contemptuous”. Hillary (like Bill) has a long
record of legal improprieties & unethical and
borderline-illegal behavior, including her
unsecure Secretary of State private email
server, and accepting campaign donations
from the wife of FBI-most-wanted-list fugitive
Marc Rich, shortly before Bill pardoned him.
What has Hillary said about Obama?
“Sen. John McCain has a lifetime of
experience that he'd bring to the White
House. And Sen. Obama has a speech hegave in 2002."
"So shame on you, Barack Obama. It is time
you ran a campaign consistent with your
messages in public.”
“Enough with the speeches and the big
rallies, and then using tactics that are right
out of Karl Rove’s playbook!”
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Are Republicans Socialist too?
Yes, most of them are. Here are some of the
things most Republicans support:
● mortgage & dependent deductions
● a non-flat (“progressive”) tax rate
● property taxes & public schools
● state colleges and state highways
● social security
● medicare & medicare part D
● minimum wage laws
● minimum schooling laws
● work overtime laws
● child labor laws
● work safety laws● environmental laws
● clean air and water laws
● consumer safety laws
● automobile emissions and fuel
efficiency laws
● electrical appliance safety laws
● mine safety laws
● building codes
Do we have a rigged economy?
This is what conservative hero Ayn Rand said
about conservative hero Ronald Reagan:
“Mr. Reagan is not a champion of
capitalism, but a conservative in the worst
sense of that word—i.e., an advocate of a
mixed economy with government controls
slanted in favor of business rather than
labor (which, philosophically, is as untenable
a position as one could choose—see Fred
Kinnan in Atlas Shrugged, pp. 541-2). This
description applies in various degrees to
most Republican politicians, but most of
them preserve some respect for the rights ofthe individual. Mr. Reagan does not: he
opposes the right to abortion.”
Republicans support socialism for the rich,
like farm and oil subsidies, corporate
subsidies, bank bailouts, business incentives,
tax loopholes, investment earnings
preferential tax treatment, etc.
What do Republicans have nostalgia for?
Republicans have nostalgia for a time when
there was very little government regulation
protecting poor and working people. These
are some of the things from those times, that
regulation and socialism have fortunately
largely gotten rid of:
● women and children working
16-hour-a-day factory jobs for poverty
wages (no child labor, minimum wage
or overtime work laws)
● children dropping out of school to
earn money for their families (nominimum schooling laws)
● only the rich could afford to go to
college (no federal student loans)
● low social mobility due to low
education levels among the poor and
middle class
● abusive or dangerous work conditions
Weird Republican arguments
Republicans love to talk about American
exceptionalism. Even though 19 of the top
20 industrialized countries guarantee health
care to all their citizens and most have
substantially lower per-capita healthcare
costs than the US, Republicans say the US
can’t afford universal healthcare. That seems
like reverse American exceptionalism, saying
that the US isn’t capable of doing what
almost everyone else does.
Another common Republican argument is
that Socialism implies or leads to Nazism(National Socialism). But, just because the
Nazi party was socialist, doesn’t mean
socialists or social democracies (like Israel,
UK, Germany, Japan, Canada, etc) are Nazi,
or moving towards Nazism. Just like all men
being mammals, doesn’t mean all mammals
are men.