The Case for Bernie Part IV (on feminism and other concerns)

I could say more about Hillary's non progressive record (The Patriot Act! Sexual and reproductive health! a live and let live attitude towards Wall Street!) but there is really no point, Hillary is basically a moderate-to-conservative Democrat, and from a left wing policy position is bad.

The Case for Bernie (Part III, or: 1,846,850 Children)

Now, you may be be thinking,  Jacob, while that last section was certainly interesting, you seem to be conflating Hillary with her husband, isn't that pretty sexist? You're absolutely right, it would pretty sexist, Hillary is her own person after all!  The problem with this argument is that the Clintons were always a team. Hillary encouraged Bill's mind meld with the DLC, and is actually the more conservative of the two. A close friend of hers once noted "It’s not true that she is the liberal one... the idea is that you work for everything, she believes in personal responsibility" Therefore its totally valid for a critique of Hillary to include the skeletons of the first Clinton administration.

And what skeletons they were! The 1994 Crime bill . (Honesty forces me to point out that Sanders voted for it as a member of the House- but specifically because of its Violence Against Women provisions- and was opposed to most everything else) DADT, DOMA, Iraqi Sanctions, Economic Deregulation, but I want to focus more in depth on one aspect of the Clinton record: The 1996 Welfare Reform Act.

The Case for Bernie (Part II)

But its not just in land beyond our borders would a Hillary presidency cause more misery then a Bernie presidency, but at home as well. To see why we must travel back in time to the year 1992.
That year's top film was Aladdin, the Simpsons were airing seasons three and four, I was all of a year old, and a smooth talking saxophone playing probable rapist named Bill Clinton was running for President.

(This following section is indebted to two pieces: "Atari Democrats" By Lily Geismer and "The Clintons' War on Drugs: When Black Lives Didn't Matter" by Donna Murch.  I can not recommend them highly enough.  Assume that any information not otherwise cited comes from those writings.)

The Case for Bernie (Part I)

There is a Ta-Nehisi Coates tweet that I think about way too often:

 When America acts innocent people die. Now are some of those actions necessary? Sure. Allied bombing campaigns in the European Theater killed maybe 600,000 noncombatants during the Second World War.  But when your opponent murders over twelve million people, it is hard to say that we didn't take the right course.
 How often though is that really the case? Yes, we had to drive old Dixie down. Bosnia? Kosovo? I would argue in the affirmative. Other then that though...