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Originally Posted by Pere
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Originally Posted by SurlyOldBroad
...Senate record (a real thing that exists that you can check out yourself)... I'll be happy when he goes back to the Senate so he can rename some post offices while actual doers can write some policy.
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Yes, check. Sanders' Congressional record is more substantive than his critics represent. Somewhere around here there's a post where I linked to Senate records. (I used to work for NGOs, have some friends in policy-related jobs now, so I read some fairly wonky stuff for a blue-collar guy in the boonies.) |
You mean like this? Sanders is a two-trick pony, and one of his tricks (Break up the banks!!!) is absolutely bereft of detail of any kind. He hasn't introduced
anything that's become law aside from the renaming of post offices because he writes shit like this:
http://www.sanders.senate.gov/downlo...eg?inline=file
This is the saddest piece of legislation I have ever seen, and is legitimately his "plan" for the banking industry. Turns out the entirety of his plan
was his stump speech. Ever wonder why when pressed for detail he reverts back to it? Because that's it. So please do not call Bernie Sanders a policy wonk, because that is insulting to everyone who knows what they're doing. Please show me any indication that he understands nuance or how to convert his lofty ideas into actual, tangible action.
Meanwhile, here is
HRC's overview over what to do about it. Please note the addressing of the kinds of behaviors that led to the industry collapse, and concrete actions that can be taken to address them.
For comparison,
Bernie. Please note pure stump speech. Btw, his first bullet point, the introduction of the Too Big To Fail Act, is what I linked to above, i.e., 3.5 pages of incoherent nonsense.
The reason I have not, even for one flash of a second, ever felt the "Bern" is not because I don't think the banking industry has run amok or consequence free, or that college costs are some combination of out of reach and financially devastating for most people; it's because Bernie doesn't have a goddamn clue what to do about it. Hillary does. I was happy to vote for her in the primary, and I'll be happy to in November. It won't be an anti-Trump vote. It'll be a straight up, legit, This Lady Knows What the Fuck She's Doing vote.
Edit: Bernie Sanders got on board and so have most of his supporters (I think latest numbers were 81%), so that's a good thing. It still rankles me when his die hards act like left-leaning causes are "his" as if the DNC and HRC didn't have a liberal platform before he showed up. And I can't even live with the idea of considering him a wonk. Where is the head exploding emoticon?