There is tremendous outrage against Trump, and I am as outraged as the next person. But let’s consider what might have been.
If Gary Johnson had won… sigh, nevermind, not going there.
If Hillary had won, we would have a President who respects women. We would have a President who claims to respect the rights of all people, regardless of race, creed, color… We would have a President who is not a bully, an ego-maniac, paranoid, or crazy. We would have a President that views Putin as a threat to the free World.
We would have a President with more experience in Washington DC politics than just about anyone, active First Lady, Senator, Secretary of State…
And we would have a President who raised more than twice as much money as Trump. A President who a lot of people with a lot of money wanted to see elected.
And this is where I have a problem. Before this election cycle Congress was at record low approval ratings. And this goes back through multiple Presidents.
Consider the Affordable Care Act. Obama wanted to fix health care. He left it up to Congress, and said he didn’t care if it went totally free market, or single payer. Either was better than what we got.
So Congress came up with this kludge. And I know, it provided health care for many who couldn’t afford it. But how did it pay for it? By forcing healthy people who didn’t need health insurance to buy insurance. Did you follow that? By forcing more people to purchase health insurance from insurance companies.
Could it be the insurance company lobbies were somehow involved in Congress’ plan? To sell more insurance?
Bernie is right, the whole system is corrupt, and has lowered the standard of living of everyone except for the very rich. This has been going on since the 1990s.
So who were those people giving all that money to Hillary? People who wanted to make sure our President respected women? Who wanted to make sure illegal immigrants were treated fairly? Who wanted to protect the rights of muslims in this country? Is that why they gave millions and millions of dollars to help get her elected?
Or did they expect something else from their investment?
Was Hillary speaking the truth when she told those wealthy donors there were two governments. A public one for the people and a shadow one for those pulling the strings.
If Hillary had won, we would have more of what we had already. And we would all be smiling at her and she smiling at us as we continued to get screwed.
And I love Obama as much as anyone, what a class act. But the same crap went on on his watch. He supported Mary Jo White, head of the SEC, who says Elizabeth Warren is naive for wanting corporations to list their political contributions. Warren wanted corporations to have to tell which campaigns they support. White said you can’t do that because if people knew who corporations were supporting, people might not do business with them. And that would hurt the investors, and we wouldn’t want that.
That’s Obama! That’s the good guy! It sucks under him as well.
Do you see where I’m going? We’ve been getting fucked by Washington for going on 30 years now. Hillary would have been more of that.
Trump is a disaster, no question. But instead of being angry at all the things Bernie Sanders says we should be angry at, http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/09/opinions/serious-questions-bernie-sanders-opinion/index.html we’re angry at offensive tweets. We’re angry at this insane man. We’re distracted from that which we should be really angry about. A Congress that serves only the wealthy, and has been doing so for decades.
One of Trump’s idea, that I used to agree with, is term limits for Congress, to stop career policticians. But as far as I can tell Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren are the only two who are actually fighting for the rest of us. So now I don’t even agree with his idea of term limits.
