Wednesday, May 25, 2016

Trump and Sanders Policy similarities

Some people are trying to unite the Trump and Bernie people, and you know what?  I think I like that idea.  A good place to start is with common ground, and what better common ground is to start on than policy similarities?

Anti-TPP / Fair Trade

Both agree very strongly that unfettered free trade is harming our economy and cost working class people jobs.  This is the main reason that they both won Michigan, a state devastated by NAFTA, a Bill Clinton policy.

Anti-War

Both want Daesh gone, but otherwise, prefer spending our tax dollars domestically.  Unlike Hillary, who wants to continue Bush's reckless War-Hawk policies, oh looky, here she is embracing the guy

Also neither Trump nor Bernie liked the Iraq War.  Granted, Trump was mostly on the fence before we went, but at least it didn't take him until 2008 to speak out against it, unlike Hillary.  

Friendlier US-Russia relations

Trump has been endorsed by Putin and vowed to not only work with him against Daesh, but also to seek an alliance.  Bernie has been more vague, only saying that he doesn't view Russia in the negative light that some do, but that's still better than Hillary, who has vowed to shoot Russian War Planes out of the sky.  Sure, maybe she didn't mean it, but it's clear either way that she will make our relations with Russia worse.

Against Entitlement Reform

Granted, this is a side effect of Trump deviating from the republican platform.  Still, while he won't expand them the way Bernie will, you can expect the safety net programs to remain under a Trump Presidency.

Pro- 2nd Ammendment

This is mostly because Vermont tends to be a pro-gun liberal state, but still...

Both want to change a rigged system

I don't wanna hear any crap about "rules", fuck the Shadow Government's rules, they exist to allow it to continue being a Shadow Government.  But yeah, this is very important, the Donor Class, helped out by party leaders, effectively control Washington DC.  We can not trust anyone until they get elected, but honestly, if anyone can change the system, it is these two.

If you ever hear people complain that the two parties are the same, it's largely because the system is rigged to force a single set of policies on ALL politicians, that needs to change.