I’M A BERNIE SANDERS VOTER:
HERE’S WHY I’LL VOTE TRUMP
By Eric Zuesse.
A BRIEF introductory note before
going to my critique:
1- Introduction by Hugo Adan
Sanders was the latest rhetorical
inspirator of “socialism” in America. However,
to say that one is a “Sanders follower” is
to say nothing: no affiliation to socialism, nor to a progressive stand . Saying Sanders was a socialist, so I’m by association,
is flaw argument. To make a consistent argt requires to define what is
socialism and what is a socialist Rev Mov in electoral time. Was Sanders really a socialist? ..
Was the social Mov he inspired a real
socialist Mov?. I don’t think Sanders was a real socialist and I don’t think his
Mov was a socialist Rev one. There were certainly many socialists and
progressive people inside, but the majority of Sanders followers were not real socialist
either. Some of them could’ve been social fascist instead, without knowing they are so. This seems to be the case of Eric Zuesse, the author of this article.
Let’s put the dots on the iis. Sanders
was simply an electoral progressive Mov,
with some tones of socialism in its discourse. Now let’s go by parts: A- what
is socialism?; B-what is a socialist Rev
Mov in electoral time, C- Why Sanders abandon his followers. D- Why some of his
followers became social-fascist like Eric Zuesse. E- Why now more than ever we
should support Dr. Jill Stein. F- Why Eric Z is totally wrong in evaluating Jill
Stein.
Just in case: 1- I’m not saying that Trump is a fascist, -Hillary’ demonizing
argument against him- but some of Trump followers -like Eric- really are. 2-
Eric is against Hillary, but he is using her arguments -the lesser evil story tell- to demonize
supporters of Jill Stein.
The complete critique to Eric will
be my next post in Nueva Democracia
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Here only extracts of:
I’M A BERNIE SANDERS VOTER:
HERE’S WHY I’LL VOTE TRUMP
Posted on October 2, 2016 by Eric Zuesse.
PART 1 : BERNIE AND HILLARY are opposites
Here are the ten key
issues that divide them:
1: Sanders
favors “breaking up the big banks.” Hillary Clinton opposes that.
2: Sanders has
fought against Obama’s mega-‘trade’ deals. Hillary consistently favored them.
3: Sanders
favors working with Russia against jihadists in Syria. Hillary opposes that.
4: Sanders says
jihadists are America’s top foe. Hillary says both jihad &Russia are
anti-American.
5: Sanders has
been consistently opposed to fossil fuels. Hillary has aggressively supported
them.
6: Sanders says
that the system is rigged. Hillary says that it’s not.
7: Sanders says
the system is rigged against the poor. Hillary says the poor are individual
bigots
8: Sanders’s
political career is financed by small-dollar donors. Hillary is financed by
mega-donors.
9: Sanders
favors reducing influence big-money donors, Hillary opposes that idea.
10: Sanders
favors socialized health insurance, Hillary opposes that
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PART 2 Trump vs. Clinton on key issues
1: Sanders favors “breaking up the big banks.”
Hillary Clinton opposes that. Trump
Support Deregulation but in of reinstalling Glass-Steagall?”
2: Sanders fought against Obama’s mega-‘trade’
deals. Hillary favored them. Trump passionately condemned those treaties.
3: Sanders favors working with Russia against jihadists
in Syria. Hillary opposes that. Trump: fighting
Assad and ISIS simultaneously was & is madness, and idiocy
4: Sanders says jihadists are America’s top foe.
Hillary says both jihadists and Russia are. Trump said that jihadists are
America’s #1 foe.
5: Sanders opposed to fossil fuels. Hillary support
it and Trump said this is environmental and climate change related issue. Koch-Exxon-etc.
are supporting Hillary campaign.
6: Sanders says that the system is rigged.
Hillary says that it’s not. Trump: not only the political system is rigged, the
economic system too.
7: Sanders says the system is rigged specifically
against the poor. Hillary says that keeps people poor is because they are individual
bigots. Trump, like Bernie, is pitching to working people.
8: Sanders’s political career has been financed by
small-dollar donations. Hillary’s has been financed by mega-donations. To Trump
“SuperPACs
are a disaster. They’re a scam. They cause dishonesty.
9: Sanders favors reducing the influence big-money
donations. Hillary opposes that idea. Trump is getting very
few billionaires to pony up for his campaign
10: Sanders favors socialized health insurance, Hillary
opposes that. Trump favors taxpayer-paid healthcare for Americans who cannot
afford to pay for the basic healthcare they need.
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PART 3: Regarding Vote to Jill Stein. He said is at all rational, but:
1: The U.S. Presidency is determined in the Electoral
College, in which each state’s entire delegation votes is given by state’s
Election-Day choice, winner-take-all, for all of that state’s electors. Neither Nader nor Perot won even one state,
neither of them came even close to winning even a single state.
2: Jill Stein definitely won’t win even one state. Voting for her is nothing but a sucker-punch on the ballot there.
3: When Nader ran, and received 2.74% of the nationwide
vote at his peak in 2000, he was on the ballot in 49 states, yet still
he won not even a single state. Instead, because he drew off more than enough
Gore voters in both New Hampshire and Florida, he throws NH & Florida to
Bush. Nader made George W. Bush President.
4: In a Presidential
system such as the U.S. (though not in a parliamentary system), only fools vote third-party. These people are either
so ignorant they can’t count, or so stupid they think that to ‘register a
protest’ is somehow more patriotic than to register a vote that might make an
actual difference in the resulting winner, the resulting President.
5: It’s our duty to
vote only for candidates who might possibly win, even if the electoral system
is rigged. If the electoral system is
rigged, voting is the only way to protest?, that
has even a possibility of being effective. To be a fool is never good. It harms
everyone. It’s certainly not an ethical choice, if anyone actually chooses it.
6: The only realistic choice? that is offered is either Clinton or
Trump. Even if it’s a choice between two bad candidates,
one of them is far worse than is the other. With Trump
as President, there is a realistic possibility of getting a reasonably
good President, someone who won enough independents and fooled enough
Republicans. With Clinton as President, there’s a
realistic possibility of nuclear war with Russia, but a virtual
certaintly that this nation will be ruled behind-the-scenes, by-and-for
America’s international corporations. Trump and Hillary are the real
choices we have?, if we have any at all. Fantasists have the freedom to
stay with their fictions, but realists are obliged not to. Realism is a prerequisite to progressivism?.
Trump is the clear, and the only reasonable, choice for progressives in this
election.
7: Eric choice. We are stunningly fortunate that the voters in
the other Party’s primaries ended up giving us (for once) a realistic chance to
have, as the next U.S. President, a person who is at least no worse than, and
is on many of the most important issues far better than, the atrocity (Hillary)
that is being offered to us by the Democratic Party. How often does the
Republican Party provide the better candidate?
Never happened since the time of Abraham Lincoln. Donald Trump might not
be another Abraham Lincoln, but he might be another Franklin Delano Roosevelt —
the greatest progressive of them all. Thank you, Donald Trump, for having given
us this opportunity to have a progressive future.
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