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As an egalitarianist who despises neoliberalism the race for the white house had a nationalist, egalitarianist and a neoliberal vying for power. There's a good
by gremlinsinc 9y ago
As an egalitarianist who despises neoliberalism the race for the white house had a nationalist, egalitarianist and a neoliberal vying for power. There's a good blog post about it here:
https://benjaminstudebaker.com/2016/02/05/why-bernie-vs-hillary-matters-more-than-people-think/ https://benjaminstudebaker.com/2016/02/05/why-bernie-vs-hill...
My thinking was I'd rather have Trump in the whitehouse than clinton, because he'd be a lame duck president even with an all GOP congress -- he's totally crazy and narcissistic so will get nothing done, he'll polarize the whole country and hopefully bring out blue in 2018, and by 2020 we might get an anti-neoliberal candidate (from the left) again running for office.
So far I'm pretty right in that he's not really accomplished anything except make himself and the country look absolutely retarded. Lots of red seats have already gone blue in parts of the country where that's rare.
Clinton would've been more of the same, more supporting the corporate agenda over the people, and we wouldn't get the change we need. By throwing Trump in the mix we make America worse for a bit, but in the end it could cause us to really get the change we need. That's why I wrote in Bernie and did not vote for Clinton.