That’s the headline in a Washington Post article today.
Hillary has been calling Bernie a “single issue candidate,” deriding the need to address the Great Inequality and lack of hope in our nation for working people. No doubt, Bernie says a lot of about economic inequality and the role corrupt campaign donations play in rigging the economy for the one hundredth of one percent. But as the Washington Post reports, he is not a “single issue candidate.” I will just list the issues they counted in one speech yesterday. For fair use reasons, I skipped what the article says about each issue. Go to the link for more details.
Here’s a look at the issues Sanders covered:
1. Universal health care.
2. Federal intervention in Flint, Mich.
3. Minimum wage.
4. Wealth inequality.
5. Jail population.
6. Planned Parenthood funding.
7. Same-sex marriage.
8. Paid family and medical leave.
9. Federal jobs program.
10. Child care.
11. Trade policy.
12. Prosecute Wall Street offenders.
13. Marijuana policy.
14. Voting rights.
15. Supreme Court appointment.
16. Campaign finance reform.
17. Free college tuition.
18. Tax on Wall Street speculation.
19. Climate change.
20. Iraq war.
www.washingtonpost.com/…
Many issues. And many are interrelated, which Hillary often misses. Racial, class, and gender oppression work together to harm people. For example, marijuana prohibition fuels the Great Incarceration. Hillary now opposes such large incarceration laws, but leaves marijuana laws alone.
I have issues with Hillary’s campaign; fewer with Hillary herself. As Bernie says, she is a decent person whom he respects.
In my view, she might have been a good president in the 90s. Better than Bill. But times are different and the Great Recession accelerated economic pain. We need more.
I support Bernie.
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Update I:
Good list. He covered a few others yesterday at EMU that did not make that list:
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equal pay for women (as mentioned above)
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reproductive rights (in the context of the Republicans’ opposition to them in total)
- Infrastructure repair/renovation (which might have been placed under “federal jobs program”