{"id":9106,"date":"2015-12-23T20:28:31","date_gmt":"2015-12-24T01:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/?p=9106"},"modified":"2015-12-23T20:30:39","modified_gmt":"2015-12-24T01:30:39","slug":"anonymous-endorses-bernie-sanders-gives-10-good-reasons-to-support-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/anonymous-endorses-bernie-sanders-gives-10-good-reasons-to-support-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Anonymous endorses Bernie Sanders, gives 10 good reasons to support him"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"AnonymousOn Daily Kos, VL Baker<\/a> shares Anonymous’ letter, which sets forth their Ten Reasons That Will Convince You That Bernie Sanders Deserves Your Vote<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n

December 23rd, 2015 | by CoNN<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n

It\u2019s time to celebrate a candidate who deserves the spotlight, more so than other candidates from either <\/em><\/strong>side of the left-right false divide<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Here are 10 reasons why Bernie Sanders deserves more coverage from the mainstream media and, ultimately, your vote:<\/p>\n

1) He supports a new Glass Steagall act \u2013 hell he even detailed\u00a05 reasons explaining why it\u2019s important<\/u><\/a>;\u00a0passed over 80 years ago, it had prevented commercial banks from participating in investment banking. It\u00a0was repealed in 1999, and banks used this new-found ability \u00a0to plunder\u00a0the savings of their depositors by making\u00a0extremely risky \u201cinvestments\u201d for their own profit. This is the primary reason for the 2008 financial crisis, and the reason why the big banks had to be bailed out by taxpayers. \u00a0Hillary Clinton doesn\u2019t want to reinstate Glass-Steagall<\/u><\/a>\u00a0while\u00a0Trump wants regulations on Wall Street to be weakened<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n

2) He wants to break up the big banks<\/u><\/a>; no more of this \u201ctoo big to fail\u201d nonsense- he also\u00a0voted against the bailout of Wall Street<\/u><\/a>. Hillary, on the other hand, receives money and support from Wall Street<\/u><\/a>. She has also voted multiple times for the bailout despite \u201cevolving\u201d<\/u><\/a>\u00a0on the issue. Trump wants to maintain the size<\/u><\/a> of the big banks. He also wanted to bail out the banks<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n

3) Sanders opposed NAFTA and the TPP: two \u201ctrade\u201d agreements, the first causing the loss of up to a million jobs in America<\/u><\/a> and the second a formerly-top-secret\u00a0agreement which would hand sweeping powers to corporations<\/u><\/a>. Hillary was for the TPP and supported it a dozen times- only recently has she \u201cevolved\u201d on the matter<\/u><\/a>. Trump hates the TPP too\u2026 but only because he thinks China would somehow<\/em> benefit from it<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n

4) For his entire\u00a0political career Sanders\u00a0has stood\u00a0against the for-profit prison industrial complex and the practice of over-criminalization<\/u><\/a>. This issue has had Clinton \u201cevolving\u201d towards prison reform since\u2026 a few months back\u2026\u00a0but before entering her higher form, she lobbied in 1994 for a crime law that had\u00a0increased<\/em> <\/strong>prison funding and sentences<\/u><\/a>. Trump wants to \u201cget a lot tougher\u201d on crime<\/u><\/a>, despite police killings being the highest in two decades<\/u><\/a>\u00a0and despite the fact that violent crime is also down<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n

5) Sanders\u00a0voted against the Iraq War<\/u><\/a>, and is against a war with Russia<\/u><\/a>. Clinton voted for the Iraq War-\u00a0she also\u00a0has a neoconservative war-mongering foreign policy<\/u><\/a>.\u00a0Most\u00a0Republican candidates, besides Rand Paul, do not seem averse to war<\/u><\/a>.\u00a0Trump\u2019s claim that he opposed Iraq\u2019s invasion at the time it was debated is baseless<\/u><\/a>, though he too is against conflict with Russia;\u00a0China\u2019s his whipping boy.<\/p>\n

6) Sanders voted twice against the Patriot Act<\/u><\/a>, which allowed widespread mass surveillance to be used against the American public. Hillary voted for it twice and Trump is all for reauthorizing it<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n

7) Sanders doesn\u2019t degrade racial and religious minorities, nor does he inflame the majority- he comes right out and tells us that the elite are to blame. He said this at a rally<\/u><\/a>:\u00a0\u201cthey\u2019re always playing one group against another. Rich got richer \u2014 everybody else was fighting each other. Our job is to build a nation in which we all stand together\u201d<\/strong><\/em>. Hillary has an \u201cabysmal\u201d racial justice record<\/u><\/a> and Trump\u2026 well, he\u2019s said enough about that topic to fill a phone book<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n

8) \u00a0Sanders wants to decriminalize the use of marijuana<\/u><\/a>. Clinton is against decriminalizing it<\/u><\/a>\u00a0and Trump seems to favor legalizing it for medical uses<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n

9) Bernie refuses to take money from the super rich<\/u><\/a>\u2026\u00a0 or the corporations<\/u><\/a>. Hillary receives money from everyone who has it- bankers, corporations\u2026 she doesn\u2019t discriminate<\/u><\/a>.\u00a0Trump is already<\/em> one of the super rich and admitted that he\u00a0<\/u><\/a>has manipulated the system for his own benefit<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n

10) The corporate mainstream media hates<\/em> Bernie and censors him, attempting to make it look like he endorses Hillary<\/u><\/a>.\u00a0Trump gets WAY more mainstream coverage\u00a0than Bernie despite both polling similarly<\/u><\/a>. If you want to choose\u00a0someone who wasn\u2019t handpicked for<\/em> you, then Bernie is your best best.<\/p>\n

Bonus!) Whenever someone tries to come up with a top ten list NOT to vote for Bernie\u2026 it comes out convincing MORE people to vote for him- just read those top comments<\/u><\/a>. On the other hand, one of the most popular search result for the top ten reasons TO\u00a0vote for Trump is satirical.<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n

In 2012, Time called Anonymous one of the “100 most influential people” in the world.<\/em><\/p>\n

Hat tip to Steve Sterling<\/a> of Flemington for sharing this post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Daily Kos, VL Baker shares Anonymous’ letter, which sets forth their Ten Reasons That Will Convince You That Bernie Sanders Deserves Your Vote December 23rd, 2015 | by CoNN It\u2019s time to celebrate a candidate who deserves the spotlight, more so than other candidates from either side of the left-right false divide. Here are … <\/p>\n

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