[quote=AN]Although Hillary is against TPP now, she was pretty open to TPP in the past. This is what I’m talking about in running to the left in primary and running back to the center during the general. I don’t think Bernie would ever support TPP, even in the general. That’s what’s the difference. Bill was pretty open to free trade (NAFTA).
ACA, I won’t even go there, since I dislike both stance on it. But there’s a difference. Hillary is willing to compromise about it, while Bernie want to go straight to single payer now (no middle ground).
As for taxes, you can chalk it up as gut feeling, since neither of them have given an exact tax plans with all the rates for all the brackets. However, as I said, Bernie offered up much more social benefits than Hillary, and that’s where I think in order to balance the budget, taxes would have to go up a lot more under Bernie than Hillary.[/quote]
You could be right on TPP. The thing is, Hillary didn’t have to make a 180. She never endorsed TPP. What she’s endorsed is the right fair trade agreement, and she never gave the TPP her seal of approval. Sanders has endorsed the exact same thing.
We disagree on the ACA (and I suspect, most of your reasons for not liking it has nothing to do with anything that’s in the law), but Bernie and Hillary don’t. What Sanders has proved, over and over again in his 25 years in congress, is that he can compromise. He compromised by voting for the ACA. Hillary probably would compromise earlier, but that doesn’t make either one of their positions extreme.
Their biggest difference is in foreign policy. Hillary can’t cut taxes enough for the middle class because she’s ready to go to war at an ugly fart, and won’t cut defense. Sanders can pay for all his programs with defense cuts. But cuts to defense are not an extreme position, except for those that think Iraq was a good idea.
Extreme is deporting 12 million people who haven’t caused any problems. Extreme is not allowing more than a billion people entry into the country because of what other people have done. Extreme is passing laws that endanger the lives of millions of women. Those are policies supported by every Republican candidate. How far do you think every Republican candidate is from deporting every single non-citizen Muslim, and rounding up all the Muslim citizens and putting them in internment camps? You tell me, is that a big stretch or a little stretch? And then tell me that both sides are similarly extreme.
