He’s a native born New Yorker, as much as a Vermonter. He might go hard on China (which doesn’t play by the same environmental rules as we do, so that’s fair). But he’s also likely to be in favor of returning the border suckurity nonsense to pre-9/11 levels.
Vermont is a border state. Quite a few towns (even buildings) in Vermont straddle the international border, and Vermonters have been royally pissed off by the tightening and level of harassment since 9/11. And rightly so.
Also, he’s for weakening the security/surveillance/military-parasite state. When choosing liberties in the US vs caring about the Chinese economy and importation of more unneeded crap to the US, I’ll choose the former. And I find open movement of people with minimal questioning and harassment to be much more important than free movement of cheap plastic Chinese trinkets and electronics.
Individual rights. Not big-corporate rights. I really don’t give a rat’s ass about Apple’s right to make iPads using Chinese “slave” labor in some polluted pesthole and import them to the US at a 300% markup. Hillary is another Wall Street darling. Yeah, yeah. Free trade makes us richer. But I for one would rather have a more just society than a wealthier one.
Hillary has carpetbagged to NY State and has to appear more New Yorker than one that was born here. So she needs to wave the “9/11, security, rah-rah-rah, never forget” flag forever. Plus she needs to make up for allegations of impropriety in Benghazi by appearing “tough on terror.”
And lastly, a Jewish president would be able to stand up to the Israeli government and their lobbies without being accused of anti-Semitism. Both self-professed Christians and senators from NY are unlikely to be able to do so.
