2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumBernie Sanders the top choice for minorities
Hillary Clinton expects to win South Carolina with a firewall of loyal minority voter based on the notion that the Clintons have been good to minority voters. That doesn't seem to match up with reality.
Another Clinton accomplishment was the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994. This act created 60 new death penalty offenses, including for drug trafficking, and 50 new non-capital offenses, among them making membership in a gang a federal crime. This act has been a major contributor to the mass incarceration of Americans, a large portion of them minorities.
And a third major accomplishment was Clintons championing of the NAFTA trade agreement, which helped to accelerate the loss of American factory jobs. According to the nonpartisan Economic Policy Institute, the increased trade deficit with Mexico alone since NAFTA led to a net loss of 682,900 U.S. jobs by 2010. Traditionally, minority workers have been the hardest hit when layoffs have occurred.
What kind of friend is Hillary Clinton? Only Sen. Bernie Sanders has addressed the issues which are so important to all racial groups: protecting our jobs, strengthening the safety net for those in need, and ending the mass incarceration of Americans. He is the candidate who has earned the votes of South Carolina Democrats.
Read more here: http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/article62109822.html#storylink=cpy
While Bernie is trying to work for everyone, Hillary is trying to divide and conquer. Not voting for Hillary? Then obviously you're a liberal white racist, or an angry white male, or a fringe liberal who's just too far left... or whatever other marginalization works to bully you into not voting for Bernie.
I hate bullies.
onehandle
(51,122 posts)Bubzer
(4,211 posts)Heather Boushey, Economist at the Economic Policy Institute in Washington explained that the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act (Clinton's welfare reform bill), pushed many poor families off of welfare and into low-income jobs... effectively keeping them in poverty. You can read her briefing to congress here:
http://www.epi.org/publication/webfeatures_viewpoints_tanf_testimony/
http://www.bustle.com/articles/105353-understanding-bill-clintons-1994-crime-bill-which-black-lives-matter-activists-say-was-racist
By any measure, NAFTA and its sequels has been a major contributor to the rising inequality of incomes and wealth that Barack Obama bemoans in his speeches. Yet today -- channeling Reagan, the Bushes and Clinton -- the president proposes two more such trade deals: the Trans-Pacific Partnership with eleven Pacific Rim countries and a free trade agreement with Europe.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeff-faux/nafta-twenty-years-after_b_4528140.html
Clinton has changed on NAFTA - Rated True
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2008/feb/25/barack-obama/clinton-has-changed-on-nafta/
I think that's a pretty fair amount of additional support for the letter to the editor at Myrtle Beach Online.
LWolf
(46,179 posts)JackRiddler
(24,979 posts)Speak to the argument or let it be!
YCHDT
(962 posts)... not even address the given reasonings at all is condescending don't you think?
Bubzer
(4,211 posts)What I do find condescending is the presumption that anyone will vote for your preferred candidate simply because they're expected to.