[Xmca-l] Re: Why I Won't Vote for Sanders

[Glassman, Michael]

Politics in the United States.  I think that economics in the United States is deeply intermingled with issues of racism and misogyny.  At the same time there are pockets of progressivism that perhaps you can't find anywhere else.    I believe we will not solve our poverty problem, economic inequality until we deal with our demons.  Obama has done some good things (health care, gay marriage, haltingly on climate) and some not good things (not prosecuting Wall Street, he has been terrible on education).  But perhaps among the most important things he has done is he has forced many to confront that we are a deeply racist society.  I am hoping the election of Hillary Clinton can help us face our misogyny (which we have a more difficult time discussing even in those more progressive pockets).  It will I think be much more cataclysmic that Obama because it is so much more ingrained in what we do.  Hillary Clinton herself has always been excellent on education and children's poverty.  And she showed extraordinary grace and persistence while under constant, horrific attacks in the 1990s.

Just some thoughts.

Michael

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On 24/04/2016 10:59 PM, Bruce Robinson wrote:
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