Anonymous asked:
who was the better candidate
Between Clinton and Trump? I honestly don’t know. There are pros and cons to having either one in the Oval Office, so I honestly don’t know if Clinton would’ve been better than Trump. Now before I get chewed out for that, I’ll explain. Obviously, I’m no Trump fan. Besides the fact that there are so many abhorrent qualities about him as a person, policy-wise, I am pretty much against everything he stands for. I don’t need to convince anyone that the next 4 years are going to be tough. Our civil liberties are under siege. We are going to have to fight like hell to make progress on social issues (women’s rights, LGBTQ rights, immigrant rights, BLM and criminal justice reform, etc). This is obviously a con when it comes to the Trump presidency. Another con, and this will be the biggest con in the long run, is that the plutocratic system will remain the same. Trump isn’t going to challenge the corporate duopoly in Washington. He’s not gonna drain the swamp. His cabinet is full of billionaires. This is such a big issue because what many people don’t understand is that money in politics is the issue that affects ALL other issues. Money in our political system COMPROMISES our political system. We’re effectively an oligarchy in America because the richer you are, the stronger the correlation is between what you want to become policy and what does become policy. So how can the 99% implement policy they want when you have system designed to crate politicians who will not represent you, but their corporate overlords? The only pro about a Trump presidency is that this absolute shit show will finally wake people the fuck up and make them see what’s already been going on for decades now. The left will be able to come together in unity and oppose the new GOP administration but MOST IMPORTANTLY oppose money in politics, cronyism, and the corporate welfare that rots our politics and our economy. That leads me to Clinton. The absolute biggest con when it comes to Clinton, without a doubt, is that had she been elected people would’ve just gone back to sleep. Clinton is no less of a crony, corporate sellout than Trump is. But because she’s a democrat and because she supposedly represents the left (no she doesn’t, she’s actually center-right) she would’ve put everybody to sleep. You think the women’s march on Washington would’ve happened if Clinton was elected? Of course not. Nobody (except for actual progressives and actual leftists) would’ve gotten up the day after inauguration to protest the first female president. Even tho Clinton would’ve signed away on TPP in a heartbeat and would’ve outsourced thousands of American jobs. Even tho she would’ve continued US aid to aid Israel’s illegal occupation. Everyone was up in arms over Andrew Pudzer (Carl’s jr CEO) as Trump’s nominee to be secretary of labor. You know who Clinton was going to nominate for that same position if elected? Howard Schultz, Starbucks CEO. Both these guys are anti-union, anti-minimum wage increase, and money hungry. There would’ve been no outrage over her nomination though, because she puts the left to sleep. Just like Obama put the left to sleep these past 8 years. Yes, in the short term Clinton would’ve obviously been better on social issues, the environment, slightly better on the economy, but the massive underlying problem of corruption would be there regardless of who became president. So I really don’t know if Clinton or Trump would make a better president. But that’s the silver lining I see in a Trump presidency. Now that Trump puts an ugly face to all the shit that was already going on under Obama, maybe people will pay attention and demand change.
TLDR: Trump and Clinton both suck. (And Bernie Sanders was the only real change in a positive direction.)
