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Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, Liberal/Progressives Will Decide This Election.

September 22, 2016 by  
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(ThyBlackMan.com) Bernie Sanders and his liberal/progressive supporters will decide the outcome of this election. That’s how much power that Sanders still possesses. While he didn’t secure the Democratic nomination, as many of us had hoped he would, he is going to play a major role in who wins in November.

As this contest heats up Hillary Clinton needs all the help she can get as Donald Trump continues to narrow the gap between them. She desperately needs to connect with a significant portion of those Bernie Sanders supporters, a great many of whom have so far, refused to switch their allegiance to her; that’s because they see her as the Establishment candidate. So the jury is still out as to what they will do but one thing is certain; she must win them over or risk a humiliating defeat.

She and they are not on the same frequency, not on the same page. While Bernie Sanders supporters have great concerns about the 2016clinton-trump-sandersdirection this government is taking their country and are demanding dramatic changes, she gives every impression of wanting to maintain the status quo. She insists that things are going quite well in America, that we are on the right track, that we just need to stay the course and we’ll be just fine.

How can things be just fine when our manufacturing sector has been transferred to China and other foreign nations, our workforce continues to shrink, and workers are forced to take jobs at far lower pay; we are plagued with massive military spending that prevents the funding of our many domestic needs, while some 42 million former and current college students are drowning in debt.

We watch as our government pursues its highly aggressive foreign policy which “invests” billions and trillions of taxpayer dollars in wars and military incursions for which we receive no substantive return on investment. We see this government continue to try to intimidate and dominate both Russia and China, trying to surround these nations with military power; that, of course, will never work and is the height of recklessness.

Hillary Clinton needs to shift gears and return to a true liberal and progressive agenda. Bernie is going to help her immensely; he is now re-emerging on the national political stage and telling his supporters that, like her or not, the only way to prevent a national catastrophe is to elect her and send Trump into political oblivion.

What Hillary Clinton needs to do is emulate Bernie Sander’s style of campaigning; he didn’t waste a lot of valuable time attacking Trump but continued to talk about all of his own initiatives and reforms that would greatly benefit the American people. And it worked very well. He didn’t win the nomination simply because he started late in the game and most people didn’t even know he was; but then the message that he presented to the people started to register and the momentum of his political revolution almost gained him the nomination.

In the end, even though Donald Trump has been closing the gap, Bernie Sanders will prove be a very significant factor in this election. He still possesses a great deal of political power and it appears that he has decided that, during the last weeks of this election, he will pull out all the stops to once again energize and motivate his supporters to back Hillary Clinton.

However, Hillary can’t just depend on Bernie Sanders; she needs to work hard to get these supporters on her side, not by spending a lot of time criticizing and attacking Donald Trump but by concentrating on speaking to the most important issues and problems facing this country. In her speeches and the debates she needs to clearly outline how she will address and solve them. She should let her advisers launch the attacks on Trump by presenting powerful commercials to expose him for what he is; a total fraud and a great danger to this country.

How about former President Bill Clinton who’s keeping a relative low profile? What in the world is with him, doesn’t he see what is happening; that she has alienated so many liberal and progressive voters because they view her as closely aligned with the corporate world, and the banksters in particular?

He is known as a master politician, someone who really knows how to connect with and inspire the American people. He had a magical way of appealing to the majority of Americans. But he apparently is not weaving that magic in Hillary’s campaign. He doesn’t need to try to manage her campaign but he needs to help her to better connect with most of these reluctant voters by having her emphasize her strong beliefs relative to liberal and progressive issues.

If she does not change direction then it will be virtually impossible to convince millions of Americans who voted for Bernie Sanders to vote for her even if Sanders does everything he can in her behalf. She needs to wake up and realize that these voters she so desperately needs have had enough of the embedded Establishment. She must show how she can work with the corporate world to make things better in this country but that she will not acquiesce to their demands.

This presidential election is like no other in modern American history. On the one hand there is Hillary Clinton, a very faulted candidate. On the other we have Donald Trump, clearly one of the most, if not the most, dangerous candidates that has ever run for this high office. So when the American people think about casting their votes that will, no doubt, be a very stressful exercise; but vote they must no matter how stressful it may be.

Bernie Sanders has decided to put his reputation on the line by backing Clinton even though she is so unpopular with a great many of his supporters. That takes a lot of political courage and, by doing that, he is showing just what he is made of because,

#1, he is fully aware of the extreme danger that would come with a Trump presidency

and,

#2, he is going to do what he sees as best for this country and its people, i.e., save them from an unmitigated disaster.

Written by Michael Payne

Courtesy of; http://www.opednews.com/


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8 Responses to “Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, Liberal/Progressives Will Decide This Election.”
  1. Greg Coley says:

    1.Hillary proved that she was a part of the establishment…the DNC backed her instead of Bernie.

    2. The reason Hillary doesn’t change direction is simple…she truly believes America does not need to change. This is why progressives will not vote for her.

    3. If Bill is not helping her like you say he can, what does that say about his viewpoint of her leading this country?

  2. hmp49 says:

    joe schmoe says:

    “Bernie still holds power as the representative (not leader) of the Progressive movement, but he doesn’t have the power to determine the Progressive vote.”

    You’re only right to the degree Sanders won’t be able to convince true progressives to vote for Clinton.

    She’s going down, even if she manages to stay on her feet during the entire debate (unlikely)

  3. hmp49 says:

    I remember the harassment I continued to get as a Sanders supporter, even after the outcome was clear.

    “who does Sanders think he is, to think he has any influence? Clinton will win this by the greatest electoral victory ever, without any Sanders supporters”

    And now? “If Clinton loses, it’s because of Sanders and his supporters”

  4. Crabby Hayes says:

    What about those of us that are deplorables? I guess Hillary figures we are too dangerous to vote

  5. Clementine W. says:

    I agree with so much of what you say, Mr. Paine. The problem is, there is really nothing HRC can do or say to sway those of us who are critical of her establishment/corporate allegiances and hawkish (and yes, racist) foreign policy. Any specific platforms she proposes for dealing with the county’s problems you so eloquently noted can only be viewed as expedient lies told to get elected. HRC IS establishment. She IS oligarchy. She IS a warmonger who wants to intensify wars in the Middle East, no matter how many Arab lives are lost. She is not going suddenly transform into something she is not. Some of us are not interested in her campaign strategies no matter how well thought out or tactical. We are more interested in whose side she is really on.

    Finally, I will just say that if you live in America, Donald Trump stands for racism and bigotry, and he mouths off about it a lot. For many people who live in the Muslim world OUTSIDE of America, HRC stands for genocide–and she gets things done. This last part–getting things done–makes her more scary than Donald Trump to many in the Middle East, where hundreds of thousands of lives have been lost as a result of HRC’s programs. DT’s the potential Hitler; HRC’s the proven Hitler. Some of us Bernie supporters are rejecting this false dilemma and choosing someone (Jill Stein) who stands for a better way, even if it may take the country a while to follow.

  6. joe schmoe says:

    I agree with Anthony, Bernie isn’t as “powerful” as you may think. He represented the Progressive movement in this country, but it is the Progressives who hold the power and Progressive voters have always held their ideals over the safe bet, as can be indicated by their aimlessness as voters ever since FDR eventually lost the progressive vote with his Japanese internment camps and over-zealous FBI. Bernie still holds power as the representative (not leader) of the Progressive movement, but he doesn’t have the power to determine the Progressive vote.

  7. Anthony Belvedere says:

    So far Bernie hasn’t generated very much support for Hillary. Perhaps that could change, but so far, I’m not seeing it. He had a few rallies in Ohio; one was attended by less than 200 people, and another one was canceled due to insufficient attendance forecasts. I am one of those that also will not vote for either of these 2 monsters. However, as okiecrab seems to be saying, I guess this whole election was rigged for Hillary from the start, and regardless of how the battleground states vote, she beats Trump in the Electoral College.

  8. okiecrab says:

    Hillary isn’t going to “save us” from anything other than the apparently nightmarish scenario of starting to put our government back in order instead of continuing our self-destructive and oligarchical oppression of our citizens. I’m not voting for either of these people – Trump is an incompetent buffoon and idiot, Hillary is an anti-democracy corporate shill and Republican and I absolutely will not give my support to either of these complete daggers in the US’ back.
    Hillary is mathemtically unable to lose the electoral college, so this election was decided as soon as the Dem nominee was announced, which is why they rigged it and committed election fruad to make sure Hillary won. Trump would have to win EVERY battleground state to STILL NOT even TIE Hillary. She already has enough blue states to win and the reason that isn’t being reported it because the DNC wants it to be a HUGE win and not reveal how entirely pointless anyone’s voters are, by lying about it being “close”.

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