People love to hate on Trump, but he's not without any merit.

I'm not US native, but honestly I have never seen a pool of candidates with so many apparent shortcomings like this time.

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That means no more Republican or democratic parties. There's more independents than both in this country, but both seem to remain put when they clearly don't align with most Americans.

I feel bad for anybody who votes for Trump. If he were in office he'd offend other nations, I could see him causing war and God knows what else. Just because he's a business man and he's speaking the same words he's stolen from Bernie isn't enough, bye bye. Socialist Democrat Bernie Sanders for office please, he's the only one who will fight for us without being a buffoon.

This xInfinity. There's valid criticisms of Trump, but repeating the media soundbites OVER AND OVER is just a waste of everyone's time and has nothing to do with his policies

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of course its cheaper. THAT IS THE PROBLEM. you literally might as well not boast about his hypocritical stances if you're going to justify his actions at the same time.

so, like, ya'll aren't liars... you're just stupid?

That's not what I said. I don't care what he *says* he supports and I don't care how many faceless people he gives jobs to.. it's not the lengthy, consistent track record that Bernie has for any of them.

What's the difference between not voting for Hillary because of her corruption and not voting for Trump because he's an overly aggressive misogynist and racist who doesn't know the difference between Hezbollah and Hamas? Neither of them are qualified to be president.

Lmao. How dumb can you be? Have you completely ignored Scandinavia? It's not like we're a Latin American country or Russia.. Both ill equipped to properly execute a social democracy.

A social democracy will work differently for every country anyways until everyone is on board. Which is kinda the whole point

Bernie is not a socialist, he's a Democratic Socialist

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And Democratic Socialism actually works, it is working right now as we speak. People really need to do their research before posting on here it's so embarrassing

Anyways, there are many other issues than the ones mentioned in the OP that Bernie and Trump disagree on, and let's not forget Bernie's decades of political experience vs. Trump's 0. (Bernie is also very socially liberal and he isn't offensive, the same can't be said about Trump).

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Bernie's a simple democratic socialist, a working model in various countries. Besides even if he wanted to do more pure socialism he would have to fight both Congress and the SC hardcore. And we all know how hard Obama had it against the Congress.

@TC: That image is rather limiting and doesn't dive into more specific details. Plus it's a bit biased in only showing similarities.

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Because she has for decades been controlled by people who don't have America's poor best interest at heart. This woman has tens of millions in cash for corporate donors, has a foundation that relies on donations for corporate donors and powers. Like if you think she's going to lift one finger to close a "corporate loophole" like she claims, you are totally delusional.

I mean even if Trump is racist//sexist, is he going to push a law that bans women from doing stuff? Something like that would never happen.

I do agree that Trump's policies have always been less insane than the media paints them out to be and people perceive them to be, but in fairness, the graphic in the OP is pretty misleading. Two candidates can share 90% of the same stances if asked about them in a yes/no fashion, and still be WILDLY different candidates. Hell, just look at Bernie vs Hillary; on paper, their platforms (if presented in that "HC supports x. BS supports it too" format) would be almost exactly the same, with the exception of some wall street/campaign finance issues, for example. Yet, when you take into account their speeches, the policies they prioritize, who they are as people, etc, you get extremely different candidates in strong opposition to each other.

The same goes, doubly so for Trump and Bernie. Trump seems to prioritize stricter immigration and foreign policy (not sure how qualified he is on the former, however), with social issues (where he is actually more moderate than most of the other republican candidates) on the back burner. Sanders prioritizes things like income inequality, free healthcare/education, and campaign finance reform, with foreign policy being something he hasn't really mentioned much in any of the speeches I've seen, and when he has it was in more of an isolationist/"hands off" approach (ie: let's fix things here before we worry about the rest of the world). Even though I obviously support Sanders, I'm not saying he's objectively better or worse, just saying the pic in the OP is a very poor representation of their policies. They're a lot more different than they are similar.