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Originally posted by Notorious K.E.N
Hillary is also splitting the party in different ways. Her nomination would make people have to choose between 2 evils (even though i personally dont hate her)
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Back in reality though, Hillary isn't evil and there's not a shred of evidence to suggest that she is. The false narrative that the Sanders 20m dollar media blitz coupled with the republican owned media outlets is simply exactly that, a false narrative.
The suggestion that Sanders would do better in the general is also far removed from reality. People point to his polling against trump but those polls are hypothetical based on
current circumstances. Sander's is not even close to withstanding the same level of GOP attack as Hillary. Aa simple attack add by the GOP that uses the term "socialist" will see his lead drop by double digit percentage points. While 60 percent of democrats see democratic socialism as favourable only 18 percent of the GP find it favourable. - That attack is the LEAST the GOP would do to Sanders.
The general election for Sanders would look like: the GOP would rip Sanders as a big-spending, big-taxing socialist. They have plenty of ammo. They could quote the 2015 letter in which Sanders urged President Obama to “raise revenue” through “executive action.” They could dig up quotes from decades ago, in which Sanders called himself “clearly anti-capitalistic,” complained that U.S. interventions in Latin America “have been for the benefit of large corporations,” and praised communist countries as culturally superior. “Contrast what the young people in China and Cuba are doing for themselves and for their country as compared to the young people in America,” Sanders argued in 1976. Republicans could hammer the back-seat foreign policy Sanders conducted as a mayor in Vermont: going to Cuba to seek a meeting with Fidel Castro, visiting Lenin’s tomb in the Soviet Union, and traveling to Nicaragua, where he met with Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega and praised the country’s cultural minister as a “hippie” whose government was “teaching poetry not only to peasants and to workers but in the military.” They could go after Sanders’ countercultural mockery of “respectful clerks, technicians and soldiers.” They could rehash his attacks on compulsory schooling, dairy laws, and fluoridation, or his Freudian analysis of napalm use in Vietnam, or his advocacy of public toddler nudity and genital touching as cures for ****, or the sexual quackery through which he attributed breast cancer and cervical cancer to orgasm deficiency and capitalist conformity.
Sanders is in no way, shape or form ready for the general or the presidency.
