For The Love of God, Can We Please Talk About The Issues?

[Rebkeh]

I am getting tired of the soap opera.

[AuntPatsy]

1. Here, here.....

[beam me up scottie]

2. This is GDP, when was it ever about issues?

[LonePirate]

4. Sad, but true.

Insults and innuendo are the norm here instead of the issues.

[elleng]

3. YES!

[nichomachus]

5. We already know what the issues are

And where the candidates stand on them.

None of it's a mystery.

Hillary favors Wall Street and the military industrial complex.

Bernie favors the people.

What else is there to say?

[msongs]

6. bernie consistently votes to fund the MIC and war machine. he loves war spending nt

[Punkingal]

7. Not nearly as much as Hillary does.

[Scuba]

8. Medicare for All, including dental, optical, hearing aids and mental health services.

And yes, we can afford it.

[TheDormouse]

9. Yes! - Medicare for all, $15/hr min wage, free public college, end death penalty, no more fracking,

abortion rights are non-negotiable
no more Middle East adventurism and regime-change
no more Kissingeresque foreign policy
break up the banks
end corporate welfare
break up the big banks--too big to fail is too big to exist
strict limits on campaign donations
corporations do not have the rights of individual people

[Blue_Adept]

10. NOT NOW, I HAVE MEMES TO POST!

Those will win the day!

[Jim Lane]

11. It's tough when any issue-based criticism of Clinton is dismissed as "Hillary-bashing" or the like

In some people's eyes, permissible "talk about the issues" is, for example, arguing against Trump's plan to deport Muslims. Now, I'm just as much against that plan as anyone else, but it doesn't really need to be discussed on DU.

By contrast, Clinton's record on TPP and other trade agreements is certainly a legitimate issue. I believe Sanders's record is superior. To criticize her record, however, is to be lumped in with the "Hillary-haters", in my own experience.

In sum, I agree with your OP as I interpret it. I must note, with sadness, that other people would interpret it differently.

[Jitter65]

12. Nope, not here. I know plenty of places where the issues are the only things discussed.

e-mail me if you are interested.