In light of Bernie Sanders endorsement of Hillary Clinton, many of his supporters are shocked and appalled that he’d support a candidate he openly described as unqualified and corrupt. Stefan Molyneux offers a sympathetic message to those who have been burned once again by the political establishment and explains why this cycle of political disappointment is often inevitable.Freedomain Radio is 100% funded by viewers like you. Please support the show by signing up for a monthly subscription or making a one time donation at: http://www.freedomainradio.com/donate
Talk about a frozen wet fish of political reality straight to the nads.
Today, Bernie Sanders turned around after saying the most unholy things about Hillary Clinton has turned around and endorsed her.
And I'm sorry about this horrible reality of what politics is and how it has steamrolled over the seashells of your hopes.
You did a great job.
You raised $200 million for him.
More than that.
And average donation was like $27.
Some of you bypassed ramen noodles in order to be able to send him an extra $10.
Because you want things to be better.
I respect that.
I admire that.
I'm sorry that it worked out this way.
But you want things to be better.
You want people to get a good education.
You want them to get good health care.
You want them to be able to have jobs.
You know, support their families the way it used to be.
I respect your concerns.
I share your concerns.
You got skepticism about Wall Street?
Yeah, me too.
Wall Street is a giant status leech on the economy.
Bank bailouts, terrible trade deals, preferential interest rates for huge banks.
It's just wretched.
It's absolutely horrible.
And you hoped that Bernie Sanders was going to be able to do something about it.
But, he said, it is no secret that Hillary Clinton and I disagree on a number of issues.
That's what this campaign has been about.
There was a significant coming together between the two campaigns, and we produced by far the most progressive platform in the history of the Democratic Party.
He said, our job now is to see that platform implemented by a Democratic Senate, a Democratic House, and a Hillary Clinton president, and I'm going to do everything I can to make that happen.
That's not great.
If you wanted to support Hillary, you would have supported Hillary.
Hey, maybe you'd have paid her $1.2 billion for a speech.
Who knows?
But in the past, Bernie Sanders has said that Hillary Clinton was frankly and basically not qualified to be president.
He said she doesn't have the judgment to be president, partly, of course, because of her vote for the Iraq war.
He may have mentioned her $21.6 million in speaking fees.
And he's repeatedly attacked Clinton on her ties to Wall Street.
Of course, Obama was the biggest Wall Street parasite to date, but Clinton wasn't that far behind.
He said, ah, Clinton wants to bring oligarchy to the country because of the Wall Street and other special interests that are supporting her.
Well, that hasn't changed!
Sanders also attacked Clinton saying, You're not going to have a government that represents all of us so long as you have candidates like Secretary Clinton being dependent on big money interest.
The degree to which big money is capturing, controlling politicians is horrendous.
There's almost no bigger return on investment that a corporation can do than to donate to a politician in return for tax breaks, for special interest lobbying breaks, for preferential legislation, for trade barriers to others who might compete with them.
Sanders also took aim at the Clinton Foundation's foreign government Donations, which should not have occurred when Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State, but certainly did.
Of course, the Clintons, criminal justice reform in the 90s, the fact that Hillary Clinton referred to blacks as super predators, well, that's a little racist, I think, by any stretch of the imagination.
Sanders hit Clinton hard for voting for virtually, as you said, for virtually every trade agreement that has cost the workers of this country millions of jobs.
The official campaign from Sanders called Clinton a potential outsourcer-in-chief says she's been a consistent advocate of job-killing trade deals and that they have lost almost 5 million manufacturing jobs over the last 15 years.
Of course, if you care about minorities, if you care about those who are, you know, maybe less intellectually agile, you want to have manufacturing jobs because that's how they get to the middle class.
That's how they get to stability if they're not particularly interested in doing a PhD-track tenure position.
So, Sanders viewed her in a terrible way and now he has endorsed her.
Continually attacked Hillary Clinton for her unbelievably disastrous failed policies in Libya.
Regime change, planning for and executing the murder of a foreign leader who's not threatening America directly, seems kind of like a war crime to me, but that was her pursuit.
We came, we saw, he died, as she said, and this unleashed, of course, massive instability throughout Africa, massive migrant waves into Europe, one of the most destructive and catastrophic foreign policy decisions, not just in America recently, in the entire world ever in history.
And this is who he is now endorsing.
Bill Clinton's sex scandals, which is a nice way of saying he's been pretty credibly and repeatedly accused of being a rapist, He says that they're totally, totally, totally disgraceful and unacceptable.
And this is who he is endorsing.
So you understand, you're getting an education now on what contemporary American politics is.
It's politics around the world.
You know, like if you're a wrestler, you're trash talking another wrestler and he's my enemy and he's a bad guy.
And then the powers that be, your management says, oh, you guys are now allies.
He's like, oh yeah, he's my best friend.
It's...
Nonsense.
There's no more moral integrity in most politics than there is in any sports.
It's just, you know, well, they're in a different jersey, so they're enemy.
Oh, did I get drafted in that jersey?
No, you're my friend.
I mean, it's nonsense.
It's just sports, you know, but with a whole lot of deficit financing, foreign policy, bond-making, and guns as a whole.
Wall Street's business model is corruption to a large degree.
These days, Wall Street has raised 23 million dollars for Hillary Clinton and many people in Wall Street who used to back Rubio and Bush have just switched over to support Hillary because it's a uni party with maybe, maybe one exception.
At least 4.2 million from Wall Street has gone into Clinton's presidential campaign.
Another 18.7 million has gone into the super PAC that backs her.
In March alone, Wall Street raised $344,000 for Clinton, more than all of the other candidates combined.
So what are they expecting to get back from that money?
A whole lot of preferential legislation at the expense of the poor, further widening the gap between rich and poor that is so much a marker of a dying civilization.
23 million or so from Wall Street.
During the primary, Donald Trump, how much did he raise in donations from Wall Street?
23 million?
No.
22 million?
No.
I'll save you some time.
Just under $44,000.
23 million?
Big.
44,000.
Eeny, meeny, meeny, tiny.
Of the six giant banks, only 26 employees of them made donations to the Trump campaign.
So, that's Where things stand.
If you're looking for a candidate whose money is not bought and paid for by giant corporations, statistically and factually, you simply have to look at Donald Trump, like him or not, positive or not.
If you're looking to get money and corruption out of politics, he's the guy who's taking by far the least money from big corporations.
So that is kind of important to recognize and to remember because you know when we experience a big sort of crushing spiritual disappointment like watching a man endorse someone he has been trash talking for quite some time and saying she's my gal she's great all that stuff I said before you know that was just to win it wasn't because I believed it at all you know when the guy who claims to be the cop is now palling around around with someone he in some ways
claimed to be pretty corrupt and criminal well You have a problem.
Maybe you need a new sheriff.
Are you going to switch to Hillary Clinton?
You have to have more integrity than...
Bernie Sanders, right?
I mean, if you were for Bernie Sanders because he wanted to get money out of politics, because he wanted better trade deals, because he wanted jobs back, you can't morally switch now to Hillary Clinton.
You can't.
You have to look for some other option.
And I've done some videos about Donald Trump.
You can check them out if you like a lot of what you've been said.
Well, not specifically and wholly the truth, but it's something to look into.
You know, the guy does know how to negotiate deals.
The guy has been incredibly critical of foreign policy, of regime changes, the false song of globalism, the idea that America must eat its own young, eat its own poor in order to go serve special interests overseas, the fact that he was against the Iraq war, as was Bernie Sanders, the fact that That he does not want foreign entanglements that he says we got to start bringing our money home and stop paying for everyone else's defense around the world at the expense of American infrastructure.
These are things that he shares in common with Bernie Sanders and you know a lot of the oh he's a racist and he's a sexist well that's just Words flung around that you should look into in more detail.
We've got a couple of videos.
We'll link below the untruth about Donald Trump.
It's probably not anything close to what you've been told.
But here's your choice, right?
Bernie Sanders crumbled and went full political route and is now endorsing someone he criticized.
Fundamentally, it wasn't just we have a difference of opinion.
There were moral issues involved.
Now, if you're disappointed in Bernie Sanders, and I think it's a reasonable thing to be disappointed in Bernie Sanders, you don't want to do what Bernie Sanders did and just switch to Hillary.
You know, get informed on the issues.
There is an opportunity to have a candidate who's unprecedented in American history outside of the Founding Fathers.
There's a possibility to get behind a candidate who is not taking massive amounts of money from Wall Street, who is focused on the people itself, who has a proven record of real job creation.
You know, Bernie Sanders, not the most Adept entrepreneur in the history of the world, but you know Donald Trump knows how to create jobs and somebody who's going to pull American destructive and murderous foreign policy back inside the borders to a large degree, who is going to be relatively immune to influences from big money spenders because he's spending his own cash.
It's just something to look into and to think about because if Bernie Sanders has betrayed you.
That does not mean that you must then betray yourself and follow him down the road to hell itself.
