I wish the US would invade the US to build functioning roads and establish a democracy.

It's late and I really don't have time for this, but...

Reeling in our foreign policy is a fucking joke. It won't happen. Obama made the same promise and it didn't happen. The problem is that we're expected to go fix things whenever the Middle East or some other shithole falls apart, and no amount of Bernie will change that.

Legalizing marijuana? Really? That'll "shake things up?" Wow. Truly, I'm in awe of your intelligence.

I'm focusing specifically on the electoral system because it's made both parties radicalize their views. Positions have been taken solely because the other candidate took the opposite one. It's a fucking mess; fixing it would go a long way towards giving us better options for President.

I'm pointing to the fact that the legislation Sanders is asking for and would support is a disaster. It's a nice thought to raise minimum wage, but it would just put people working minimum wage out of jobs. This is obvious. $15 is an awful starting point; it's too unreasonable to be taken seriously.

Domestic legislation is a pretty important part of any president's term. You can't really just ignore it, since it's usually the part that affects you the most.

Voting against Iraq doesn't say much; when Iraq began, it wasn't obvious it would devolve into the mess it eventually did.

It's unlikely Sanders will change the military significantly, our foreign policy isn't likely to change overly much, NSA spying probably won't stop, the drug war is a mess that would take approximately an entire term to sort out if it wasn't just scrapped, and I'm not sure how much you think law enforcement would change.

It's not that I think the President is a senator with executive powers; it's that I'm prioritizing the things that actually change from administration to administration and affect me. Everything you've listed you think Clinton would do poorly at have been largely consistent since Bush. They aren't likely to change much no matter who wins.

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