Thank you Salmon.
I do have a different point of view than you, though. I live in a place that was already fucked over by climate change, about fifteen to twenty years ago now. It was bad, but it didn't end the world. I also live in a place where many environmentalists are indiscriminate about their opposition to policy, such as from heavily opposing new hydropower projects due to them not being the right kind of clean energy. It is also a place that has had a long series of, yes, centerist governments, which have done a great many important things for climate such as introducing effective carbon taxation-- no exceptions, on the province. And they were defeated for not being green enough, mostly due to wanting to increase capacity with said hydro dam.
So.. from that point of view, I looked at Sanders. And, well, what do I see.. no carbon tax, emissions goals of zero, immediate if not sooner time frame. And no nuclear. And an insistance that this and only this policy plan will do. So I ask the question of 'well, what's the best way to accomplish these goals?' And some of it works, and some of it doesn't, and a goal of say 90% reduction would be much easier, both in getting people to buy into the project and getting that part done. And I look at equalization, and I see lots of good and reasonable policies, equally mixed with ones that are seem unreasonable or unnecessary, and then I sigh and remember that the situation didn't occur in a day. The wealthy getting out of their taxation in the States happened over sixty years, and if half of his tax plan went through there's a huge amount of good that would be done, but Sanders doesn't know which half he can sell to the other half of the country, nor does he seem to care.
So.. yes. I don't like Sanders because I think his policies are bad ways of getting his policy goals accomplished. I do think there is lots he has done, like bring the $15 minimum wage into the mainstream, and getting some serious support for large-scale green investment done in the U.S. And because of that, I think a good chunk of those goals will be accomplished regardless of nominee, even if not all of them. And in my experience, most but not all could well be good enough, and maybe better than all of them.
There's nothing I can do to make your personal situation better, although I wish I could. I also won't defend Biden's position on for profit prisons, though I will defend him on racism.
https://globalnews.ca/news/6359410/joe-biden-edited-video-racist-remarks/That's not the only example of misleading video presenting Biden as being racist.
As for danger.. I don't know enough, so I'll take your word for that.
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