Bernie Supporters Should Protest Hillary Too

In a clip of a Trump rally in Bloomington, Illinois yesterday we saw Trump yelling "go back to Bernie" at a young woman protester.  We also saw "Black Lives Matter" signs among the crowd.  Clearly, it's Trump's incendiary, bigoted comments that are being protested.  We don't know for sure who the protesters are supporting, and it doesn't really matter, but it is likely that Trump is correct in assuming they support Bernie.  Bernie is a polite and reasonable campaigner.  Everyone knows it is wrong to make bigoted comments in polite society, so politicians who make such comments in public should be chided and protested.

But is Trump the only candidate who should be so chided?  Based on Trump's life-long experience living and working in New York City with people from a wide variety of ethnic groups, in his heart of hearts he is likely to be one of the least bigoted candidates.  Everyone knows that many of the republican voters most likely to turn out for the primaries harbor bigoted sentiments.  Trump is probably making these bombastic comments just to get votes.  That's what politicians do, play to the ignorant fears of their electorate.  Recently, the Huffington Post reminded us that Hillary Clinton used racial fears of a different sort to attract voters away from Barack Obama back in 2008. See http://www.huffingtonpost.com/geoffrey-dunn/hillarys-hypocrisy-clinging-to-obama-after-her-racist-dog-whistles-in-2008_b_9011244.html

Ignorant Republican Party voters fear that black and brown people will take white jobs and soak up government benefits paid for by white taxpayers.  Ignorant Democratic Party voters fear that their candidates won't be "electable" which will allow the evil Republicans to destroy our society.  In 2008, Hillary was telling us that a black man is less electable than a white woman in our racist country.  Of course Hillary was wrong twice.  The black man was elected and his administration carried on with the destruction of our society right where his Republican predecessor left off.

Impolite rhetoric that panders to the racial fears of voters is wrong and should be protested by all responsible citizens.  However, actions that harm groups of people should be protested even more vigorously.  On that score, Hillary deserves much more condemnation that does Trump.  She gives lip service to "Black Lives Matter" while Trump misses the point and responds that "All Lives Matter." But Trump's foreign policy statements suggest that he really believes all lives matter, while Hillary's policies and actions supporting and causing Armagideon in North Africa and the Middle East clearly demonstrate that she disagrees.  See http://williamblum.org/aer/read/144 Hillary's candidacy should be protested most vehemently!