My Talk at the Post-Debate, pre 2016 Presidential Election Forum at Evergreen State College

by Peter Bohmer, October 20, 2016

I have watched the three presidential debates this year. Trump’s contempt for women, his anti-choice, anti-Mexican  and anti-Muslim immigrant stance, his stereotyping of Black and Latinos, his proposed tax cuts for the wealthy and the corporations was disgusting. His toxic machismo and not so coded racism and white nationalism were on full display.  Clinton, although not as bad never mentioned poor people, and called for and bragged about continued U.S. militarism. To Trump’s racist claims about electoral rigging and fraud in Black communities, his mentioning  of Philadelphia, St. Louis and Chicago;  Hillary Clinton  could have but didn’t respond with the past and present actual racist voter suppression, especially by Republicans  but also many  Democrats in limiting voting by people with felonies, requiring multiple ID’s, making registration and voting difficult, especially in low income communities. Also these three debates were limited by no questions about one of the central issues of the day, climate change, and the excluding of the Green Party Presidential candidate, Jill Stein and the Libertarian Party candidate, Gary Johnson. … (see link above)