Hacker News story: Don't forget to vote, regardless of who you support

Don't forget to vote, regardless of who you support
Personally, I'm voting Bernie because: * He supports personal freedom and tearing down outdated legislation on morality. These laws are useless, wasteful, and in many cases outright malicious in original intent. Ending the Drug War alone is estimated to save us $50 - $100 billion annually. * He's the only candidate from either party who explicitly supports our constitutionally protected right to use secure end-to-end encrypted communication tools like Cyph. Both Trump and most Democrats are actively seeking legislation to take this away. * Medicare for All and expanding public education to include college and trade school just make sense, insofar as you support existing socialized programs like public K-12 education, the military, and emergency services. A rising tide lifts all boats; it benefits all of us, and ultimately the economy, to live in a country where everyone has the same opportunity to be healthy and productive. As a bonus, many studies have shown that M4A will actually be more cost-efficient than our current system. * I support laissez-faire free markets, but it's the government's job to balance paper economic growth against negative externalities, not the private sector's. And the fact that as-is we're all gonna die soon is a pretty big negative externality. (Or at least see widespread suffering and a collapse of society as we know it by the end of the century.) Bernie's Green New Deal is a plan to finally get serious about addressing this issue. * From an electoral perspective, Bernie is the Democrats' only real shot. Biden is fine, but he's effectively just Hillary with a penis, which I can't see ending any differently. --- Digitally signed version: https://ift.tt/39mC42a 0 comments on Hacker News.
Personally, I'm voting Bernie because: * He supports personal freedom and tearing down outdated legislation on morality. These laws are useless, wasteful, and in many cases outright malicious in original intent. Ending the Drug War alone is estimated to save us $50 - $100 billion annually. * He's the only candidate from either party who explicitly supports our constitutionally protected right to use secure end-to-end encrypted communication tools like Cyph. Both Trump and most Democrats are actively seeking legislation to take this away. * Medicare for All and expanding public education to include college and trade school just make sense, insofar as you support existing socialized programs like public K-12 education, the military, and emergency services. A rising tide lifts all boats; it benefits all of us, and ultimately the economy, to live in a country where everyone has the same opportunity to be healthy and productive. As a bonus, many studies have shown that M4A will actually be more cost-efficient than our current system. * I support laissez-faire free markets, but it's the government's job to balance paper economic growth against negative externalities, not the private sector's. And the fact that as-is we're all gonna die soon is a pretty big negative externality. (Or at least see widespread suffering and a collapse of society as we know it by the end of the century.) Bernie's Green New Deal is a plan to finally get serious about addressing this issue. * From an electoral perspective, Bernie is the Democrats' only real shot. Biden is fine, but he's effectively just Hillary with a penis, which I can't see ending any differently. --- Digitally signed version: https://ift.tt/39mC42a