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A2A. Because Bernie's a decent human being who puts beating Trump above his own personal aspirations. He’s not a selfish narcissist like Joe Biden or Hillary. Back in 2016, 88% of his supporters voted for Hillary. The rest were mostly Republicans and independents. I supported Bernie in the primary but voted for Hillary in the general. But for me, personally, I’m done voting for neoliberals, like Joe Biden, and I’ll tell you why.The Democratic establishment, MSNBC, CNN, the NYT, and the Washington Post all went after Bernie hard starting with that South Carolina debate where the DNC stacked the audience with cheering sections for Bloomberg, Biden, and others. They were wealthy special interests who actually booed Bernie. It was a total sh*t show.I’m going to point out an undisputed fact. Bloomberg is a guy who’s had 64 women file lawsuits against him for sexual harassment and discrimination, with 3 active, and he has at least a dozen NDAs out there with women who’d now like to tell their stories to the press. The DNC changed their rules to get Bloomberg into the debates.The Democrats said they cared that Trump was a serial, sexual harasser of women. But this episode with Bloomberg has taught me the establishment Democrats care nothing about their so-called principles. They only care about clinging to power. They’ll attack a fundamentally decent person like Sanders, but elevate some truly repulsive people with the help of the media.I’ve had my fill of lying, cheating, self-serving, hypocritical neoliberals. And I’m not alone. I think many Sanders supporters will just stay home in 2020.However, if this economy goes into a recession, Biden would likely win. I really think we’re in one now. Here’s why:The Fed had to inject 1.5 trillion into the financial markets to increase liquidity.The Fed dropped the federal funds rate to zero, but that seems to have no effect.[1] I believe the Fed can set a negative rate, but won’t that be popular with average Americans?The Fed’s gone back to quantitative easing, which they’re now calling “Operation Twist” to cosmetically disguise what they’re doing.The 10-year bond rate is less than 0.5% the last time I looked. That happens near or in a recession.People sold off TIPS hard last week, which means they fear low inflation and low or negative economic growth.Treasury bills are selling above par, which means rich people want to get their money out of banks to avoid losses because of the $250,000 cap on FDIC insurance.The stock market has lost most of what it’s gained since Trump's taken office. The S&P 500 index went up by 895 points under Trump at its peak, and it’s now lost 669 of those points (as of 3:20 PM EST on 3/16/2020). If this trend continues, it won’t take long for Trump to have losses since he took office.Trump decided to make the stock market the main barometer of his management of the economy. So boohoo for Trump.Just an aside: If you're money manager is telling you to stay the course and everything will be fine, he or she is a moron. The qualifications to be a “money manager” are shockingly low. You can see some of these morons on CNBC or Fox Business. They’re nothing but gaslight artists for Trump.Anyway, I guess what happens in November 2020 will depend on how much this economy recovers.Footnotes[1] Federal Reserve cuts rates to zero and launches massive $700 billion quantitative easing program

This is not an exhaustive list, just a few things that come to mind. It is too early to make any judgments post-Clinton. I did not include things that most historians might consider major legacies but that I consider being a mixed bag at best.(Note: Some of these are acts of Congress, but I will still give the President that signed them credit, assuming that they would have been unlikely to happen without his active and behind-the-scenes support.)Washington: Establishing a foreign policy of avoiding overeas “entanglements”.Jefferson: Louisiana Purchase & sending Lewis & Clark on the Corps of Discovery.Monroe: Monroe DoctrineLincoln: Fighting the Civil War to preserve the Union, & the Emancipation Proclamation; Homestead Act; Morrill Land Grant College Act; Pacific Railroad Act (led to first Transcontinental Railroad).Andrew Johnson: Alaska purchase.US Grant: National Parks (Yellowstone 1st); US Civil Service.Theodore Roosevelt: US Forest Service; Antiquities Act & creation of many national monuments (some later National Parks); Meat Inspection, Pure Food & Drug Acts; Panama Canal; Great White Fleet around-the-world tour.FDR: CCC, WPA, and massive public works projects during Great Depression; rural electrification & TVA; FDIC, SEC; Social Security; Fair Labor Standards Act; Lend-Lease, “Arsenal of Democracy” and War Mobilization; Manhattan Project; GI Bill.Truman: UN Charter & Bretton Woods agreements; Berlin Airlift; Marshall Plan; integration of armed forces and federal agencies; NATO.Eisenhower: Korea Armistice; NASA; Interstate Highways.JFK: Peace Corps; restraint during Cuba Missile Crisis.LBJ: Civil & Voting Rights Acts; Medicare.Nixon: Opening to China; Clean Air Act, EPA, OSHA.Ford: Helsinki Accords.Carter: Camp David Accords.GHW Bush: Americans with Disabilities Act; management of end of Cold War and the USSR; Gulf War I.Clinton: NAFTA.

The opinion is most definitely justified. Those disputing the perception of bankers as being evil here on Quora are mostly just saying, "Those critics are people who just don't love capitalism." However, those defenders of banking are not actually addressing the core issue (we are a long way from capitalism in banking in this country, but that's for another time).The reason for this harsh but accurate perception is because many markets are rigged, many bankers are sociopaths, and many people looking at this whole system can only wonder, "Where is my bailout?" Fraud is an intrinsic, pervasive part of the system. Most have probably seen that trillion-dollar markets, such as LIBOR, have been rigged for years, as have oil and derivatives markets. Bankers are frequently selling products known to be toxic to unsuspecting buyers, fraud was a key part on the banking side of the mortgage bubble, etc. etc. etc. For one reference of many, look at Washington's Blog recent posting, "Is EVERY Market Rigged?"Another reason for this accurate but unflattering perception is regulatory capture - the banks have become more powerful than the government itself. Bankers are the biggest closet socialist crybabies in the world - all of the gains are private, and when there are losses, well, the system has to be saved, and they are dumped on the public. Just look at how the Federal Reserve has ballooned its balance sheet, buying up toxic assets from banks and giving them cash or treasuries in return. You and I are stuck with the terrible loans and the bankers will keep their bonuses, rebuild their balance sheets, and do it to us all again.I saw a number of bankers pay themselves bonuses just before their bank failed, and underwrite loans that were obviously terrible because, "It [would] eventually be someone else's problem." How is this sounding so far?As one example of many, SEC rules (e.g. those governing orders on stock exchanges) are regularly flouted, and not at all enforced in the absurdity that is High Frequency Trading. Contrast that with the way that laws against petty theft crimes are enforced - steal a sandwich and you're likely to go to jail.See also the indispensable "Of Two Minds" blog from Charles Hugh Smith, especially with a recent entry on centralization and sociopathology. He writes, "Centralized power is itself is a sociopathologizing force. We cannot understand the present devolution of our civil society, economy and ethics unless we understand that concentrated power and wealth are intrinsically sociopathological by their very nature."Because of my position (many years in banking and finance), I have anonymized my response - I hope that you will believe that I have been involved in FDIC Safety & Soundness Exams, bulk loan sales, private and public capital raises, and all manner of banking and financing transactions. The sausage-making in banking is a far uglier business than most people could imagine, with breathtakingly elaborate justifications for all kinds of behavior.