Bernie vs. Hillary On The Issues, by Jesse Gordon: on Principles & Values

Bernie Sanders: Agrees with Hillary, but more fervently, on many issues

• Abortion: Both would promote reproductive rights, although Hillary would consider opposing viewpoints.
• Gay Rights: Both would promote same-sex marriage; although Hillary was slower to evolve on this issue than many progressives.
• Healthcare: Both would maintain ObamaCare, but Bernie would move towards a single-payer system.
• Gun Control: Hillary is the progressive on this issue (hard-core consistently in favor of gun control, while rural-state Bernie has the more moderate stance and mixed historical voting record.
• Stimulus: both agree on federal spending to end the Great Recession, although Bernie would devote substantially more resources to infrastructure and an increased minimum wage.
• Alternative energy: both would move away from fossil fuels, although Hillary was slow to oppose the Keystone pipeline.

Hillary Clinton: Agrees with Bernie on vouchers, EPA, taxes, amnesty & voting

• Education: both agree: no vouchers; restricted charters.
• Environmentalism: both would strengthen the EPA.
• Social Security; both oppose any weakening or privatization.
• Tax Reform: both would increase taxes on the wealthy to help the working class and middle class.
• Voting rights: both would remove voter ID restrictions, and on the campaign finance side, both would overturn Citizens United.
• Immigration: both favor a pathway to citizenship that their opponents would call "amnesty."

Hillary Clinton: Disagrees with Bernie on crime, drugs & foreign intervention

• Faith: Hillary would work with faith-based organizations on many fronts; Bernie focuses on church-state separation.
• Crime: Hillary supports the death penalty; Bernie focuses on "Black Lives Matter."
• Drugs: Hillary supports medical marijuana legalization; Bernie supports more than that, and considers the War on Drugs to be a major source of systemic racism. Hillary started using the term "systemic racism" in response to Bernie's use of the term.
• Foreign intervention: Hillary is interventionist while Bernie would stay out of many hotspots. This is the strongest difference between the two candidates: Hillary is much more hawkish than Bernie (but still dovish compared to Republicans).