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Sanders sure seemed to have the right mindset for most important issues. Would have loved to have seen that alternate reality in 2016.
It just shows how much the system is rigged. Less likeable and less popular Hillary sabotaged his campaign allowing trump to win. Even if Bernie did win and started making positive change I wouldn’t be surprised if he got whacked like JFK.
Unfortunately, I don't think that Bernie would have been able to make as much of an impact as he wanted. Congress is more responsible for long term changes than the president and Bernie's ideals are left of most of the Democratic party, so I don't think they would have been as cooperative as he/we would have liked.
Also, if he was elected, we still would have elected the oldest president ever. I'd rather our government wasn't a retirement home.
Unless we get enough legislators that share Sanders' positions, him being president is a waste.
Except that’s not going to happen because the corporate lobbyists that fund most winning campaigns for both parties would never allow it.
This is why Lenin calls liberal democracy the best possible shell for capitalism - a single or small group of people can't change the system. The power is split up enough that capitalism stays in power, but concentrated enough that capital can control it.
Little Debbie really screwed the party with her hard on towards Clinton.
The problems with that party go a lot deeper than one woman.
I frankly consider him just another fraudulent sheepdog. He's tailor-made to round up burgeoning defectors to lasso them back under the Big Tent™ what with the origin story his supporters peddle around about his involvement in the Civil Rights movement.
At the end of the day, the best thing he can do is give a left alternative in policy proposals and help radicalize people when it doesn’t work because the system is too far gone.
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