2016 Postmortem

UCmeNdc

(9,602 posts) Mon Jun 1, 2015, 05:08 PM Jun 2015

Bernie Sanders is the kind of politician everyone says they want.

And when a politician is transparently genuine, as opposed to transparently fake, voters — surprise! — pay attention. It’s what they’ve asked for in every election since there have been elections, and their request has almost always been ignored.

In Bernie’s case, this transparency is augmented by the fact that — as Lund notes — the voters are way more liberal than either the press or their own representatives believe them to be. So Sanders’s candidacy fills the two biggest voids in the presidential field: that of progressives and that of actual people.

http://americablog.com/2015/06/bernie-sanders-is-being-taken-seriously-in-and-out-of-iowa.html

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Bernie Sanders is the kind of politician everyone says they want. (Original Post) UCmeNdc Jun 2015 OP

I'm hoping they realize it and vote their interests BrotherIvan Jun 2015 #1

Isn't this what kacekwl Jun 2015 #2

It isn't about Bernie Cosmocat Jun 2015 #4

The ignorant masses are also voters. DCBob Jun 2015 #5

I like this: Jefferson23 Jun 2015 #3

BrotherIvan

(9,126 posts)

1. I'm hoping they realize it and vote their interests

Reply to UCmeNdc (Original post)

Mon Jun 1, 2015, 05:49 PM

Jun 2015

kacekwl

(7,028 posts)

2. Isn't this what

Reply to UCmeNdc (Original post)

Mon Jun 1, 2015, 06:44 PM

Jun 2015

we have been begging for ? A real , honest , intelligent politician who believes what we / I believe in . Yet to many here he is unelectable . Seems strange to me.

Cosmocat

(14,595 posts)

4. It isn't about Bernie

Reply to kacekwl (Reply #2)

Tue Jun 2, 2015, 07:54 AM

Jun 2015

it is about US.

The stupid runs DEEP in this country.

DCBob

(24,689 posts)

5. The ignorant masses are also voters.

Reply to kacekwl (Reply #2)

Tue Jun 2, 2015, 09:36 AM

Jun 2015

We have to put up a candidate that can win. Bernie aint it.

Jefferson23

(30,099 posts)

3. I like this:

Reply to UCmeNdc (Original post)

Mon Jun 1, 2015, 07:37 PM

Jun 2015

Bernie is not polished, because Bernie does not give a fuck. Bernie has shit to do, which is ostensibly why he was elected. For his pre-announcement – days ago – he walked outside the US capitol, took questions for ten minutes, then walked back inside to resume being a Senator. This approach is or is not a problem, depending on how hypocritical you think people are. Few people have spent their lives lamenting that politicians were insufficiently blow-dried. (NO. Make the hairTRUMPIER.) Most bemoan the plasticity of candidates and the lack of real priorities signified by omnipresent flag pins and a slightly different red tie than the guy next to him…

…Bernie is not rich and he does not spend his time figuring out how to convert political problems into wealth opportunities for people who are already rich. Many people depict this as a liability – mostly rich people who consider choosing the government to be exclusively their purview, and the sorts of people who become rich by overcharging rich people for campaign ads, advice and strategy. Both of these groups will tell you that Bernie has no chance, because it is in their bottom-line interests to make demonstrations of a lack of fealty to wealth seem politically anathema.

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