re: #183 ObserverArt

You do realize a lot of Bernie’s backers think the problem with the Democrats is that we already are Republican lite. So many think the problem was they didn’t pick a far left candidate.

I guess those folks either forgot the 70s and 80s or were too young to see what being extremely liberal did for presidential elections.

Either that, or I am wrong in thinking that a far left candidate would get crushed again. Maybe the lesson needs to be gone over again. Sure I’d love to see a left liberal/progressive get elected, but I guess I am gun shy.

Bernie would have been our McGovern, our Mondale, our far-left candidate who would have gone down to a major loss. Why? Because Bernie’s entire appeal was to a demographic that the GOP already has sown up. He had little to no appeal to any demographic with a skin color darker than a paper bag, which Republicans would have pounced on without fail.