re: #161 HappyWarrior

My issue really isn’t with Sanders’ agenda in itself. I just have been disappointed with how he expects to pass his reforms. Like for example, he has said he won’t do much for downticket candidates. Honestly, I think that’s narrow minded of him. Plus, he thinks that when Republicans in Congress inevitably vote down his legislation, the people’s response will be to just vote them out or protest to force them into acting. Again, I think he’s being short sighted there. The idealist in me loves Bernie but the pragmatist in me knows that his approach would make him ineffective.

Sanders is our Ron Paul, our Crazy Uncle Liberty. He’s a guy who has no plan for how to make his ideals become reality, but that doesn’t stop him from trying to sell us on those ideals. He insists (and his supporters maintain) that if he’s elected, that means he got there because people support what he’s selling and they’ll run those who oppose him out of office. In the real world, if Sanders won, it would be largely on votes like myself and others who just didn’t want a President Trump. And I don’t think, I know that his supporters will either not bother to show up during the midterms or will…but will refuse to vote for an “establishment” candidate and instead either write-in somebody who’s not running or vote for a third party candidate who won’t command anywhere near enough votes to overcome the Republicans voting for an anti-Bernie candidate.