I think that as a progressive leader in the broad sense, Bernie Sanders is great. He’s forcing this country to rethink how it thinks about its relationship with government and how we look at economics.
But the idea of Bernie as a president concerns me greatly. I fear he would be the stereotypical clumsy liberal who couldn’t run a profitable lemonade stand.
It was indeed non-partisan political analysis, albeit not phrased quite as well as it could have been – but then, I am an incurable wiseass. The statement: “two so far to the left as to alienate voters in much of the old Democratic working-class base”, is somewhat more appropriate, but means essentially the same thing.
Why would Biden worry about the youth vote when he’s already got a significant percentage of the senior citizen vote?
I came here to say essentially the same thing from start to finish. Plus, a lot can happen between now and then, and there is no guarantee that any of them will still be in the running by the time all this goes down.
I think generally voting for one’s preferred candidate works in weeding out milquetoast candidates unless the other candidates are so corrupt, unpopular, insane, or otherwise unfit that a competent milquetoast one is preferable.
I like them both because they’ve got solid congressional chops and their knowledge of processes and personnel will be useful in rebuilding the government. But they’re old white men, a demographic for leadership that is falling out of favor with the Democratic base. Sanders especially is too progressive for the office. We need progressives in congress where they can champion that agenda. The presidency needs to be occupied by someone, a moderate, who can garner support from both parties, and maybe sell progressive goals in conservative-pleasing terms.
I think them being in the race is too much of a distraction.