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Sanderss fiction-filled campaign
By Editorial Board January 27
SEN. BERNIE Sanders (I-Vt.) is leading in New Hampshire and within striking distance in Iowa, in large part because he is playing the role of uncorrupted anti-establishment crusader. But Mr. Sanders is not a brave truth-teller. He is a politician selling his own brand of fiction to a slice of the country that eagerly wants to buy it.
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Mr. Sanders tops off his narrative with a deus ex machina: He assures Democrats concerned about the political obstacles in the way of his agenda that he will lead a political revolution that will help him clear the capital of corruption and influence-peddling. This self-regarding analysis implies a national consensus favoring his agenda when there is none and ignores the many legitimate checks and balances in the political system that he cannot wish away.
Mr. Sanders is a lot like many other politicians. Strong ideological preferences guide his thinking, except when politics does, as it has on gun control. When reality is ideologically or politically inconvenient, he and his campaign talk around it. Mr. Sanderss success so far does not show that the country is ready for a political revolution. It merely proves that many progressives like being told everything they want to hear.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/bernie-sanderss-fiction-filled-campaign/2016/01/27/cd1b2866-c478-11e5-9693-933a4d31bcc8_story.html
Response to Rose Siding (Original post)
SusanCalvin This message was self-deleted by its author.
Can you say "bullseye? " You just proved the editorial's point. Thank you.
Are you lost, by the way? This is the Hillary Clinton Group, not the GDP swampgas bubble.
yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)This Editorial Board opinion is jacked up to be a "ham-handed hit piece." It's just an opinion!
okasha
(11,573 posts)for the DearLeader.
Better get another bus.
#NAACPso establishment.
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)Response to SusanCalvin (Reply #1)
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Cha
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madaboutharry
(40,212 posts)everything they want to hear." Well, that is true about most people. That said, this is a very reasoned argument. Bernie didn't survive in politics all these decades without acting like a politician.