2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumWashington Post editorial board: Bernie Sanders’s fiction-filled campaign
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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He would be a braver truth-teller if he explained how he would go about rationing health care like European countries do. His program would be more grounded in reality if he addressed the fact of chronic slow growth in Europe and explained how he would update the 20th-century model of social democracy to accomplish its goals more efficiently. Instead, he promises large benefits and few drawbacks.
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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.
Bernie Sanderss fiction-filled campaign
Armstead
(47,803 posts)We're inching closer by the day, cheered on by well heeled peddlers of the corporate conservative conventional wisdom like those jackasses on the Post editorial board
ChisolmTrailDem
(9,463 posts)Health Wagon
(99 posts)The 1% are very afraid. Their time in the trough are coming to an end and heading to the slaughterhouse.
Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)SusanCalvin
(6,592 posts)Correction: Ham handed hit piece.
frylock
(34,825 posts)CajunBlazer
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(5,648 posts)frylock
(34,825 posts)CajunBlazer
(5,648 posts)NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)restorefreedom
(12,655 posts)doesn't make me a car.
cenk uyger did such a great job dismantling this hit piece, let me refer you him
the maestro....
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1017325058
DefenseLawyer
(11,101 posts)And these elitist clowns think the only thing we can do is sit back and enjoy the ride.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)To turn his rhetoric into reality?
How will he be more successful in making the republican controlled house do all these things Bernie proposes that they are 100% opposed to?
If the answer is "revolution " it's BS.
There is no revolution out in the streets. I'm old enough to remember Vietnam protests. They were real and up from the streets not handed down by some political leader.
DefenseLawyer
(11,101 posts)Eventually the underclass will storm the Bastille. We're not there yet, but that's our trajectory. We need to radically change the wage structure in this country. It doesn't require "revolution" it's been done before. We can create disincentives to outsourcing, we can cut defense spending and shift our focus to public works, we can provide a structure that fosters collective bargaining rather than attacking it at every turn. We can create a tax structure that discourages the super rich from scrounging for every last dime. We can easily tax Wall Street transactions and regulate their Ponzi schemes. This are not crazy ideas. The thing is, most people agree with most of these things. It's a matter of breaking the stranglehold of the elites and we have to start sometime.
Nanjeanne
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