2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumGiven what we can now wager, this is going to be a fun four to eight years...
PADemD
(4,482 posts)Our country has so many problems that need to be addressed. We do not need to have our tax dollars and precious time wasted on Congressional witch hunts and/or impeachment for the next 4-8 years.
We do not need a President that starts from day one with a target on her back.
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(6,048 posts)PADemD
(4,482 posts)AndreaCG
(2,331 posts)Should he win the presidency? That is the height of naïveté based on precedent.
PADemD
(4,482 posts)especially Hillary
If he wins the nomination you will see the pile on. Socialist/Communist, Anti-Semitism, ageism plus all the regular things they toss at ordinary democrats. You have to be very very naive to think he'll escape it. I won't even get into the disparity in campaign funds
PADemD
(4,482 posts)Despite its reputation as a place filled with liberal hippies, Vermont, like most of rural northern New England, is home to a lot of conservatives.
Anyone running for statewide office there needs to win these conservatives' votes, and Bernie is great at doing that.
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/why-surprising-numbers-republicans-have-been-voting-bernie-sanders-vermont
AndreaCG
(2,331 posts)The latter have no problem voting against their economic self interest. I don't think you have the religious fanatics there for the most part either. And the NE republicans are a very small slice of the RW pie.
JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)Bread and Circus
(9,454 posts)will to move US foreign and domestic policy to the left that would be very fun.
My concern, shared by some, is that political warfare and entrenchment is not going to be healthy for the country.
JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)We need someone who knows how to shut them down.
Bread and Circus
(9,454 posts)The rabidness of the Right is a symptom of an uninformed and abused populace, not the disease.