This is going to get a lot of blow back, but it needs to be said!

[betsuni]

164. But Bernie thinks everything's about policy. If you have the right progressive

policies, the American people will flock to vote for that true progressive. He has said many times that the majority of Americans agree with his policies but billionaires, wealthy donors and corporations bribe Democrats and the DNC to do everything they can to stop progressive ideas and ignore the working and middle classes: "The point that I make over and over ... is the ideas that I talk about are ideas that the American people want. They don't get it because you've got a Congress indebted to the wealthy campaign contributors."

"I think that what Trump was able to do was pick up on the failures of the Democratic Party that did not talk about the fact that hard working decent people saw their jobs going to Mexico or China ... And what we're trying to do is reform the Democratic Party, make it a party of working people, make it a party of young people."

Many of his most ardent supporters think his Medicare for All plan is the only universal health care idea because he says things like, "Four years ago, when we said that health care is a human right, we were told that it was a radical idea that the American people wouldn't accept." Some of them cannot accept that the ACA with a public option and younger Medicare eligibility is a perfectly good way to achieve universal health care. It wasn't Big Pharma bribing everyone that prevented health care reform, it was Democrats not having enough votes because they didn't have large majorities in the legislature and having zero Republican votes.