How Bernie Sanders Would Use The Bully Pulpit

[jeff47]

6. Neither primary candidate will get anything done in at least the next two years.

It's not like Ryan or McConnell will pass anything Clinton wants. Yet you don't seem to be bothered that the vast majority of Clinton's proposals require Congress to pass a bill.

The point of a Sanders campaign is to start driving a wedge between the perception of the parties. That should boost turnout among the very large chunk of the electorate who do not bother to vote.

The point of a Clinton campaign is to maintain this status quo where that large chunk of the electorate does not see enough of a difference to bother voting.

And before you come back with "then those voters are idiots", we need those voters to do anything. So it doesn't matter how dumb you think they are. We need to figure out how to appeal to them. And we've utterly failed to do that for the last 30 years.