Pro-Sanders argument: moderate candidates like Gore & Kerry lost narrowly to Republicans. So let's go with a non-moderate who will activate the secret socialist majority that has been lurking undetected in the United States all this while ...
True, leftish Barack Obama did win in 2008 - but amid the worst financial crisis since 1931!
But Sanders is running far to the left of 2008 Obama. To Sanders,Obama was and is as a neoliberal sell-out.
And Sanders is running in context of ... news.gallup.com/poll/284264/re…
But Sanders is running far to the left of 2008 Obama. To Sanders,Obama was and is as a neoliberal sell-out.
And Sanders is running in context of ... news.gallup.com/poll/284264/re…
A voice from the gallery demands, who is optimistic about the future except for the oligarchic 1?
Funny you should ask ...
Funny you should ask ...
The basic dilemma of the Sanders campaign: it is running on a message of radical change -more radical than Obama, more radical than the Great Society, more radical than the New Deal -
in a year when Americans are more positive about the status quo than at anytime since 1998.
in a year when Americans are more positive about the status quo than at anytime since 1998.
I agree there is much truth to the below point
But if you accept that point, the Sanders project looks even more doomed. Sanders did so well in 2016 in great part because he became a vehicle for racial and sexual resentment against Obama and Clinton. Those resentments won't be a resource for him against Trump.
