@snood,
snood wrote:
So anyway george, why do you use the word "loonie" to describe Bernie?
Because I believe he is rather far out on the fringe of American politics. He's an inconsequential long-term politician, whose expressed beliefs about policics and economics are shopworn relics of another age that have all proven to deliver bad results wherever applied. Despite this he persists. He was OK as a Senator from Vermont - even the Senate needs some coimic relief. However the fact is he entered the Democrat primary race only as a convenience to Queen Hillary to give her an easy illusion of opposition. Unfortunately both the Democrat establishment ,which had been resigned to Hillary's inevitability, and the Clintons themselves, who are quite blind to their failings, were badly surprised by the growing weariness with Clinton style self-aggrandizement, and also by the relatively refreshing, authentic tone of Sander's rhetoric, which made him an attractive alternative to the tarnished Queen.
I think there are some more or less equivalent candidates on the Republican side as well. However, the field is large and competitive, and I believe a winnwe will emerge from it..