@Frank Apisa,
Yeah, that's something I can't really figure out. When Obama was running, people used to accuse his supporters of treating him like he was the messiah or some kind of genie who they believed would swoop in and solve all our woes. They denigrated them as 'Obamatrons', naively parroting anything he said.
I thought the characterization was unfair. I thought Obama was the best thing running, but I didn't have any starry-eyed idea that he would waltz in and overnight unearth the centuries old, core-deep corruption and good-ole boy network. I was actually afraid for him and his family when he got elected - for what kind of opposition he'd have to overcome, and what kind of personal pounding they would have to endure.
That's why I don't understand the grade-school rhetoric that some people employ in their support of Bernie-the-good. Just because he gives voice to all the pie-in-the-sky ideals they hold dear doesn't necessarily mean a damn thing when viewed in the light of reality. I've listened to Sanders spout all his leftwing talking point jibber jabber for YEARS, and I am no more impressed with it now - since other people are hearing it - than I was the first time I heard it. All we can be sure of, based on what he's
done, when trying to predict what he will actually be able to
do in DC, is talk all that Saint Bernie the good left wing garbledy gook.
