@Olivier5,
Quote:He is the best chance you guys get to reform your disfunctional democracy.
Except that he can't get it done by himself. That means he needs to be voted in with enough socialists to control the House and secure sixty votes in the Senate to break any filibuster. Plus he'll need to win in a socialist landslide that will at least give the conservative judiciary pause before striking down every socialist bill which gets passed. Trouble is, many Democratic voters
aren't socialists. Conservative Democrats and moderate independents in open primary states had the current wave of socialist activism dumped on their plate in the 2016 primaries when Sanders supporters first showed that left economics had some appeal. But they haven't all jumped on board. A lot of them really
don't want to see the country shaken up to the degree that Sanders (and Warren) are proposing.
These moderates represent a significant number of needed votes, especially outside the urban areas and college towns and away from the coasts. Sanders (and Warren) still have time to work on broadening their appeal but it will be a hard sell in many places and the results in the primaries will begin to show whether either of these these septuagenarians can pull it off. I'd vote for either one of them but I've been sympathetic to socialism for over fifty years. There are a lot of moderates who aren't socialists who might not like Trump but are just really wary about an overhaul of the economic system — or, more realistically, another four years of divided government, gridlock, and hyper-partisanship. Good luck.