I think Bernie's been good for the party, and the election. I have to say that imo the dems primary process is a hell of a lot fairer than the gop's. And, I'm a goper. Sure there are the superdelegates, but absent something crazy, they'll go with whomever won the most pledged delegates, and those are awarded in each state proportionally. So, any Bernie supporter complaining the election is rigged ... it's just bs. If a state has a closed primary, gtfo it. I think primaries should be open, but only because that way it's pretty impossible to primary anyone out with a small fraction of the party electorate. That's not what happened to Bernie. The fact is he's not a democrat, so don't be surprised if that hurt him in a democratic primary. He lost because the blacks don't care for him.
Both he and Trump are concerned with flat wages, the very wealthy getting very much wealthier and middle class entitlements. Neither Hillary nor the gop party bosses paid much attention to this.
The problem with Bernie Sanders, is he has been a yay, nay and present voter in the Senate for years. He went out gung ho--campaigning on "breaking up the big banks" and failed to realize that neither he nor the Federal Government has the authority to do that--LOL The Federal Reserve Banks, and the Federal Government operate separately and independent of one another. That's the way it's always been.
Now I don't know how many Senators wouldn't know that, but I'll bet my last dime there was only one, and his name was Bernie Sanders.
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Sanders is the epitome of a candidate that has no accomplishment or real record to run on. He blasts out of the gate making all kinds of promises, that he knows with 100% certainty don't have a snowballs chance in hell of getting passed through congress. Not even the most liberal democrat in Washington D.C would ever vote for free college tuition, and adding an additional 29 trillion in Federal Government spending when we're already 19 trillion in red ink, let alone any Republican. He's a JOKE.
This country is
not Europe. This country is center, it always has been, it always will be. It is founded on a hard work, pay your own way ethic. It's in our genetics. It will not elect far left or far right candidates, much less a recognized and confirmed socialize, and one that praised one of the most brutal, murderous dictators to come out of the 20th century, Fidel Castro. Republicans would have used that to steam roll and bury Sanders on election night.
Bernie Sanders heaped praise on Fidel Castro in 1985 interview
Here is what a Sanders nominee would have done for the Democrat Party. Just move the blue over to the USSR of Vermont and New Hampshire and color the rest of this country RED. Reagan v Mondale--1984
So be glad Sanders is gone, and you better hope he endorses Hillary Clinton, otherwise the crap is going to hit the fan with Bernie Sanders. Democrats would ignore and ridicule his policies for generations to come.
They'll see the next Bernie Sanders coming, and will not allow any of them to run on their ticket, ever again. The Democrat party has voted, and they have spoken. They have soundly rejected Bernie Sanders and his fruitcake policies.