Pity the people in his own party can't resist sniping at him.
Could the US lurch to the Left ?
WTF, perhaps you didn't notice the Black guy that's been in the White house for the last 8 years.
I'm in despair about American politics. I can't see it as a democracy but just a plutocracy only interested in the wealth of the millionaires.
Even if Bernie was miraculously nominated and elected I cannot see how he will get legislation through that will gain universal health care, free university education, minimum wage and so on. The Republicans and the plutocracy will simply not allow it.
In the end if Bernie is too successful I think he will have an accident or an incident.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Hillary Clinton continued to resist calls to release her transcripts of paid speeches she gave to Goldman Sachs and other banks, saying she would hold onto them until Bernie Sanders and other rivals for the U.S. presidency released theirs.
Sanders, her populist rival for the Democratic presidential nomination who has surged in polls with his furious rebukes of Wall Street and its role in the 2008 recession, said on Friday he had none to release because he does not give paid speeches to banks.
I’m a Conservative Who Supports Bernie Sanders. Here’s Why.
15 Feb 2016
Came across an original analysis of Bernie Sanders - by a Conservative. Worth a think.
http://brokeassstuart.com/blog/2016/02/15/im-a-conservative-who-supports-bernie-sanders-heres-why/
Why, then, this embrace of a socialist identity by millions of Americans who in earlier times might have been content to call themselves liberal? Sanders’s campaign, for one, has doubtless removed some of socialism’s stigma. The collapse of Soviet communism has allowed younger Americans to identify socialism with the social democratic nations of Western Europe, all of which suffer from less economic inequality and its attendant woes than the United States.
But the prime mover of millions of Americans into the socialist column has been the near complete dysfunctionality of contemporary American capitalism. Where once the regulated, unionized and semi-socialized capitalism of the mid-20th century produced a vibrant middle class majority, the deregulated, deunionized and financialized capitalism of the past 35 years has produced record levels of inequality, a shrinking middle class, and scant economic opportunities (along with record economic burdens) for the young.
One of the conversations in America is how so many people are calling themselves Socialists and voting for Bernie Sanders. Socialism has not been part of a populist movement.
Came across a comment that nailed it I think.
http://www.theguardian.com/commenti...re-suddenly-millions-of-socialists-in-america
I'm not sure if the financial markets have priced in a Trump win, which would be a disaster for the whole world.
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