Bernie announces he is running again, what do you think?

@CountScrofula Not in Vermont and that's his home state.

@Graylight they keep electing him...

[i][b][quote] Vermont voters were especially happy with their senators, with 63 percent approving of Sanders and 61 percent approving of Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy. [/quote][/b][/i]@Graylight @Docdon23


https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.usatoday.com/amp/1590329002

@MethDozer Sanders' past and record are more complex than an article byte. He has a history of uninvolved policies over the last 40 years, has coasted in a very progressive state with little opposition, and government should make it clear that tenure in office can be as much an indication of voter apathy as favor. The fact is, many within his own state have been critical of him, from columnists to citizens to colleagues.

@Graylight Everyone has their haters. He has less than most according to all the data. Also according to him being railroaded and cheated by his own party's old guard. And look what that railroading and the entitled woman got us.


He has a great history of following the letter of the law and policies that side with the people. Even when they break his and the DNCs dogma. That's a good thing.

@Graylight I dunno. Bernie represents the left of the Democratic voter coalition and even in Vermont there will be establishment Democrats who don't like him. I seem to remember that he did beat Clinton by 75 to 25 or something similar in the last election.

@Burnley123 Shhhhh, her cultists still think she is some sort of victim and Bernie screwed her.

@MethDozer Its not a cultist thing but there does seem to be a powerful narrative that blames Bernie for Trump winning. The guy got screwed by the DNC and he STILL supported Hillary. What more could he do?

If not all of his supporters voted in the general, then then they should surely blame the DNC and not Hillary.

I don’t blame Bernie at all. I voted for him in the primary over Hillary even though I think he’s a lightweight.

I do blame some of his supporters for demanding ideological purity in a candidate. There is a large disconnect between their desires and the reality of how this government is set up and impossibility of truly effecting change outside the two party system.

Everyone better rally round the candidate in 2020, or we’ll get more of the same. @Burnley123

@Burnley123 Oh she has a cult. She screwed Bernie and cheated the DNC nom and handed the non-establishment vote over to.. The friggin GOP and Trump. She bares much more the blame for Trump's election than Bernie and the states lost by Hillary to Trump reflects that. Bernie was much more fit to rub against Trump than Hillary but here lovers want to blame him when it was her that caused the cluster fuck. And she still won't fade away despite how clearly toxic she is to any cause.

@luckranger71 Wow, I totally agree with everything you say--this is all exactly what I have been telling people...and I did...!!!

@Burnley123 Don't get me wrong, I don't blame Sanders for Trump's win. That's squarely on all our shoulders. But I'm not sure he helps. He holds this venerated "Ben & Jerry-like" status, where everyone adores him but there's just nothing really nutritionally satisfying about it.

He really sounds very similar or AOC in his policies and lack of substantial suggestion as how to make them a reality. But where she's openly mocked for her naivete, he's put on a progressive pedestal. I like Sanders. I just don't think he can or necessarily should become president.