RE: Why i believe Sanders needs to win
January 15, 2016 at 10:58 pm
(This post was last modified: January 15, 2016 at 10:59 pm by SteelCurtain.)
I don't think most of the campaign promises Sanders is touting have a chance in hell to come about. The American political system will not allow it.
Most of those promises are directed at mobilizing young people. All these 22 year olds leaving college with 80k in student loan debt, all these 26 year olds coming off their parents insurance, all these 18 year olds happy about the eccentric old man telling them things they want to hear.
If Bernie can get a Democratic Congress, he can get rid of Citizen's United, and then he can work on campaign finance reform and lobby reform. If there is a head of steam and Congress sees that it might succeed, the watershed moment will happen when they can enact the change that takes the power out of lobby groups. If Congressmen and women and Senators become beholden to the people, the soul sucking traffic jam that is Congress can clear up, even if only a little.
Then, midterm elections will happen, young people won't vote, and the GOP will take over again and exorcise all their grudges for the first six years.
Most of those promises are directed at mobilizing young people. All these 22 year olds leaving college with 80k in student loan debt, all these 26 year olds coming off their parents insurance, all these 18 year olds happy about the eccentric old man telling them things they want to hear.
If Bernie can get a Democratic Congress, he can get rid of Citizen's United, and then he can work on campaign finance reform and lobby reform. If there is a head of steam and Congress sees that it might succeed, the watershed moment will happen when they can enact the change that takes the power out of lobby groups. If Congressmen and women and Senators become beholden to the people, the soul sucking traffic jam that is Congress can clear up, even if only a little.
Then, midterm elections will happen, young people won't vote, and the GOP will take over again and exorcise all their grudges for the first six years.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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