Bill Scher: "Sanders biggest problem is that no one over 30 trusts him."

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...finally being vetted by the media where he had been given a free pass before.

Sure, maybe, if you consider someone giving advice to be "pro" I guess this would apply. But the fact that Scher included the phrase "But he's not going to like it" means that it's a hard truth, not just mindless pablum.

Thank you for posting the article. Though I don't like that it promotes a means for the Socialist to beat Hillary.

That's why I edited to acknowledge it was not Clinton-centric. I'm only on DU a few weeks, and only really shifting over to the Hillary Group recently after finding GD to be detrimental to my stress levels. Definitely not trying to offend anyone here, where I see a lot of good allies.

But I think we can both agree it's not advice that Sanders would follow. He's in a Catch-22 where he can't expand his audience without changing his message, but changing his message will disappoint the audience he already collected.

Look at us ridiculous pragmatists, all able to pause and consider things from someone else's perspective and whatnot! Crazy, right? lulz

The Bernie supporters have made it into a place of hostility where people like myself -- long time members and longer time Democrats -- are called the most disgusting names because we disagree with them. So, I guess I'm a little hyper-vigilant, since a greater number of Sanders supporters are the same all over... Very black and white thinking, no compromise, no real communication, ad hominem attacks. All they've done is strengthen my resolve and cement my support for Hillary Clinton. I hate not visiting some of my favorite parts of the site anymore like LBN, The Greatest Page, or General Discussion, but, like you, it is detrimental to my stress levels. I shouldn't have been so quick to attack. I apologize for that.

I doubt it's advice Sanders or his supporters will follow. They continually alienate people on the basis of race (they think that all blacks should vote one way -- for him because they know better), purity (there's no room for gradual steps to achieving reduced college cost, universal healthcare, or fixing the minimum wage), location (the South/red states doesn't/don't matter unless Bernie wins them), and all matter of other things like Sanders dismissing the ugly statement Trump made about punishing women who get abortions. I do agree that Sanders has made his own bed and is trapped in a Catch-22 position; however, I don't think it's ever occurred to him to change his rhetoric because in his mind he has all the answers. It's hubris with a socialist bent.

I've always prided myself on the ability to see things from multiple viewpoints and consider how others see things. That was something that was once welcome on this board, but the Revolutionaries have taken over as of late. The admins are missing in action and the primary just keeps dragging on... lol

He's getting off on the stadium rallies, the cheers and love that flows to him every time he gives that boring, short-sighted stump speech to low-information throngs.

Sanders thinks making the turn betrays everything he is as a person. It isn't going to happen.

"Free College" Means that parents will pay with taxes and loss of business. There is no free lunch except for kids living on their family's dime.

~snip Sanders may find it exceptionally hard to offer new material to his huge rallies of fans who desperately want to hear all his old hits.~