2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: From a Bernie supporter to everyone who isn't one: [View all]stevenleser
(32,886 posts)Bernie is no threat to the 1% because the GOP House would block everything he would try to do and would label it socialist and radical. I know this because they did the same to Obama. Smart people recognized they were full of it regarding Obama. Still too many folks believed it. There would be no impediment to believing it with Bernie because it would be true. They would run against him very successfully in 2018 and would throw him out in 2020 after blocking everything he tried to do.
For Bernie to have had a chance to actually do things if elected, the last six years would have had to have played out differently. We would have had to at least played it close in 2010, not lost all those state legislatures and governorships going into redistricting, not lost the House, etc.
As a result of what actually did happen, no Democrat can do much for the next 6 years and longer than that (16+ years) if we don't win back some of those legislatures through 2020 so that we can ungerrymander the districts in advance of the 2022 congressional elections.
Given that no Democrat can do much, I go with the person who has more experience at the national level.