The only candidate not playing into ISIS hysteria is Bernie Sanders, and he's surging in the polls

[cali]

U.S. Presidential candidate Donald Trump continues to grab all the media attention, and Hillary Clinton remains a Wall Street favorite--so why is underdog Democratic Party candidate Bernie Sanders suddenly surging again in the polls? In a Guardian op-ed, Trevor Timm argues that part of the reason is his common-sense, non-hysterical approach to ISIS/ISIL and related Islamist terrorist threats.

He has, to great criticism by beltway pundits, avoided the rest of the candidates’ descent into constant fear-mongering about terrorism and hyping the “threat” from Isis. Instead he has mocked both the media and other candidates for doing so, as BuzzFeed reported last month:

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Clinton, meanwhile, has sounded more like the Republican candidates with her conventional forever war posture, her defense of the disastrous Libya intervention and her calls for an escalation of the war in Syria. Apparently she’s not concerned that she’s running for the nomination from a party who rejected her in 2008 partly because of her support for the Iraq war.

https://boingboing.net/2016/01/14/the-only-candidate-not-playing.html

[EdwardBernays]

1. One of my

Favourite things about him.

[BeyondGeography]

2. From the Guardian op-ed

Sanders disappointingly isn’t running as an anti-war candidate, either, and it’s a shame he’s not more aggressive in rejecting the militarism that has infected the country since 9/11: he’s indicated his support for the CIA’s drone program, continued war in Afghanistan and has been largely silent on the fact that the war against Isis is by, almost all accounts, illegal since Congress hasn’t authorized it as the Constitution requires.

Because he actually wants a chance to win if he's the nominee.

[bigtree]

3. O'Malley gave the first foreign policy address among Democratic candidates

...and there's nothing 'playing into the hands of ISIS' about his foreign policy positions.

Really fricking nice how he's treated as a non-candidate, even as he's poised to take the stage with the other two leading candidates Sunday.

[Vinca]

4. I don't know about anyone else, but I'm sick to death of being told I should be afraid.

Republicans, especially, seem determined to get me to believe an ISIS fighter with a machete is going to slog through ice and snow to the top of the rural hill I live on and sneak through my back door and behead me. At the same time, they think the idiot who lives behind me should have all the guns he wants, even though his target practice disturbs the entire neighborhood and has stopped people from taking walks in the woods because they're afraid of being shot.