Bernie Sanders and Ted Kennedy ---Similarities?--some civil discussion please on the point

[Always Randy]

Bernie Sanders and Ted Kennedy ---Similarities?--some civil discussion please on the point


http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/03/bernie-sanders-2016-future-213694

A liberal insurgent from New England challenges a dominant centrist opponent with ties to the South, accumulates delegates in primaries around the country and presses his losing campaign all the way to the first day of the Democratic convention. Finally he drops out, but not before delivering a stirring prime-time speech in which he vows to keep his cause alive. Then he returns to the Senate, never to run for president again.
The candidate was Ted Kennedy, not Bernie Sanders, and his adversary was Jimmy Carter, not Hillary Clinton, but their epic battle of 36 years ago is still fresh in the minds of those who lived through it. It is also an object lesson in how a divided Democratic Party should not behave if it wants to win in November, right down to the bitter ending, when Kennedy failed to raise his former rival’s hand aloft in his as a sign of party unity. Carter, fatally damaged by Kennedy’s challenge—plus a minor crisis at the American Embassy in Iran and his own pessimistic posture about the country— lost his bid for reelection to a Republican candidate that the smart Democratic money had dismissed: Ronald Reagan.

[virtualobserver]

1. Minor crisis at the American Embassy in Iran?

Without that "minor crisis", Carter would have defeated Reagan.

[mmonk]

2. Only in what they represent.

A lot has changed since then. Americans have nearly lost having any sort of a middle class and incomes continue a downward motion. Liberals who stand and fight for the average American are much less found in the federal government. It's the establishment more so today that seeks less unity. That Republican they thought would lose conquered much of the Democratic Party since those times. Union membership has virtually collapsed.