Bernie: How I Will Win The White House

[Left Coast2020]

After nearly nine months on the campaign trail, Bernie Sanders’ message of political revolution is starting to break through where it counts.

He is locked in a tight race with Hillary Clinton in Iowa little more than a week before the first contest of the presidential primary and beating the former Secretary of State in New Hampshire polls.

Sanders is still a long way from the White House, and Clinton is still the prohibitive frontrunner. The Vermont Senator lacks support from African-American voters, and he’s so far been unable to convince most Democrats he’d make a better candidate against a Republican than Clinton.

The populist insurgent took a moment to reflect on the race for a story in this week’s issue of TIME magazine. He talked taxes (he’d raise them), turning points (he thinks he’s at one) and tuxedos (he’s never owned one).

But the big question for Sanders: Does he have a second act?

Howard Dean has long said there’s a difference between insurgent candidates, who Democrats tend to love, and the kind of candidates who win the nomination and then the presidency. Is he right?

All I know is that in the polling, for whatever polling is worth, nationally we are defeating Donald Trump, the Republican’s leading candidate, by far more than Hillary Clinton is. And that’s true in the last true national polls and it’s even more true in battleground states like Iowa and New Hampshire. So if the question is, can a Bernie Sanders and what he stands for, and the fight for economic and social justice carry over to the general election and millions of working people? I think the evidence is that it can.

Is there any way that you will have to change your pitch, or your message?

No. No. That’s just media talk. I know they say that a lot, but that’s because they are very far removed from reality.

Look, you got not only Democrats, not only Republicans, not only Independents, You’ve got people all over this country who are struggling economically. Yes, thank you President Obama, we’re much better of today than we were seven years ago. But that doesn’t negate the reality. Media doesn’t like to discuss this but the middle class continues to disappear. Forty-seven million people living in poverty, 29 million people having no health insurance. And yet while the average person works longer hours for low wages, almost all of the new income and wealth is going to the top 1%. How do you think the average Republican, Independent or Democrat feels about that? That’s my message.

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[Enthusiast]

1. Kicked and recommended to the Max! This post deserves more recommendations!

[tecelote]

2. K&R

Bernie is the best candidate to run against any Republican.

[drm604]

3. K&R

[raouldukelives]

4. Man, it'd be nice if everyone in our party was commited to defeating republicans.

But for some, it feels like a Trump win is preferable to a Bernie win. Which should seem crazy, but starts to make sense when you recognize they are coming from a Wall St first perspective instead of a people first one.

Nobody does more to advance conservative and right wing ideas and ideals than corporate investors. A singular vote pales in the presence of the cronyism and political sabotage corporate wealth brings and shareholders provide immunity from. For them, a Bernie victory means a Wall St loss, and that, to them, is unacceptable.