Bernie Sanders

Ed Suspicious

(8,879 posts) Tue Aug 18, 2015, 04:03 PM Aug 2015

Bernie Sanders' campaign has never been about Bernie Sanders, it's about ideas. It is those

ideas Bernie Sanders cultivates like the precious flowers grown from the seeds of the American ideal. Bernie want's to make America exceptional again.

"But Bernie Sanders has one thing Hillary Clinton doesn’t: an ideology.
When Sanders set out to run, he tells me, his main fear was that doing so might prove harmful to his ideas. “If I failed, if it was a bad campaign, if we didn’t get many votes—fine, I can live with that,” he says. Sanders is leaning back on a couch, his leg propped up on a table, squinting through his unfashionable glasses into the middle distance.
“But the ideas that I am talking about—if the campaign did badly, then it would give the establishment the opportunity to say, See, Sanders ran on a platform calling for single-payer national healthcare system, and he did really poorly,” he continues. “He ran on a platform calling for the creation of millions of jobs through rebuilding the infrastructure—nobody really supported him. He talked about income and wealth inequality; it didn’t go anyplace. Those aren’t really good ideas!”
They are like babies to him, fragile and cherished, these ideas. Sanders almost cringes at the thought that they could suffer. “What worried me was not what happens to me personally if I failed—what worries me is what happens to these ideas,” he says. “Well. When you have 10,000 people coming out to a meeting in support of these ideas, then people say, Hmm, maybe these ideas have some resonance.”
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http://www.businessinsider.com/biggest-surprise-for-democratic-party-2015-7#ixzz3j5fhRYZj