Bernie Sanders
In reply to the discussion: Check in if you sincerely believe that Bernie can win. [View all]Half-Century Man
(5,279 posts)But not alone, we have to help. ( by "we" I mean the progressives and the Democratic Party) We have to field candidates who are likely to work with him for every elected office in the country.
We have to push the message he spreads about income inequality, minimum wage, money in politics, the environment, voting rights....everything.
For Example; in the district next to me, Paul Ryan serves as Representative to the House (Wi-1). He absolutely needs to be replaced. Locked within a gerrymandered district, he is vulnerable. His district includes Racine, the city with the highest unemployment in the state. South Milwaukee, with it's losses in manufacturing. Kenosha and Janesville suffered job migration and stagnation. The reason he had to draw back from his very public love of Ayn Rand is because in his district anger and resentment of the wealth simmers like a toxic stew.
A reasonable investment in a Democratic candidate who had an aligned platform to Bernie. Someone who could be seen as more of an everyman instead of the normal Third Way token Wisconsin Democrats fling at the feet of the Koch machine as a sacrifice, and Paul Ryan can be beaten. His fortress of stone is built in a swamp, the ground upon which it stands is unstable and soft. Hit it hard a few times and it will collapse.