The Week: "Bernie Sanders' campaign is an experimental test of idealism. And it's working."

[Attorney in Texas]

link; excerpt:

The Bernie Sanders campaign, when properly described, sounds like an experiment in politics so high-minded that it ought to have failed instantly.... Bernie Sanders runs against political juggernaut Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primary. His campaign relies almost exclusively on individual small-dollar donations. It refuses to gesture pointedly at Hillary Clinton's character, ignoring almost entirely her email scandal and several conflicts of interest that arise from her globalist grifter career where she does well for herself by appearing to do good for others. When the Sanders campaign hits Clinton, it's on policy; at last night's debate, Sanders' most aggressive attack on her character was a joke about speeches she gave to banks. Unless prompted, his campaign ignores the most obvious foreign policy scandals that can be tagged to her... the Sanders campaign has avoided road-testing attacks on Clinton that could be used by Republicans, and instead focused all of its energy on advocating the grandly vague "political revolution" that most animates Sanders. It has named an enemy, the millionaires and billionaires who cheat America out of the democratic-socialist government Sanders believes the country deep down really wants. His campaign has tried to place itself in the great tradition of American protest and agitation..... The Sanders campaign is a legitimate fundraising juggernaut, able to outdo in a single night what top Republican operations can pull off in a month. ... In other words, the campaign ... fits the moment in a way too often overlooked by commentators. ... For many, Sanders' vision of a deeper restructuring of the American settlement is the only sensible option left, because technocracy and neoliberal niggling has simply failed to deliver the promised goods.

[Vote2016]

1. kicked and rec'd

[Attorney in Texas]

2. thanks for the kick

[marions ghost]

3. K&R

"For many, Sanders' vision of a deeper restructuring of the American settlement is the only sensible option left, because technocracy and neoliberal niggling has simply failed to deliver the promised goods."

--that's it in a nutshell

[Uncle Joe]

4. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, Attorney in Texas.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

5. The people have experienced politics-as-usual and are rightfully disgusted with it. K&R

[Vote2016]

6. Yes!

[Attorney in Texas]

7. We can't win offering a status quo establishment candidate against a Republican change candidate