The Democratic Party now belongs to Bernie Sanders By Rich Lowry

[mystery-ak]

Opinion
The Democratic Party now belongs to Bernie Sanders

By Rich Lowry

August 2, 2018 | 7:20pm

A voice crying in the wilderness is supposed to be ignored, not rewarded with accolades and growing influence.

Bernie Sanders is the prophet with honor in the Democratic Party. The former socialist gadfly is now the socialist trendsetter.

This doesn’t mean he’ll be the next Democratic nominee for president, or even run. It doesn’t mean that his ideas are good (I consider them godawful), or that they’ll make for a salable platform for the Democratic Party (which I very much doubt).

It does mean that when it comes to domestic policy on the left, it’s Bernie’s world and the Democrats live in it.

Sanders was an irrelevance for a couple of decades in Congress. The Vermont independent ran in 2016 to get a higher profile, and succeeded not merely in that, but also in seriously challenging Hillary Clinton. He’s now a pacesetter in the party while she rues what might have been.

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[Frank Cannon]

Who else would be stupid enough to want it.

[LMAO]

Who else would be stupid enough to want it.

So we have Maduro in Venezuela now admitting that their experiment in Socialism may not be working as hoped but we have a member of an American major political party desiring those same policies for this country

Maybe the Democrats should trade Bernie for Maduro

[Frank Cannon]

So we have Maduro in Venezuela now admitting that their experiment in Socialism may not be working as hoped but we have a member of an American major political party desiring those same policies for this country

Maybe the Democrats should trade Bernie for Maduro

At least the Bus Driver had a real job prior to going into politics. Bernie never had a job in his life.

[Fishrrman]

Frank Cannon wrote:
"At least the Bus Driver had a real job prior to going into politics. Bernie never had a job in his life."

I understand that young Bernie was kicked out of a commune -- a commune, for gosh sakes -- for being too "lazy"...

[Victoria33]

@mystery-ak

People here attacking Bernie can't see his prominence in the Democrat Party; they just want to attack him. This happens all the time here.  Don't like the guy, say bad things. That is not the point. The point is, what "effect" is he having on/within the Democrat Party?  They love him, the older, sage, thinker.  His speech is "effective"; he makes his points "effectively"; well thought out.  He sounds like he really knows how they can build a solid future for a Socialist Democrat Party - equality for all, equal salaries, free healthcare, free college tuition, free child care, equal housing with integrated subdivisions of all skin colors and ethnicity, open borders for all seekers of "equality".   

He could run again even though he is 76. Trump is 72.  Unless another Democrat rises to the top, Sanders is now the top - UNLESS Joe Biden, age 76, runs.  Biden is loved by the Democrat Party.  It doesn't matter what he says or how he says it, they love him.  Where is a younger Democrat candidate who is known and liked/loved?  It is my opinion, Democrats think/vote with their emotions, not with facts. I don't see a candidate, at this time, who can captivate their emotions, except for the two above.

[Free Vulcan]

Glad to hear they've finally come out of the economic closet. At least with Bernie I know what I'm getting, up front.