Let me try answering this:
There’s plenty of Bernie supporters who calculate that they will die in 4 years, either for lack of medical care or because of exposure. There’s also many who have absolutely no hope for the future other than surviving day to day. These are people with nothing to lose, not even hope. Having…

The recurrent denomination for the 1918 flu as Spanish flu is a clear precedent. Spanish flu was named as such in a time when southern Europeans were not considered whites, and consequently were victims of white supremacy. Also it compounded on the anti-Hispanic (and anti-southern-European) prejudice that the…

Younger people are more alienated from society because they don’t have a stake in it. No income, no assets. Alienated people are an inherent danger to society and trying to bring them over and participate is a great choice for anyone who values a positive peace.

Assuming that anyone who takes money from corporate interest has a genuine interest in doing what is best for America is a bridge too far.

Biden needs more votes than just Democratic primary voters to win against Trump. Even if all people who support Bernie vote for Biden, that’s not enough to beat Trump.

Everyone was behind Warren (even I thought that soon would be the time for Bernie to drop and endorse her), until she slowly began to walk back on M4A. That’s when she began to decline, even though she had become the front runner.

I’m not sure Biden will get a better black vote turnout outside of the South, than HRC did. From what mrs Jotabe tells me, priorities are different outside of the South.

The problem is not going to be the people voting here. Almost everybody will vote for Biden when he gets the nomination (not me, I have a green card and cannot vote, regardless of what Trump thinks). The problem is, once all the Bernie primary voters vote for Biden, how do you add more votes to beat Trump? Because…

The people I know who support Trump are already salivating, waiting for the debate between Trump and Biden.
As far as I am concerned, a vote for Biden is a vote for 4 more years of Trump.

He said it would be paid through taxes. That’s all Warren needed to have said. You don’t need a campaign plan to implement M4A, just the political will and the political power to eliminate private insurance and raise enough taxes to pay for it. In campaign, you explain your goals, not your means. The only thing you…

I disagree. She had been hard on M4A since she joined the race. And the more she defended M4A, the more popular she became. Remember that’s when she peaked, managing to briefly surpass Biden in the polls. She was THE progressive candidate at that point, specially after Bernie’s heart attack. The voters who bailed on…

“Also, after 40+ years of a steady march rightward, the notion that the American electorate is suddenly going to go hard left goes against everything we know about the voting population of these United States, and also about how pendulums work.” 

I couldn’t disagree more. At this point, it’s already time to throw in the towel on both Bernie and Warren. It’s over.

nvm, please ignore

I have to agree that a national primary is a bad fix... Because the root of the issue is that primaries themselves are a bad fix for the lack of proportional representation.

There are ways for a president to get Congress to pass the bills the president wants, specially now that Trump has given proof that law doesn't apply to the president.

In my experience, most people who identify as independents are “shy republicans”, kind of like the “shy tories” in the UK. People who reliably vote republican but are ultimately ashamed to acknowledge that they are republicans because they don’t share some of the more extreme conservative values. I am new to the US,…

I am new to the US, but I’m trying to think of white males associated to Bernie’s campaign (staffers and campaign managers) and I can’t think of a single one.
I have just checked in the wiki, and it seems like there’s one, one of the Ben&Jerry’s founders. I had never seen him in the news or in youtube. Most of the…

As a Spaniard living in the USA, being an independent rather than a democrat is a point in Bernie’s favor. I am old enough to remember how the democratic party in the times of Bill Clinton had a pact of friendship, or whatever it was, with the conservative party in Spain (the PP, basically the heirs of Franco). It…

I remember reading some polls that said that most of the ‘16 Bernie supporters that didn’t vote for Clinton in the general were independents or straight up republican voters. So I don’t think it’s accurate to blame that segment of Bernie supporters for Clinton’s loss, as they had not been democrat voters to begin with.