Yeah but with Hilary you understand what she is: a career politician who is pretty much at the apex of the whole system. Like Obama, she’s in a position to understand how to compromise, to create compromise, to convince others.

You are LITERALLY ascribing behaviours and operations to Sanders that you are making up based on nothing. Based on your own hope, I suppose.

Does anyone think that even if universal healthcare fails to pass that Sanders will simply just roll over? Or is the more likely scenario that he’ll fight for universal healthcare but take what he can get along the way, if that means solidifying and expanding the ACA?

no. let me clarify for you.

We know that a good portion of Sander’s platform is going to be difficult impossible to pass, especially if the GOP maintains even a slight majority in Congress.

Exactly. If you took every element of Bernie and put it into a female and ran them for office, there would be wailing from sea to shining sea.

Ah, yes... people don’t support Bernie, because Clinton is making them.

Actually, people too young to remember Obama’s 2008 campaign are the only voters I can understand feeling the Bern. I’m 39. I was so madly all about Obama, and I have no regrets - I still love him, but I realize that his presidency isn’t so much different than Hillary’s would have been. At least not in any way I could…

This. It’s especially dangerous because it also fosters the “if they’re all bad, why bother voting?” apathy that’s already endemic. The last thing we need is less voter engagement.

the outsized political hope that “youth” have before they realize that every politician is a shill, nobody with real values is actually electable, and also that God Is Dead.