Quote Originally Posted by Hooahguy View Post
The electorate might be familiar with Sanders, but they never had to decide on whether or not to vote for him outside of Vermont or primaries. I wish I had as much faith in you that the electorate will overlook it in a general election.


When you have headlines like this, it can be harder to spin it away. Again, it feeds into the narrative.


To you, maybe.


Ok, and I agree there will be a lot of shenanigans going on. But that doesnt refute my main point if an opponent seems to really want a certain person to run, it pays to try to figure out why.


But would they vote? Seems like a hell of a gamble to me.


Both GWB and Obama were at around the same percentage at this point in the race. Barring some gigantic scandal (well, more than impeachment anyways), I think he has just as strong of an incumbent advantage as his predecessors did. Combine that with voters having a pretty good outlook on the economy, Id say more voters are sadly likely willing to overlook the whole corrupt wannabe dictator thing.
I'd say that Sanders is enough of an actual Socialist, as opposed to a Social Democrat, that more moderate educated voters will not vote for him - comparison to Corbyn as you say. Sanders is on mic saying things like "I supported Castro" and "I don't trust markets" and these sentiments are fundamentally un-American.

If Sanders plans on defeating Trump he needs to shift to an achievable Social Democrat platform that would actually benefit America rather than trying to push a Socialist platform that will crash and burn - that means no telling companies what percentage of stocks and shares they have to give to employees.

https://www.vox.com/2019/5/29/186430...ownership-jobs

Note that this plan has failed in both my homeland and mit fosterland. Owning your own business is central to the American dream - forcing you to give your business to your employees is anathema to it. That's not to say there's anything wrong with co-operatives, but the key word here is ​forcing.