I've got to confess, I'm a person that sees both sides of an issue, and when it comes to Bernie...
And as much as I like Bernie:
- I see the multibillion dollar right wing wall of billionaire / corporate money that looms over the Democratic candidate in the general election
- I can see the Right Wing putting ads making Bernie look un-American because "America is not Scandinavia" and "Would you want to pay 50% of your income in taxes?"
- I can see Bernie being labeled as "too far to the left to get anything done in Congress"
- I can see Bernie being labeled as "too old to be president"
- I can see a Corporate America far more organized and audacious than the trusts during Theodore Roosevelt's era doing everything they can to make sure that Bernie doesn't become president (if he wins the primary.) Remember, Corporate America was audacious enough to destroy the labor unions, throw the history of labor unions down the memory hole, bring down the economy and then get the Government to bail them out (the financial industry), get Americans to embrace greed, sell Americans on deregulation and free trade, etc... Republicans themselves are even more audacious than big corporations, as seen in the past 6 years, as well as their abuse of the War on Terror during the Bush years. Corporate America + Republicans are literally an army of villains. Plus, they have the power of the media as well, which is immensely powerful. One must also remember that Teddy Roosevelt only became president because he ran as Vice President to McKinley during his reelection bid, and McKinley died shortly into his second term, making Teddy Roosevelt president, and thus Teddy Roosevelt had more than three years in office to make progressivism popular.
To me, if Bernie wins the Democratic primary, its an all or nothing, and will require a lot of very bright strategists and an immensely huge organization of passionate volunteers to counteract whatever corporate america, the billionaires, the media, and the Republican Party throw at Bernie. We are talking a political war.
If Bernie loses the primary, its a win for Bernie anyway because young people will get an introduction to Democratic Socialism and especially that Millennials weren't brainwashed against socialism, and thus could lead to the growth of the Democratic Socialist movement and liberal congressional representatives that help push the party left (in a way similar to the tea party pushing the Republicans further to the right.)
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