Viewpoints: Democrats pick pragmatism over consistency

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

In many ways, Bernie Sanders is the anti-Trump. And, in important ways, he ran his campaign as the anti-Biden.

Sanders bowed out of the Democratic nomination race April 8, repeating his runner-up status from four years earlier. His two runs at the White House have cemented his legacy as a consistent standard-bearer for progressive policies.

The veteran democratic socialist possessed a rare quality for a political candidate in this age of Trumpian fickleness. He is a politician whose actions and beliefs have remained steadfast over time and across campaigns.

But in the current political moment, it appears the Democratic electorate longs less for a politician who is consistent from day to day than one who can provide pragmatic leadership to unseat the vacillating Trump.

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1. Consistent, maybe, but naive to the nth degree. America will not elect a socialist.

He lived his whole life in this country and should know that.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. Bernie is a stubborn ideologue. He got the socialist bee in his bonnet

back in the '60s and that was that. I don't think he ever listened to anyone outside his own ideological bubble; he just dismissed other opinions as wrong and not worth considering.

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3. Yep, "fighting the establisment" is straignt out of 60s campus radical jargon.

[Skittles]

5. he knew that

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6. He essentialy wasted our time and energy for two whole presidential cycles then.

[Skittles]

7. yes he did

it was always for attention

[dugog55]

4. Yes, we keep nominating and electing moderates.

Biden and Obama both would have been moderate Republicans up until the 1980's. Since 1980, when in charge, the GOP pushes everything to the right. The Dems get in, hold the line for eight years, then the Republicans regain the office and shove further to the right. We lose ground every eight years. Now look where we are. The Democratic Party is right of Center with their policies and anyone that promotes something for the people is labeled a Socialist or a Leftist Radical. No need to look deeper than how AOC is portrayed in the media. Our countries politics are so far right, we are closer to Fascism than Democracy.

The coronavirus is terrible. Trump and his administration are pillaging the treasury right in from of our eyes and getting away with it. He has mismanaged this whole episode horribly and his approval ratings are barely moving downward. How many thousands must die before the media and population see what a fraud, and shyster he is. Taxpayers will be paying for this for decades while the rich keep getting tax cuts. But, when Bernie, AOC, or even Warren mention something to help out the people, they get branded zealots.

The oil companies have made $billions a year for decades, two bad months and Trump is talking bailouts for them. Oil companies should be getting shut down, not gifted money. Climate change is not going away, and will make this virus look like a picnic in 10 to 20 years. But we still cannot elect someone that will actually CHANGE things because it is too radical of an idea.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

10. But we still cannot elect someone that will actually CHANGE things because it is too radical of an

May I remind you it was under Obama the US was part of the climate change accord.

Obamacare while not perfect brought heath insurance to many people who did not have it.

Change is always incremental.

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11. Your whole premise is wrong. The party is center-leftist and AOC isn't portrayed any way...

but what she called herself—a democratic socialist. As far as when the repugs get in they cause a recession and the Democrats have to get in and bring the economy back. It happened with Bush and Obama save the economy from a deep, deep hole and it's happening again with trump's abysmal admin.

[The Magistrate]

8. Consistency, Sir, In This Case

Seems to be short for 'hasn't learned a damn thing since 1972'....

"I am a man of principles, and chief among them is flexibility."

[OilemFirchen]

9. Hobgoblin.

Little mind.