...without going deeply into debt? You live in a nice house, a nice condo, a nice apartment? Buy news cars? Eat well? Do your friends and family members have good paying jobs, good benefits, doing well? Do you have good child care (if you have kids and are working)? If you have elderly parents, are they well and prospering, or, if not, do you have to care for them yourself because there is no money for care? Can you afford a vacation, or a recuperation trip to a day spa?
Bernie is not a "downer." He's speaking for millions of Americans who don't have these things. For them, life is one downer after another. Many have been kicked to curb by massive job cuts or corporate outsourcing, while CEOs make millions, or kicked to the curb by war or other misfortune, while the makers of war and misfortune prosper. He's trying to lift those who are suffering because of the greed of the few and who have no representation in government. Even if they vote, they have no representation, because the billionaires and war profiteers who are running things couldn't care less about the welfare of ordinary Americans.
Bernie's message is NOT a "downer" to the have-nots. But I'm sure it can be a "downer" to those who are doing well and don't want to think about those who are not.
Your "take" on Sanders (angry? a downer? depressing?) doesn't seem to have any meaning to the tens of thousands of people who attend his campaign rallies. They don't look angry. They don't look down. They don't look depressed. They approve of what they are hearing and cheer it on. They are uplifted by it. So you are missing something.
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