How Not To Get The Best Possible Democratic Candidate For The White House!

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84. Most of the Democratic Party's history is close to European social democrats.

Bernie's focus has been protecting the pillars of the New Deal. There is nothing in that platform Bernie disagrees with. He wants, and allegedly most of the nation wants, to see that social contract expanded.

Bernie is not the pacifist that some may take him for, either, not a Kucinich nor a Gravel. The next great white hope for those who won't accept anything less, is now gone, Rand Paul. But he never was anti-war, he is a Christian dominionist in all the ways that count. You cannot be in that camp and not be for war against those not in that group, they don't believe in anything but surrender.

FDR said repeatedly that the greatest safeguard againt fascism is a just social contract. I believe HRC, Obama and Sanders believe in that but want to carry it out in differing ways. I don't see Democrats fracturing from Sanders being in the primaries, as he not as far to the left as he's made out to be at DU, neither is Warren. A careful look at records of their voting patterns and positions shows them to be little different than PBO on the issues most Americans care about.

America's best bet against demagogery and income inequality is to keep a Democratic majority in the Senate and keep the White House in 2016. From what I see online, I doubt either will occur. Too many have bought the Libertarian kool aid and are no longer in any sense that matters full Democrats, they are more for dissolving the federal government their own reasons. Thus they are not Democrats anymore.

The fall out when they get what they want will erase what Sanders wants. By the way, what is it that Bernie is for that is too far to the left for you? You don't have to answer here if you feel odd about it, you can PM and we can discuss it there.