The notion among the Party's Deep Thinkers is that Bernie is a disaster.

[Utopian Leftist]

193. Well said!

The public is just beginning to wake up. Prior to Occupy Wall Street, NO average person had even heard of income inequality. Due to the work of a handful of politicians (Bernie, Liz Warren, Grayson, etc.), almost all of America's most successful comedians (Jon Stewart, Colbert, Maher, Letterman, Whoopi, etc.), and maybe a handful of people who can actually still be called "Journalists" (among whom really only Bill Moyers springs to my mind), the public is slowly realizing what's going on, and by implication, what kind of peaceful life the American CONS have been depriving the entire world of. The media is not helping the situation at all, but the public is also beginning to realize that they can't rely on the BOOB TUBE to educate themselves, and are increasingly seeking their information elsewhere.

We are getting ready to witness a sea-change in public opinion, in favor of leftist positions. As the OP stated, public opinion is already largely on our side, at least on the issues mentioned. And like I said, they are just now waking up. But truth, once it starts to spread, can spread like wildfire. Whether or not it spreads far enough to prevent disaster in the 2014 elections, the word will be out in force by 2016. That's why I believe Warren or Sanders could be our next President. All Dorothy had to do was pull back that curtain, and she brought down the Wizard of Oz. We can pull back the curtain on the One-Percenters! We must. It's the only way to keep the public moving forward. And it's the only way to save the world from the absolute destruction that one single more Republican Presidential administration would generate.