"I know Bernie can't win, but..."

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167. But you the media is what has you feeling "certain" about certain candidates and issues...

How much of the media or many of us individuals would have predicted that minimum wage measures would pass in four red states in last election where Democratic candidates that didn't take risks to side with populist oriented stances to toe the line that their donors wanted them to would lose at the same time. The media would more likely "predict" the opposite, because they want to have things like minimum wage classified as a "far left" rather than a populist issue which isn't just supported by hard core leftists. They seek to provoke the inevitability of outcome as a mindset to get people to vote the way that corporatist oriented message makers want us to.

I think if you swallow the corporate media's position that Bernie only appeals to "far left" individuals that are more socialist in their sensibilities, you really don't understand that a lot of his support is and will even more come from those concerned with populist issues where the 1% are pushing positions that only ONE PERCENT of the population really want, if you push people in to really analyzing who benefits and who loses on those issues.

It is all about messaging. And I think many of us who want someone like Bernie are challenged, but will find alternative ways through the internet, etc. to get the message across, and I think ultimately will surprise many how much Bernie defies "conventional wisdom" and is a lot more "electable" than the media and other PTB want to give him credit for. They used to try to play those same games in Vermont, but Bernie has wound up being a powerful populist senator there, not pushing things like gun control there when gun crime isn't a big issue compared to the numbers of people that do things like hunting safely there, and many Republicans and independents see that he's not trying to push hard ideology in areas like that and work with what a majority of people in that state wanted.