A Pro and Con for Bernie.

[True Blue Door]

27. To some extent we have a responsibility to be deep citizens.

Deep enough to judge character wisely and accurately without needing the candidate to hold our hands the whole way.

Deep enough to understand that if a leader isn't communicating differently with different audiences, at least to some extent, then they're not honestly trying to lead: They're just saying things they enjoy saying, to gratify themselves and their vanity.

And deep enough to know the difference between that and just plain duplicity. With experience, it's not that hard telling them apart.

Communication with voters is a negotiation. That's why democracy is better than other systems - that process where people have to be accommodated or at least have their say. It isn't delivering Laws carved in stone to the Heathen and fire-and-brimstoning them into submission. That doesn't work. If it did, the history of Presidential politics in this country would have been very different.

So, hopefully this time when we try something different - when we choose from the left rather than the middle - we can hope our candidate knows how to sell at all, rather than having to worry about selling out or (in the case of Hillary, long ago) being totally bankrupt from the get-go.