What if Bernie Sanders became President of the United States of America?

[First Speaker]

19. I think it is possible he might be the American Allende...

...not likely, or probable...but *possible*. Look how the Right has responded to a moderate Dem--and yes, black--President. Imagine an avowed Social Democrat who is also a religiously-sceptical Jew. It would make the opposition to Obama look like The Era of Good Feelings. There would, I think, be widespread *de facto* nullification out in the country--and this is from the Red State legislatures and governors. The actual right wing-Tea Party "base" would be even worse. Could it end up in a coup? Or anarchy? I dunno. But we'd be closer to it than at any time since the Civil War. This of course is no argument against Sanders for President. You can't give in to threats and extortion from these people. And maybe we need to see the worst, before things can begin to get better. But a Sanders Presidency would be an immensely fluid situation, and ideologically extreme in ways we haven't seen since the Civil War era.