That was a very well-written post.
I disagree with your characterization of me as "neo-liberal" (I want a $25 minimum wage and 60% top marginal tax rate), but I guess I will own up to being "business friendly": I like it when businesses in America do well, and I would like America to be a profitable place for businesses to set up shop.
I think the final straw for many is the TPP
I agree. I agree 100%. I'd just like somebody on the other side here to acknowledge that this isn't some groundbreaking new evil, it's just that you're sick of global trade as it is and you're attacking TPP as a symbol of that.
Why have I chosen Sanders? Because of that vision and need for the economic justice of yesterday and the social justice of today.
I wish him the best, and I will support him as enthusiastically as I have every Democratic candidate since 1992 (I was 16 then but I knocked on doors) should he win the nomination. I think he's dead correct on several issues. I also think he will not be able to significantly change the direction of the US society, government, or economy. These are big ships, and they turn slowly.
I am currently a registered voter in the District of Columbia, and our primary is June 14 of next year (I'll be voting absentee since I'm in India). I have not yet decided for whom I will vote, and I imagine by the time June 14 rolls around it won't really matter for whom I vote. I was a fan of Schweitzer for a long time, but he seems to have finally given up this time around. I have some regional loyalty to O'Malley, but I'm not convinced that ship is sailing anywhere (OTOH if HRC moves very far to the left in response to Sanders I think Webb probably is moving somewhere, very fast, and I'm very ambivalent about Webb...)
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