1972 Democratic Party Platform is so progressive as to be off the scale today

[PoliticalMalcontent]

47. I heartily disagree with your assessment based on a variety of factors.

We are not supposed to rehash the primary though...

I will say this and then leave it alone.

Sanders was in prime position to throttle Trump, because pretty much anyone could throttle Trump. Favorability ratings are an actual thing that hold predictive powers and of all candidates Sanders held by far the best favorability rating (in fact the only candidate with a positive favorability rating at about +10% net favorability rating, meanwhile Trump and Clinton both are holding negative favorability ratings among the general public).

Clinton was tremendously helped by a primary system which focuses on democrats, while independents get the shaft until general election time. It's kind of a screwed up process that is really broken if you think about it. You have two parties, democrats and republicans, whom hold a minority of the votership and yet they write all the rules in their favor. That's a recipe for corruption.

I think far too many people here are wearing rose-tinted glasses, for better or worse.

To say Sanders' platform would have tanked in a general election seems especially misguided considering his fundraising numbers. The guy was obviously tapping into something. It might've been honesty.