Let's get us some Independents! Put Lieberman, Bloomberg, and Ventura in charge of the party!

[DanTex]

37. OK, and that's a reasonable argument. I might not agree, but it's defensible.

Yeah, railing against money in politics is always a good idea. Some of the "unicorn" policies have political downsides, though. And they haven't been tested politically by right-wing attacks, because until Bernie's campaign nobody ever talked about them very much.

For example, Bernie wants the Democratic Party as a whole to support single payer. Boy, that's a risky play. The GOP would turn it into "Dems want to massively raise your taxes, kick you off of your health insurance, and force you into a government program."

And they'd kind of have a point. Because even if the single payer did end up working out and giving everybody decent care, at the very least the transition would be highly disruptive. I know that single payer polls well, and that people pack into big arenas to hear Bernie talk about it. But I'm not at all convinced that bringing policies like that into a national debate against the GOP would work out very well.