Meet Bernie Sanders' 2018 challenger

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117. Nope. No problem with socialist solutions and socialist-

leaning solutions when I believe they will best secure the wellbeing of the community. Such as with healthcare. I like using capitalism as a powerful tool to do the same where that works best, but it needs to be strongly controlled.

Which brings us to FUTURE candidacies of Bernie Sanders. For me, it's about him personally. After Warren refused to run, I seriously considered supporting him and thus learned everything I could about him. The result is that I question his judgement, his knowledge about and ability to implement his ideology, his commitment to helping the Democratic Party defeat Republicans for office, and, definitely not least, his ethics. They are very different from mine. I like the balance, good sense and commitment to democratic principles of competent liberal progressives and see Sanders as too radical in PERSONALITY, though not positions, to be able to represent me or to administer our democracy as I would wish.

So, here we are once again wondering who we will be voting for in 2018 and 2020. A set of strong liberal principles, competence, and ethics are all very big with me. I would hope to be able to vote for someone else for senator who had them if I lived up there, and I can say that if Sanders runs again for national office I pretty much expect to vote for his Democratic opponent in the primary. I hope it would never come down to voting for Sanders in a general election; and if his opponent was a competent, moderate conservative who supported progressive government policies (like Elizabeth Warren, for example) I would even carefully consider choosing him or her in the hopes of taking control of government back from the deadly combination of growing extremism and incompetence in government that threatens to destroy us.