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KittyWampus

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7. You hit squarely, IMO. Sanders never developed further intellectually than his teen years.
Sat May 7, 2016, 09:34 AM
May 2016

He read some Marx as a teen when his brother brought home some "books" and never developed further from that intellectually.

Heck, I was a Marxist at one point and grew out of that phase in about a year.

We all think we've got the answers in our teens and early twenties, but most of us grow out of that and start expanding our intellectual horizons.

Sanders never bothered to grow any further. He learned all the answers and stuck there. It's why he pivots back to economic justice constantly.

His pathetic attempts to sound intellectual in his perverted essays he wrote in his 30's are so sophomoric. Like a preteen trying hard to fit in with the big kids.

He never held a steady job until he was 40+.

Now all he does is spout slogans and empty rhetoric, stoking anger and resorting to demagoguery because he doesn't have actual detailed knowledge of how to implement any of his grandiose schemes.

He's shown no ability to correct course when necessary.

None of that speaks to someone with either a sense of maturity or pragmatism.

Geriatric memory pattern... FarPoint May 2016 #1
THIS Precisely misterhighwasted May 2016 #5
OMGawd you nailed it! pandr32 May 2016 #13
Yes, some desire to relive their younger lives, me, I just want to move on and handle today's Thinkingabout May 2016 #2
Sanders doesn't live in a little place I like to call Reality. IamMab May 2016 #3
Lessons. yallerdawg May 2016 #4
He doesn't remember A LOT of things misterhighwasted May 2016 #6
I think he likes the fight. nt puffy socks May 2016 #20
Maybe he thought that electing Nixon would bring voters to their senses and SharonClark May 2016 #21
You hit squarely, IMO. Sanders never developed further intellectually than his teen years. KittyWampus May 2016 #7
+1 Lucinda May 2016 #9
So many parallels between him and the Donald. Clear cases of arrested character development. Surya Gayatri May 2016 #10
#1. I love those two, if they want to wear cool clothing from the early 70's good for them. KittyWampus May 2016 #11
100% agree that anyone's choice of dress is their own to make. Surya Gayatri May 2016 #12
All true. Koinos May 2016 #23
Superficial Dreams plus a very unexamined life! Her Sister May 2016 #8
Fantastic post and observations. NurseJackie May 2016 #14
Senator Sanders, you are no Eugene McCarthy. charlyvi May 2016 #15
It looks like that's where his social politics are at too... spent only 975k in SC uponit7771 May 2016 #16
I actually don't even MSMITH33156 May 2016 #17
Excellent post SharonClark May 2016 #22
Good post, Haveadream. brer cat May 2016 #18
That's all we need someone stuck with 50 year old mentality liberal N proud May 2016 #19
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