2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Black Voters in NH Unconvinced by Sanders [View all]TCJ70
(4,387 posts)...I don't think Sanders would get much of his social agenda through in a first term. I have no illusions of that. What I do see him working for is keeping Americans informed of how their government isn't working for them and motivating them to vote every year, which is what we need in order to truly change things.
This is the centerpiece of his campaign. Increasing voter turnout, keeping the pressure on, and moving things forward. What good is it to work with people who are content with the way things are? That doesn't move anything anywhere. Four years from now, most people will still be paying insurance companies much more than they need to, we'll most likely still be engaged in the ME killing people we shouldn't be killing, etc no matter who gets elected...the difference is Sanders will have spent four years trying to change it with all of us.