2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Black Voters in NH Unconvinced by Sanders [View all]politicaljunkie41910
(3,335 posts)Now FTR, I don't doubt that we have problems that Bernie is addressing. I just think his proposals are too ambitious to get through Congress and he shouldn't be raising false hopes that he can't deliver upon. But we do have real problems that need to be addressed and we can't afford to have 4-8 more years of gridlock which is just what we will have because it will take 4-6 years to turn over both Houses if we are lucky. With Bernie's 'socialist agenda' we may never get there in my lifetime. He will simply frustrate his followers and they will fail to show up at the polls in subsequent years. I've never missed a vote in the 40 years since I turned 18. The youth are notorious for their ebb and flow existence at the polls which is why when we take one step forward we seem to end up one step backwards.