Why The Young Turks, and their viewers, love Bernie Sanders (WAPO)

[Uncle Joe]

49. Okay to begin with if Bernie were to become President and upset the prohibitively favored Hillary

and the vastly over hyped Trump that would represent a major sea change in American Politics.

1. By upsetting a heavily favored establishment Democratic candidate, Bernie's progressive mandate would become crystal clear to the Democratic Party and those members in both houses of Congress that wished to see their political careers extended would see the writing on the wall.

The Democrats in Congress would be compelled to actually represent the best interests of the American People as a whole versus just that of their wealthy benefactors and mega-corporations funding their next elections. Bernie's victory would blaze a new path for them.

2. By triumphing over the anti-establishment, divisiveness of Trump, Bernie's message of inclusiveness would also carry extra weight.

Bernie sets the bar high but from his long years in the Congress he knows how to negotiate from a position of strength and has shown the ability to work with the other side to get critical policies passed which in turn benefit the people.

As for what's possible and impossible, in many cases that depends on the person trying to achieve it and the environment such actions are attempted.

History is rampant with examples of people achieving what many others said was "impossible."