Why Bernie? Why now?

[hifiguy]

41. In the meta-sense, I think it is because this is something that needed to happen.

I have doubts that Bernie would have run had Elizabeth Warren picked up the gauntlet but she did not, and I respect her reasons for not doing so. Someone had to do it, and with Warren out, I think Bernie decided that it may as well be him to lead the effort. That he is a person who has always said what he meant and meant what he said just redounds to his benefit.

He doesn't want to be POTUS for the sake of being POTUS, as so many do, to fill the last gap on a resume. He wants to make the country a batter place and get it working for everyone again. I cannot imagine that ten years ago, or even two, Bernie was lying awake at night and planning a run for the presidency. It's just a circumstance where he happened to be the person in the right place at the right time.