Does Bernie Sanders Expect to Be the Nominee?

[MineralMan]

28. Hillary Clinton is a mainstream Democrat.

Bernie's an Independent Democratic Socialist. Everyone in the GOP Clown Car is a conservative asshole. I want a Democratic President in 2017. My own personal philosophy is a misbegotten, forlorn belief that actual Socialism is the way to go, but I long since understood that this country will never have have that form of government.

So, since I prefer the Democratic option to the Republican, for obvious reasons, I work to elect Democrats to every office I can. It is my opinion, based on decades of following presidential elections, that Bernie Sanders cannot be elected in the United States to that office. That's my opinion. So, while I welcome Sanders' nudging of Hillary Clinton leftward, I am supporting Clinton for the nomination, because I believe she can win the office.

In this country, presidential elections are binary in nature. Either a Democrat or a Republican will become the President. And the farther left a Democratic candidate is, the less likely he or she will win. The whole nation votes on that office, state by state, and the electors from each state do the final vote.

Sanders could not possibly win the general election. The Republican candidate, I predict, will be Marco Rubio or Jeb Bush. Both are more centrist than the rest of the clown car. On the Democratic side, the only current candidate in the primaries who can compete with either on a national, 50-state basis, is Hillary Clinton. It's that simple. It's that sad. It's that real.

I deal with reality. We will have one President for four years. I'd prefer a Democrat to be that President. That makes my decision a simple one. Your opinion might differ from mine.