Suggested speech top notes for Bernie Sanders

[MineralMan]

3. Oh my!

Bernie is four years older than I am. I recognize his political positions from my college days. After a while, I learned that my idea of what was best for this country was not shared by all that many people.

I remain a philosophical Socialist. Not a Democratic Socialist, either. However, I recognize that my ideas still are not shared by most people, so I've become a pragmatist when it comes to actual political campaigns and elections. I did learn that insisting on things that most people don't want does not get anyone elected who might do some of those things to some degree. Instead, it got right-wingers elected.

So, now, I'm a Democrat, politically. We do better when Democrats are in power. We do worse when Republicans are. If I can't have what I want, due to resistance on the part of a majority of voters, I can still hope for the least harm and whatever progress can occur.

That's not a popular view with some folks, many of whom are about the age I was and Bernie Sanders was back in the early to mid 1960s.

So, did I put some cliched words in Bernie's mouth? Why, yes I did. I still remember them. Senator Sanders often says things that sound like those old days.