Commentary: Could the Democratic race come down to Bernie Sanders vs. ... Mike Bloomberg?

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6. Brushing aside the opening insult to Democratic progressives

(I hate LW progressivism-smashing ideologues being called that), it'd extremely unlikely, but Sanders' current rise in California is worrisome (and unworthy of my relatively enlightened and advanced home state). Billionaires buying elections is all wrong, but my consolation is that Bloomberg would crush Sanders if the nation's current political pathology somehow brought us to that. I am not worried about "smoking-ruins" in November. Or even a Bloomberg presidency, step further in the wrong money-rules direction that it would be.

Bloomberg is at least proven mostly ethical and far more competent if imperfect as a mayor, both hugely important; and being a self-made, somewhere in the teens of the planet's wealthiest billionaires is some kind of credential. A reasonably liberal progressive Bloomberg presidency would be a success, not an almost guaranteed failure. What a choice, , but one I'd be grateful to have.