How do you fall for the Bernie Sanders scam? Martin O'Malley

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110. O'Malley makes good points

And it's noticeable that those who disagree with the points brought forward do their best to stay away from countering those but merely insult the source. Maybe that's a common behavior of those falling for scams. You don't want to be the one being fooled.

But is an interesting question, why do people fall for this scam? I think there are several parts. First, promises that may be appealing but are eventually hard or impossible to get through Congress, especially by someone whose legislative achievements are very thin and who isn't known to work well with others.
What works for him is that if you aren't held accountable to explain how you can implement and pay for those goals, it's easy to promise everything. Of course, once you are asked to provide more details, we've seen Bernie crumble fast. Bernie doesn't even have the numbers for some of his promises, it's actually laughable.
Secondly, a common enemy (in Sanders' case one of those is the Democratic party) as the scapegoat for your own failures has been a cheap but powerful tool throughout history. People are susceptible for these ploys.
And in the end, how are you even going to govern when you regard both sides as the enemy? He gets cheers for railing against the "Democratic establishment" (whoever that is) but you'd be lucky to find support for renaming a post office as President with this attitude.