Washington Post-What we learned from Bernie Sanders's town hall

[Hortensis]

95. Scipan, this is a SERIOUS and enduring Sanders issue.

You're new to DU, seemingly, so you may not know that Sanders shockingly, in spite of 25 years in congress, revealed on WaPo and NYT editorial staff interviews that he had no idea how to to use most government departments to achieve his promised goals if he became president.

Then as now he repeatedly promised that overwhelming popular support (which never developed) would make all things possible.

It was a major jaw-dropper for me. HOW could anyone spend 25 years in the senate telling everyone what needed to be done without ever applying himself to figuring out HOW it could be done? Maybe by picking up this knowledge from colleagues? Maybe ask Hillary? She was working on the same issues and had doable, highly detailed plans for everything she promised.

Of course, we'd already been surprised when economists said all his plans were vague with big holes and numbers that couldn't add up, and unachievable as written. But still, we really didn't expect the intense incompetence the interviews revealed.

We're two years on, Sanders has two more years in congress, and he still cannot say how he would fulfill his promises if elected. This is serious!!!

You're clearly interested. Can you point to anything concrete, maybe just ONE big achievement over his career, to indicate that Sanders is more than an unfortunately charismatic air-dreaming gadfly?