Rational discourse will not persuade Sanders’ intended audience.
Telling ‘em exactly what they want to hear - that vices are virtues and that the costly shall be free (on the backs of the rich) - is where they stop listening and start voting.
Bernie’s voters see rows of shelves stuffed with gleaming products, and lament that it isn’t free. They can’t see past the products to the shelves holding them, and the immense payments required to fill those shelves.
I see socialism as a distant relative to a gambling addiction because they are both are based on greed, have the end result of absolute failure and both a mental disorder. I have more respect for the gambler, for he uses his own wealth to further his destruction.
Regarding mental disorders, it’s obvious obama, Hillary and Sanders are not all there.
Our nation is in the grip of mass insanity. Hopefully someone will come out of the woodwork, such as Cruz, that will keep us from going the way of Greece.
I agree with your analysis. Here’s hoping Bernie moves into double digits against Hillary and forces her into debates. Her instincts will be to cut him off at the knees by lurching hard left to undercut him.
That won’t play well with the milquetoasts on the double yellow line when the general election rolls around.
Someone needs to ask Bernie a simple question: Where does wealth come from? He acts as though there’s a finite pot of gold somewhere & mean people are taking it before the poor can get it.
Our population has been miss-educated to the point they don’t understand basic economic principles. Republicans need to start putting together short sound-bites to explain things in simple terms that our younger voters can understand. If they can’t do that we’re definitely going to lose this country to the leftists.