Democrats Overlooked Bernie Sanders Until Now, & He Is Making Them Regret It

Bernie Sanders and me here pictured together in New York City, October 2016

For a very long time, the mainstream Democrats have worked hard to try and portray Bernie as too "extremist" and as a "fringe candidate" who was not to be taken seriously. His ideas could never gain enough support to actually be a serious factor, much less for him to become the Democratic nominee, and even less to win the election and gain the White House. Apparently, many (although surely not all of them) believed their own nonsensical line, and dismissed Sanders, despite his success in 2016 in coming close to winning the Democratic nomination. They still dismissed him as a non-factor not to be taken seriously.

Yet, he keeps coming back, and his events keep drawing tens of thousands. And he keeps seemingly polling higher and higher, casting the more conventional Democratic favorites increasingly in the shadows.

Here is another article that is showing just how alarmed the mainstream Democrats are by the recent surge by Bernie Sanders, who really looks like he could win this thing right now.

I wonder how they are going to derail him.

And in the event that they are unsuccessful - let's hope! - I wonder how reluctantly the mainstream Democrats will lend support to him if he winds up receiving the nomination. Will it be like Republicans hesitantly embracing Trump (and some of them never did), or will they remember how bad the last four years have been, and go ahead and give him their full support?

My guess would be a mix. But let's hope we get to see it for ourselves. Let us hope that Bernie wins, and begins to address the overall decline of standards of living in the United States, a process that has actually been going on for many decades, by some standards going as far back as the 1970's. And in some respects, it feels like the country has kind of been on decline dating back to the end of the Golden Age of the country, which feels like it unofficially ended on November 22, 1963, with the assassination of John F. Kennedy.

Democrats slept on Bernie Sanders. Now he's surging as Iowa approaches By Gregory Krieg and Ryan Nobles, CNN, Thu January 9, 2020:

https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/09/politics/bernie-sanders-iowa-2020/index.html?fbclid=IwAR2lMn5ZYbNafiCnb-l9dS6QypWtosZ4MvdYaOzyq384N4npXdQPaFD1lxA