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Zeus posted...

You mean the Vermont Progressive Party? Because he sure as shit ain't no Dem, considering he joined the party to run for president for the 2016, left the party, then rejoined it.

Most of his iconic policies don't have much support.

I'm detecting a strong pattern in these Bernie debates. People who LIKE his policies say that they have much support. People who DON'T LIKE his policies say they don't have much support (as if you can simply project your own opinion as the majority). Obviously, it's impossible for both of those arguments to be correct. Just because you feel strongly a certain way, you can't ASSUME that the majority out there feels the same way.

The only way to actually "prove" whether his policies have majority support as people claim is via voting (polling, etc.), but polling populations are often so biased that results don't match reality (just look at the Trump vs. Hillary polls).

I don't doubt that Bernie has some strong support AS A PERSON (he's a pretty swell guy all around). But in terms of policy, he merely validates his own follower's existing opinions. A good example would be his recent interview on Stephen Colbert's show.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHq6xauQOcs

To republicans (the people he most desperately needs to convert, if he's going to actually win), his "diplomacy solves everything" approach is going to be considered naive at best, and devastating at worst. When his plan to respond to Iranian violence in that Colbert video is to "sit people down in a room and have a diplomatic discussion," republicans (and even some democrats) are going to see that quite literally as "negotiating with terrorists" (which is pretty much the case. I mean, they're terrorists, and he want's to negotiate with them. You can't really sugar-coat that.).

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