Bullshit simplicity as I re-read this. It's easier to wage war against another Democrat than a grassroots movement against Republican conservatives nationally. Especially the hated Hilderbeast. I recall the same honorable "clean" campaign with Bradley and Obama - except that surrogates didn't have any such qualms, and of course the 2 candidates who came to the table prepared were roundly beaten by the media for being too wonkish and uninspiring and insincere and corrupt/going to jail, and this continued with the supporters. It's amazing how much traction the Buddhist Temple and invented the Internet "Scandals" got while Bush made up a fictitious tax plan to gut the budget and prepare for neocon Anschluss in the Mideast.

"There seems to be more common ground in the notion of 'things MUST change'." - yeah, I'd love that - so how about the fringe realize we live in a conservative country that requires a lot of compromise, and that calling the leading Dem candidate a bloodthirsty murderer who's going to jail doesn't help. Nor does misrepresenting her liberal career.

If Bernie has a real economic plan, have him push it in detail, rather than some bullshit economist wetdream that we can just pump out money and devalue it and raise taxes and because we're sovereign it all works out. First, that didn't help Jimmy Carter as us oldsters remember. Second, we can't just give the finger to Saudis and Japanese and Brits and Canucks and Chinese and French who own a lot of our debt without pissing them off and these days taking their money elsewhere - Asian investment is a lot more attractive and profitable than it was when these rules of thumb were devised in the 70s and 90s - we're no longer the only game in town.

It's funny that Trump can say"build a wall" and everyone laughs, but "progressives" can say "build an economic wall" and we think it's cool? It's great that we're giving software jobs to Indians and manufacturing jobs to Chinese and even a few It jobs are hitting Nairobi. But "progressives" want Bruce Springsteen/Deer Hunter days back. Sorry, we don't need tube Tvs anymore, but the good news is US automation and It and factory productivity up so we're increasing manufacturing jobs again even as people complain. The costs of dealing with the Chinese, bad communication and transportation have caught up and we're turning the corner - hooray anyone?

I don't buy the youth vote bullshit either. There was more crooked money in politics in the Mayor Daley and Jack Abramoff days, discounting the actual 2008-9 bailout. What we have is the usual every-4-year get out the vote civics class excitement combined with a bullshit social media echo chamber that makes meme harder to debunk in the information age. Oh, and people who don't understand processes. Of course I'm full of optimism that our levels of efficiency are improving - energy grid, getting oil, hopefully finally getting digitized medical records after 25 years, etc... But a lot of these efficiencies are outside gov where horse trading goes on. There was a large US mapping-the-genome project, 10 years, and some private firm came along and kicked their ass in 1 or 2. Elon Musk isn't doing the same thing as NASA or GM but he's leapfrogged a lot of their mistakes and old ways in a disruptive new way. But it's a mistake to think all problems can be innovated away in 1 year. It's taken solar 40 years to start being useful and practical. Some investments are dead end. And the reason the US S flexible and innovative is less about smart engineers and more about greedy venture capitalists and investment funds willing to take on higher risk looking for unicorns. Yeah, that includes those bastards Goldman Sachs - they may be lepers, but you want them on your side. Or else you end up like Europe, either a stodgy Germany or a disastrous Greek zone, even though European education is probably more advanced than ours. Smart people without capital are short-order cooks. But Bernie wants to tax these guys until they move their money overseas? The age of our Unicorns as already showing faultlines - the next president will have to deal withlack of profits that will again have a bad effect on wage inequality - I hope we have someone who understands this shit. We can squeeze the financial sector, but there are limits. It's not a wishlist personal piggy bank.

And there, a whole long comment without insulting Bernie's goals or ambitions, only questioning his financial advisors.