Your argument for voting status quo flies in the face of the very phenomenon that makes it a contest at all. Trump and Sanders very real support is partially built on your sad acceptance of your glib “pragmatism” where pragmatism is a tool for asking people to abandon their principles.
Is why you deserve to be addressed thus.
Putting aside your projections for the legislatures, based on? Sanders has about as much hope of achieving his agenda in part as Obama did his, when he faced these very same arguments from supporters of this very same person. But now you think Sanders can’t do it because Obama did (in part)?
Sander’s ideas are not so far out as you presume, or you presume too much of your fellow citizens. Single-payer systems exist, and before they did exist, they did not exist. Ergo they do come from somewhere, and the USA has both adopted major policy and created major policy shifts of equal magnitude in the past. It’s how you came about, hampered primarily by bags of shit that claim nothing can be done, but still the USA managed. Every example of Sander’s agenda can be supported thus.
As for why the other side is focused on Hillary, it isn’t the way you say. They’re focused there because she is the front-runner. Sander’s isn’t an easier target by a long shot, his consistency, his anti-establishment appeal, and yes, his white-maleness make him a dangerous opponent when your own base is howling for change, howling for an anti-establishment candidate, if it could please also just be a white person, a dude, or perhaps very light-skinned latino please and thank you, so long as it isn’t Obama, Clinton or another Washington Insider who courts delegates more than people.
Yes, an anti-establishment candidate running under the big D by necessity can definitely take Republican votes given the current state of that party. A few of my relations in Texas confirm this, even though it’d remain a red state as it stands today.
Your assumptions aren’t just negative, sad and cycnical, they’re also weak and seemingly based on the completely failed and dis-proven notion that things never change.
