What Must Bernie Do To Break Out?

[eridani]

http://www.nationofchange.org/news/2016/01/10/what-must-bernie-do-to-break-out/

By forging a chain of powerful indictments, linking the predatory billionaire class with willful blindness on energy, resources, and climate, middle-class stagnation, and regressive taxation and trade policies, the Sanders’ campaign is an unqualified success. Hats off: not in five decades has any progressive voice corralled such a chunk of the Democratic electorate. Yet, with “easy” leftwing forces in tow, must we not now ask: what next? What Sanders firepower must grow his minority movement?

Sanders and the left still face the increasingly crude soundbite/media atmosphere of low-brow elections. Absence charisma, racial novelty, and the Dubya hangover that lifted Obama, the task for Bernie demands more dramatic rockets, in substance and PR outreach, than visible across the last two months. Bernie still faces structural issues, not just as “democratic socialist” or crusader against oligarchy, but as party outsider struggling against Hillary’s rooted leverage.

Even was the senator to win New Hampshire, this nemesis remains: how does a life-long non-Democrat win over big party donors, officials and operatives, plus grassroots millions? Sanders’ challenge surpasses Obama, the era’s best campaigner — though refreshingly without his slickness. Yet like Obama, Sanders must prove not only is he electable, but Hillary is less so. Otherwise, Sanders won’t achieve his “revolution” — nor trigger the desperately-needed second Progressive Era.

[catnhatnh]

1. There's a poll for that....EOM

[malokvale77]

2. LOL

Bernie just needs to be Bernie.

[Duckfan]

3. I don't see Bernie all that interested in the "operatives" money anyway.

If party officials want to donate, he may accept. But surly not from the DWS crowd. They're in a different universe.

[RobertEarl]

4. It's in the article

However, it's not a minority movement, it just hasn't been tested yet.

The majority that are, and will be, Sanders' supporters are: Those who know big party donors, officials and operatives, have screwed over We, The People.

That's like 200 million voters, at least. That there is called a majority.

We Are.

[Enthusiast]

5. My advice to Bernie, "Don't change. More of the same."

Don't change a thing.

[LiberalArkie]

6. Do not change anything, Hillary will take care of herself. As usual.

[libdem4life]

7. Good article. Bernie will obviously do it His Way, but I thought many of the suggestions

were appropriate and right on. I'm going to guess he's not putting out too much detail regarding what the Revolution covers. Probably because it's just more for the nitpickers who have little except Jane Sanders, Failed Capitalist.

I can see how taxes on Wall Street transactions add up to a lot of money to fund , say, 4 extra years of school. And how raising the SS limit...which is ridiculously low...would fund one or two of the other "Socialist" programs. It's not Rocket Science and it won't impoverish the 1%/Oligarch wannabes. He's mostly hinted at most of it...kind of like a moving target.

And he'll have the power...not softened by donor requirements and preferences...to use the Bully Pulpit as he sees fit. That gets the word out to everyone.

And I don't want to know how he plans to break up the banks now...please wait until after Inauguration.

Yes to the "desperately-needed second Progressive Era".