A not-that-political friend's take on Bernie Sanders

[beerandjesus]

80. He's a sharp guy, and we've been close friends for the better part of 20 years.

And he has a really open mind; he's been living in San Francisco since long before I met him, but he came out here a few months ago and we spent a week driving around South Carolina... and he absolutely loved it. (Admittedly, there was a lot of record shopping involved, a vice we share).

But although he's not politically stupid, he's nowhere near the wonk I am--or most of the people on this forum are. He pays some attention--not a ton, but some--and he's the sort of person who will really think about what he hears. But even though it may sound like it from this post, he most decidedly did NOT come out of the gate swinging for Bernie, as people like me did. (I've been a fan of Bernie's since the 90s--again, the wonk thing, which my friend and I do NOT have in common, hahaha.) Admittedly, because he's smart, he recognizes that the Republicans have wandered so far off the reservation that they're out somewhere in the Pacific, but he might well have gone for Hillary over Bernie, if not for what he outlines in the message.

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