i am not sure any candidate can make the claim that their policies will be passed.
folks should stand for what they believe in, in my view. the popular will is expressed in a vote and a win gives those beliefs the opportunity to be presented to congress.
one wouldn't want a democratic candidate to circumscribe their views to what a republican congress might permit.
personally, i am keen to continue with obamacare (together with incremental improvements) and i am not keen to head to a heavily socialist tax structure (any more than i support the low tax model of the republicans), so i don't find some of bernie's key domestic ideas convincing.
personally, i am also unimpressed by both democratic and republican foreign policy at the minute. i was hoping someone might have a few new ideas about how to handle putin and the middle east (there must be something in between doing the minimum and obliteration). but maybe that is too much to ask.
and of course i am sick of being told islamist violence has nothing to do with islam. it does.
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