Democratic Primaries

every other candidate as merely a continuation of what has gone before.

Not everyone has halcyon views of the Obama and Clinton presidencies as unmitigated good. Not everyone did well between 2008 and 2016, not everyone thinks 'more of President Obama's third term' would be a good thing.

I'm not really one of them, but I understand the *HATRED* of anyone who basically doesn't want to start hanging bank officers, loan collectors and healthcare administrators who provide no service except to write excuses for why one isn't covered.

Bernie is a very mild, very middle of the road, rather conservative person compared to what a lot of younger Americans want; they want the people who've been ripping them off for student loans, closing the factories and running the show hanging from lamp posts or getting a necklace, but we don't really have a liberal, to say nothing of a radical leftist party, so Bernie is 'it' in the sense of really being the *only* 'suit' running who isn't just another cog.

That's my take on the stridency; I'm an old geezer and I know how Russia played out in 1917, but if I had 50K in debt, no chance of a decent job, and no healthcare, a bit of blood in the streets and a few one percenters having a 'Goodyear' wouldn't be the worst thing imaginable.

If we had a parliamentary system with genuine parties, ranging from far right to far left, this 'big tent' concept would be shown for what it is regarding both Democrats and Republicans - sham that exists only because we have two parties, each one like a family that comes together on the holidays, but actually has many folks who genuinely hate each other, even if they can seldom say so.