We sit in the Congress in our beautiful rooms, beautiful studio over here,

and we do not know what war is about.

I met with the mothers of the young men who lost their lives in that war.

I met with the wives, met with the kids.

I met with the soldiers who came back without arms and legs who are dealing with PTSD today. War is a horror, and at time politicians understood that we have got to do everything humanly possible to avoid war. Thank you. War. Is Bernie too radical to win the presidency?

If you watch cable news at all, you're surely familiar with that line of questioning.

Never mind that Bernie has built his candidacy on big-ticket policy issues

that are, according to consistent polling, each hugely popular with American voters. Even after

years of negative advertising, paid for by insurance and pharmaceutical industries, 87% of Democrats and 63% of all Americans support Medicare for all.

Most Americans also support canceling medical debt, which is interesting since only Bernie has a plan to do it.

And 73% of Democrats and nearly half of Republicans support putting workers on corporate boards.

Yet still, the fearmongering that asks, will progressivism play in the Midwest, is all

too common.

Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders says he's a Democratic socialist. What

of voters think of that? It used to be a really scary word. Is it still? I think that you can't

win the White House without the Midwest. And I don't think that you can go too far to the left

and still win the Midwest coming from a Midwestern state. I think you need to be able to talk to the

industrial Midwest. You need to listen to the people there. Bernie is supposedly too far left to appeal to moderates.

He may own the so-called progressive lane of the Democratic Party, but how will he appeal to the

general electorate come November? He may have the most committed base in the race, but is that

enough to clench the presidency?

Turns out the Concern trolls can relax.

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