You are right Aaron Price, it is a rant — a valid one though.
You are using way too much logic. Logic is out the window these days. Bernie is not in his current position because of his policies. Actually you can argue that he doesn’t have polices, he simply points his finger at wrongs to be corrected (this to his credit). His solutions, however, are few, apart from blowing everything up (actually, much like Trump). Fans of Bernie are there because of “personality” Bernie and not “platform” Bernie. This differentiates him from Elizabeth Warren who has run on much the same platform, but stumbled badly, the moment she tried to make sense of it all. You may layout out sense, and 1 +1 makes 2 until you are blue in the face. Arithmetic (not to mention logic) does not count. Three (or possibly four) of the candidates, are arguably too old to be President. Their ages in the last year of two terms will be respectively, Sanders 87, Bloomberg 86, Biden 86 and Warren 79 — facts and implications not realized.
In order to win the Presidency, the candidate has to offer a feeling — like Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Ronald Regan, JFK and FDR. The runners without this, don’t win — like Hilary Clinton, Al Gore, Walter Mondale, Bob Dole etc. (Marianne Williamson hit upon the “feeling stuff” — the one benefit from her being in the race).
Just one dreadful example of how facts and reason don’t apply, was the recent evidence that Amy Klobuchar doesn’t have high school knowledge of Mexico. To most people (including The New York Times and the gentleman on far right of the NBC panel last evening), this vacuum was apparently unimportant in the selection of a President. Should Amy had been piloting a plane she would have crashed.
Pete Buttigieg is the only candidate with the “looks and acts the part, stuff” who can take on both Bernie and Trump. I don’t know quite what advice to give him, apart from keep doing what he doing and be positioned for every chance — he is going to need it.
