07-13-2016, 08:46 AM
fauch wrote:
Just shows he was a fraud all along, just like the rest of them... I wonder how much he got paid off for this appearance...
You may be looking at it from a conservative's point of view, from here it looks like Bernie stopped the Clinton inclination to drift right and co-op just enough Republican agenda so as to blunt opposition. She came in as Republican-lite and he kept her from going red state.
If you give any credence to party platforms, albeit modified, she came around to Bernie's view on both college tuition (free up to $125K family income) and expanding health care beyond Obamacare. There are a number of lesser points that were tailored to more suit his positions. Once elected, no President is bound to any but their own agenda, but having won an election espousing those points makes it harder to tack back right, something that Clinton's are noted for doing.
In actuality, Bernie had a massive impact on this primary season, for one thing, he took the poison out, socialist is no longer a pejorative slur equated with Communism and has shown that progressive ideas have a place at the political table.
All this while your guys got steamrollered by a flim-flam man.