That's the thing with getting shit done, they happen in reality. Are they all we want? No, but this politics and this is where Bernie fail. This isn't an issue as far as goals, there are many, many opinions I agree with him on but agreeing with him on those things won't somehow make them any easier to get through congress which end up helping people n the real world. Which is what matters. Do you want things to get done at all, or a lame duck who won't accomplish anything?
This is about pushing bills through congress, the end game of Bernie's pushing the Overton window left, which won't mean much without politicians like Klobuchar, doing the job he should be putting more effort into. That's accomplishing true change, true change is what it says - change - it's not moving just outside congress its impacting what's in it and his field is outside not inside. Which he only got going from '16, it's not like he's spent his life getting these results.
AOC is drinking his milkshake as a wonk in congress, right now! lol First month in congress and she knows more about implementing laws and working on financial adjustments in government programs than he did in his entire career. He gets credit for launching an environment for her to thrive, but he was not involved in creating the JD's, recruiting her or mentoring her. He doesn't do that shit with anybody. Right wing media did more to prop her up than Bernie did, and right after that boost she lifted herself up to a leftist political icon rivalling Bernie himself by her own two hands, inside and outside congress.
It's odd how too many leftists attribute "real change" with being outside the government, while it's true that is vital in getting change happen it is useless without shifting the wheels in congress which produce bills that affect everybody's lives. It's not on twitter, You Tube or interviews on tv shows. That is where the true power in America lies. It works alongside, not a means unto itself because by itself it does nothing. Look at Occupy Wall Street, they did all that and without congress backing them up they accomplished nothing significant because all they wanted was a conversation, not making laws.
His voting record barely has a gap with progressivism than Kamala Harris. The majority of his career he's been an obscure nobody he didn't move a damn thing left, which occurred over decades, well,
aside from threatening to challenge Obama once. Thankfully he didn't go though with that bullshit.
If he did more of this my opinion of him would be higher, but he doesn't. He's good at getting the public talking and doing opinion to the left, I agree, but that seems to be the plateau of his congressional influence. He gets others to do the actual work, and gets all the credit when they succeed but none if they fail.
Why would you support a lazy politician like that? Maybe he'd better off as an activist, because his track record as an active congressman isn't that spectacular.
Wanting it isn't enough, his job isn't to be a cheer leader its to be politician and the biggest influence they have is passing laws in congress. That's something he can do, but it's not the whole job by any stretch. Which he has a shit record with, at least Warren is out there in congress paving the way for it to occur, Bernie can't be bothered to work on his own niche in economics when that was he was elected to do. Warren may be a capitalist but she's more of a left wing hero fighting for your causes in congress than he ever was.
