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Originally Posted by Senator Clay Davis
I mean Canada hasn't even elected the NDP, Bernie's obvious Canadian stand in. People will always choose money over all else, and Bernie/NDP scares people that they will cause businesses to flee. Then again if the NDP won at least they'd be able to do something. Even if Bernie somehow wins he'll be fillibustered to death, lose the midterms, and be ousted in four years having accomplished nothing.
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Most of Bernie's ideas are closer to Liberal or European centrist policy than NDP, but yes I understand the analogy to our political system. I think the NDP did have a shot at one point, but sadly the charismatic leader here got cancer and his successors have basically torpedoed their own chances by being too generally unlikable and taken the party even further left than Layton.
Massive reforms in the US political system are needed to prevent the level of corruption that the US is currently experiencing. No moderate middle of the road Democrat is going to make the type of structural changes needed to prevent another demagogue like Trump from rising to power. Is that not important to Americans as well?