A Sanders/Warren ticket? I'd so vote for that. But... what the country needs and what the country will vote for are so at odds I can't imagine it happening. If the GOP can call Obama a Socialist, imagine what they'd subject Sanders to. There is, alas, another election to get through, and the outcome of that election is likely to shape 2016 more than any since 1994. If the GOP gains majorities in both houses of Congress, the damage to the country would be so immense we may well not recover in my lifetime. We have yet to recover from Reagan, who crippled the government, and then Bush, who drove the economy into the toilet and created international discord and animosity. The judiciary cannot recover without an influx of liberal thinkers to challenge the sclerotic majorities placed there by Republicans, and that can't happen without a sustained D Senate majority and another D President.

I have no doubt that Sanders would make an exceptional president, but, sadly, I think he is unelectable in the present hyperpartisan environment. I don't want to imagine the catyclism that could shake up that circumstance. It feels, howver, like it is right on the horizon.

A well reasoned argument is like a diamond: impervious to corruption and crystal clear - and infinitely rarer.

Here, as elsewhere, people are outraged at what feels like a rigged game -- an economy that won't respond, a democracy that won't listen, and a financial sector that holds all the cards. - Robert Reich