Originally Posted by pondering_it_all
Even if President Sanders is way out in left field, he can't pass laws. He can make executive orders, but to make real permanent changes he would need a congress full of little Bernies. He won't get that. Far from it. But what he can do is to sign every bill a Democratic congress sends him. So his "promises" are simply things he would like to do. Nobody is going to blame him if congress doesn't go along.

In particular, the House has to originate every bill that spends taxpayer money. And House Democrats are going to be just that: Democrats, not Socialists.

That is why all this handwringing over Sanders turning us into Cuba is utterly ridiculous, and it doesn't even deserve the dignity of a serious response.
Sanders knows that to be successful, he has to set a rational tone for his administration and sell a rational and workable vision.

I am confident that he can do that.
I am also confident that a couple of others can, too...just maybe not quite as close to what I personally believe would be the best route.
But even so, I think that a couple of the candidates will do a competent job leading the country.

Competence is probably the most important thing we need to concern ourselves with right now, because "right now", we are teetering on the brink of a headlong plunge into authoritarian fascist dictatorship and the end of the rule of law.

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