Comment Political Posturing (Score 2) 354
Exactly, this is how Sanders and various other so-called "liberals" play their game. These people accomplish nothing, but they still win with their "feel good" bullshit.
It's not limited to one side; it's not just liberals. It is one basic tactic of politics, right up there with sponsoring bills to get referred to committee you know will never get passed, or telling different stories to your domestic population than you do at the negotiating table with a foreign nation, and crafting your agreements explicitly to let each of you pretend to your people that you agreed to different things.