Comment Re:I WISH he was a candidate (Score 1) 395
He doesn't necessarily need to win to produce some tangible change. If he gets enough votes in the primaries, that alone will send a clear signal to mainline Dems that they should pay more attention to the left.
I want that to be the case. However we have seen that the Democratic party has continued to march further and further to the right as time has marched on, completely marginalizing the actual progressives and liberals in this country. Hell, we thought that we were electing a progressive president in 2008, and instead ended up with someone implementing an economic policy that is more conservative than Reaganomics.