Electing Bernie Sanders

BERNIE SANDERS made it clear that his running for president is no token effort, designed only to attract attention or provide the electorate with an alternative. He really wants and intends to be president. And stranger things have happened, though its been a long time. Several suggestions might halp Sanders. First, he has to try to overcome the brainwashing bias that most Americans have against the word "socialism". He is already doing this to an extent, by calling himself a "socialist". If a person can make it to the U.S. Senate using that self description, well, who knows. Let's face it; we are all, to an extent, socialists, in the truest sense of the term. Doesn't just about everybody support local fire and police departments? Does anyone believe that these crucial public services should be privatized? No? I didn't think so. And who among us hasn't benefited from driving down well maintained city, county, state, or federal roads and highways? Sure, we have a few potholes here and there, but, for the most part, our socialistic American road system works marvelously well. Bernie needs to him 'em hard with this kind of logic. Also, Sanders needs to round up an army of the very young to use as his base. A new American revolution. The same people who are bringing about the legalization of marijuana and gay marriage, obviously have political clout, and that is Bernie Sander's potential base. Break up the big banks, raise minimum wage, redistribute the wealth through tax policy, free college for all, a more Europeean style American economy. Most Americans are far more compatible with Bernie Sanders than with, say, Ted Cruz or Jeb Bush, but they haven't figured that out yet. Sanders coud attract a lot of support for this kind of approach, in an America in which free market capitalism obviously does not work for tens of millions of citizens. For Bernie Sanders to become president would be strange, but, at least once or twice, stranger things have happened.