{"id":40970,"date":"2020-01-28T22:43:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-28T22:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=40970"},"modified":"2020-01-28T22:43:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-28T22:43:00","slug":"just-not-feelin-the-bern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=40970","title":{"rendered":"Just not feelin’ ‘The Bern’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Allow me a moment or two to vent on what I see possibly transpiring within the fight for the Democratic Party presidential primary campaign.<\/p>\n

It is that I am baffled at the support that Sen. Bernie Sanders continues to draw among those who want to defeat Donald John Trump, the nation’s current president.<\/p>\n

Sanders is an independent from Vermont who is running in a party to which he does not belong. He is an avowed “democratic socialist,” a fellow who wants to redistribute the nation’s wealth. He wants to take money away from the “top 1 percent” who he says control everything in this great country.<\/p>\n

He wants to make college education free for every American and favors something called “Medicare for All,” which in my mind is unaffordable.<\/p>\n

He cannot campaign without lacing his rhetoric with the notes he pulls from that song sheet.<\/p>\n

Sen. Sanders has lost me. I cannot back this guy. Yet he enjoys amazing support in Iowa, New Hampshire and possibly in Nevada \u2026 three of the early-primary states.<\/p>\n

He is focusing more attention now on Texas, which has a March 3 primary on what is being billed as Super Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Being more of a center-left kind of voter, I am inclined to look more seriously at candidates who seek to straddle the stripe that divides liberals and conservatives. I continue to long for a more compromising environment in the federal government.<\/p>\n

It is clear to me that Donald John Trump isn’t the individual who can unite this country. He is campaigning to his base, firing ’em up at rallies and firing off epithets at his foes.<\/p>\n

Bernie Sanders isn’t going<\/a> to unite this country, either. He’s now making ad buys in Texas, seeking to elevate his profile here. Will the young folks who have glommed onto this fellow’s message now put him among the Democratic Party leaders in Texas?<\/p>\n

I am among those voters who want to defeat Trump, who still appears all but certain to survive the impeachment trial under way in the U.S. Senate. I just cannot buy into the notion that Bernie Sanders is the guy who can do it.<\/p>\n\n

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Allow me a moment or two to vent on what I see possibly transpiring within the fight for the Democratic Party presidential primary campaign. It is that I am baffled at the support that Sen. Bernie Sanders continues to draw among those who want to defeat Donald John Trump, the nation’s current president. Sanders is … Continue reading Just not feelin’ ‘The Bern’<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[597,1339,1424,2253,8655,5996],"class_list":["post-40970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-bernie-sanders","tag-democratic-party-primary","tag-donald-trump","tag-impeachment","tag-senate-trial","tag-super-tuesday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40972,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40970\/revisions\/40972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}