This is the question I am now asking myself. I watched him on Stephen Colbert tonight. He is the same old Bernie that I have loved for many years. He says the right things. He hits the right notes: our politics serve the 1% instead of the least of us. I totally agree.
My question remains -- how can Bernie Sanders use the office of the Presidency to do anything about the issues we jointly care about?
We have had a good Democratic President for almost 7 years now. Obama has not been the awesome sauce some here expected, and he has even allowed some serious nastiness -- TPP, bankster forgiveness, the continuing tragedy in Syria, the Hondurus coup (which he still needs to own IMHO). The Office of the Presidency places an individual person into a position where they have to make compromises that they will regret for the rest of their lives. It comes with the position. Obama for the most part has been good, and certainly better than our Republican opposition, but he has suffered. Note the grey hair on his head.
Yet, for 7 years we have witnessed a Republican Party which has used our President's very existence as a tool for building an insane clown posse, one which has blocked most reforms, and has even succeeded in turning back the clock to where average racists feel free to use the N word in public and talk of sending Hispanics back to where they came from (California, Mexico, Texas, Spain -- no need for differentiation).
If Bernie Sanders was President tomorrow how will any of this be better?
Will the icecaps stop melting? Will people stop hating and killing each other?
There is no pill we can take that will solve our essential humanity.
If Bernie becomes President it is still not going to let us off the hook. And there is little that Bernie will be able to do to change that. We are setting the man up for failure -- Ours.
There is no messiah. Just a bunch of helpers lost in a sea of pain.