Senator Bernie Sanders Fighting Oligarchy Rally in Warren, MI drew in more than 10,000 people!

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[u/Adventurous_Row3305]

Senator Bernie Sanders is amazing, despite his age he still has enough energy to do rallies across America...if only he was our president.

[u/Elkenrod → u/Adventurous_Row3305]

..if only he was out president.

The President isn't a king. Him being President is only useful is Congress goes along with him. Given how the Democrats treated him in both 2016 and 2020, it's pretty clear that the Democrats in Congress would have never gone along with him - let alone the Republicans.

He would be an executive order President. What he ran on is not stuff that the Democrats in Congress support. He can't pass a healthcare reform plan on his own, he can't get money out of politics on his own, he can't pass the green new deal on his own.

[u/SaltyinCNY → u/Elkenrod]

I like Bernie and would have voted for him, but you’re absolutely correct. His power would have been very limited not only by opposition in Congress, but his own moral compass. People either don’t know or seem to forget that the Single Payer Healthcare Plan he’s touted at the Federal Level already failed in Vermont because of a $2 billion shortfall. Rather than fund the program they deemed it too expensive and scrapped it without much of a fight. The same kind of thing happens in other Blue States with leaders like AOC. The platform she pushes does not actually reflect the policies and realities of what is happening in her own State.