Democratic presidential Candidate Bernie Sanders is often referred to as “socialist” or “radical” causing constituents to overlook him entirely as a candidate. Cartoon by Suncana Pavlic.
By FEAR CHURCHWELL – Staff Writer
Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders’ character as a politician has been overlooked due to his seemingly “radical” and “unrealistic” beliefs.
“Bye, bye, Bernie,” reads countless headlines every time Democratic presidential nominee hopeful Bernie Sanders loses a state to the other candidate and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
“Objectively speaking, there is no question that you are looking at the strongest Democratic candidates,” Sanders told a crowd of Arizona supporters on March 21.
He has a point. He has a consistent voting record, unlike his opponent and unlike many politicians, he is unafraid to say terms such as “socialism.”
Statistically, yes, there is no denying it.
Sanders is likely not going to get the Democratic nomination. In fact, barring a miracle, he won’t. The media has been saying that it has been game over for Sanders after his devastating losses on Super Tuesday.
At this point, if Sanders were to win all of the states left, he still is not likely to get the nomination.
Facts are facts.
Sanders will not be the 2016 Democratic Presidential nominee.
Despite this, Sanders has remained in the race and continued to be a candidate consistent to his platform, no matter how much backlash he was met with, whereas Clinton seems to have inconsistencies in her platform.
However, Clinton has a similar platform to that of President Barack Obama in 2012. Obama had inconsistencies in his platform, and despite the almost constant gridlock with Congress, he was a historic president, and not just because the color of his skin.
Clinton has the potential to be a historic president, and not just because she is a woman, but because she has the ability and the ideology to build and greatly improve what Obama started (i.e., the Affordable Care Act).
The media reports the facts, but they choose what facts to report. Clinton’s inconsistencies have been widely reported by the media, so to say that the media is completely biased towards Sanders would be unfair.
The media disfavors Sanders in the fact that they fail to recognize his great consistency throughout his career and they seemed solely focused on the numbers of the race, not the ideologies of the two candidates.
Sanders represents the political figure that Americans have been calling for for years. One may disagree with his ideologies. One may disagree with “democratic socialism” altogether, but denying his revolutionary character as a politician would be a mistake.
