The real world has heavy banking regulations, universal healthcare, universal education programs, paid maternity leave, etc, etc.
So where is this utopia you describe then? Please give an example (hint: I'm going to point out to you afterwards how that country has a ton of shitty elements too, because they all do).
What you mean to say is "Welcome to the USA"
Well, the rest of the world runs through the lone superpower, so I'd say the two are synonymous.
That's the point I'm trying to make. You have one candidate who is telling you things are wrong fundamentally and showing you that it's not normal for it to be like this. And you're getting bogged down in the minutiae like a bad interview. Also expecting someone to have answers to everything without the time it'll take to analyze how to fix the problems using the resources of the federal government. Bernie's strength is recognizing that there is a problem and being only one with the courage to say it instead of being bought out to run his career.
We have a few candidates running on populist platforms built around pointing out the alleged boogieman. I'm sure Ted Cruz supporters would make this exact same statement with his name in place of Bernie. They blame everything on the gays and muslins taking over Amurica. Trump supporters claim it's all the dirty mexicans, blacks, and, again, muslins, taking over Amurica and stealing jerbs.
Just because Sanders' populist boogieman is somewhat articulately stated and it dovetails with the "Europe is a utopia" young liberals are so willing to believe doesn't mean he isn't telling a fairy tale.
A few quick facts:
1. His universal healthcare policy will result in major economic hardship on the American middle class, which is the entire core of the economy. So it would effectively force a recession. What a fucking genius.
2. His model for free tuition a. requires states to match federal funds 1:1, which almost none can afford, b. expects GOP governors who refused 90% of medicare expansion funds to deny healthcare to their citizens to suddenly jump on board with this idea. c. does nothing to fix the real problem of post-college underemployment and prevalence of junk degrees and lastly d. tries to pay for all of this using a transaction tax on Wall St., a system he clearly doesn't understand, based on one economist telling him it would raise way more than the $75B his campaign claims this needs. Other estimates suggest it would provide less than half of it and some that it would provide zero additional money.
3. He wants to break up big banks but as seen in this thread doesn't know how and can't even really articulate why. Barnie Frank, someone who actually knows what the hell they're talking about on this, has routinely tore him apart in every written and verbal statement he's made in response to Sanders questions.
4. Claims that all of this will get passed on the grounds of young people standing in front of state houses and shouting at politicians. Literally not even trying to make real change through the democratic process, just cry for what you want and expect to have it handed to you. What a fucking plan.
He's a sham propped up by the corporate controlled media you're railing against because he makes headlines. He also peddles in the same vacuous no substance or merit soundbites they live off of. As a result there are large chunks on either end of the political spectrum who lack the ability to understand policy and instead just believe the guy who tells them what they want to hear. On the far left that is Sanders. On the right it was Cruz, then he got Trumped.
EDIT - And my commentary on corrupt media was in regards to these line of questions not hitting Hillary Clinton. She gets everything soft. Why isn't she being constantly grilled about her Goldman Sachs speeches? About her campaign financing? Exact specifics on her education program? Fracking support? Etc. The answer is due to the corruption of your media.
Yep, Hillary Clinton, the woman who has been the subject of constant attack for nearly thirty years by the GOP, the primary target of Citizen's United, a woman who's emails are the go to filler story across all media outlets, is getting a free pass. Sure.
No one grills her on policy because they've tried and she makes them look like a goddamn fool. Congress has tried and the only result was a bunch of funny gifs starring Clinton. Her policy is day one ready while Sanders can't even articulate a general concept worth a shit for any of his proposals. The intellectual merit gap here is literally as wide as it could possibly get yet false equivalency bullshit earns Sanders a free pass from the "corrupt media" until he steps in it like this interview.
As for her GS speeches, who gives a fuck? As I said in another thread - what would be the purpose? What kind of smoking gun do you think is in there? She isn't the one calling for the destruction of Wall St. as part of her political platform. Should we get to hear the voicemails she left Chelsea after the birth of her grandchild? I mean, how do we know it didn't include secrets about what she did to Dr. Benjamin Ghazi, god rest his patriotic soul!
Her campaign financing is going to win the Senate, so uh, yeah.
On education - she has been an intellectual of merit on child education policy since she was 22 and wrote papers still referenced in research and studies today. She is a fucking GIANT on education policy and unlike Sanders gets that free tuition isn't worth a shit if we have poor head start and K-12 funding for low income neighborhoods, baking in an economic and racial divide.
Fracking support? The same as Obama. Demure and let it continue as it is the single biggest tool we have to avoid a deeper conflict with Russia and in the Middle East.
She has answered all of this, multiple times. That's the whole goddamn point. The media keeps propping Sanders up and presenting the race as closer than it is because they know Hillary isn't going to give them something shocking or fresh. She is going to hit the talking points, crush them on policy questions, and walk away with the same boring news that killed viewership of the national nightly programs years ago. It isn't corruption, it's boredom in a cycle filled with caricatures and cartoons other than her.
