Chicago politician. Fenomenously realistic perception of what he had to do to take down hills. Somehow still naive.
There's a point where calling him naive for that is kinda insulting to the man's intelligence.
But he himself has admitted it. He was naive to think a black man democrat could bring Republicans and such into a place where they can work together. I think his argument was genuine but it was bullshit. He didn't realize it was bullshit then, and a lot of people (including me to an extent) didn't think it was. Obama was most certainly naive in his thinking about how Republicans would react to his Presidency. Everyone was.
It would only be insulting to his intelligence if he hadn't acknowledged it, but he has.
We need a political revolution =/= I am a political revolution. He's trying to encourage people to get out there and take control of the political system not promising that he's going to do it for them. If you look at his campaign messaging it's about that (and it ties into his focus on income inequality since the vast disparity in wealth allows those its concentrated in to effectively control the political system). He's not personally talking about making great deals with X like Trump is.
And it's still bullshit. Bernie isn't explaining to his supporters how fucking difficult it will be
at all. All he's saying is if you all join him that it will get done. That's it. He doesn't explain how hard it will be to get a filibuster proof majority, flip the House. Do you know how much work will go into that? How many Americans he will have to convince of his vision?
He acts as if all we have to do is go and vote and it'll be great! Do you know how long and hard the civil rights movements of numerous groups lasted? How hard it was? What they went through? Whether it's women, LGBT, African Americans, other minorities, etc it's been fucking hard. How hard have labor unions fought in this country and keep losing? How hard have people fought against the Drug War? Criminal Justice Reform?
Bernie hand waves all of this. The expectation of the media Bernie voter is that he will fix it all. Every time he is presented with this question, that's what he does. Hand waves, says people just have to come out and vote. This isn't reality!
