Hello Nomad,
Nobody knows if Sanders may have won or not. It would have been a classic campaign. The foul-mouthed Trump, slinging and sliming in mud, and the more principled Bernie, staying clean the whole time, just making point after point of things we could do to help people, help society.
Wasn't Bernie polling higher than Clinton going into the nomination? Bernie had no 'email problem' or other big scandals. His following was young and energetic, but he also had a lot of older supporters as well. And he happens to be very well versed on foreign policy.
One thing Bernie's campaign did was to remove much of the pox off the 'socialist' word. He caused many to take a new look at what it really means, and to realize that we don't have to choose between capitalism and socialism at all. We can have both! We actually already do. What we need to do is to figure out which things should be accomplished with capitalism, and which should be done with socialism. And how much government regulation over the markets should exist in order to satisfy the Great Preamble of the Constitution of the United States of America. That simple statement outlines the vision of what America is supposed to be. Those who wrote those great words are all dead now, so it is up to us to realize that vision.
