Stuart,
The political problems you refer to are completely real, and Bernie is correct that it will take a new coalition of constituencies and/or an integration of them in order to accomplish new policy. However, the even deeper problem we face is finding an economic and monetary solution that actually works….and no politician has a clue as to what such solution is….because they are all dualistically stuck fighting over whether it is capitalism or socialism when a third unified integration of them is what is required, namely a Social Credit/Wisdomics/Gracenomics whose new Distributive paradigm of individual and systemic monetary grace as in gifting….goes to the heart of the problem and resolves it.
I admire Bernie’s “fire in the belly” and would prefer him over Hilary, but socialism is not the economic or monetary solution any more than neo-classical socialism lite (Clintonism) or Finance Capitalism is. None of these current theories is up to a solution because they miss BOTH the underlying scarcity of individual incomes in ratio to costs/prices AND policies that DIRECTLY resolve them.
Let’s go for a solution, not just another “can kicking” palliative/half solution.