Book Review: Our Revolution: A Future To Believe In
There is one politician who I get more ire online from than any other.
Someone attacked me when I predicted that Elizabeth Warren would have better polling numbers than he did. (I was right. This was around May of last year.) I didn't say anything about Sanders good or bad, simply an observation.
So, that is the kind of thing people complain about. Ironically, I am a bigger Sanders guy than you might guess. Heck, many of the arguments I get to on social media are with people I agree with. I am used to it!
You already know about books like this, and they are the type of "strike while the iron is hot" screeds written for the candidates' supporters.
Politics move fast though. Books by Ralph Nader, Jesse Ventura and Sarah Palin among others were big sellers but did they have relevance four years later?
I suspect Bernie thought the same thing when he wrote it back in 2016. Hillary was going to surely win and move things back to Center. I have no idea what he would have had in store for 2020, but he captured his moment.
Of course, that did not happen, and in retrospect, interesting to me, is that everyone in 2020 ran with these issues or perhaps to the left of them. Every single leading candidate for awhile embraced Sanders progressive ideas (with the exception of Joe Biden, who reset the game in March.)
There's a reason for this. Sanders has a great populist approach and as we have seen, can really connect with the disaffected. Reading through his platform, it is not nearly as radical as he gets pegged.
Unfortunately, Sanders himself is a lightning rod. He is a 70+ year old East Coast Liberal who has proudly called himself a socialist for decades. He was going to run into some opposition at the ballot box.
This book has two parts- one talking about his campaign experience and one his platform. As you can guess with a book like this, only a certain amount of the reading audience is going to be interested in the first place.
There is some neat items, though at 400+ pages, it gets to be kind of a slog. I do like that he answers the questions that he generally gets called out the most on. In that case, it's good, but he goes into a lot of details, and I am not sure everyone is going to stick around until the end,
Someone attacked me when I predicted that Elizabeth Warren would have better polling numbers than he did. (I was right. This was around May of last year.) I didn't say anything about Sanders good or bad, simply an observation.
So, that is the kind of thing people complain about. Ironically, I am a bigger Sanders guy than you might guess. Heck, many of the arguments I get to on social media are with people I agree with. I am used to it!
You already know about books like this, and they are the type of "strike while the iron is hot" screeds written for the candidates' supporters.
Politics move fast though. Books by Ralph Nader, Jesse Ventura and Sarah Palin among others were big sellers but did they have relevance four years later?
I suspect Bernie thought the same thing when he wrote it back in 2016. Hillary was going to surely win and move things back to Center. I have no idea what he would have had in store for 2020, but he captured his moment.
Of course, that did not happen, and in retrospect, interesting to me, is that everyone in 2020 ran with these issues or perhaps to the left of them. Every single leading candidate for awhile embraced Sanders progressive ideas (with the exception of Joe Biden, who reset the game in March.)
There's a reason for this. Sanders has a great populist approach and as we have seen, can really connect with the disaffected. Reading through his platform, it is not nearly as radical as he gets pegged.
Unfortunately, Sanders himself is a lightning rod. He is a 70+ year old East Coast Liberal who has proudly called himself a socialist for decades. He was going to run into some opposition at the ballot box.
This book has two parts- one talking about his campaign experience and one his platform. As you can guess with a book like this, only a certain amount of the reading audience is going to be interested in the first place.
There is some neat items, though at 400+ pages, it gets to be kind of a slog. I do like that he answers the questions that he generally gets called out the most on. In that case, it's good, but he goes into a lot of details, and I am not sure everyone is going to stick around until the end,
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