Okay Let me Just say this quickly before I have to deal with this. I've already explained everything about how Bernie can win and will win and how he'll be able to get his policies passed. So now Let me go into detail since certain people are so purposely missing the point.

1) Getting his policies passed. Bernie was the mayor of Vermont. He won by 10 votes as a socialist(social democrat in all honesty) and during his 1st term a lot of his proposals got blocked. He then went on and managed to get them passed by going directly to the people and telling them what he was doing (rallies) and who were blocking his proposals. Those that were blocking the will of the people were then removed from office via the will of the people. Bernie has the most supporters, the most volunteers, and is the most popular politician in America. The reason his slogan is Not ME. Us is because its not about him, its about the american people. All he's doing is rising us up to fight against the corrupt politicians that don't want to listen to us. As president he can highlight these politicians and with his popularity they'll have 2 choices. Cave to the will of the people and pass these popular policies or continue to be corporate sell outs and get primaried and most likely lose just like what happened in Vermont. Does this answer your question about how he's getting his policies through @Moren 

2) 2018, You brought this up and I'm very happy you brought it up cause there are 2 reasons the democrats took back the house. 1) Yes, its a backlash election. The first midterm after a new president usually leads to the opposition party making some gains, this is what happened somewhat. But the real thing that you missed here is 2). The People that came out and swung it to the democrats were the youth. Yes, 2018 was the first time the youth outvoted the older folks. We're the largest voting block now. Who is the most popular with the youths by a large Margin? Bernie Sanders.

3) Voter turn out. This is essentially a continuation to part 2 but at the same time explaining to you why this matters. Democrats only win, when people come out to vote. They only win when the voter turn out is high. If people stay home, the republicans win because they are the ones that feel like it is their civic duty to go out and vote in every election. They're the older folks who will always vote, who watch mainstream media, mainly fox news. However when you put someone on the ballot that isn't talking about corporate centrism and is speaking to the people and their issues you see Dems winning. I'll turn back to my presidential example. Obama ran as a progressive and won as a progressive with a very high voter turn out. Hillary, John Kerry, And Al Gore ran as centrist and lost with low voter turn outs. With youths being the now largest voter block and overwhelmingly progressive, the only person who can bring these voters out and motivate them to come to the polls is Bernie. If they come out to the polls then not only will Bernie will the presidency in a massive way but The down ballot dems will benefit from him being the head of the ticket as youths will come out and vote Democrat.

4) Obama. As he ran as a progressive and got an overwhelming victory and super majority he then proceeded to govern as a centrist. What followed was the democrats over the 8 years of Obama losing over 1000 seats in congress and in states as well as multiple governorship. This is literally the perfect example of why Centrism doesn't work and why if you put them on the ballot you will lose and give trump 4 more years and possibly even give him a full republican majority.

This is the simple explanation for you Moren I hope you understand what I'm getting at. I'm out now, I'm going to relax until after Iowa and NH cause once Bernie wins and depending on how he wins them I'll make a very bold prediction, that if it comes to pass Biden will be finished. Anyway, enjoy the rest of your Sunday and please read to understand and not to push your biases. Thank you.

Precisely what I meant.

Actually, I find merit in this. I think it's a fair point for at least 45 Seats + Schumer.

However, I don't think it's exactly 1:1. Due to geography, Senate Democrats need Sinema, Manchin and Tester much more than they need the party. Trump managed to rid or stop his enemies in deep red states Tennessee, Nebraska, South Carolina, etc. Those states would have been red anyway. Being heavy handed in Arizona came with a cost, and Collins (Maine) and Gardner (Colorado) are in deep electoral trouble.

Shit like the Rogan outrage is what makes me continue to lose faith in humanity, sliver by sliver. Ok I'm probably being hyperbolic and obviously this is just a small minority of loudmouth simpletons but still, to see it even see such a dumb thing with no basis of outrage even get a decent chunk of traction (and a few smear article publications about Bernie/Rogan) is immensely discouraging to me. 

I'm a big fan of Rogan and find his views similar to mine, at least based off the maybe 20-25 hours I've heard him speak to various guests on his podcasts. I dig that he has all sorts of personalities on, from Bill Maher and Tulsi Gabbard to James Hetfield, Abby Martin, Bill Burr, Kevin Smith, Jordan Peterson etc.. People of a vast range of viewpoints (both political and otherwise) and an array of trades. He seems like a genuine, chill, sensible progressively-minded dude so to seem him get villainized is shocking to me, and illustrates to me literally ANYONE can be demonized if this guy can..

He seems to be a fairly moderate anti-establishment liberal, mostly independent of the Democrats, who questions quite a bit of what's considered "the norm" and is willing to hear out all sides and think about all sides of an argument. That's literally it. But oh, he's had on Jordan Peterson, Candace Owens, and Alex Jones, so he's awful! Oh, and I guess he made a few lude jokes/comment in his hundreds of hours of talking (and he's also a comedian mind you), and made a comment of something like trans shouldn't be able to compete with and beat up on biological women in women's sports (which is sensible and true!). But I guess some just love to be outraged and love to stay in their small bubbles..

I just don't get why many establishment Democrats think it's a good idea to demonize and distance themselves from such a sensible liberal voice in media, especially one that has millions of fans and 10s of millions of views. 

The funniest thing is, Warren, Biden, and Petey ALL apparently reached out to be on Joe's show and Joe decline b/c he didn't like them lol. 

I'm glad the Bernie camp reaffirmed/explained the reasoning behind their endorsement but the fact they even felt the need to just reaffirms to me that we live in a tremendously sick, ignorant society. 

Maybe the underlined explains the bolded.

538 talks about the recent polling upswing for Sanders: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/election-update-sanders-is-on-the-upswing/

As most of these polls were conducted before the impeachment process, it will be interesting to see with the next batch of polls, how much the sitting senators (Sanders, Warren, Klobuchar) were hurt by the fact they couldn't campaign in Iowa.

Is there a source to this? It sounds like a weird decision by Rogan. The vids on those candidates could've been really popular for his channel. I know he doesn't "need them" but still.

More liberals need to speak about issues they deeply believe in, because otherwise, the narrative is controlled by hippies. How the media constantly vilifies certain positions also doesn't help. There are a lot of uncomfortable truths surrounding transgenders, immigration and Islam, and simply pointing out those truths get people riled up, let alone discussing them. Getting sick of lefties finding meaning in being outraged. 

Ro Jo said so in a recent podcast. Must have felt good to tell them off. 

Also...

Want to expand on this?

Some of the latest general election polls have been damn depressing. Trump has closed the margins hard came 2020. This reminds me a lot of Trump vs. Clinton at certain stages.

And to highlight how things are skewed, it has been estimated it takes a win of about 2 points for the Democratic candidate to have at least even chances of winning the EV against Trump.