Feel the Bern (not literally, of course . . .)

Lest anyone think I'm in the tank for Hillary, here's a list of some of the many wonderful things Bernie Sanders will try to do if he's elected President:

• Increasing the federal minimum wage from $7.25 to $15 an hour by 2020. In the year 2015, no one who works 40 hours a week should be living in poverty.
• Putting at least 13 million Americans to work by investing $1 trillion over five years towards rebuilding our crumbling roads, bridges, railways, airports, public transit systems, ports, dams, wastewater plants, and other infrastructure needs.
• Making tuition free at public colleges and universities throughout America. Everyone in this country who studies hard should be able to go to college regardless of income.
• Guaranteeing healthcare as a right of citizenship by enacting a Medicare for all single-payer healthcare system. It’s time for the U.S. to join every major industrialized country on earth and provide universal healthcare to all.
• Enacting a universal childcare and prekindergarten program. Every psychologist understands that the most formative years for a human being is from the ages 0-3. We have got to make sure every family in America has the opportunity to send their kids to a high quality childcare and pre-K program.
• Taxing capital gains and dividends the same as income from work.
• Only nominate Supreme Court justices who support Roe v. Wade and the reproductive rights of women.

I don't mean to give Bernie short shrift.  I think a lot of his ideas are great, and generally speaking, I think my views about what needs to be done align more closely with Bernie than with Hillary.  It's just that his site doesn't contain as many easy-to-copy-paste nuggets as Hillary's.

Hillary is very experienced and well-connected, and I think she has a good chance of getting a lot of her ideas implemented.  Bernie's plan is more ambitious and closer to what we really need, but Bernie doesn't have Hillary's experience or connections --- in fact, he seems to take pride in the fact that he's not really a Democrat --- and so I think he's less likely to be able to enact his agenda.  But regardless which candidate wins the Democratic nomination, they will both work prodigiously to move the country in the right direction.