2016 Postmortem

Escaping slaves were considered to be extremists.

Twas a time when women taking leadership roles in professions or business was considered an extreme idea because a woman's place was "in the home." (In my lifetime.)

There was a time when with regard to immigration we had a system of quotas that resulted in discrimination based pn race and ethnicity.

Twas a time when most of our health insurance companies were non-profit.

Twas a time when you could get a job that paid a high school graduate enough to raise a ffamily on even when that was the only income in the household.
Thomas Jefferson had ideas that seemed quite extreme to the governing British at the time.

In contrast, Bernie's ideas are not extreme at all. He has been in Congress since 1992 and knows the score. His proposals are all working well in various European countries. They are not at all extreme. Rather they would unote our country if implemented. After all, we Americans are in the end all on the same team. The weakness of one of us weakens us all. The suffering of one of us causes us all to suffer a bit in the long run.

Bernie won the support of over 85 percent of Democrats in the presidential primary this year. Apparently, they do not think he is an extremist.

I am certainly not an extremist. I have simply seen more of the world including more of the extremes of wealth and poverty that now exist in America than many who support Hillary.