with more and more Americans. When he starts picking up Senators and Representatives, the momentum will build.

How does change happen with more and more Blue Dog democrats coming in to the House and Senate?

Inertia is embedded in their genes.

Yes, I see a few progressives running in the primaries, but unless Sanders prevails their voices will be merely pisses in the winds. (this is the bluntest I've been on this website)

The Republicans are unhinging people from their fixed ideas
with all their craziness

Sanders would have to be adept at harvesting that fluidity

and Democrats would have to attack the GOP nominee relentlessly

There are days I think the Republicans have the crazies, but we have
weaker prospects than we think because we have an unpopular almost
over the hill leader of the Old Guard, 1990s, rather passe

and an intellectual with a gifted mind who understands political change and
economic systems, but as an Independent does not have his hands on the levers
of party power, a separate organization in other words

It's a difficult thing to blend, and the two camps' followers are at loggerheads

Synergy would be nice in November, but still, turnout is a problem from what we've seen

Hopefully Trump will just be bombastic through November, alienate everyone