Bernie Sanders doesn't want to debate policy, and his loudest cheerleaders fear nothing more than him having to debate policy. It is when policy is debated that Bernie Sanders is exposed for his support of and debt to the gun lobby, his vote to protect a dangerous white supremacist border militia group, and his eagerness to dump toxic nuclear waste from Vermont near a poor Latino community in Texas via the means of a Texas authority on whose board his wife sits. When policies and records are debated, Bernie gets exposed for his repeated sellout votes for industries that benefit his home state, including the Military Industrial Complex.

When policy is debated, it is when we find out that Bernie Sanders' proposed health care plan is not only severely underfunded and written to rip apart the Affordable Care Act to start a new experiment but will likely jeopardize abortion access and could well put birth control access in peril, while raising costs for the average family. When policy is debated, that is when we find out that Bernie's $5,000 tax bill for the middle class taxpayers will have nothing to show for in return.

Policy debates are when we find out that Bernie Sanders is so concerned with purity that he would have let Detroit go bankrupt in order to exact vengeance against banks - the same banks for whom he voted to open up the market of unregulated derivative swaps, mind you, and that he is so allergic to compromise for the common good that he voted against Amber Alerts.

When policy is debated rather than innuendos about paid speeches of someone who at the time was a private citizen not running for anything, we find out that President Obama's reforms on Wall Street have been successful and should be built on and that Hillary Clinton is the candidate with the stronger plan to regulate banking and that she is the only candidate with an effective focus on shadow banking. We find out that the richest interests in this country, among them Koch brothers and Karl Rove's billionaires, are quietly praying for a Sanders nomination.