I can see Bernie’s power level growing.

The Democratic establishment is going to have a much harder time stopping him in 2020. They can’t even fall back on superdelegates anymore like they did in 2016 to put Hillary over the top:

The Boomer generation needed just 306 hours of minimum wage work to pay for four years of public college. Millennials need 4,459. The economy today is rigged against working people and young people. That is what we are going to change. — Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) April 24, 2019

Great answer.

Andrew Yang, however, has a better answer:

The underemployment rate for college grads is 34% overall and 44% for recent college graduates. We should stop pretending that college degrees create jobs. They often don’t. https://t.co/OMDCb49zXa — Andrew Yang (@AndrewYang) April 24, 2019

Yang’s power level is also rapidly growing:

Great time in Las Vegas last night! #YangGang out in force. ??? Nevada is the #1 state in terms of jobs facing automation. Retail, gaming, hospitality, call centers, transportation all are losing jobs. pic.twitter.com/oU2wAcd5oU — Andrew Yang (@AndrewYang) April 24, 2019

Unlike Bernie, Yang is pulling together an unusual coalition from all over the political spectrum. He is pulling together people of all ages, races, incomes, geographical areas and ideologies, not just the stereotypical urban lefty White Bernie Bros, which is why he will go farther. In any case, I am not taking a shot at Bernie in this post. He is far closer to my position on student loan debt than Blompf and the GOP whose solution to the problem is essentially let them eat tax cuts.

Unlike National Review, I don’t think a mere lack of name id is going to be a much of an obstacle for Yang in the long run. The composition of his crowds, the nature of his online support, the sheer number of small dollar donations, the ratio of his poll numbers to the attention he is receiving, the ongoing meme war in his favor, the position of those supporters in the middle of the electorate instead of the fringe and the fact that so many of them voted for Blompf indicate to me he is the likely nominee.

Maybe I am wrong about this though and my unusual historicist perspective is throwing me off. The mainstream media could be right as it was about the 2016 election and the Russia conspiracy hoax. The polls which now suggest it will be Joe Biden or Pete Buttigieg could be right.

Note: Pocahontas has a plan to address the problem even though I could never vote for her because she wants to burn me at the stake!