Bernie's Big Idea

Free healthcare, free education, guaranteed jobs, subsidized childcare — who wouldn’t vote for that? Bernie Sanders’ policies are profoundly consistent, which makes reverse-engineering his philosophy straightforward. Policy reveals principle.

• Every Sanders policy traces back to a single Big Idea: compassion through entitlement and equality
• If these promises are so appealing, why does half the country oppose them?
• There’s a difference between compassion with what you have and compassion with what you take

You can only give what you own. When compassion requires coercion, it stops being a virtue and becomes something else entirely.