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No but I think that was obvious to everyone before, wasn't it? He's no more independent than anyone else. Don't get me wrong though - I do respect the guy for admitting he's a socialist, which sets him apart in that regard.
With the current structure in DC, no President is going to be able to change much. Single payer won't fly. We'll still march into ME countries (something I wish we would stop doing). And so on.
I guess we'll agree to disagree about his independence.
Sanders will be POTUS when pigs fly, but I agree that anyone who CAN become POTUS will have to toe a certain line that doesn't vary a whole lot from party to party, but that's more a function of what kind of candidate is more or less allowed to be elevated to the position than a comment on what a hypothetical person might do if pigs flew, such as Sanders on the left or Ron Paul on the right.