To the mainstream there are also other differences, chief among them being that Warren BRANDS herself as a Democrat while Bernie insists on still BRANDING himself as something that ordinary mainstream Americans have been trained to fear since 1947:
SOCIALIST
Now, between you, me and that lamppost over there, Bernie isn't actually a socialist.
He can claim to be one all day long, which he does, but he's actually an East Coast New Deal-FDR style liberal Democrat.
He hasn't been an actual socialist since the day he first set foot on Capitol Hill.
But it doesn't matter.
Ever since the start of the Cold War, Americans have been conditioned to view socialism as being a soft form of COMMUNISM.
POTUS elections are no time for academic arguments.
POTUS elections are the Super Bowl.
America went through a ten year period where socialists, communists and even former socialists and communists were rounded up, interrogated, fired from their livelihoods, IMPRISONED, threatened, shot, and generally branded as traitors.
And ordinary Democrats and other liberals were herded into the same pen.
Even chickenhawk cowboy John Wayne enjoyed more credibility as a patriot as he, in the words of director John Ford, "grew rich while men died".
All he had to do was
demonize liberals and slap around actors who portrayed commies on the silver screen.
Partisans and partisan hacks love a good fight. Most partisan hacks live a very comfortable and protected life, or they're just born lucky.
That's why they're so willing to play fast and loose and bet the farm or take hostages, or sit out an election to punish anyone who isn't willing to be partisan enough to make them happy.
And they usually wind up punishing the people who can afford it the least, and that's the very same vulnerable, poor, disabled and elderly, and the remaining folks many of whom had played by the rules, worked hard and honestly, and just got dealt a very lousy hand of cards by fate.
Bernie needed to care about his branding in 2016 and ignored that caution.
He needs to care about it now, and still doesn't.
He believes deep down in his very heart and soul that ideology can beat perception and presentation, also known as BRANDING.
It never has.
And the folks who have to live with the outcome of that failing gamble wind up under the thumb of a would be dictator, an incompetent, sanity-deprived authoritarian hack with the attitude of a bully.
Elizabeth Warren cares about branding and presentation.
I love Bernie, don't get me wrong. He speaks to me very well, but I understand the realities of sales and advertising, and candidates are supposed to be good at that.