Breaking up the banks and insinuating that all people in finance are engaging in fraud? Has he honestly been saying that for 30 years? Excuse me if I am wrong - it just seems like that's a stretch.
Otherwise... the fact that he's been saying the same thing for 30 years doesn't matter. What matters is that it's especially receptive right now - Romney said this early today or yesterday (and I'm not a fan of his) "people are angry"... Things are exactly rosy for everyone and class warfare rhetoric is really attractive, especially when you're crafty at building this counter-culture, anti-establishment second choice candidate. Guarantee if Biden or Liz Warren were in the race, Bernie wouldn't be getting even remotely as much support - same thing would be happening as in the GOP.
I'll be revisiting this thread after Super Tuesday to see where you and others stand. I just want to make it clear, Bernie has all the makings of being a genuinely good person and possesses the type of character that you want in leadership - he cares about the impoverished, he stands up for civil rights, he wants to push us in the direction of progress...etc. It's just that some of his claims and ideas aren't even remotely realistic. My fear is that it would just embolden the GOP snakes in the House.
Aside from the SCOTUS appointment, redistricting red states runs in second place to the most important things that need to happen... right now a really loud minority in this country is being ridiculously over-represented and its subverting democracy.