re: Is there any realistic democratic candidate you could see defeating Trump in 2020?

I'm not picking on you Bison. I'm really not. But I just noticed your signature quote:

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Here is your country. It provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed. Do not let selfish men or greedy interests skin your country of its riches, resources or majesty.

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My oh my, that is remarkably similar to

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"From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs"

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attributable to the late, disillusioned Karl Marx. It's only similar because in Marx's iteration of this idea, there's less virtue signalling. In other words, when Marx said it, even he refrained from attributing to those who disagree with him personal judgment of his detractor's evil "greed," like the references in your signature block. All in all congratulations on outing yourself as a Marxist.

I'm assuming your response to me may be that Marxism contains some "good ideas" please know (as I think I've posted before) being a little bit Marxist is like being a little bit pregnant. And there are no "good ideas" that are Marxist, especially when applied to government. Marxism, contains NO LIMITING PRINCIPLES on the powers of government even in the "some good ideas" that it's applied to. Example - if you let government just a little bit into health care, it takes over the whole thing. That's why it scares the shite out of me. Marxism is a the horror movie - The Blob.

I say all this wondering with relevance to this discussion, and I'm hoping maybe you can enlighten the rest of us Neanderthal greedy capitalists about whether the Democrats would be able to locate, much less nominate somebody that wasn't even a little bit Marxist.