it's funny, the way the intelligent left feels about Bernie is how the intelligent right felt about Ron Paul. a dream election for me would have happened in place of Obama's first run and it would have been between Ron Paul and Bernie Sanders.
Bernie is a smart guy, but i disagree with handouts. i am a capitalist and centralist. i lean slightly to the right simply because i am a capitalist at heart. if i provide a service, i should be able to charge based on supply/demand and make a living. i should be able to keep my cash and spend it based on how i see fit. taking my hard earned cash to provide higher education i may not need and medical i may not need simply hurts my savings account and makes it harder to live comfortably. sure, im potentially more intelligent. sure, if im working on someones computer and get a boo boo i can now afford to go to the hospital, but it is simply unnecessary imo.
also, what Bernie told you but you ignored, is that lower and lower middle class would have a massive tax increase while basically giving tax breaks to the middle and upper class. that is what his flat tax would have done. remember, tax currently scales with pay. less than 25k gross is tax free life. you still put cash into stuff like social security, but that is supposed to act like an investment you get back. it is not taxation.
i like Bernie, i love the fact that he actually loves the american people. i dont agree with his methods though. i will agree that he is a better option than the two retards who won the primaries.