Sanders' Presidemcy Would be a Disaster

I think that a Sanders' presidency would be a disaster for the Left.

The primary reason for this opinion is that the American civil service is politicized in that the top positions are vacated on the election of a new president and filled by appointment and confirmation by the Senate.

Unfortunately for the American, there is a severe lack of suitable candidates to fill this positions with sufficient competency.

Were Sanders to become US President, filling this patronage positions would be very problematic and fraught with ideological intrigue. Trump would have the same, but not to the same extent as there are far Capitalists than Socialists among the upper echelons of the technocracy. Clinton would have the easiest task of filling this positions because of her deep and wide connections throughout the establishment.

Even if Sanders were to find sufficient competent people to fill this positions, he would suffer the same fate as SYRIZA when it tried to implement a Socialist agenda in a Capitalist society.

Power in a Capitalist society does not reside in the State. This is the mistake that killed Allende back in 1973 in Chile.

Power in a Capitalist revolves around control of the means of production. This is where the Venezuelan Revolution is stalled. The State is supposed to serve the Capitalists, not the other way around.

An electoral victory for Sanders would lead to disillusionment among his supporters as happened in Greece and in Venezuela. It is this despair that drains the life out of the Left.