Why would you want Bernie Sanders to be at the forefront of Monero? Bernie isn't at all the poster child for this, because it would be against the Feds and private banks, which I would believe, that he is good with... Plus he's socialist, I thought the majority of XMR folks here were libertarians... spying and analysing your data is going to be his specialty.
Beat me to it. I was also going to say while Paul is sympathetic to Bitcoin, and would likely approve of Monero even more, Sanders would hate both as they would fundamentally attack his entire worldview.
Thing is they fundamentally attack the worldview of almost ALL politicians except for kooks (sic) like Paul.
It's actually an interesting point from a speculation vantage. One that comes up a lot... but is worth continuing to consider. Governments do not like Bitcoin. And they will HATE Monero.
And not only that, but the thing is , is that the governments shouldn't hate Monero because we have view keys that allow their auditors to audit businesses and for taxing reasons..
It's just that I know FOR A FACT Mr. Sanders won't be for the Monero ship "to da moon"... He's perfectly happy with hacking into the data on your phone/computer to make sure all of us "goys" are being safe.
Edit: http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/256865-sanders-would-absolutely-end-nsa-spying
Well It's not like I italicized and underlined "for a fact"...
But I just don't see how a very socialist person could be the person we want for president... I mean in this aspect, maybe he's the best candidate out there who would take NSA's spying program into account who actually has a shot at winning.