Bob Cesca: "Bernie Sanders Is The New Third Rail Of American Politics"

The new unspoken rule of Twitter and Facebook is this: mention Bernie at your own peril.

by Bob Cesca

For those of you who’ve never traveled by subway, the third rail on the track carries around 625 volts, powering the engines and making the whole thing go. They used to say Social Security was the metaphorical third rail in American politics. Touch it and die. That might still be the case in some circles, but following a couple decades of th…