Oddly, socialist candidate Sanders has proven to be a formidable fundraiser. His primary opponents line up to sign on to a Green New Deal, increased marginal tax rates, Sanders’ own “Medicare-for-all,” and other “progressive” measures. He is bolstered by positive views of socialism among majorities of young people and Democrats. Understanding what Sanders means by Democratic Socialism has taken on a sense of urgency with his candidacy. He does not bother to note that the Nordic states rank among the most free-enterprise economies of the globe.
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When pressed further about his Democratic Socialism, he resorts to filibustering about the Scandinavian-like paradise of free medicine and education, guaranteed jobs, livable wages, and other free things he intends to introduce when elected. Sanders insists that he is not a “socialist” but a “Democratic Socialist,” as if the difference is self-explanatory. The media rarely pushes back on his standard platitudes, such as “we must create an economy that works for all, not just the very wealthy.” His two-minute video, promising to explain his brand of socialism, leaves the viewer clueless, probably deliberately. Sanders has spent a long political career obfuscating his true political beliefs. In the past few years, candidates identifying themselves as socialist have won more than 50 state and municipal offices, the latest being the election of five candidates to the Chicago city council. The 2018 elections of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) and Rashida Tlaib to the House added momentum to the socialist chic sweeping the country. Not a one-time fluke, Sanders currently ranks at the top of the crowded 2020 Democratic field. Socialism burst on the American political scene with Sanders’ strong bid for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination. A staff writer for a DSA house publication could not be clearer: “In the long run, democratic socialists want to end capitalism…we want to end our society’s subservience to the market.”ĭoes Sanders agree? That is the question. The largest American socialist party, the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), unlike Sanders, openly declares its intent to abolish capitalism as we know it. Sanders, however, is not the only self-declared “Democratic Socialist” around. He disarms critics by asserting that he is not a “socialist” but a “Democratic Socialist,” without defining what that means. Notably, Sanders reveals little about what socialism means to him, other than giving many things away free.
The candidacy of Bernie Sanders for the Democratic nomination raises the real prospect of an avowed socialist as President of the United States.
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