PolitiChicks ask: Who is Bernie Sanders?

[tzor]

Who is Bernie Sanders?

When Sanders says all he wants is “democratic socialism,” he is misleading his followers. There is no such thing as “democratic socialism!” Denmark and Sweden are parliamentary representative democracies, fundamentally republics with multiparty parliamentary representation. No-one there calls them “socialist.”

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[mrswdk]

Who is Bernie Sanders?

When Sanders says all he wants is “democratic socialism,” he is misleading his followers. There is no such thing as “democratic socialism!” Denmark and Sweden are parliamentary representative democracies, fundamentally republics with multiparty parliamentary representation. No-one there calls them “socialist.”[/qoute]

Yeah, but outside of academia almost no one (in any country) who uses the word socialist actually means 'socialist' when they say it. They just mean a system in which welfare and safeguards for those lower down the socio-economic ladder are a relatively high priority for the government.

So in the popular sense of the word, yes Bernie Sanders is a sort-of socialist.

[Symmetry]

Who is Bernie Sanders?

When Sanders says all he wants is “democratic socialism,” he is misleading his followers. There is no such thing as “democratic socialism!” Denmark and Sweden are parliamentary representative democracies, fundamentally republics with multiparty parliamentary representation. No-one there calls them “socialist.”[/qoute]

Yeah, but outside of academia almost no one (in any country) who uses the word socialist actually means 'socialist' when they say it. They just mean a system in which welfare and safeguards for those lower down the socio-economic ladder are a relatively high priority for the government.

So in the popular sense of the word, yes Bernie Sanders is a sort-of socialist.

They mean it, just in a non-academic sense, you don't understand the differance.