He was the most retweeted candidate of the night, according to Twitter. To disavow capitalism is to disavow apple pie and Old Glory.
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A Democratic activist, Ed Espinoza of Progress Texas, brought it to our attention for a fact check.
He caucuses with the Democrats in the Senate. Here’s what we, the awed audience to this spectacle, should also digest: The people who attend a Democratic Party debate at the Wynn Resort in Las Vegas are not your average American bear. Both favor constraining the economic and political power of banks, though Mr. Sanders clearly more so.
Sean Casey, a fifth-year history student, said he organized Bruins for Bernie with other UCLA supporters to help interested students become involved in Sanders’ campaign.
The Democrats are obviously trying to cash in on the recent interest in socialism. When asked if he was a capitalist, Sanders responded “No. I’m a democratic socialist”.
Sanders is obviously the best positioned to pull off this farce.
To my democratic primary-voting friends: It’s OK to like Bernie Sanders. In her view, the government has no business paying for rich kids like them to go to school. Despite what particular human being candidates may claim, there wasn’t a transparent victor. It was perhaps an indication that skepticism of or opposition to capitalism – long associated in the minds of US voters with this country’s Communist archrival in the Soviet Union – is again becoming viable on the political left. If the Democratic base regarded Sanders as merely an alternative to Clinton, his crowds would be as anemic as hers. How does expressly disavowing capitalism fit into that metric? At the same time, socialists believe in redistributing national income and wealth on the theory being successful doesn’t really mean you deserve far, far more than anyone else. Nobody said that this time because they know it’s right. There was no room in the “new” liberalism for FDR’s social-liberals.
“Do I consider myself part of the casino capitalist process by which so few have so much and so many have so little, by which Wall Street’s greed and recklessness wrecked this economy?”
Why the seeming resurgence of social-liberalism in the Democrat Party? If you had said socialist four or eight years ago, you would have been blown out of town. This is all for show. Sanders has seen huge support, with his campaign pulling in more that .2 million with “68 percent from donations of 0 or less.”
Lane added: “The Nazis opposed all traditional socialism, wanting to substitute something they called “German socialism” or “Aryan socialism.’ This meant citizenship and privileges only for ‘Aryans” (meaning non-Jews), concentration camps for others”. A U.S. News & World Report poll had Sanders the clear victor with 84 percent of the vote. Fundamentally, the man isn’t really running on a anti-capitalist platform of nationalizing private industry.
Bernie Sanders’ view of socialism is more accurately reflected by his attitude towards actual socialist countries like Cuba, or those striving for socialism like Venezuela.
The first Democrat nomination debate signaled a major new effort by the ruling class to win back those tens of millions who have lost all faith in the U.S. Congress-13 percent approval rating in the latest Fox News poll!-the imperial presidency, and the U.S. Empire (the Fox News poll also found this week that a majority of Americans think the Russian Federation is more effective at fighting terrorism in Syria and that Putin is a more decisive, strong leader than Obama in that conflict).
“But with Bernie Sanders, it’s not”.
Why aren’t there more socialists in the U.S.? But that’s all going to change now. To the extent that this is not just a quantitative but a qualitative distinction, it’s because the European social democratic belief in citizens’ rights extends deeper into the economic realm – particularly the workplace – than American liberalism’s does.
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Modern Democrats never own up to their failures, as witnessed by their astonishing denial that our current malaise is a direct result of Obama’s policies. They proposed free college education, free health care (even for immigrants here illegally), mandatory paid family leave (free to employees, but not to the businesses paying it), major hikes in the minimum wage, open borders, increases in existing entitlements and more punitive taxes on the “wealthy”. It doesn’t make you anti-woman, or anti-feminist, or even anti-Hillary. Sanders is often labeled as a damning excuse for an American.
