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What Bernie Sanders Means by ‘Democratic Socialism’
“We must create an organization like Nato to confront the security threats of the 21st century – an organisation that emphasizes cooperation and collaboration to defeat the rise of violent extremism and importantly to address the root causes underlying these brutal acts”, said Sanders in perhaps the most specific policy suggestion.
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He started out the gate by describing a scenario that many can identify with today: FDR’s inauguration speech from 1937.
Sanders framed his discussion of democratic socialism by harkening back to President Franklin Roosevelt’s policies during the Great Depression and actions in a time a crisis.
“He saw tens of millions of its citizens denied the basic necessities of life”.
“He saw millions denied education, recreation, and the opportunity to better their lot and the lot of their children”. Well, it means that, in many cases, we must ask more from those in the region. “He reinvigorated democracy. He transformed the country”, Sanders said. “And this is what we have to do today”.
“Almost everything he proposed was called ‘socialist, ‘” Sanders will say, noting policies like the minimum wage, 40-hour work week, collective bargaining, banking regulations, and abolishing child labor earned that criticism when initially proposed.
Speaking at Georgetown University, the Democratic candidate battled perceptions his ideas are foreign or “radical” and framed his proposals as a modern version of Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal. Among young people, “socialism” doesn’t carry the same negative connotation it once did, but it’s still a term considered inherently pejorative across much of America. For Sanders, the mechanics for this are self-evident, so he didn’t spend much time on them.
For example, newly minted Speaker of the House, Paul Ryan, benefited from his late father’s Social Security benefits. He talks sincerely about a “political revolution” that will bring more Americans out to vote for their interests, and in that sense, take power.
On his official senate website, Bernie Sanders argues that cuts would be devastating to veterans and surviving spouses, especially when those cuts would come in order to pay for increased defense spending. To that end, he traveled to Georgetown University to give a speech before cheering students who haven’t a clue that Sanders is pushing policies that would destroy their future.
“This country has socialism for the rich, and rugged individualism for the poor.”
What does this mean? Raising taxes and few percentage points on the rich is not going to significantly narrow the gap between rich and poor, and anyone with half a brain knows it. Where Sanders wants to concentrate his efforts is in building a new alphabet soup of federal programs and agencies to transfer wealth to the Middle Class. This makes him no different than any big government liberal out there. “Real freedom must include economic security.” he said.
Sanders hammered home this notion of freedom with wonderful brevity.
“People are not free … when they are unable to feed their family”, he said.
“Roosevelt implemented a series of programs that put millions of people back to work, took them out of poverty and restored their faith in government”, Sanders said. “People are not truly free when they are unemployed or underpaid, or when they are exhausted by working long hours”, the presidential frontrunner explained.
Sawant had previously expressed disappointment in Sanders’s decision to seek the Democratic nomination instead of running for president as a third-party socialist candidate.
“Bernie’s candidacy isn’t in crisis because suddenly everyone thinks he’s a socialist”. Sanders joked concerning the destructive connotation of the word “socialist” in the USA.
“So the next time you hear me attacked as a socialist, like tomorrow, remember this: I don’t believe government should take over the grocery store down the street or own the means of production, but I do believe that the middle class and the working families who produce the wealth of this country deserve a decent standard of living and that their incomes should go up, not down”, Sanders said.
Let me define for you, simply and straightforwardly, what democratic socialism means to me. He would like single-payer health care. This is not a radical idea. “It is an idea and practice that exists in every other major country on earth”. Not just Denmark, Sweden or Finland.
So he ran through the usual litany of economic woes facing the United States making it sound as though the two terms of Barrack Obama have been nearly as bad for the common man and woman as the one term of Herbert Hoover. Canada offers 15 weeks of paid maternal leave but no paternal leave.
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But many of Sanders’s fans don’t agree.