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Can Bernie Sanders Redeem The Word 'Socialist'?
Two weeks ago Senator Claire McCaskill, a Hillary Clinton enemy-turned-supporter, told Morning Joe’s audience what they already knew, that Bernie Sanders is “frankly, a socialist.” Whereas Obama denied the socialist accusation, Sanders affirms it, and the “s” word has done little to stifle the senator’s popularity. A week after responding to McCaskill, Sanders held a 10,000-person rally in Wisconsin.
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Bernie is likely to get a lot of press because of his free association with the word "socialist", but I encourage everyone to explore his views and opinions before writing him off as an extremist.
I would also encourage everyone to learn what socialism is before conjuring images of the Soviet Union or Maoist China and dismissing it as extremist.
True! The article touched on that briefly, but it is certainly worth a closer look.
Shout out to /t/BernieSanders.
I think he can. When people learn that "socialism" isn't going to be Mao or Hitler or Stalin or something they'll finally realize its on THEIR SIDE.
Several decades of propaganda, a deeply corporatist political landscape, and an increasingly globalized economic ties still don't work in his favor. As much he comes across as a genuine 'man of the people', I'm still wary of the economic realities of some of his concepts.
That picture of him of hilarious. He looks like a kid that is very proud of himself.