• oystein
    +12

    Bernie Sanders is what we in Northern Europe call a classic Social-Democrat. Calling him a socialist would put him pretty far to the left on the political scale here in Norway. From what I've heard he's somewhere along the Norwegian Labour Party.

    • douglas77
      +7

      Same for Austria. Bernie Sanders would fit nicely in our big Social Democratic Party of Austria, not nearly left enough for the Communist Party of Austria.

      Americans, you can sleep safe tonight, Bernie Sanders is not going to bring you communism ;)

    • leweb
      +2

      Yeah, what you need to keep in mind is that both US major parties have shifted so far to the right that anything kind of reasonable is automatically communism. A socialist by European standards would be the reincarnation of Stalin in the US.

      Hopefully people will see past the labels and listen to Bernie's message. He's the only candidate I would vote for so far.