Trump’s Lead Grows After Debate, Controversy

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Samus Aran said:

sc94597 said:

Leadified said:

What an odd appeal to the American left. I am not an American but I briefed myself on his policies and to me he seems more like a bizarre social democrat, nothing special in any case. A bit of a stretch for him to claim he is a socialist but who am I to stop him. I think these labels have lost their meanings and are now just buzzwords to appeal to certain voterbases.

He actually is a democratic socialist. They believe in thee incremental transition to socialism through democracy. Social Democracy is just one step to socialism for Bernie. Europe already took that step, while the U.S has been doing it more slowly because it has a warfare state to maintain which eats up its welfare state. But I am sure Sanders would be right with socialists if the U.S currently was as socially democratic as Europe.

Bernie Sanders is one of the better candidates, but he's just so old.

Eh... he's 4 years older than trump.  6 years older than Hilary.  So he's not that much older than the democratic and republican frontrunners ATM.  To me, the age issue will only be significant if he pulls a McCain and has a scary stupid running mate, which I don't see happening.