2017 French Election (Macron Wins 66%)

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Normchacho said:

Aeolus451 said:

You can call yourself whatever the hell ya want but bernie sanders is a well known politician belonging to the democratic party with a huge platform and he calls himself a democratic socialist. The cat is a bit out of the bag. It doesn't matter if you agree with him or not. Not a single democrat complained of bernie using that term that I heard of. Some even liked it. Some probably voted for him because he described himself as such. To that bolded part, there's many types of socialism and some of bernie's political beliefs were socialist in nature. It's not that black and white. I'm sure more "democratic socialists" will sprout up on the regressive left in the near future. I'm not saying that democrats are socialists but there's clearly a prominent element of socialists mingled in there. They're definitely getting alot of support from american socialists and socialists elsewhere.  

Bernie Sanders is actually an independent. Beyond that, I'd actually like to see what positions he supports that actually make him a socialist? He supports universal healthcare, which is a mainstay of the western world outside of the US. He supports economic regulation, but that's still well on the spectrum of mixed-economics.

I really fail to see what he believes in that makes him a socialist?

The fact that he's a leftist in a country with no left...