2017 French Election (Macron Wins 66%)

[Aeolus451]

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?

He's a member of the democratic party.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/national/2016/02/05/his-most-radical-move/?utm_term=.11210b240c96

Soon, Sanders would be quoting them all on the campaign trail, casting democratic socialism as within the most progressive traditions of the Democratic Party.

“It builds on what Franklin Delano Roosevelt said when he fought for guaranteed economic rights for all Americans,” Sanders would say in a major speech on his political identity. “And it builds on what Martin Luther King Jr. said in 1968 when he stated that ‘this country has socialism for the rich and rugged individualism for the poor.’ ”

But for now, in the New Hampshire secretary of state’s office, Sanders made his decision official. Following tradition, he left a note as he filed his candidacy, writing that it was time for a “political revolution.”

Then the democratic socialist from Vermont took the next logical step.

“I’m a Democrat,” Sanders told the crowd of reporters waiting outside.

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http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/03/politics/democratic-town-hall-highlights/

Meanwhile, Sanders, a self-proclaimed democratic socialist, found himself defending his own credentials as a member of the Democratic Party, noting that the party's leadership on Capitol Hill has placed him in high-ranking positions on congressional committees."Of course I am a Democrat and running for the Democratic nomination," he said.

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Bernie called himself a socialist more than a few times and the media agrees with him that he is. 

 

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/10/bernie-sanders-mayor/407413/

 

The old woman looks at him and smiles indulgently. She clearly likes the mayor. “I shouldn’t say this,” she tells him, “but I saw you on TV the other night, with my son, when they finish fixing North Avenue? And my son says to me, ‘That Mayor Sanders, he’s a communist, you know.’ And do you know what I say to him?”

Sanders shakes his head no.

“I say to my son, ‘Don’t go around saying such things where intelligent people can hear. They’ll think you are stupid.’”

She laughs, a silvery laugh, and the mayor laughs, too, and rising from the sofa, he puts his huge hands on her tiny shoulders, thanks her and makes sure Thabault has got her address.

Stopping him at the door, the woman says, “I told my son that you’re a socialist, not a communist.”

“Precisely!” the mayor shouts.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/04/29/bernie-sanders-is-an-avowed-socialist-and-democrats-are-actually-pretty-ok-with-that/?utm_term=.ac53f8fe5a49

 

When he first won election to the House in 1990, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) embraced his political identity. "I am a socialist and everyone knows that," Sanders said, responding to an ad that tried to link him to the regime of Fidel Castro.

He continued: "They also understand that my kind of democratic socialism has nothing to do with authoritarian communism."