Leadified said:
Most Western countries are social democracies, although calling a social democracy socialist is bound to piss some people off since current social democracies are neoliberal. Bernie Sanders considers himself to be a democratic socialist but during the election what Sanders describes just sounds like basic social democracy. If by "actual socialism" you mean Marxism then Sanders is doing a poor job at being a Marxist, if not then we need a definition of socialism here. |
I was gonna reply that they aren't socialist countries when he replied.
Bernie has made proposals that are socialist in nature and not something normal democrats would propose. He's very far left and basically a socialist. Democratic socialist is just a nicer way of saying socialist. Whenever someone tries implementing something people wouldn't like, they'll do it slowly. That applies mostly to governments and businesses. Bernie would turn the country into Venezuela in a few years.
