02-23-2020, 11:38 AM
Anyway, If Bernie Sanders is to win the Democratic primary and the Presidency, he really needs to do a better job explaining the difference between 'democratic socialism' and 'socialism' to a broader audience.
They're not the same and Bernie and his surrogates need to work harder to explain the differences and change perceptions, in my opinion. https://www.businessinsider.com/differen...ist-2018-6
I fully understand that 'socialist' is a dirty word to a lot of people in the U.S., especially older people.
I can definitely see Trump and company hammering Sanders and congressional Democrats up for re-election this year by applying the 'radical socialist' label and trying to equate it to pure old-school 'socialism' and 'communism' (like Bloomberg did in the Vegas debate).
Bernie's broken out of the pack in the first three tests in Iowa, NH and Nevada. But, there's still a long long way to go in the primary.
It will be interesting to see if he does as well in South Carolina and especially in the 14 Super Tuesday primaries where there's a significant delegate count up for grabs on March 3rd (Alabama, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, and Virginia).
(Edited to correct Super Tuesday date)
They're not the same and Bernie and his surrogates need to work harder to explain the differences and change perceptions, in my opinion. https://www.businessinsider.com/differen...ist-2018-6
I fully understand that 'socialist' is a dirty word to a lot of people in the U.S., especially older people.
I can definitely see Trump and company hammering Sanders and congressional Democrats up for re-election this year by applying the 'radical socialist' label and trying to equate it to pure old-school 'socialism' and 'communism' (like Bloomberg did in the Vegas debate).
Bernie's broken out of the pack in the first three tests in Iowa, NH and Nevada. But, there's still a long long way to go in the primary.
It will be interesting to see if he does as well in South Carolina and especially in the 14 Super Tuesday primaries where there's a significant delegate count up for grabs on March 3rd (Alabama, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, and Virginia).
(Edited to correct Super Tuesday date)