How can they go farther to the left without becoming Communists? That will be a tough one to pull off without anyone noticing.
Marxists like my sister and her husband appreciate Obama, but they adore Sanders and Warren.
Communist.
Radical socialist.
Mass Graves...
A Communist is a liberal with absolute power control. The liberals in America control the White House, Senate and the Media. If they had control of House and Supreme Court, re-education camps would be in use right now.
A Bernie Sanders candidacy would be helpful to Republicans in 2016, as it forces Hillary Clinton to use resources to defend her left flank. Even more helpful if he runs as a third party candidate.
Democratic Socialist is the “polite” term for Marxist. Just do a check on the many “Democratic Socialist” parties and governments throughout history and they are all Marxist or Leninist-Stalinist.
Had Bernie been around in 1918 he would have been in the front row of those who slaughtered the Romanov family.
It looks like Bernie got the headline she wanted.
Don’t be fooled - he’s only there for ONE REASON, and that is to make Hillary look like a “moderate”, in comparison. Bill Clinton did the same thing in 1992, when he ran against a number of whack-jobs.
Standard operating procedure for them, and unfortunately quite effective.
Nationalization of key industries. See “Venezuela”.
Bernie is a whack job. Always has been.
Probably running so he can use any campaign money he gets for his retirement in some way.
Like any good Commie.
ideologically speaking not far...they are calling themselves progressive rather than communist since communists have such a wonderful history of love and tolerance (snark) only 100 million plus dead in the 20th century...
But all these American "progressives" are basically all mouth and little action...
A real "progressive" would be calling for the gulags to be filled with "wrong thinking" americans that need to get their minds right...
Remember progressives think "1984" is a playbook not a novel...
How far left than marixist facism and communism?
So, full-on Marxism is simply not enough?
What, bio-computer chips to prevent us from thinking about anything but communism?
Democrats are full-blown socialists who know that the only way to get there is to hide their intentions while slowly creeping in that direction. If you were to go back to 1995 or 2000 and accuse the Democrats of wanting to implement all the Orwellian left-wing garbage that is in place now from Obama care to campus speech codes, zero tolerance insanity in schools, universal gay marriage imposed by the courts, etc, etc, they would shake their heads and tell us no, no, no. We just want to change the dialogue, we don't need solutions that extreme, yada, yada, yada.
Make no mistake about it. If the Democrats were left in power unchecked, in less than ten years we'd have all the socialist policies Sanders is calling for, yet no prominent Democrat would advocate socialism honestly along the way.