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He says "democratic socialist". I would take your reversal of the phrase to be related to the democratic party, though perhaps I'm reading too much into it? E
by slededit 10y ago
He says "democratic socialist". I would take your reversal of the phrase to be related to the democratic party, though perhaps I'm reading too much into it?
Even then he's called himself a socialist without any qualifiers before:
"When I ran for the Senate the first time, I ran against the wealthiest guy in the state of Vermont. He spent a lot on advertising — very ugly stuff. He kept attacking me as a liberal. He didn’t use the word ‘socialist’ at all, because everybody in the state knows that I am that."
politifact has some nice analysis on it:
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2015/aug/26/bernie-sanders-socialist-or-democratic-socialist/ http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2015/aug/26/...
- ionised 10y agoI've kind of proven my own point there haven't I, by not even remembering correctly how Bernie described himself!
- slededit 10y agoI always took his qualifier as distancing from himself from the dictatorships that usually implement socialism. Most Americans think the economic and political system are the same thing. History has shown that to be somewhat true in practice, though logically they are not tied together.