HitsRus;1779556 wrote:I don't care if Bernie Sanders is considered "unelectable". The very fact that he promotes socialism in what is, and should be a bastion against it, irritates me to no end. I look at him and his history of anti American sentiment and wonder how this self proclaimed "social democrat" misleads the naïve younger voter who clearly don't understand this country's struggle and opposition to socialism and all that it embodies and entails....because if they did, they would run from him as a child who runs from the stranger offering candy to get into his car. The man may be sincere and he may be principled... but he is poison. It should be noted, by all who know their history that it was exactly 100 years ago when the Bolsheviks began their rise to power in Russia.... and they took power in 1917. Also not lost is the terminology "social democrat" and the fact that Sanders himself proclaims last night that a "political revolution" has begun.
Maybe if people would criticize Bernie's proposals on the merits and stop acting like the world would end if Bernie enacted his plans (essentially the same policies that have been in place in Canada since the 60's) people who dislike his agenda would be more persuasive.
Again, a man you have quoted on here multiple times - Martin Luther King - also referred to himself as a Democratic Socialist and he has a National Holiday.
No need to be so dramatic. America will be just fine. Whatever you want to call it Capitalist Democracies with Welfare States are what crushed the spine of the Socialism adhered to by the Bolsheviks in the first place.
When ordinary working people aren't starving in the streets, can go to the doctor without going bankrupt and feel a sense of reasonable opportunity, seizing the means of production from the capitalists with pitch forks doesn't seem like such a great idea.
It will be ok.
