We are all Democratic Socialists now
by digby
Jonathan Cohn explains what Bernie Sanders means when he calls himself a Democratic socialist. Of course he wants to send all the conservatives to FEMA camps first and foremost. That goes without saying. But after that, this is pretty much what it means:
“Sanders doesn’t shrink from the label socialist, Andrew Prokop pointed out in a profile for Vox last year, but he generally identifies himself as a democratic socialist. The distinction matters. Democratic socialism, as generally conceived in the U.S., is a milder, more aspirational form of the ideology. Democratic socialists might not recoil at the thought of government running large industries, but they don’t actively pursue that goal. Instead, they focus on decidedly less radical objectives — like making the welfare state more generous, giving workers more power, limiting the influence of money on politics and policing the practices of business more closely.
That sounds like a majority of the Democratic party! Runferyerlives!!!
Oh, and guess what?
A study by VoteView, determined that Sanders is actually less liberal than many Republican senators are conservative.
They don’t embrace the word that best describes them. We’ll just call them “ultra-conservative” and leave it at that.
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