2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Anyone here who directly benefited from or was the child of a middle class person during the 50s-70s [View all]TwilightZone
(25,428 posts)Here, let him tell you:
"Do they think Im afraid of the word? Im not afraid of the word," he said in an interview with The Nation published in July. "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 didnt use the word socialist at all, because everybody in the state knows that I am that."
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2015/aug/26/bernie-sanders-socialist-or-democratic-socialist/
He's been identifying as a socialist for decades. I'm honestly amazed at how few of you seem to have a clue that's the case. Are you certain that you're really a Sanders supporter?
Everybody in Vermont knew. Everybody who knew anything about him prior to his announcement for president knew. I've been following Bernie Sanders - and supporting him, frankly - for decades. It's literally the first thing anyone ever learned about the guy.
After supporting him for months or, perhaps, a year or more, you still had no idea?