Trying to play both sides, engaging in communist class warfare while attempting to reassure the averages that he's not talking about "them". In the end, they always are.
First they came for the billionaires...
Then the millionaires, then the "elites", then the academics...
Yes, that's usually what happens in Communism. And at some point, the nice old man who thought he could keep Communism in line this time is usually taken out too.
No, he's a socialist. I'd just really rather we didn't go down that path, because guys like him embolden the Communists and often lead to their rise. Not that I think that'll happen here, but that's my main issue with his rhetoric.
Sanders is a Social Democrat, not an actual Socialist in the "lets take over the means of production" sense.
I have always been a bit curious as to why he chose to identify as a Democratic Socialist instead of trying to promote the term Social Democracy.
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