Democratic Primaries

Sanders. But the bucks stops with Bernie, as he signed off on it ALL.

At times I wonder if he is a Trojan Horse candidate, design to sheepdog the left and also discredit it. I actually agree with a LOT of his programmes and proposals, but they will never pass in the reactionary stew that is the American political superstructure. I live in a nation (Sweden atm) where none of his proposals (overall, if not exact copies) are new, all have been in place for decades. He also (as I have railed on about for hundreds of posts here and there and everywhere) falsely self labels as a democratic socialist, which is NOT at all what his programmes are, there are simply bog standard social democracy. He poison pills it all by ramming them under a fake and false 'socialist' umbrella.

He would be laughed at (and is) here when he claims the Nordics are socialist nations. Our capitalist sectors are actually more vibrant (even though, if not BECAUSE of them being much more highly regulated than the US model.) We are more productive per hour worked and have FAR higher upward social mobility (the only nation with lower upward social mobility in the entire OECD is the UK), plus vastly more wealth equality. Ironically, per capita, Sweden does all that with a greater per capita percentage of (in US dollars) billionaires than the US has, so it is not like one cannot become massively wealthy here at all.