Quote Originally Posted by catherine View Post
Why do you keep asking?? After the last Super Tuesday you were quick to post the same question. I know hope springs eternal for you. I saw a FB meme posted by one of my conservative high school acquaintances that had a picture of people grasping for TP and it said "Now how do you like socialism?" Ridiculous. So ill-informed, yet there go those perceptions that being a democratic socialist is one step from those old fear-mongering images of Russian communist scarcity.

If anything, this virus points out the need for more reasonable measures that ensure better protection.

Yeah, Bernie will probably abandon his campaign, but he has succeeded in elevating the national dialogue in terms of the shortcomings of our current healthcare system and the need for better support for minimuml wage workers and other people strained by some of our country's economic policies.
I keep asking because he is such an interesting case. A non-Democrat fighting hard to gain power using the Democratic Party as a vehicle. A millionaire socialist, doing his utmost to revive the class resentments of the 1930s. A professional politician claiming outsider status. A man who can’t help but praise Cuba’s claimed accomplishments in literacy or medicine without reference to the summary executions and establishment of a ruling dynasty. An old, old man whose primary allegiance seem to be among middle class and upper class youth.

The contradictions are legion; perhaps the biggest of which may be the damage he does to the future implementation of his ideas by creating division within his own party and reminding the country at large of socialism’s prior tragic failures.