Bernie Sanders is making history. From the past, who's ideals does he align with most?

[blueintelligentsia]

Think about what each presidential candidate stood for and what each presidents' record illuminates.

- Teddy Roosevelt was a trust buster who helped set up the conservation of large natural parts of our country.
- FDR lifted us out of the Depression with his "socialist" New Deal.
- McGovern was an insurgent candidate from South Dakota who vehemently opposed the war in Vietnam.
- Eugene Debs was the last self-proclaimed socialist and won nearly 1 million votes as a political prisoner.
- Rev. Jesse Jackson ran for president as part of the Rainbow Coalition.
- Harry Truman continued FDR's New Deal policies and later criticized the CIA, which he had created.
- All of the above, there is not one candidate, but parts from all or most of them that are similar.

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[blueintelligentsia]

1. FDR FTW? "I Welcome Their Hatred"

[delrem]

2. A Canadian here. Canadian similarity: Tommy Douglas. No question.

The two are democratic socialists in the same way, but face/d different circumstances in different countries.

Tommy Douglas is the author of the Canadian single payer universal health care system. He comes from the democratic socialist left, became the Premier of Saskatchewan and he won lots and lost lots and in the end came out probably the most beloved Canadian of all time. There is no viable political party in Canada that would campaign in any way against the health care system that Douglas designed, first implemented in Saskatchewan, and then saw nationalized by the beautiful leftist Liberals govening under Lester Pearson, a PM I cherish as setting a way of peace and happiness.

Those are sunny days, sunny politicians, I remember in Canadian politics.

[blueintelligentsia]

3. Thanks for the northern input, did...

Canada get out of the Great Depression faster during the 30's? How was he able to accomplish single-payer healthcare when FDR could not? WWII? Larger country? Focus diverted to foreign affairs more often as the rising "super-power"?

[delrem]

4. To entertain you, and enlighten you on the timeline

here's a link to a nice vid that I ran into posted by appalachiablue

Tommy Douglas the Father of Medicare