Dear America: Meet Bernie Sanders. PROPERLY, THIS TIME

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83. Um, okay.

Don't make it about socialism either, now. FDR and Martin Luther King, Jr. both got called socialists in their day, so good luck arguing that it's a step in the wrong direction, Sanders just happens to use the label. ...snip... Also, one quick thing, he's a democratic socialist. There's a difference." target="_blank"> One word. An entire word that references a completely different set of policies, a different set of foreign examples. Granted, the U.S. has had a major issue with communism in the past century, and communists tends to associate themselves with socialism, and some people argue that it's difficult to get Americans to even understand the difference between the two.

Well, the rest of the piece was alright. But this is just stupidity coupled with a bit of arrogance.

First:

FDR and Martin Luther King, Jr. both got called socialists in their day

Well, maybe that's because MLK was a socialist by the end of his life?

Second:

Granted, the U.S. has had a major issue with communism in the past century, and communists tends to associate themselves with socialism, and some people argue that it's difficult to get Americans to even understand the difference between the two

This author has no clue what communism is any more than the Americans he thinks are too stupid to understand. The US had a major issue with communism? Wtf? When? And yeah, socialists associate with communists. Maybe that's because they have a lot in common--certainly more so with each other than with capitalism, which appears to be what the author is trying to get us to believe.

Summary: "socialism isn't bad, so don't be mad at Sanders, but it's okay because he isn't even a socialist and he's definitely not a dirty commie". Smh.