Bernie Sanders is technically a social democrat, not a democratic socialist

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

8. I'm guilty myself, although it's part of a deliberate attempt

to 'rehabilitate' the word socialism. Bernie being seen as a 'socialist' will go a long way towards pulling America back to the left and making Americans willing to consider more socialist policies. As I've noted before, Bernie is the first step in making the country more socialist, not the end product. What would I actually like to see during a Bernie Presidency that are more 'socialist' seeming to Americans? Tighter regulation on capitalists, policies that encourage more profit sharing, more co-ops, more employee-owned businesses, tighter salary ranges between the lowest-paid employee of a company (INCLUDING 'subcontractors') and the highest.

(Note that I say 'encourage', not 'require'. So you wouldn't necessarily have laws forcing companies to do so, but regulations dealing with awarding federal contracts that make it more likely that companies who split the profits with the workforce and with low CEO to 'grunt' pay differentials get such contracts rather than companies where the shareholders and execs rake in all the loot.)