Four ways Martin Luther King Jr. wanted to battle inequality

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143. Then don't talking about people being fed up with capitalism

as though that has anything to do with the US election because clearly it doesn't. "Democratic socialists" are politicians elected to representative government in a capitalist state. Socialism does not rise or fall based on an election. It is an economic system in which workers control the means of production. That is not what Scandinavian countries have. They have capitalist systems in which property is still private and capitalists continue to profit from the labor of workers. Those countries simply have a more significant safety net to assuage the excess of capitalism.

What you do or don't seek, however, isn't related to the election. Sanders isn't proposing anything approaching socialism, which is why much of the socialist press doesn't regard him as a socialist at all. And then there is the fact that he can make speeches about anything and it amounts to nothing if it can't get through the House and the Senate. If elected, he would face the same constitutional restrains that Obama does. For all Sanders' decades in congress, he has succeeded in getting two post offices named. He hasn't gotten any economic or social reform bill through congress, and there is nothing to indicate he will be any more successful when he isn't in the House or the Senate than when he is. But of course you won't have to worry about anything of that because chances of his winning the nomination let alone the general election are slim.