Sanders is a SOCIALIST. Pointing that out isn't "red-baiting".

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No, he's not.
Why is it so hard for American's to actually understand the differences between this? Canada , Germany, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, France & Switzerland are NOT the former USSR.
I'm to keep shoving this meme in everybody's face until they finally get it.



Bernie doesn't scream about state ownership of property, sorry.

Stop Calling Bernie Sanders a Socialist-The Vermont senator is a "democratic socialist"—and yes, there's a difference.
http://www.newrepublic.com/article/121680/bernie-sanders-democratic-socialist-not-just-socialist
So perhaps it's better to consider his policies themselves. Sanders wants a level playing field, where everyone born in America actually has the same opportunity for success, instead of "a government of the billionaires, by the billionaires and for the billionaires," as he puts it. He rails against the influence of the Koch brothers and other wealthy political donors and corporations on both Republicans on Democrats, ensuring that the rich stay rich and making sure the working class remain exactly that. While many Democrats claim to be in favor of leveling the playing field, few use the rhetoric Sanders does. He has suggested things like breaking up the largest banks and frequently refers to the United States as an oligarchy.

Writing earlier this year on the "fear-mongering" over Sanders' politics, Penn Spectrum columnist Larry Liu noted the "confusion in America what socialism really is":

For starters, socialists don’t always agree among each other what the content of socialism is, but at the very least it contains the state control of the means of production, such as factories, offices, resources and firms. In the more advanced form of socialism, ownership is transferred to the workers. Bernie Sanders has sympathies for it as part of his 12-point proposal for the country, where he pushed for the opportunity for workers to set up worker-owned cooperatives (Sanders 2014). But it is questionable how far he will push it. When push comes to shove, he is a supporter of a social democratic Scandinavian-style welfare state in the form of better education, healthcare and social service provisions for the general population (Leibovich 2007) rather than the confiscation of companies from the private sector.