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

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63. Bernie supporters are, rightfully, concerned...

That the term "socialist" and its strict dictionary definition will be used as a weapon against him. The dictionary defines socialism in the strictest terms as:

: a way of organizing a society in which major industries are owned and controlled by the government rather than by individual people and companies

This is the only thing many people think of when they see socialism.

Reality is that socialism has evolved into many different forms and degrees of application, even, as we already have in the U.S., coexisting with other forms of socio-economic forms such as capitalism.

Bernie has never advocated for state owned industry. What he does support is government taking a more active role in regulating market economics and capitalism, and government supporting programs and establishing laws that benefit the majority of society...very similar to many European countries. This is the distinction that needs to be made.