Attended my first Bernie event in California today

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61. You're quite welcome

We've lost too many good posters lately.

I've recently been reading up on the Socialist aspect of it myself, started with an old thread (and the underlying discussion) of Merrily's:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12806844

It cleared up a few things for me, plus I learned about the Democratic Socialists of America (http://www.dsausa.org), who of course are backing Bernie. I wonder if he has any relationship with that group, they are not a party but call themselves an organization of activists (which is probably what a party should be), anyway they don't run candidates. You probably already knew of them but it was news to me.

Also I found this OP and discussion interesting:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027104443

I don't care about the labels so much as the policies and what kind of relationship the movement does or doesn't have with the Democratic Party, which at this point is highly resistant to even modest reform, when the need for radical reform is huge. I've always thought I'd be happy with a heavily regulated capitalism, the beast harnessed to serve the people, but climate change in particular is driving a rethink, if the economic model can't be sustainable then it's unacceptable.

When you discuss it with people while leafletting, do you just present it as a heavily regulated capitalism like the German and Scandinavian systems or as an actual socialist approach? Just wondering how to approach this myself if I end up talking to people, don't feel qualified at this point.