Bernie Sanders
In reply to the discussion: Three serious questions for my fellow Bernie supporters [View all]zazen
(2,978 posts)We need to do that now, because the majority of voters don't understand that his socialism is no more like Castro, or worse, Stalin, than our capitalism is like Hitler's or Mussolini's. Actually, our capitalism is more like . . . well, don't answer that.
But funny things--cartoons, ads, stuff that strikes that note that Michael Moore did when when he played USSR 1940s music while showing video of main street American libraries, fire stations, road signs, etc.--we've got to proactively educate the public about this now before the screaming starts of "socialism, socialism."
We've got to change the conversation, and plenty of wealthy Hollywood types could go ahead and fund ads to educate the public without mentioning Sanders' name. I think this is ethical in any case because America needs to go in this direction whether it's Sanders, O'Malley, Warren, or any other economic populist.