Slate Magazine: Yet another establishment Democratic frontrunner is failing to get the job done

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3. If Bernie is a traditional FDR Democrat, then he should drop the false label of "socialist"

because they're not the same thing.

FDR was a very wealthy man and would never have called himself a socialist. He believed in capitalism -- a well-regulated capitalism with a safety net. Just like Elizabeth Warren and most Democrats believe in. Why Bernie is so eager to wear the label of socialist is beyond me.

Who did call themselves socialist?

The Soviet Socialist Republic (aka the Soviet Union)
The National Socialist German Worker's Party (aka, the Nazis.)

Here is a list of socialist countries. It doesn't include the Nordic countries Bernie admires, because they have capitalist systems, and their leaders are Social Democrats -- not Democratic socialists.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_socialist_states