Is Bernie really a radical left winger?

[MegaManX]

Do you ever hear Bernie talking about neutral gender bathrooms? Screaming at the top of his lungs about gay rights and the proper use of pronouns?

Do you see him being a champion of #metoo with the crazy shyt they consider inappropriate?

Dude is literally running on like 4 issues yet people call him a radical left winger.

Radical left wingers eat vegan and demonize everyone for having different diets.

Radical left wingers think everything is offensive.

Radical left wingers want to end the stock market.

That is not his platform so I think all of you got played by the mainstream media. Go look at a true far left liberal and you won't see any similarities to Bernie.

 

[Micky Mikey]

No he is an FDR Democrat. Our political narrative has gravitated so far to the right that instituting basic things like Universal Healthcare, Free College and environmental regulations is seen as "socialist". It is a modern tragedy quite frankly.

 

[Dusty Bake Activate]

Nah he’d be a moderate in western Europe. Nothing about his principles are radical.

Neoliberalism (the governing ideology of the past 40+ years) is radical. I don’t know what could be more radical than deferring to the profit motive as the governing force of a state and society.

Bernie just believes in reviving public institutions a la the New Deal. That’s concept is only radical through the lens of decades of billion dollar funded corporate propaganda.

 

[Kyle C. Barker]

No he is an FDR Democrat. Our political narrative has gravitated so far to the right that instituting basic things like Universal Healthcare, Free College and environmental regulations is seen as "socialist". It is a modern tragedy quite frankly.

This. JFK made a push for universal healthcare before he died then LBJ got a more v limited version established

 

[Pazzy]

Bernie is NOT a revolutionary. Hes another politician.

 

[Pure Water]

Nothing for me to add. The posters above already explained it.

Nothing radical about the man.

 

[sayyestothis]

His perspective on finance and wealth is the most bothersome.

 

[MegaManX]

His perspective on finance and wealth is the most bothersome.

what? That corporations that make 100 billion a year should pay more than 1% taxes?

 

[Ya' Cousin Cleon]

to the producer/property and ownership class he might as well be Chairman Mao

 

[Nobu]

He would be a centrist in every other developed country. Americans are just so used to being fukked by corporations (poor employee protections, poor sick/parental leave, poor vacation time, profit driven healthcare, etc) in the name of "freedom"

 

[sayyestothis]

what? That corporations that make 100 billion a year should pay more than 1% taxes?

Do you own a business?

 

[horizon]

Do you ever hear Bernie talking about neutral gender bathrooms? Screaming at the top of his lungs about gay rights and the proper use of pronouns?

Do you see him being a champion of #metoo with the crazy shyt they consider inappropriate?

Dude is literally running on like 4 issues yet people call him a radical left winger.

Radical left wingers eat vegan and demonize everyone for having different diets.

Radical left wingers think everything is offensive.

Radical left wingers want to end the stock market.

That is not his platform so I think all of you got played by the mainstream media. Go look at a true far left liberal and you won't see any similarities to Bernie.

You obviously get your idea of what the left wing is from fox news lmao

 

[The Fade]

Our regular white liberals are right winged

What does that tell you

 

[Micky Mikey]

He would be a centrist in every other developed country. Americans are just so used to being fukked by corporations (poor employee protections, poor sick/parental leave, poor vacation time, profit driven healthcare, etc) in the name of "freedom"

Agreed.
Americans will go to bat to defend the greed of billionaires, even at their own expense. This delusion is decades of conditioning in the making. The corporate media has done a HUGE disservice to the American public. Decades from now this will be looked upon as the scandal as it should be.

 

[Freedman]

"Radical" in the sense he's looking out for the everyday people instead of the Corporations/ Top %'ers like our government usually does