Bernie Sanders is a Senator from Vermont, who has been associated with the Vermont Progressive Party and Liberty Union Party. He describes himself as a democratic socialist, who has supported a Scandinavian-type of socialism. Though socialism seems to have been long-hated in the United States, many of its ideas are beginning to be supported by Americans. Though his socialist views may not get him very far in the Democratic primary, we will have to wait and see.
His views include:
Naturally, increasing taxes for the rich
Would like to tax carbon and methane emissions
Supports public health care
Wants to make public college tuition-free
Pay equity for women
Wants to raise minimum wage
Expanding social services rather than cutting back
This is just to give you a rough idea on Bernie Sander's views. You can decide whether or not you support him, and maybe you'll even decide to vote for him in the upcoming election.
Sources:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rep-bernie-sanders/what-can-we-learn-from-de_b_3339736.html
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/05/senator-bernie-sanders-policy-platform-presidential-campaign
It's interesting to see how other democratic party candidates are trying to separate themselves from Hillary Clinton since she is extremely popular and well known as a candidate right now. Thanks for the information on Bernie Sanders! I didn't actually know that there was more than one nominee for the democratic ticket.
ReplyDeleteI thought it was interesting how his perceived Democratic socialist ideals force Hilary to go more left on issues. His involvement in the Democratic party is making the party itself more towards the left on issues.
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Something I came across the other day that I thought was cool was Bernie Sanders' participation in a Reddit Ask Me Anything feed. To my knowledge, political higher ups like himself don't usually take the time to directly communicate with social networking sites, especially ones like Reddit that can span such a wide variety of topics and audiences. In the session, Sanders answered a number of interesting questions about his plans and platform. If you want to read more about this, here's the link to the Reddit feed: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/36j690/i_am_senator_bernie_sanders_democratic_candidate/
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