[enraged_camel]

Sanders is a social democrat, not a socialist. The differences are nuanced but quite important.

https://spfaust.wordpress.com/2011/06/12/socialism-vs-social...

[voyou]

Bernie Sanders is a socialist,[1] and social democracy is a type of socialism.[2] That blog you linked to is, at best, advocating a very idiosyncratic use of terminology.

1: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11... 2: http://www.britannica.com/topic/social-democracy

[res0nat0r]

That doesn't matter to most of America. They hear "socialist", "social something", and they are going to be against it.

[davis_m]

They certainly seem to love their Social Security.

[res0nat0r]

They do, and they also hold up signs that state "Keep Government out of my Medicare." I didn't state US citizens as a whole are very bright.