For those who support Bernie. Why do you want a socialist for president? (employment, Liberalism)

[Frank DeForrest]

Well they are lining up for the free stuff that sanders is promising them at their neighbors expense.

[Mr. Mon]

Originally Posted by dendrobium

I don't know why anyone would want a socialist here in the US. I grew up in the cold war, but it seems that I'm the only one who remembers this. USSR was socialist. Failed experiment. Mussolini, Stalin, Hitler, and Castro were socialists and some had a "revolution". Is this something we want? What about that experiment that happened in China? Nobody thinks of that these days? Has anybody read Marx? Does this not frighten anyone? People are like, oh ho hum he's a socialist. I say "WHAT????!!!" and I'm alone.
And, since when did the government do anything well? These are people who want government control of all this stuff? Did you have a good experience at the DMV? Government control of college, health care, economics, and basically everything in our lives horrifies me. And when was the last time Sweden had a major breakthrough in the development of medications or science or anything else?
I don't know what this world is coming to.

Well, I know from that post that you haven't actually read "Marx" or paid much attention in a history class. And I hate to break it to you but government of various levels has always controlled college, healthcare, and basically most things that a society utilizes.

And Sanders is no more of a socialist than Eisenhower, Truman or FDR.

[Clintone]

Originally Posted by Quaker15

.....and that socialism is un-American?

That depends on the American.

[woxyroxme]

Do voters know that the democrat party is socialist?

In the 1920s there was an active socialist party in the US, they went by the wayside when the democrat party co-opted their platform.

[d4g4m]

It's failed every time and everywhere its been tried. But THIS time they'll make it work.

[Roadking2003]

Originally Posted by Quaker15

.....and that socialism is un-American?

No. They just like free stuff.

[Haakon]

Originally Posted by Frank DeForrest

Well they are lining up for the free stuff that sanders is promising them at their neighbors expense.

Just like when they voted for Obama.

[Roadking2003]

Originally Posted by Haakon

Just like when they voted for Obama.

This is true. Unfortunately, idiots also get a vote.

[waviking24]

Today someone told me they are voting for Sanders so they don't have to pay back their student loans.

[PanapolicRiddle]

Originally Posted by Quaker15

.....and that socialism is un-American?

Actually it's not. FDR was very much a socialist, and he was also one of the most popular presidents in history.