What Other Social Democrats, like Sanders, Are Running This Year In Lesser Races? (health care, Congress)

[tijlover]

I thought I read in The Economist magazine about some firebrand, Sanders-type running for a U.S. Senate seat in Pennsylvania, and it listed 2 others, a la Sanders, running in some lesser races in a couple of states elsewhere, state senate/legislature type seats.

Anyone know about these or others?

I figured that Sanders would be opening the doors for many social democrats who have been cowering in closets across the country, who now feel more free now to run on a more socialist line.

[PCALMike]

There are many New Dealers/social democrats like Sanders running. Tim Canova in Miami and Fetterman as you say. Great, great men. https://timcanova.com/ Zephyr Teachout is another candidate for Congress running on the same platform as Sanders being vehemently against big money influence in politics. All excellent choices for Congress. The Hillary crowd is the past. Her African American support is a one time occurance for such a candidate and the crowd over 65 are not the future either.

And the biggest rising star in the Democratic party is Tulsi Gabbard, who has endorsed Bernie Sanders. She will be hated hated for some time among the elderly top brass in the party but she is playing the long game. She sees where the future is. It is not a future where we let Wall Street control the economic policy, the military industrial complex control the foreign policy, big oil control the climate policy and the health care industry control our health care policy.

[UB50]

There used to be quite a few who called themselves "socialist" but didn't make a big deal about it. Maxine Waters, the congresswoman, was one of them.

[PCALMike]

Originally Posted by UB50

There used to be quite a few who called themselves "socialist" but didn't make a big deal about it. Maxine Waters, the congresswoman, was one of them.

Its only the media who likes to make a big deal about these labels to try rile up the uninformed and the rabble, but they are losing their influence and power by the day.