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In reply to the discussion: Here's how you fight the "Socialism" bullshit [View all]TwilightZone
(25,467 posts)13. He's been referring to himself as a socialist for decades.
Sanders, in reference to his first Senate run:
"Do they think Im afraid of the word? Im not afraid of the word," he said in an interview with The Nation published in July. "When I ran for the Senate the first time, I ran against the wealthiest guy in the state of Vermont. He spent a lot on advertising very ugly stuff. He kept attacking me as a liberal. He didnt use the word socialist at all, because everybody in the state knows that I am that."
https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2015/aug/26/bernie-sanders-socialist-or-democratic-socialist/
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