2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: On what issue is Hillary better than Bernie? [View all]Sancho
(9,069 posts)on the "liberal meter". It seems that Hillary and Bernie are pretty close on value-based voting records.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/03/31/1374629/-Hillary-Clinton-Was-the-11th-Most-Liberal-Member-of-the-Senate
http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/hillary-clinton-was-liberal-hillary-clinton-is-liberal/
Bernie obviously (for many years) has been influenced by the "socialist" economic theories. If you think of economic socialism as liberal, then he may be the most "liberal" in all of Congress and more "liberal" than Hillary. Of course, the Bernie "view" of economic justice is not universal, even among liberal Democrats so it's hard to put a tag on "who is most extreme".
For example, here are some quotes from the American Socialist website. Not perfectly aligned with Bernie, but you can see the influence:
So-called fair trade is meaningless as long as the world economy is dominated by a few massive corporations.
We call for a minimum wage of $15 per hour, indexed to the cost of living.
We call for the elimination of subsidies and tax breaks that benefit corporations and all other forms of corporate welfare.
We oppose the court-created precedent of corporate personhood that illegitimately gives corporations rights that were intended for human beings.
There are plenty of discussions about liberal/socialist/progressive, but to me we need a Democrat to make as many good decisions as possible, fight off a crazy Congress, and deal with the changing world.
Just for fun:
http://muckraker-gg.blogspot.com/2015/07/debs-and-sanders-revolutionary.html
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/07/14-things-bernie-sanders-has-said-about-socialism-120265.html#ixzz3gSegIbi4