2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: The DNC establishment is going to escort Bernie to NH SOS on Thursday to get his name on the ballot. [View all]VanillaRhapsody
(21,115 posts)a Democratic Socialist...which by very definition is NOT a Democrat....no matter how many times you repeat it.
He could have called himself a Socialist Democrat....but he doesn't does he?
Democratic socialism rejects the social democratic view of reform through state intervention within capitalism, seeing capitalism as inherently incompatible with the democratic values of freedom, equality, and solidarity. Democratic socialists believe that the economic contradictions inherent to capitalism can only be solved by transitioning from capitalism to socialism, by superseding private property with some form of social ownership, with any attempt to address the economic contradictions of capitalism through reforms only being likely to generate more problems elsewhere in the capitalist economy.[5][6]