Quote Originally Posted by edyzmedieval View Post
There's a significant difference between democratic socialism and socialism, Montmorency, it's clearly not the same. Unfortunately a lot of the voters, particularly those who don't vote Democratic, do not know the difference, and hence portray the Democratic party under one big "communist" brush.

Also ironic is that Democratic is blue and Republican (socialist red) is red.
Since Warren entered the race Sanders has been espousing more overtly socialist policies. Reading a recent BBC article the comments of some of his supporters it was apparent they didn't apprehend the difference. It's also worth pointing out that American socialists have never had to live under a socialist government or even live next door to them, unless they're post-Iron Curtain immigrants.

IF Sanders actually wants to win he'll need to do it as a social democrat because a socialist isn't going anywhere fast in the US - hell look at what just happened in the UK.