Who’s afraid of the socialists? At the latest with the announcement of Bernie Sanders to run a second Time for the U.S. presidency, is visible, as the Senator from Vermont has changed the democratic party already. As Sanders last Time came, he was as radical Altlinker ridiculed. Then he won the democratic primaries in 23 States, won 13 million votes and failed to Hillary Clinton. Sanders has since the party, he is not a member of nominally once, in a way, which kept only a few for possible.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was three years ago a young woman knocked for Sanders in the election campaign to the house doors. Today, it is the most well-known representative of the Democrats. Many of the democratic presidential candidates ran not long ago of Sanders’ ideas. Today, you carry them forward in a gesture, as they came of themselves: health insurance for all, free College education, progressive income taxes. That’s all socialism? No. Social-democracy? Rather. Nevertheless, the “socialism!”-Call now to listen in a new volume. Of left-wing politicians such as Sanders, who call themselves so – but above all of their opponents from the right.
It remains mostly unclear what the term means in political life use the USA at all. The state control over the means of production is not what the Democrats are calling for. Rather, it is things that are in other countries, which have seen their market economies with social protection systems, far from the norm. A General health insurance does not lead to the Gulag – not even to Venezuela.
For Americans, the Generation that was politicised after the Cold war, socialism is not a poisonous word more.
The question is whether the Democrats will be politically. For decades, attacked Conservatives in the U.S. almost every enemy and almost every idea of calling them a socialist. The reforms of the New Deal: socialism. The first health insurance in the 1960s: socialism. Under Barack Obama, these Calls were last hysterical. Socialist was, according to the warriors of the Tea Party and the presenters at Fox News not only for his health-care reform, socialist, its environmental requirements, a socialist, was all that the President took was actually.
There are signs that blunted this weapon. For Americans of the Generation that was politicised after the Cold war, socialism is not a poisonous word more. 51% of Americans under 30 years of age today, according to a Gallup poll, an explicitly positive view of socialism. Because you don’t think of nationalized industries and totalitarian state, but to an affordable education, and wages, of which you can live with. And many of the concrete demands, which will now be discussed in the pre-election campaign, are also in other groups of voters will be quite popular.
Sanders will not win the democratic primaries, perhaps. But who will always, will at least absorb some of his ideas, because to him or her in the face to the left gerutschten base, no other choice remains. The Republicans call “socialism!”. And in the election against Donald Trump will show how great is the fear of the voters.
(editing Tamedia)
Created: 21.02.2019, 20:37 Uhr
