wake from a bad dream only to discover that they are still asleep and that the nightmare goes on. This is the prospect facing America if, as seems increasingly likely, the Democrats nominate Bernie Sanders as the person to rouse America from President Donald Trump’s first term. Mr Sanders won the primary in New Hampshire, almost won in Iowa, trounced his rivals in Nevada and is polling well in South Carolina.
On economics Mr Sanders is misunderstood. He is not a cuddly Scandinavian social democrat who would let companies do their thing and then tax them to build a better world. Instead, he believes American capitalism is rapacious and needs to be radically weakened.
Sometimes even the ends are sacrificed to Mr Sanders’s need to be righteous. Making university cost-free for students is a self-defeating way to alleviate poverty, because most of the subsidy would go to people who are, or will be, relatively wealthy. Decriminalising border-crossing and breaking up Immigration and Customs Enforcement would abdicate one of the state’s first duties. Banning nuclear energy would stand in the way of his goal to create a zero-carbon economy.
Last is the effect of a President Sanders on America’s political culture. The country’s political divisions helped make Mr Trump’s candidacy possible. They are now enabling Mr Sanders’s rise. The party’s leftist activists find his revolution thrilling. They have always believed that their man would triumph if only the neoliberal Democratic Party elite would stop keeping him down. His supporters seem to reserve almost as much hatred for his Democratic opponents as they do for Republicans.
alllibertynews Scary article. However Sanders may be the only choise against Trump. Again to hell with the world.
alllibertynews It will mean a brokered convention where Bernie will enter with most delegates but leave completely empty handed as the DNC and Super Delegates steal the will of people. Further, it means Milwaukee will be rioted by Bernie bros clashing with cops. PrayForMilwaukee
alllibertynews That the US is finally facing up to climate change and is embracing the structural changes necessary to address this issue!
Scary cover / too polarized / breed by the current system which needs to be better ... read chapter one?
Sanders vs Trump = sanity vs megalomania
trump es LA LOCA DESQUICIADA RT
Capitalists have caused a lot of mental damage to gullible people. People have been brainwashed to believe that greed is good and fighting inequality is bad.
That we’re closer to the kind of basic social welfare policies that much of Europe and the UK enjoy? Dear God. It’ll be Armageddon. /s
It means Biden will still be the nominee no matter what it takes to prop him up! 🤣
🤔😏
That’s an awful attempt to creat a false symmetry...
Well, Trump is very much looking forward to Bernie. Because it will guarantee his re-election.
' That's Entertainment'
We’d have to pick between 2 extremists which sucks. But you can’t win your party’s primary by being moderate anymore
It means if the youth don’t turn out to vote in the general election, they will have no respect for the rest of their lives.
It would be the best news, yet!
Wont mean anything since he will get virtually none of his policies through congress.
Universal healthcare, higher wages, ending endless war, Green New Deal to save the planet and create millions of jobs, reducing inequality, free college, ending drug war, higher taxes on the wealthy/corporations, better workers' rights... Yeah, seems like an impossible choice.
Well, it's clear you're an Establishment, status-quo platform. To say Bernie is a terrible choice just says so much more about The Economist than anything you wrote about Sanders.
Healthcare for all?
Hey bud your bias is showing
It would be awesome
It would be the achievement of the liberal media. Well done guys
That a milquetoast democratic socialist who is to the right of FDR on almost everything will be hysterically compared to Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Guzmán, Pol Pot, and probably Jack the Ripper by our billionaire-owned mass media? Just a guess.
You're afraid, huh?
Opening line reads, “The senator from Vermont would present America with a terrible choice.” No bias there.
Awesomeness
Better days. Next question.
Happy Days?
Mind your Brexit
That cartoon is absurd hackery.
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Oh please
Re-electing Trump. Awful as he is, I and millions of moderates like me will vote Trump over socialist fever-dreams.
An exciting, popcorn filled 7 month election cycle story line for this season of The Shit Show.
He can't. Then again you can never Know !
What does that mean for America? Embarrassing political violence from both Trump and Sanders supporters.
America's fucked?
President Trump gets re-elected.
Why is The Economist stupid enough to play the old bad Horseshoe Theory? Demagogue Economist
Sadly it means another 4 years of Trump 🤦🏻♀️ Sanders is a poor choice for the Democrats!
this illustration is garbage
Trump is da King
It would be good
Perhaps if billionaires and multi-national corporations themselves were less sanctimonious about their roles and took responsibility for the disproportionate impacts they have on people who do not work for them, or use their products or support their agendas, they'd gain sympathy
Two of the angriest people I’ve seen.. there has to be something better out there for us pragmatist
Main stream media, perhaps you should write about how and WHY your influence is slowly diminishing.
And they both constantly criticize the USA,
😂
Sanctimonious? Bernie? Really? Sanctimonious is a word that best describes The Economist.
Vote for Warren.
and, TBH, billionaires and businesses ARE responsible for all that is wrong with the world (including the climate change that might end the world)
OH MY GOD! AMERICANS MIGHT ACTUALLY HAVE A CLEAR CHOICE IN THE GENERAL ELECTIONS!!!! Seriously tho, given a choice between a sincere social democrat and a racist moron, I think the voters will make the right choice hey, all we want is something like your NHS - is that OK?
Another day at the ECommunists:
The Economist, the political pamphlet that pretends to do news.
Ok boomer.
Haha and everybody hates the mainstream even more
Both are just populists. Sad period for for USA
I think Karl Marx got it right when he dismissed The Economist as 'the organ of the aristocracy of finance'. Unless you are one of the aristocracy, the Economist does NOT speak for you
Corrupt is the establishment. These two men of different ideologies may be the most honest guys in the pack.
did the Mercers buy you out finally?
lolololololol
The conflation here is absurd, and attempts to paint populism as the villain. You know, the ideology that is most democratic.
I think the Economist has gone too far. I think it is guilty of libel.
I’ll go with that first, but that’s me
Apple paying no taxes might have something to do with the world's problems?
More Bernie bashing by panicked corporate media. What else is new? What are you so afraid of?
Ive always dreamt of seeing two old white males sparring off..... we havent seen enough of that. You know?
False equivalence
And then there's the economist, a neoliberal rag that acts as the blow horn of the plutocratic class
Your description of Rep Pres Trump is wrong. He follows the Constitution, is not corrupt & is following Free Mkt & Individual Liberty economics which is left not Govt control, regulate tax debt spend print, only always fails socialism right.
When you put it like that, the choice seems obvious right? I don’t think Bernie would object to that headline. I don’t.
The dangers of Extremism.
The redistribution of income does not seek the extermination of the rich.
That's the Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee to you
The uneven distribution of wealth is a huge part of what is wrong with the world
Try this! “One leads with hate, while the other leads with love.” Then go away. Thanks!
Why don’t they team up becoming a ticket and get on with it?
Let's find the MIDDLE ground!!!
A Lot of Bernie's policies are pretty much the same we already have in the Nordics. You can look up some stats for example happiness, freedom, economical freedom, press freedom, education, judicial independence on the results if you're interested in facts more than feelings 🤷♂️
That’s it. Sanders is right! End of history. 🤷🏽♂️
Easy choice
I'd still prefer Bernie over Trump; at least the CDC would be funded...
We need global debt jubilee and massive land redistribution. It’s that or eat the rich first, then do it anyway.
LOL at all of you afraid of losing your perch.
Not what’s wrong with the world, but what’s wrong with the US and he is in fact right. Companies here pay CEOs millions in bonuses if he can cut cost and fire as many as low wages workers. In what world is that logic right
History will show that the self proclaimed middle of the road global elites were the most radical of ideologies.
The opinion section?
The world is ruled by bitter sour angry man anyway. 😂
Watch out! billionaires shouldn't even exist
Bernie is right though. The billionaires and multi-national corporations are to blame for a vast majority of the world's problems, from climate change to corruption in politics.
Bernie Sanders is not in fact the left wing Trump but ok
Lol. Shaping the narrative can be difficult. I know...😂😂
Pretty sure thats gonna happen if trump wins too.
You sound like Trump. I bet you benefit from Trump, which would make your opinion irrelevant, as it would not be honest.
And Biden or Bloomberg are the healers? They are preventing the deep wealth divison to widen? Really?
The cartoonist needs a raise and a free Tesla Type S
Disagreed. His coalition is multiracial, multi-generational, and very progressive. He will unite the US.
Is it possible to be below a pessimist? What a cynical journalist
That’s ok. The country is going to split up regardless.
I agree😂😂
Without a doubt, true. The Democrats were lost when Booker didn’t make the cut.
What can we do to stop this debacle from gaining ground? ……. WELL?
Democrats lost the first civil war too.
And?
It takes two to tango! It’s unfair to blame only one side.
Economist knows who pays the checks...
Yes, wanting healthcare is divisive
Well I WISH he would widen the inequality divide. Those people at the top earned their money. You should have to earn your healthcare not have it given to you as a 'human right'!
Love an compassion sooo divisive.
Whereas a Trump 2nd term would promote unity, once he's done eliminating his opponents.
No.
In times like these when the pendulum has begun to swing far to the right, generally there is a similarly powerful swing to the left. If history has taught me anything, it’s that humanity has seen this in different forms before and it is happening once again.
What trump didn’t, right?
Equivocation of Bernie and Trump does a great diservice to a good man.
I don't see why America can't see that Warren is Sanders in steroids but stealthy. She is the book, Bernie is only the table of contents. Help. We need Warren.
Such a tough choice between a dude trying to provide healthcare to everyone and an authoritarian autocrat that can't put a coherent sentence together 🙄
The one between the 1% and everybody else? Well, no, it'll help bring the 1% back down to earth...
Except that he believes in the rule of law, fairness, kindness and a social safety net that helps everyone.
Yes, equality is divisive.
Bernie Sanders is left wing!!! am I right?
Bernie gonna lose so hard to this. Q
Brilliant. Enter sandersman is a gem — wake up!
The choice between healthcare and fascism is just soooo difficult for the mouthpiece of the rich elite🥵
Bernie Sanders has a dangerous tendency of annoying spin doctors.
Yellow journalism, much?
vincentmenezes Nevada caucus results: Democrats shouldn’t fear BernieSanders
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✅Sanders is GOP's tool to ”Divide & conquer” ✅Sanders' base is loyal, but not big enough to win ✅Many blue voters dislike Sanders as much as Trump ✅If Sanders split the Dem’s voter base, Trump will win ✅If so, democracy dies ✅Sanders is the Dem’s Achilles heel right now
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