Some Southern Democrats Say Sanders Nomination Would Hurt Down-Ballot Candidates

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“How do we explain to our people what democratic socialism is when we don’t even know?” Some Southern Democrats fear that Bernie Sanders at the top of the ticket could reverse the party’s hard-down gains in state legislatures.

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MYRTLE BEACH, S.C.—Some Democrats in Southern states from North Carolina to Florida are anxious about Bernie Sanders winning the Democratic presidential nomination, saying it could jeopardize a closely-won governor’s seat, reverse recent gains in state legislatures and turn what might be competitive congressional races into GOP landslides.

South Carolina House Minority Leader Todd Rutherford said Mr. Sanders, who has surged to the top of the national polls in the Democratic presidential primary, would bomb with South Carolina...

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Democratic socialism means capitalist democracy with social welfare to those left behind market competition for factors beyond one's control and without oligarchial rule combining economic & political power in few hands belying democratic rule of law in global/national interests?

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There’s no such animal as democratic socialism.

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I’ll give it a try: It‘s the system the U.S. already have. Otherwise you wouldn’t have schools, hospitals, taxes, FTC, EPA, NLRB, NTSB, FDA and all other authorities, whose only purpose is to secure the social well-being.

Who gives a shit? Tell them to get on board and hang on.

Russia called itself a Democratic socialism and even had elections.

throw every democrat out!!

“Democratic socialism” = Communism

They could read? Democratic socialism is the system you've had as long as you've lived - elected government that creates a climate conducive to economic prosperity and provides robust social programs to help people. Now let's do Healthcare. bernie2020

🇷🇺 Bernie is Putin's Ru$$ian state puppet. He had never been a Democrat.

Capitalism the individual capital wins! Socialism is when society wins!

Tell them Social Security actually has the word “social” in its title description.

Socialism is socialism, The only thing empirically shown to raise standards of living has been a better economy.....

It’s easy. It amounts to well regulated capitalism and provides for the basic needs of all the people - including healthcare and advanced education.

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