DYSPEPSIA GENERATION

Peter Nicholas, in the Wall Street Journal, gives us a synoptic view of a strange duck.

In making himself a viable candidate for the party nomination, though, Mr. Sanders is sounding more like a liberal in the Franklin D. Roosevelt tradition than a classic socialist.

Well, there are some of us who consider Franklin Roosevelt as being sufficiently a classic socialist as to make no difference, but never mind.

Few in the movement expect that Mr. Sanders, should he win the White House, would quickly usher in an economy organized around socialist principles.

By which I assume they mean ‘more than it already is’. The reason they’re so sanguine is that, looking back at how much socialism has crept into American government through people who were socialist at heart if not in name, if they actually get somebody who embraces the name of socialist, the socialization of America can only get faster. I can see their point.

But they see his candidacy as a vehicle to broaden understanding about democratic socialism.

There’s an oxymoron for you, ‘democratic socialism’.

In his speech, Mr. Sanders said he didn’t believe the government should “own the means of production.”

Then he’s not a socialist, and is cripplingly ignorant of what socialism means. I’m more inclined to think that he’s lying, but that’s me.

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