What Bernie Gets Wrong About Socialism

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🗓️ 14 June 2019

⏱️ 21 minutes

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The Bernie Sanders campaign billed his speech on Wednesday as a “major address on how democratic socialism is the only way to defeat oligarchy and authoritarianism.” Besides being a mouthful, the speech was an attempt for Bernie to explain why he calls himself a socialist. However, he gets a key element of the pitch wrong. Was it an accident or is Bernie intentionally trying to change what being a socialist in America means? Guest: Jordan Weissmann, economics and policy writer at Slate. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Not letting an unexpected period or a bit of pay dampen your day, that's life-changing.
0:06.6	At Mottie Body, we do absorb it in a barrel for periods, pay, sweat, and more.
0:11.2	Visit MottieBody.com, Mottie Body, Life-Changing a Parallel.
0:16.4	Just a heads up, our show today has a little tiny bit of explicit language in it.
0:21.2	It's the S word, and I don't mean socialism.
0:29.5	Bernie Sanders has been in the political game long enough to know that if you're calling
0:33.6	yourself a socialist in this country, you're going to have some explaining to do.
0:38.5	So earlier this week, the presidential candidate tried to do just that, explain himself.
0:44.4	So a little background for everyone.
0:46.6	Jordan Weissman covers economics and policy for us at Slate.
0:50.0	Bernie Sanders, he's a democratic socialist.
0:53.4	He calls himself a democratic socialist.
0:55.4	Everyone knows that.
0:56.4	He's not a democrat.
0:58.4	He's not a socialist.
0:59.4	He's a democratic socialist.
1:00.4	Thank you all very much for being here.
1:04.0	Bernie's speech was supposed to be a kind of socialism 101.
1:07.5	Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. said, and I quote,
1:11.4	call it democracy or call it democratic socialism.
1:16.5	But there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country for all of God's
1:23.4	children.
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