What Millennials Don’t Get About Bernie
USA Today, May 10, 2016: Sen. Bernie Sanders proudly calls himself a democratic socialist. For a vast number of Americans old enough to have lived through the Cold War era, referring to oneself as a socialist elicits reactions that range from dangerous suspicion to laughable condescension. Previously, a man with avowed respect for Fidel Castro would be disqualified as a high-level politician. Previously, a man who honeymooned in the former Soviet Union would be disqualified. A socialist (democratic or not) would recall not Scandinavia but aggressive Soviet communism, and would be disqualified…
(Photo: People line up at a Universat food store in Leningrad, USSR, in 1991, Frank Folwell, USA Today.)