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Bernard Sanders | |
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| Born | September 8, 1941 (aged 82) New York City, United States |
| Nationality | Statesian |
| Political orientation | Imperialism Social democracy |
| Political party | Democratic Party |
Bernard Sanders is a Statesian politician who has served as US senator for Vermont since 2007. Sanders is the longest-serving independent in U.S. congressional history, although he has a close relationship with the Democratic Party, which he frequently works with. He is a self-described "democratic socialist" but within a global context he can be better described as a social democrat, particularly in favor of the Nordic Model of welfare capitalism.
Early life[edit | edit source]
Bernie Sanders was born on September 8, 1941 in the New York City borough of Brooklyn to a middle-class Jewish family. Bernie received his early political education from his older brother Larry who campaigned for Democratic presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson.[1]
Sanders transfered to the University of Chicago in his second year of college where he became a protest organizer for the Congress of Racial Equality and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. The next year he worked on the re-election campaign of a Democratic city councilman in Chicago before graduating with a degree in political science in 1964.[1]
Political Career[edit | edit source]
Due to the incredible right wing and anti-communist U.S. political landscape, his candidacy was attacked by capitalist media sources and the right-wing Democratic Party whose nomination he sought for presidency because even his social-democratic reformism was deemed too much for them to endure.[2]
Policy[edit | edit source]
Domestic policy[edit | edit source]
An advocate of social democratic and progressive policies, he is known for his opposition to economic inequality and neoliberalism. On domestic policy, he supports labor rights, universal and single-payer healthcare, paid parental leave, tuition-free tertiary education, and an ambitious Green New Deal to create jobs addressing climate change.
Foreign policy[edit | edit source]
He supports reducing military spending, pursuing more diplomacy and international cooperation, and putting greater emphasis on labor rights and environmental concerns when negotiating international trade agreements. Despite this, Sanders is not a hardline anti-imperialist.
He supported the US/NATO bombing of Yugoslavia.[3]
Sanders defended Biden's attacks on Yemen as necessary to defend international shipping.[4]
Economic policy[edit | edit source]
Sanders supports workplace democracy, and has praised elements of the Nordic model. Some commentators, such as Noam Chomsky, have described his politics as aligned with the New Deal policies of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and social-democratic reformism.
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Tom Hall (2015-05-15). "The right-wing political record of Bernie Sanders" WSWS. Archived from the original on 2024-12-04.
- ↑ F.A.I.R (Jan 30, 2020). "Corporate Media Are the Real ‘Sanders Attack Machine’"
- ↑ Michael Parenti on Bernie Sanders on YouTube by anti-imperialism uploaded on July 5th, 2017
- ↑ “What I do think, the president has the right to respond on an emergency basis to the disruption of international shipping brought about by the Houthis.”
Barry Grey (2024-1-17). "Bernie Sanders backs US attack on Yemen" WSWS. Archived from the original on 2024-1-18. Retrieved 2024-1-21.