fatswimdudei really hate knowing that a lot of young people will vote for bernie because they saw #feelthebern memes on their fb feed
there will always be a giant percentage of people who vote for candidates for really stupid reasons, if doing so gives us a progressive candidate even if it's by accident than I can't complain
Comangliah0b5t3rMost of the Europeans see this very differently as they are almost all socialists, they see Bernie Sanders the way most Americans see Joseph McCarthy.
their's alot of american's who don't realize that the Democratic party of the USA is roughly the equivalent of the Center and/or Right wing parties of basically any other developed nation.
Hillary for example would be a Conservative by Canadian/British/Australian Standards
Bernie would be more of a Labour/Labor party candidate in the UK/Australia/Canada
Most Republicans would fall within {insert nation name} independence party or far right wing outliers in a conservative party
aka anyone who says they socialist in the USA is more like center-left when it comes to Euro, Aussie, and Canadian politics
I understand the importance of stressing how conservative politics in the US are compared to most developed countries, but I think this comparison has become a bit of an over-generalisation, that ignores the very real move to the right that has occurred in the UK, Australia, and Canada
With Labour candidates like Tony Blair or Kevin Rudd, and Conservatives like David Cameron or Stephen Harper, the dial in those countries have shifted a lot. Comparing Bernie Sanders to New Labour is pretty ridiculous tbh. Now, in most continental European countries, where the "Center-Left" mainstream party is usually called something like the Socialist Party or the Workers' Party, the comparison is apt. However, the UK is closer to the US than you realize. The biggest difference is the infrastructure that is already in place in those countries, which were generally created by the older and more leftist versions of the parties that you mention in your comparison. For instance, I'm sure David Cameron is equally as opposed to the concept of centralized health care as any Republican in the US, but given how much more progressive their single-payer system is than our system that still contains private health insurance companies, any "reform" he makes will still leave their health care system more progressive than a Democrat has been able to make ours so far.
I understand you were just making a point to the majority of the people on here who are from the U.S., but I bet there are a few brits or aussies or canadians reading what you wrote with a bit of a confused expression on their faces.