Sen. Bernie Sanders’s campaign may be floundering, but the “Bernie Bros” and millions of other Americans who supported his socialist vision for America aren’t going anywhere.
After all, Sanders is America’s most successful socialist candidate in the history of presidential politics, spending months as a front-runner and securing about 700 delegates — hundreds more than the non-Biden Democrats combined.
Most importantly, popular support for socialism is now well established. According to a recent Gallup poll, over two-thirds of Democratic voters are open to supporting a socialist candidate like Sanders in the future. The same goes for 45% of independents, many of whom see capitalism as a failed system.
The notion that the American dream is better lived elsewhere, specifically in Scandinavia, remains a major premise of the Democratic platform. And it will continue to be so beyond 2020. But the truth isn’t quite so anti-American.
Continue reading at The Washington Examiner.
Gonzalo Schwarz is President and CEO at the Archbridge Institute. Gonzalo focuses on researching and writing about the American Dream, social mobility, the economics of human flourishing, economic development, and entrepreneurship. He is the author of the institute’s "American Dream Snapshot” and editor of two publications focused on social mobility in Europe and Latin America. Gonzalo has an M.A. in economics from George Mason University and a B.A. in economics from the Catholic University of Bolivia. You can follow his Substack, "Living the Dream," where he writes about the American Dream.
Economics of Flourishing
Sen. Bernie Sanders’s campaign may be floundering, but the “Bernie Bros” and millions of other Americans who supported his socialist vision for America aren’t going anywhere.
After all, Sanders is America’s most successful socialist candidate in the history of presidential politics, spending months as a front-runner and securing about 700 delegates — hundreds more than the non-Biden Democrats combined.
Most importantly, popular support for socialism is now well established. According to a recent Gallup poll, over two-thirds of Democratic voters are open to supporting a socialist candidate like Sanders in the future. The same goes for 45% of independents, many of whom see capitalism as a failed system.
The notion that the American dream is better lived elsewhere, specifically in Scandinavia, remains a major premise of the Democratic platform. And it will continue to be so beyond 2020. But the truth isn’t quite so anti-American.
Continue reading at The Washington Examiner.
Gonzalo Schwarz
Gonzalo Schwarz is President and CEO at the Archbridge Institute. Gonzalo focuses on researching and writing about the American Dream, social mobility, the economics of human flourishing, economic development, and entrepreneurship. He is the author of the institute’s "American Dream Snapshot” and editor of two publications focused on social mobility in Europe and Latin America. Gonzalo has an M.A. in economics from George Mason University and a B.A. in economics from the Catholic University of Bolivia. You can follow his Substack, "Living the Dream," where he writes about the American Dream.
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