College Liberal

No, Bernie is the US populist candidate seeking the DNC's endorsement for the 2016 presidential election. Yes, that means his policies are based in social democracy.

Populism is objective, and populist candidates are relative to their respective countries. In the US, the populist movement is determined to form a "worker's socialist state" (a heavily worker's right state, s.t. [{gross profit - (t,w,m)} <= 0] for most domestic companies). Economic history has shown that worker's socialist states do not fair well in the long term.

Look at Hellenic Republic, the population is now suffering more than they should; because to many of value added companies went bankrupt. The state is so bad, they can't even package their own olives for individual consumer export.

<I don;t have enough points for a meme here> I like my Greek olives picked by BUlgarian immigrants and packaged in Italy.

Greece is actually a constitutional republic, not a social democracy...and they went bankrupt because there was major tax evasion in the country, leading them not to be able to pay for their debts and bills,

BTW My meme was meant to be in-reply to Jimmy, but there is a bug on IMGFLIP that when replying to someone, it posts it as an entirely new comment

OMG, you mean the Laffer curve is real. When the Greeks kept voting in social democrats (populist party in the Hellenic Republic) to run their constitutional republic, those elected officials did exactly what they promised. They raised taxes to pay for extreme social programs and created outrageous employment requirements (like one of the highest minimum wage in the EU at one time), which made them the most popular political party among the proletariat but not the bourgeoisie. When the bourgeoisie began to see [{gross profit - (t,w,m)} <= 0]; they either shut down their companies taking their capital elsewhere. Or as Laffer predicted, they evaded paying taxes. To reiterate, social democracy policies are based around a "worker's socialist state", and a republic can be a social democracy.