DEMOCRATS ARE ALL IN AS SOCIALISTS–NO LONGER THE STIGMA IT ONCE WAS TO BE CALLED A SOCIALIST AKIN TO COMMUNISM OR BEING A LEFTIST–BUT NOW ANYONE CAN LIVE OFF THE TIT OF GOVERNMENT FOR DOING PRACTICALLY NOTHING AND THE ADAGE OF TEACH A MAN TO FISH FOR A LIVING NO LONGER APPLIES–AS BERNIE SANDERS (I-VT)THE DEMOCRAT CANDIDATE FOR POTUS 2016 STARTS TO TAKE A LEAD IN THE POLLS AS A PROFESSED SOCIALIST SENATOR FROM VERMONT

The Bernie Sanders story is about two things:

1) His authenticity in contrast to the phoniness of the Clintons.  In other words, the guy is real and speaks from the heart.  He does not need a consultant to tell him to be more genuine.

2) He is telling many Democrats what they want to hear.  Forgive me for saying it, but this is not your dad's or grandpa's Democratic Party.  Hard to think that JFK, Humphrey, or Scoop Jackson would be cheering at a Sanders rally.

Once upon a time, a man like Sanders would have enjoyed little success as a Democrat.  No way he'd be leading in polls.  He would have been ridiculed by the party's mainstream as a lunatic, a lefty, a "pinko," unelectable.

That was then and this is now, as our friends at IBD tell us:

This summer, MSNBC's "Hardball" host Chris Matthews took Debbie Wasserman Schultz by surprise when he asked her: "What is the difference between a Democrat and a socialist."

For the head of the Democratic Party, that should be an easy enough question to answer. But she didn't. So Matthews asked again, and again, to no avail. Instead, Wasserman Schultz blathered on about how the GOP is captive to its extreme right.

A few weeks later, Chuck Todd tried to get her to answer the question on "Meet the Press." Again she refused. Asked a third time at a Christian Science Monitor breakfast for reporters, Wasserman Schultz replied: "I'll give you the same answer that I gave both of them." And then proceeded not to answer the question.

This isn't a game of gotcha. It's a legitimate question that deserves a straight answer. After all, self-described socialist Bernie Sanders is beating Hillary Clinton in some state polls for the Democratic Party nomination.

The reason Wasserman Schultz won't answer the question is because Democrats have moved so far to the left that there isn't a dime's worth of difference between the two anymore.

Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2015/09/the_democrats_are_really_socialists_now.html