Socialism is now “mainstream,” according to the vice president of the United States. Joe Biden made the comments in an interview with Politico:
Q: Does Bernie Sanders represent that same left-left that McGovern did? A: No, it goes beyond that. I’ve been saying for six years on the stump and inside the White House that the concentration of wealth is a gigantic problem, politically and economically. Q: But he’s a socialist. Do you think a socialist can win a general election? A: Look, what Bernie is talking about now is mainstream. The mainstream is saying wait a minute, the concentration of wealth is a disaster, and it’s unfair. Full-blown capitalists are saying that’s true, that’s not right. I haven’t heard him lay out in detail what the socialist part of his agenda is. Q: Health care, right? Single-payer? A: That was the president’s position, initially. That was Hillary’s position. I assume that was to get to the left of Hillary. But that was Hillary’s position on health care.
As for who Biden will support, he says he’ll make his “views known.” But that he could live with Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders.
“It’s not about either one of the candidates; I can live with either one of them. I can support either one of them. I just have a different sense of how we should be talking about the issues that face us, to enhance the possibility that we keep the White House, and don’t have everything we fought for all this time undone,” he said.
