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I apologise as I suspect this topic has, one way or another, been done to death. However, my excuse is that I'm new to the Forum and at least I hope to bring a British perspective to the debate. My second apology is to confess that I am English, for which I can offer no excuse.
I am intrigued by the comparisons between the leader of our Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, and your Bernie Sanders. Both are men of a certain age, who have been around largely unnoticed for a long time, and became unlikely candidates to lead their party. They are also both not particularly media friendly and refuse to enter into personal attacks.
When Corbyn stood as a candidate here, he was ridiculed as a throw back to the old left wing days of the Labour Party and written off as a serious contender. What happened was that 100's of thousands of people joined the Labour Party to vote for him in the leadership contest. He re radicalised old time lefties and captured the imagination of a disillusioned youth. The result was that he ended up with the largest mandate from its members that any Labour leader has had in its history.
I know the comparison is slightly crude, as Britain has some tradition of democratic socialism and and the Labour Party has in its distant past elected left wing leaders, but my question to you my friends is to what extent is there really a feeling over there that Bernie can get the Democratic nomination?
One other intresting question is if he can not only win but also change the political system. That as I understand it UK just like my country Sweden have more membership based political parties that atleast in theory members also can change the policies of the party and the head of the party have to follow party decisions. Their Corbyn have both increase the numbers of members in Labour but also got more members involved in party politics. While as I understand it USA have a more campaign based parties. That USA have a lot of people involved in campaing work ecpecially for the presidental election. But after the election the president and other elected have a personal mandate and can in theory do what they want without listen to the members and the party. But as I understand it will Bernie will sort of change that if he get elected. That he also want to campaign for specific issues between elections and hopefully get millions of people involved. As a non american I don't know if it's feassible but atleast it sounds intersting.