Sanders on difference with Warren: she's a capitalist 'I'm not'

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said in a new interview that a major difference between him and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is Warren's support of capitalism.

In an interview airing Sunday with ABC's Jon Karl, Sanders struck a stronger tone in distancing himself from Warren's views on economic policy than he has in previous months, and again asserted that he was the strongest candidate to take on entrenched, powerful corporations and special interest groups in Washington.
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"There are differences between Elizabeth and myself," Sanders said, referring to Warren. "Elizabeth, I think, as you know, has said that she is a capitalist through her bones. I’m not.”

"I am, I believe, the only candidate who's going to say to the ruling class of this country, 'Enough. Enough with your greed, and with your corruption. We need real change in this country,' " Sanders added.

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tacomancer said:

This right here is the line between social democracy and democratic socialism.

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TheEconomist said:

There is virtually no difference between Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. None that really matters. Both of them are absolute lunatics completely infatuated with themselves.

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Cynical said:

And they are both millionaires.

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Cynical said:

And they are both millionaires.

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TheEconomist said:

This is not something I find problematic, though I am not entirely certain they made their fortune by making some sort of positive contribution to society and am almost certain that their current activities define the exact opposite of that. However, when I see career politicians who somehow managed to amass a fortune, I am always wondering if they did not just find a clever way to scale up the low lifer's scam on welfare programs.

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