Talk:Moderate/@comment-68.80.188.183-20140613213447/@comment-27877254-20160705205031

I match your political affiliations, I am a left-leaning centrist. I like Bernie Sanders, but I think the 2 possible reasons why many Muricans think he's a commie, even though all he wants is universal healthcare, universal school and to get $$ out of politics (and he wants to emulate Sweden, which allows many prominent businesses), are:

A) It's unprecented in the US: Most Americans haven't ever felt so in-need of this kind of change before, so this hit a lot of US citizens on the head.

B) They have an anticlockwise-shunted political spectrum: Their idea of a centrist is actually an "in bed with Wall St" and "beholden to corporate donors" candidate (Mrs Clinton), and their idea of a commie is actually a people-loving as-well-as pro-business centrist (Mr B E Sanders).