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One of the potential final pairings in the coming US Presidential is Bernie Sanders vs Donald Trump. Even from an outward appearance there is a stark contrast between the two, with Bernie's unkempt white locks on one side and Donald's Full Head of Hair (TM) on the other.
Bernie's campaign is asked about his appearance on a regular basis, and their response has moved to "enough about the hair already". His appearance is less of the traditional politician, and one of Bernie Sanders, the leftist politician.
While hair may seem a minor detail for the leader of the United States compared to qualifications like experience or political position, but this Princeton study states that a quick appraisal of a picture of the candidates appearance is in line with 70 percent of U.S. senate and state governor elections in 2006. The original paper from 2007 can be found at PNAS.org.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 22 2015, @11:23AM
Dude, chill down, YOU must have misunderstood the point of my post. I'm well educated thank you and I'm just letting you know that the US definition of socialism is far away from the one we have in EU. There is at least one socialist party in every state here, they, actually or pretendingly, aim for a better equality in society, better repartition of wealth, etc. (i.e. the whole package they call social equality) but none of them wants to nationalize means of production. Now in every EU country there is also at least one communist party (or "revolutionary league party", or "anti-capitalist party", whatever). THESE guys are all about nationalization and power to the people. THESE are the one you'd call socialist in the US.
There is nothing uneducated about that, you can even bother to factually check every word of it. Just pointing out a difference of vocabulary between EU and US.
The article (very interesting thank you) you pointed at is likely written by a US citizen with the US definition of socialism which is what we call communism and vastly differs from what we call socialism over here in EU.
I don't give a fuck whether Sanders is a socialist (per EU or US's definition), a right-wing nutjob in disguise or an unemployed hairdresser.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 22 2015, @11:43AM
You have the same with "liberals". In the US they are often considered left winged... In the Netherlands (and I guess other EU countries as well) they are for the more wealthy inhabitants of the country and try to break down social securities as much as possible, and can be found on the right wing.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 22 2015, @12:24PM
It's less about one buzzword over another and ultimately about whether or not an individual in a given country is a free person or a slave. Even in the soft gloved European version of socialism as you describe, "better repartition of wealth", tax-the-rich, etc. literally equate to slavery. Oh, sure, it's not necessarily the whips-and-chains version of slavery, but the individual under socialism is still subject to "do as we say or die".
If an individual is free, the situation is the opposite: "don't try to attack me and we both live". I'll note that the USA is/was supposed to be a free nation but is a defacto slave nation according to its (almost entirely criminal) government.
(Score: 2) by unzombied on Sunday November 22 2015, @09:26PM