The Real Debate Last Night Was Between Democratic Socialism and Casino Capitalism [View all]

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 Cooper also interrupted, with a bit of perspective. “Denmark is a country that has a population of 5.6 million people. The question is really about electability here, and that’s what I’m trying to get at,” said the CNN host, who suggested that “the Republican attack ad against you in a general election—it writes itself. You supported the Sandinistas in Nicaragua. You honeymooned in the Soviet Union. And just this weekend, you said you’re not a capitalist.”

Putting on the pundit hat, Anderson asked, “Doesn’t… that ad write itself?”

Unfazed, Sanders said, “Well, first of all, let’s look at the facts—the facts that are very simple. Republicans win when there is a low voter turnout, and that is what happened last November. Sixty-three percent of the American people didn’t vote, Anderson. Eighty percent of young people didn’t vote. We are bringing out huge turnouts, and creating excitement all over this country.

The senator argued that pushing the limits of the debate has the potential to bring new voters into the process: “Democrats at the White House on down will win, when there is excitement and a large voter turnout, and that is what this campaign is doing.”

Cooper asked Sanders: “You don’t consider yourself a capitalist, though?”

“Do I consider myself part of the casino capitalist process by which so few have so much and so many have so little by which Wall Street’s greed and recklessness wrecked this economy?” replied the senator. “No, I don’t. I believe in a society where all people do well. Not just a handful of billionaires.”