sorry to bother you guys concerning the german politics i know its being annoying but im knowing nothing about it

some left wing people in america is saying bernie sander is not radical..he is so moderate he could be running on ‘christian democrat’ ticket in germany

so the point is being united state politics are being so far right wing that it is off the spectrum from german politics

but some one was writing this to me:

1. Aren’t Sanders’s healthcare ideas more comprehensive and ambitious and radical than anything you’d see in Europe?

2. And haven’t the Christian Democrats in Germany moved right so that it’s no longer plausible to (half-jokingly) suggest that Sanders could run on the Christian Democrat ticket in Germany?

so how would you be responding to these two question??

thanks and sorry again to be bother you guys concerning this

editing: o i forgot to explain sander’s ideas looking here:

https://berniesanders.com/issues/medicare-for-all/

>Key Points

>Create a Medicare for All, single-payer, national health insurance program to provide everyone in America with comprehensive health care coverage, free at the point of service.

>No networks, no premiums, no deductibles, no copays, no surprise bills.

>Medicare coverage will be expanded and improved to include: include dental, hearing, vision, and home- and community-based long-term care, in-patient and out-patient services, mental health and substance abuse treatment, reproductive and maternity care, prescription drugs, and more.

>Stop the pharmaceutical industry from ripping off the American people by making sure that no one in America pays over $200 a year for the medicine they need by capping what Americans pay for prescription drugs under Medicare for All.

3 comments

  1. 1. I got to admit I don’t know enough about the American health care system to make a good judgment. His plans might somewhat equal what we have here but depending on where the American system is coming from it could still be completely unachievable. This however is something I can’t determine to be honest it might be possible with a few changes and some changes in other areas relatively simple or not.
    2. Sanders would not be in the Christian Democrat party in Germany but more in the conservative to normal SPD range. But you have to understand that this basically still is 100% the middle of the German political spectrum and not some left fringe border with only a special group of students voting for that.

  3. >some left wing people in america is saying bernie sander is not radical..he is so moderate he could be running on ‘christian democrat’ ticket in germany

    People who say this are usually Americans that have no idea about European politics.

    Sanders would certainly not be decried as a radical here but his platform would sit well with our left-wing parties, perhaps even run to the left of some of them. I could see him as a member of the SPD (particularly its left wing) or Die Linke. Whenever I see him, I think of Oskar Lafontaine (though Sanders seems more hawkish on foreign policy in comparison).

    Even if you take into account that the CDU has a social wing (which isn’t exactly prominent or influential), it’s unlikely that he’d consider the party his political home.

    Merkel is the poster child for the alleged “left wing turn” of the CDU, but she’s still to the right of Sanders and her turn to the left was more of an appropriation of popular left-wing(ish) proposals when it was convenient.

    It’s not that the Christian Democrats (in Germany) moved significantly to the right; Sanders would have never been one of them to begin with because Germany usually has a functional socialist/social democratic party — which is where Sanders sits on the political spectrum.

    I guess the closest to Sanders’ healthcare plan is the UK’s NHS, which was created by the country’s post-war Labour government.

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