Bernie Sanders delivered his long-awaited speech advocating for democratic socialism in America. He pointed to the example of FDR’s New Deal which was part of a massive social movement to secure rights for workers against the corporate/owner class. Ana Kasparian (The Point), John Iadarola (Think Tank), and Jimmy Dore (The Jimmy Dore Show Podcast), hosts of the The Young Turks, break it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.

“In a speech at Georgetown University on Thursday afternoon, Sen. Bernie Sanders, the independent from Vermont who’s seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, did something unprecedented for a major candidate: He made the case for democratic socialism.

The address, which Sanders wrote himself, had been in the works for weeks, and in it Sanders embraced a label that has most often been used to attack him. (At the first Democratic presidential debate last month, front-runner Hillary Clinton distanced herself from Sanders’ “democratic socialist” views.) At times, this address sounded much like Sanders’ stump speech: He railed against Wall Street, the “ruling class,” and the billionaire Koch brothers. But he tied those stances to an ideology that he contended was an essential part of the United States’ heritage.”*

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