DLet's face it: the treatment received by Bernie Sanders in the main media in the United States and Europe is unfair and dangerous. Almost everywhere on the main networks and in the major newspapers, we read that candidate Sanders would be an "extremist", and that only a "centrist" candidate like Biden could win against Trump. This biased and unscrupulous treatment is all the more regrettable when a closer examination of the facts suggests that only a programmatic renewal of the type proposed by Sanders could ultimately cure American democracy of the unequal evils which undermine it and the electoral disaffection of the popular classes.
Let's start with the program. To say emphatically, as Sanders does, that universal public health insurance would provide more effective and less costly care for the people of the United States than the current private and hyper-egalitarian system is not "extremist" talk. On the contrary, it is an assertion perfectly well documented by numerous researches and international comparisons. In these times when everyone deplores the rise of "fake news", it is healthy that some candidates rely on established facts and go beyond the tactical language.
"The prosperity of the United States was supported in the XXe century on the educational advance of the country on Europe and on a certain equality in the matter "
Likewise, Sanders is right when he proposes massive public investment in education and public universities. Historically, the prosperity of the United States was supported in the XXe century on the educational advance of the country on Europe and on a certain equality in the matter, and certainly not on the sacralization of the inequality and the accumulation of unlimited fortunes that Reagan wanted to impose as an alternative model in the 1980s. The failure of this Reagan break is now evident, with a halving of the growth of national income per capita and an unprecedented rise in inequality. Sanders simply proposes to return to the sources of the country's development model: a very wide dissemination of education.
Sanders also proposes to sharply raise the level of the minimum wage (a policy in which the United States has long been the world leader) and to draw inspiration from the experiences of co-management and voting rights for employees on the boards of directors of companies. successfully applied in Germany and Sweden for decades. In general, Sanders' proposals make him a pragmatic social democrat, trying to make the most of the experiences available, and in no way a "radical".
