Independents don't win elections so he *has to* run as a democrat (his values/ideology line up more with democrats than republicans)
Bernie Sanders opponents in 2020:
democrats
republicans
the entire political and corporate establishment
wealthy class/donor class
corporations
corporate media (cnn, msnbc, fox, cbs, etc. etc.)
Bernie Sanders is a social democrat (he believes in running the country more like the rest of the first world instead of an ultra right laissez-faire economic system that favors those who are already in power). He's a populist.
His ideology:
- more time off/higher wages (like they do in much of europe -- guaranteed paid time off)
- fighting income inequality -- taxing the fvck out of the wealthy and corporations
- more social programs for the down trodden, unlucky, the poor, etc.
- green new deal to combat climate change (e.g. getting rid of old money in dirty energy and replacing it with green new energy)
- he believes in a jobs guarantee
- free public college
- taking on the health insurance industry with medicare for all (free healthcare at the point of service for ALL as a human right -- point blank no caveats)
- raising the minimum wage to $15/hour
- abolishing private prisons
- legalizing and taxing drugs
- reforming the justice system (reducing the prison population and pardoning non violent criminals)
- demilitarizing the police
- getting money out of politics/restoring democracy
He's a peoples politician.
Fvck the DNC .. they are a party that fronts as a "people's party" but they take huge sums of money from the rich and powerful and corporations and then turn around and do their bidding at the expense of everyone else. Kamala Harris, Corey Booker, Joe Bidden, Hillary Clinton, Amy Klobuchar all fall into this category. That's how its been in washington since the 1980s (obama included).
The United States is the richest country in the history of the world but most people don't know it/feel it/see it in their daily lives because of a rigged system that has all of the money going to the top 1%.
Bernie Sanders is antithetical to all of this BS and is all about giving power back to the common folk and taking on the wealthy class and the rest of the political establishment.