BBC News has a portrait of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, the first self-described socialist ever to sit in the US Senate.
"The government should make sure people who work 40 hours a week do not live in poverty," the radical observed. You'd think that the Christian Right, which often preaches about the value of hard work, would agree.
One of his pet topics is America's dysfunctional health care system. Sen. Sanders noted that the US spends three times as much per capita as the United Kingdom, where health care is universal. 48 million Americans have no health coverage, while the entire population of England is about 51 million.
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Hard work is not enough for the far right. You have to deserve to be treated well and you have to have God's favor.
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