I posted this in my other thread, but since everyone's perched here I thought I'd copy and paste this here
Retro or any other history major can correct me on this, but one of the main difference between Hilary (reform or progressive liberal), and Bernie Sanders (social democrat), is that:
Reform/Progressive Liberalism: Revolves around the idea of
"equality of opportunities", where instead of the top 1% controlling the 99% of the opportunities, per se, everyone in one country will have access to these opportunities, such as health care, education and such. The problem with this saying of "equal opportunities" is that even though everyone has access to these opportunities, only the rich and wealthy can enjoy these opportunities because they have better means of obtaining them, such as a reduced cost in medicine which may cost only $50 to them, but to the lower income people who have no stable source of income, will think $50 is still very expensive. So even though both economic division will have the same access to the same thing, one with the better leverage will often and most likely enjoy and benefit from these opportunities better than the ones that don't have these means.
Social Democracy: revolves around the idea of
"equality of conditions", where it takes the same principle of reform liberalism, but instead of giving equal access to these people, they're given equal conditions instead. So for example, the government takes have $100 from the 1%, and 10 people to give it to, "equality of conditions" will mean that 10 people will get equal $10 each, as oppose to what a reform liberalism, or even classical liberalism and capitalism in general. The problem with this is that even though everyone has been granted equal conditions to all the people, it's necessarily not a good thing if we look at it on a bigger picture. Some reasons are practicalilty and ethics. For example, a druggie, and a lazy bum who does nothing but complain all day in his mother's basement, will have the same amount, or shall I say same worth of conditions and access to health care, education, and other grants as someone who's working 60-80 hours a week, living paycheck to paycheck and working so hard just to get by.
Otherwise, I thought it was a good answer. I don't find him unelectable like some people are saying.
