I don't know if I'm ready to compare Bernie to Socrates.
As the author points out, all of Bernie's big plans require enormous tax increases. Now, as a Democrat, I don't really have a problem with increasing taxes here and there to accomplish important goals. But to our Republican controlled congress the only important goal is to decrease taxes. The irresistable force would meet the immovable object and while there might be a lot of grunting and groaning gong on from both sides of the aisle the result would essentially be an enormous clash of ideologies and a stalemate of Biblical proportions.
But from the looks of things we'll never see it happen anyway and so all this chatter about socialism becomes pretty much a moot point.
