Despite how much Chris Matthews tried to paint Bernie Sanders as an anti-capital "Socialist" ... as someone who is who is just trying to "soak the Rich" ... as someone who just using "Classism, which used to be frown upon"
-- despite Matthews 1-dimensional caricature, Bernie had a much more nuanced answer about "casino" capitalism vs "democratic" socialism ... than Matthews is willing to let on:
[...]-- The CNN Democratic debate transcript, annotated
SANDERS: Well, first of all, let's look at the facts. The facts that are very simple. Republicans win when there is a low voter turnout, and that is what happened last November.Sixty-three percent of the American people didn't vote, Anderson. Eighty percent of young people didn't vote. We are bringing out huge turnouts, and creating excitement all over this country.
Democrats at the White House on down will win, when there is excitement and a large voter turnout, and that is what this campaign is doing.
COOPER: You don't consider yourself a capitalist, though?
SANDERS: Do I consider myself part of the casino capitalist process by which so few have so much and so many have so little by which Wall Street's greed and recklessness wrecked this economy? No, I don't.
I believe in a society where all people do well. Not just a handful of billionaires.
(APPLAUSE)
COOPER: Just let me just be clear. Is there anybody else on the stage who is not a capitalist?
CLINTON: Well, let me just follow-up on that, Anderson, because when I think about capitalism, I think about all the small businesses that were started because we have the opportunity and the freedom in our country for people to do that and to make a good living for themselves and their families.
And I don't think we should confuse what we have to do every so often in America, which is save capitalism from itself. And I think what Senator Sanders is saying certainly makes sense in the terms of the inequality that we have.
But we are not Denmark. I love Denmark. We are the United States of America. And it's our job to rein in the excesses of capitalism so that it doesn't run amok and doesn't cause the kind of inequities we're seeing in our economic system.
But we would be making a grave mistake to turn our backs on what built the greatest middle class in the history...
COOPER: Senator Sanders?
CLINTON: ... of the world.
(APPLAUSE)
SANDERS: I think everybody is in agreement that we are a great entrepreneurial nation. We have got to encourage that. Of course, we have to support small and medium-sized businesses.
But you can have all of the growth that you want and it doesn't mean anything if all of the new income and wealth is going to the top 1 percent. So what we need to do is support small and medium-sized businesses, the backbone of our economy, but we have to make sure that every family in this country gets a fair shake...
COOPER: We're going to get...
SANDERS: ... not just for billionaires.
by Washington Post -- Oct 13, 2015
and then there is this:
Bernie Sanders causes searches for 'socialism' to spike on Merriam-Webster
Bernie Sanders's assertion he is a democratic socialist causes searchs for "socialism" to spike on American online dictionary
by telegraph.co.uk -- Oct 13, 2015
Perhaps, Mr Matthews should be checking the dictionary as well?
Or review the last few decades where we've had of "Capitalism on Steroids" and see how well that has worked out for us ... instead reflexively just attacking the "Socialist" on the Debate stage.