A real socialist movement in the USA can easily win over the vast majority of working class Americans of all races and ethnic groups. Also a real socialist movement can with some effort win over a majority of the nation's technical and scientific elite no matter how affluent. The real intellectual elite - scientists like Albert Einstein, philosophers like Bertrand Russell , novelists like Upton Sinclair , writers like Irving Howe - have for more than a century shown an affinity for a more rational socio-economic system than " free market " capitalism . An energized socialist movement can triumph over the capitalist TWO PARTY SYSTEM in the United States. Still Bernie could be the Moses that leads the American working class AND the American middle class ( now in INFLATION free fall ) out of the phony " friend of labor " Democratic Party. But I think whatever real " socialist " remains in Bernie Sanders has withered away to dust.