He's a bit of a kook.
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Bernard "Bernie" Sanders (born September 8, 1941) is an American politician. He is the junior United States Senator from Vermont and has announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination in the 2016 presidential election.
An independent politician since 1979, Sanders is a self-described democratic socialist[1][2][3][4] who favors the creation of employee-owned cooperative enterprises[5][6] and has praised Scandinavian-style social democracy.[7][8][9] He caucuses with the Democratic Party and is counted as a Democrat for purposes of committee assignments. Since January 2015, Sanders has been the ranking Democratic member on the Senate Budget Committee.[10] He is also associated with the Vermont Progressive Party and was a member of the Liberty Union Party from 1971 to 1979
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