Most Americans want MFA and a more robust social safety net. And while most Americans (myself included) are for a competitive, free market -- they aren't necessarily married to the idea of health care being wholly governed by market forces to where pharmaceutical companies & insurance companies engage in speculative price-jacking.

Nobody seriously looking at Bernie's proposals would conclude that we are going to have the state seize control over the means of production in a Sanders administration. That wouldn't happen in his administration - or any other administration. Further - as you stated - virtually all of the candidates running have adopted some form of the Sanders platform (at least for campaign purposes - again - because they are popular positions to take) - so it's hard to say that you think we are teetering on Socialism should Sanders become president when all of the other candidates are essentially agreeing with his core analysis (even if they have differing solutions).

Re: foreign policy - it was actually Klobuchar who recently brought up Pete's comment on using the military to thwart the cartel - but what I'm referring to is his evasive nature in fielding key foreign policy questions when asked by journalists:

https://twitter.com/SPMiles42/status/1225862264072409090?s=20

He's very careful in how vague some of his responses have been - which is indicative of someone who may have a core philosophy on the campaign trail re: foreign policy - but I still don't see him approaching this with nuance - and more/less adopting the status-quo on this (and many other) issues. But again - the "status quo" may not necessarily be bad thing for some people - and I get that.

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