The Price Is Right for Bernie Sanders in Nevada
The Price Is Right is one of the most overtly capitalist shows on TV, a prolonged infomercial that rewards contestants for their knowledge of the prices of various name-brand consumer goods. But Marco Antonio Regil, the former longtime host of the show's Mexican counterpart Atínale Al Precio, is doing all he can to support Bernie Sanders, a socialist who rails against capitalist greed at every opportunity.
On Wednesday, Regil stopped by a small Sanders phone-banking operation to reach Spanish-speaking voters in Las Vegas. The phone bank was as much a photo-op for the media as it was a full-scale get-out-the-vote drive. Volunteers barely outnumbered reporters—hailing from the New York Times, NPR, CNN, and others—who piled into the house of Jackie Ramos, an enthusiastic Sanders supporter. While volunteers worked through their call sheets, state communications director Emilia Pablo teased them before Regil's arrival. "I know the ladies are waiting for him," she said of the handsome TV star, who has also hosted Spanish-language versions of Family Feud and Dancing With the Stars and the Miss Mexico pageant .
When Regil arrived, he huddled for photos with the fangirl volunteers, and then offered a brief speech detailing why Sanders was his candidate of choice. He described his childhood in Tijuana, when he revered the middle class in the United States that he saw lacking in Latin America. "The class divides in Latin America were one of the saddest thing I grew up experiencing," he said. But that's slipping away, he said, hence the need for Sanders. "I know what happens when income inequality and the classes start dividing, and the gap becomes so big: Poor people start struggling, they cannot survive, and they start getting violent. They start mugging other people."
But he was quick to caution that the socialism that Sanders offers isn't the same as the Latin America version put forward by politicians like Hugo Chavez or Fidel Castro. "He calls it Democratic socialism," he said. "I don't like using that word, I prefer using conscious capitalism."
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http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/02/price-right-bernie
Conscious Capitalism. I like it.
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