Will Bernie Sanders be the first socialist in the U.S. Senate? Will it matter?

I thought I’d bump this, just because Sanders won his Vermont Senate seat. Implications?

But, on reviewing the thread, I’m willing to bet a penny some mod will lock it just because one poster in it, Liberal, is no longer an SDMB member and thus cannot respond to any further posts.

Second. Worst. Board. Policy. Ever.

(The very worst being the policy of flushing banned posters’ threads down the memory whole so the rest of us cannot use them even for reference.)