The name Bernie Sanders is one rife with controversy. To some in America's left wing he is the patriarch of all the ideas they hold dear, and in the eyes of conservatives he is the embodiment of a liberal future that goes against nearly every one of their core beliefs. Yet who is Bernie Sanders? What does he stand for? And what is the future of the internet's most popular candidate?

Early life

Bernie Sanders was born in New York and lived in what was described as a "secular Jewish neig...