On the surface, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders appear to have similar positions. Both say they will make education more affordable for all. Both say they will work toward health care for all. And both say they want to reform the criminal justice system. Indeed they appear to have similar policy objectives.

Under the surface, there is significant difference between the ways Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders would tackle these problems. Sanders supports a single-payer health-care system while Clinton wants to expand the ACA; Clinton wants to make college debt free while Sanders wants to make state colleges and universities tuition free; Sanders would abolish private prisons while Hillary has only recently taken this position (and stopped accepting campaign contributions from such corporations and their lobbyists). Sanders has taken no campaign contributions from corporate America or financial institutions and has no super PAC while Clinton and her super PACs have been well financed by corporate America and Wall Street.

Sanders is consistently on the side of democracy over privatization while Clinton is regularly on the side of corporations over the interests of the people. This fundamental difference means there is a wide chasm between Clinton and Sanders on the political spectrum, a much bigger difference than there is between Clinton and the Republicans.

Sanders is not just to the left of Clinton, he’s well to the left (and has staunchly held those positions for decades); Clinton isn’t the progressive she would like Democrats to believe she is. “You know, I get accused of being kind of moderate and center,” Clinton told an audience in Ohio, “I plead guilty.”

Government should be an equalizing force, a place where people come together and work together, and no one gets left behind, an instrument for good, not a plaything of the rich. Sanders shares this democratic view of government. The choice for the people of the United Stated is clear: Bernie Sanders.