Carl Sagan, who spent his career in search of extraterrestrial intelligence, was apparently hard-pressed to find it here on Earth.The famed astronomer made a case for socialism in a 1989 interview on CNN with billionaire television mogul Ted Turner when asked simply, “Are you a socialist?” A clip of their exchange has gone viral on Twitter with more than 100,000 likes and more than 3 million views since Sunday night.
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