Posted on 09/15/2015 6:58:10 PM PDT by The Looking Spoon
If you want to know how much of a dumb old kook Bernie Sanders is look no further than "Bullshit from Bernie" by Powerline's John Hinderacker. I've been following that blog off and on for years, and I've never seen any of their contributors use profanity in any capacity (maybe I don't follow closely enough) to describe any liberal loony tune.
We are almost done with the era of Obama and it took white haired socialist anti-Hillary hipster voodoo doll of a presidential candidate to do it.
Why has Bernie Sanders become a thing? The same reason Obama became a thing. 20-something college kids and the hipster alumni with degrees in Belly Lint Studies who serve them coffee are all in a rush to "feel the Bern" before it's cool.
The irony of this is that in the name of true social justice it should never be cool.
The generation that swooned for Obama, and the kids who have come of age since then are a generation that is simultaneously the most narcissistic and the most given over to group think of anyone who has come before them.
That's at the core of what hipsters and their pervasive mentality are. Just a bunch of young people who both consciously and mindlessly rebel against whatever they believe is normal in an effort to be shining and glimmering islands of unparalleled uniqueness in the vast indiscernible sea of mankind via the clothes they wear, the music they listen to, and the politicians they support.
Their narcissism insulates them from ever realizing 1. How silly and stupid they look and sound and 2. The ironic conformity of a culture of non-conformists who agree about what they're not conforming to.
For almost 16 years now it has been "understood" that Hillary Clinton gets to have a turn at the throne of power the Oval Office of a temple of leftist Doom Democratic run White House. The only problem with that is a bunch of kids who were raised to believe participation ribbons are as good or better than a blue one (because everyone wants that color) and are named after fruits, animals, and naturally occurring phenomena, except the spelling contains "y" where those conformists would put an "i" (examples include Robyn, Sunshyne, and Vomyt) have something to say about that.
Naturally, through no fault of their own really, they have been brainwashed to demand the glory and reward of unique achievement without ever having had to earn it. So it's no wonder at all that a socialist they've been told to pay no attention to would win their support.
At least Obama made sense. If "superficially different" is the only thing that matters to young liberals then Obama really was their guy over an older, harder to look at and less pleasant sounding known quantity like Hillary.
But now, it seems the pendulum has swung back to "old white guy"...it's probably the wanna be Doc Brown hair...
^ If you find this "heart-warming" and you're not a stoned 22 year-old then seek medical attention...
As the Powerline link points out (here again for your convenience), Bernie says a lot of things that sound nice to liberals, but the only meat on those bones have been picked off by the abject failures that has been his socialist/communist/leftist ideology for the last 100 years. Only an idiot who is totally unarmed with knowledge of history or the most rudimentary lessons of economics would listen to his rhetoric and think that any of it would have an ounce of merit.
Luckily, he's got college students and the art history degrees who barista them, educated by previous generations of the Walking Un-Read ready to feed on the brains of society's makers, because they don't have any of their own.
This overblown hipster fad will/should collapse on itself at some point. That said, the fact his candidacy wasn't DOA to begin with is ominous for the future of American politics where the liberal wing is ruled know-nothing socialists motivated to do what sounds cool instead of what IS right. Not that liberals ever cared about what's right in the first place, I must be in a giving mood if they're getting that much credit.
He has Clinton and her Clintonistas soiling their Huggies. LOL! A kink in the klinton koronation.
Sanders is the longest-serving independent in U.S. congressional history. A self-described democratic socialist,[6][7][8][9] he favors policies similar to those of social democratic parties in Europe, particularly those instituted by the Nordic countries.[10][11][12]
http://senate.ontheissues.org/Senate/Bernie_Sanders.htm#Homeland_Security
Bernie Sanders on Homeland Security
[Excerpts]
Voted NO on extending the PATRIOT Act’s roving wiretaps. (Feb 2011)
Voted YES on requiring FISA court warrant to monitor US-to-foreign calls. (Feb 2008)
Voted NO on removing need for FISA warrant for wiretapping abroad. (Aug 2007)
Voted YES on limiting soldiers’ deployment to 12 months. (Jul 2007)
Voted YES on implementing the 9/11 Commission report. (Mar 2007)
Voted NO on allowing electronic surveillance without a warrant. (Sep 2006)
Voted NO on adopting the recommendations of the 9/11 Commission. (Oct 2004)
Voted YES on permitting commercial airline pilots to carry guns. (Jul 2002)
Address abuses of electronic monitoring in the workplace. (Apr 1993) [...]
http://senate.ontheissues.org/Senate/Bernie_Sanders.htm#Free_Trade
Bernie Sanders on Free Trade
Click here for 14 full quotes on Free Trade OR background on Free Trade.
End disastrous NAFTA, CAFTA, and PNTR with China. (Mar 2015)
Stop TPP, the Trans-Pacific Partnership. (Jan 2015)
Voted NO on promoting free trade with Peru. (Dec 2007)
Voted NO on implementing CAFTA, Central America Free Trade. (Jul 2005)
Voted NO on implementing US-Australia Free Trade Agreement. (Jul 2004)
Voted NO on implementing US-Singapore free trade agreement. (Jul 2003)
Voted NO on implementing free trade agreement with Chile. (Jul 2003)
Voted YES on withdrawing from the WTO. (Jun 2000)
Voted NO on ‘Fast Track’ authority for trade agreements. (Sep 1998)
Rated 33% by CATO, indicating a mixed record on trade issues. (Dec 2002)
Extend trade restrictions on Burma to promote democracy. (Jun 2007)
Review free trade agreements biennially for rights violation. (Jun 2009)
Impose tariffs against countries which manipulate currency. (Feb 2011)
No MFN for China; condition trade on human rights. (Nov 1999)
On the rest, pretty much socialist/Democrat.
The Bernie-burns-out death watch, maybe when it happens, he’ll land on top of Hillary and we’ll have two wiped off the political map.
Bernie Sanders....Because long, yellow teeth are so sexy.
Sanders and Trump share one thing.
People are pissed off at the Bush/Clinton uniparty
Really great essay, linking to a good article.
You’ve got some great catch-phrases in there ... Cracked me up!
Hope this gets published somewhere ~
grow up
Because “Feel the Bern” is the creepiest campaign slogan ever.
“Hello, young lady - would you like to ‘Feel the Bern?;”
You know that you're getting old when Marty McFly is due to arrive in Brown's time machine next month after he travelled from the present in 1985 to the distant future of October 21, 2015.
Yep, my liberal teaching colleague already told me he’s for Bernie Sanders [eye roll}. All I could say in reply was, “Well, I’m not.” It’s a waste of time arguing with a true libtard.
Yep. Well said. ;-)
Oh crap, I agree with a bunch of that.
It really is a waste of time though. Since politics is as close religion as the left ever gets they tend to operate on faith over reason. That’s why the failures and fallacies of liberal thought never phase them.
I guess this is a natual consequence of the “extended childhood” wherein (many) take 6 years or more to complete a bachelors degree and then graduate to Mom & Dad’s basement and a job at Starbucks. They don’t date, but rather run in packs. It all feeds the group-think.
We were the same way when we were that age, but the sheer length of this period now has got todays “youths” participating in this dynamic until they are practically 30. They don’t begin to decompress until then, whereas we were already working in meaningful jobs with older people and dealing with the expectations of “the real world”.
That’s true. My wife and I were the first among our friends to get married by a few years. Same with having kids. I worked with a lot of people who are older than me and are just now getting into those parts of their life (I had nearly a decade on them).
By their standards I was early, by the standards of my parents generation we were “right on time” at best...probably a little late to the game.
He makes Howard dean look mainstream. What a gift.
I bet Bill Clinton is totally envious of that. Biden too.
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