Posted on 03/11/2016 6:28:34 PM PST by Sean_Anthony
There is certainly rampant poverty among Democrats today, a poverty of fresh thinking.
Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders is quite comfortable pandering for votes, regardless of the facts. At a recent Democrat presidential debate, Sanders made the outlandish claim that “when you’re white, you don’t know what it’s like to be living in a ghetto; you don’t know what it’s like to be poor.”
This is incredibly ironic because Sanders, a committed socialist, was relatively poor until the age of 40. He was never able to earn an adequate living until he started in politics. Before he entered elective office, Sanders engaged in carpentry and other odd jobs, drove an old Volkswagen Beetle and lived on public assistance.
Once he started getting elected to office in Vermont, Sanders obviously forgot his impoverished roots. However, Sanders is not the only white person who has had to deal with poverty. In fact, today, according to the latest U.S. Census data, all of the poorest counties in the country have an overwhelmingly white population, at least 95%. According to Peter Hasson of the Daily Caller, “The nation’s poorest county, Owsley, Kentucky, is more than 98% white, and it’s only getting poorer.”
Sounds like another community organizer.
Normally, you would look at the seats involved and surmise that it is an uphill battle for conservatives. But, with withering democrat enthusiasm, it may provide unanticipated wins as well...hopefully with “true” conservatives.
The problem is, the Stupid Party isn’t taking Sanders seriously. They should be running ads about the evils of socialism.
Showing Bernie knows nothing of the poor whites in Appalachia - who are more poor than most “poor” blacks in the ghettos.....
I knew fringe lunatic socialists like Bernie back in my college days. They are all cut from the same mold. If you met one, you met them all.
If Bernie gets into the Oval Office, we’ll have elected two men to run the country in a row that never ran anything but their mouths.
3 points!
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