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Bernie Sanders in 1981: "No, I am not a Capitalist" (Today Show)
YouTube ^ | 12/29/2019 | Equals Four Media

Posted on 12/29/2019 4:59:20 PM PST by Its All Over Except ...

In a 1981 interview on Today with Phil Donahue, a 39 year old Bernie Sanders says he is "not a capitalist." Sanders had just won his first term as Mayor of Burlington, Vermont.

In explaining his case for Socialism he says, "Do I believe the profit motive is fundamental to human nature? The answer is no. I think the spirit of cooperation - that you and I can work together is better than compete against each other and destroy each other."

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To: frank ballenger

I’ll take his vacation home on North Hero Island.


21 posted on 12/29/2019 6:09:02 PM PST by EvilCapitalist (If it takes a bloodbath, let's get it over with. No more appeasement. -Ronald Reagan)
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To: dowcaet

I knew Bernie well before he was elected mayor by a bunch of drugged up out-of-staters at the University of VT. He was a filthy hippy, sleeping on park benches.

That election was another example where Republicans screwed themselves by splitting the vote among three candidates. Ever since then, we’ve been a magnet for all the whack jobs from NY, MA, NJ, CT, DE, RI and CA.


22 posted on 12/29/2019 6:09:40 PM PST by GreyHoundSailor
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To: GreyHoundSailor

I grew up in Connecticut and I had an uncle who lived in Burlington. We used to go up there every summer in the seventies and eighties, and enjoyed going to the beaches and fishing along Lake Champlain. It truly is a beautiful state despite its far left politics.


23 posted on 12/29/2019 6:23:04 PM PST by dowcaet
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To: cgbg

Bernie is in favor of bank fraud—when it is done by his wife.

Some pigs are more equal than others.

yup


24 posted on 12/29/2019 6:26:08 PM PST by samtheman (U.S. out of the U.N. --- U.N. out of the U.S.)
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To: dowcaet

I remember seeing people catching some big sturgeon in the lake. I truly enjoyed summers in Vermont.


25 posted on 12/29/2019 6:26:19 PM PST by dowcaet
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To: Its All Over Except ...
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26 posted on 12/29/2019 6:37:04 PM PST by CaliforniaCraftBeer
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To: Its All Over Except ...

As if Socialists don’t try to destroy people.


27 posted on 12/29/2019 6:47:38 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Recall that unqualified Hillary Clinton sat on the board of Wal-Mart when Bill Clinton was governor)
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To: Its All Over Except ...

SPJNK.


28 posted on 12/29/2019 6:51:48 PM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: EvilCapitalist
I’ll take his vacation home on North Hero Island.

It's yours. You got dibs for asking first.

Fairness, equality and socialism. How can Bernie say no?

29 posted on 12/29/2019 6:56:30 PM PST by frank ballenger (End vote fraud & harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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To: Its All Over Except ...

Now, Bernie, competition does not necessarily “destroy” anybody. It makes two, or more, parties stronger, as they play up their strengths and the management keeps its head in the game. The objective is not to “win” and crush the competition, it is to prove, on a daily basis, that you can do something positive for the potential customer base.


30 posted on 12/29/2019 7:06:19 PM PST by alloysteel (Very willful ignorance and pretense at moral authority are both roadblocks to honest dialogue.)
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To: dowcaet

It was much different in the 60’s and 70’s - when common sense prevailed. Then the progressives started coming and the courts finished us off. I haven’t given up yet, but I live in an area where neighbors are close friends and criminals become either ‘missing persons’ or, out of respect for their families, homeless.


31 posted on 12/29/2019 7:44:24 PM PST by GreyHoundSailor
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To: Stosh

I don’t understand how a guy making only $175,000 a year can afford the taxes, upkeep and staff to care for (3) Three houses..../S


32 posted on 12/29/2019 7:51:03 PM PST by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BB0ndRzaz2o)
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To: alloysteel; V K Lee; HarleyLady27; rlmorel
The objective [of competition] is not to “win” and crush the competition, it is to prove, on a daily basis, that you can do something positive for the potential customer base.

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Well said, alloysteel.

And just as Bernie decries Capitalist competition, he's fiercely competitive himself.  Of course, we should never accuse Bernie, the Millionaire-Hippie-Commie of being inconsistent. /sarc

To Lefties, "competition" is a dirty word, much like the other hated word, "corporation".

But a corporation is a cooperation of people whose self-interests align -- for the benefit of themselves, the shareholders, and society.

And even if a cooperation should go out of business, it's not as if the employees are crushed.  They simply need to find alternative employment. 

And as the failed company goes to its grave, the unregulated magic of market supply and demand frees up human resources for other companies to grow and better serve what the public wants to buy -- as that evolves from useless Paul Krugman economics books... to Hello Kitty necessities.


33 posted on 12/29/2019 9:00:38 PM PST by poconopundit (Joe Biden has long been the Senate's court jester. He's 24/7 malarkey and more corrupt than Hunter.)
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To: Its All Over Except ...

34 posted on 12/30/2019 12:10:48 AM PST by Eleutheria5 ("SHUT UP!" he explained)
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To: Its All Over Except ...

Ron Kubi’s fond of calling the DNC the “Democratic branch of the capitalist party”. Lie down with dogs, wake up with fleas.


35 posted on 12/30/2019 12:19:26 AM PST by Eleutheria5 ("SHUT UP!" he explained)
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To: Its All Over Except ...

Nobody cares. Immigration and demographic change pose more of a threat than socialism ever has.


36 posted on 12/30/2019 6:15:29 AM PST by George Rand (-- I can't befriend liberals because I won't befriend ignorance --)
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To: Its All Over Except ...

In another interview,Breadline Bernie stated that he was NOT going bald,he was just losing his hair.


37 posted on 12/30/2019 6:43:23 AM PST by 4yearlurker (A great big Merry Christmas!!)
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To: 4yearlurker

Actually, Bernie is a Capitalist. He just believes the State should control the Capital.

What he is not, is a believer in Free Enterprise.


38 posted on 12/30/2019 6:45:16 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator
According to Websters:

capitalism noun
cap·​i·​tal·​ism | \ ˈka-pə-tə-ˌliz-əm , ˈkap-tə- \ Definition of capitalism
: an economic system characterized by private or corporate ownership of capital goods, by investments that are determined by private decision, and by prices, production, and the distribution of goods that are determined mainly by competition in a free market

39 posted on 12/30/2019 10:16:14 AM PST by A Navy Vet (I'm not Islamophobic - I'm Islamonauseous. Also LGBTQxyz nauseous.)
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