Posted on 02/26/2020 5:02:41 AM PST by karpov
According to CNN, Bernie Sanders “has been consistent for 40 years.” Some find this reassuring. Bernie is not a finger-in-the-wind politician who tacks this way or that depending upon what’s popular. On the other hand, if someone has never changed his mind throughout 78 years of life, it suggests ideological rigidity and imperviousness to evidence, not high principle.
Why make a fuss about Bernie’s past praise of Communist dictatorships? After all, the Cold War ended three decades ago, and a would-be President Sanders cannot exactly surrender to the Soviet Union.
It’s a moral issue. Sanders was not a liberal during the Cold War, i.e. someone who favored arms control, peace talks, and opposed support for anti-Communist movements. He was an outright Communist sympathizer, meaning he was always willing to overlook or excuse the crimes of regimes like Cuba and Nicaragua; always ready to suggest that only American hostility forced them to, among other things, arrest their opposition, expel priests, and dispense with elections.
Good ol’ consistent Bernie reprised one of the greatest hits of the pro-Castro Left last week on 60 Minutes. When Anderson Cooper pressed the senator by noting that Castro imprisoned a lot of dissidents, Sanders said he condemned such things. But even that grudging acknowledgment rankled the old socialist, who then rushed to add, “When Fidel Castro came into office, you know what he did? He had a massive literacy program. Is that a bad thing?”
Actually, the first thing Castro did upon seizing power (note Sanders’s whitewashing term “came into office”) was to march 600 of Fulgencio Batista’s supporters into two of the island’s largest prisons, La Cabana and Santa Clara. Over the next five months, after rigged trials, they were shot. Some “trials” amounted to public spectacles.
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Pro-DNC agitprop from the National NeverTrump Review
Has Sanders not been a communist sympathizer his whole life?
‘Sympathizer’.
‘Was’
Ask him to account for the 100,000,000 dead from global Communism in the 20th century.
He’s as awful as a neonazi and much more powerful.
There fixed it...
That the DNC Party has not denounced this man speaks volumes.
When Democrat Klansmen and neonazis run as Republicans party officials do all they can to object to these candidacies.
The last prominent one being a neonazi who put his name in the GOP slot in a race for an uncontested Democrat’s seat.
He would reply, "But they had great literacy programs!"
Yellow journalism is so much easier on the eyes
Sander is not a sympathizer. He’s an operative. He’s been waiting patiently for decades until the populace has been sufficiently brainwashed. He feels that now is the time. Hopefully he’s not successful this time but down the road somebody is going to finalize the deal for example an AOC type. If that happens there will be no other choice but to literally fight to prevent their takeover.
Senator McCarty and the Birchers will be vindicated.
McCarthy
Robert C. Byrd, D-WVA
No, he hasn’t been. The word sympathizer indicates that he has sympathy an appreciation for communists and communism; in his case, he is one.
Sanders is a typical self-convinced arrogant liberal - who preys upon youth.
So was Biden.
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