Yet he has repeatedly and consistently supported policies which have done exactly what he claims to be against - by design. Large corporations are encouraged to merge by the policies to absorb the costs and survive them, squelching out other smaller competitors who either have to sell out to them or just go out of business. Private physician practices? Dying out and becoming part of corporations. Nonprofits being squeezed out to corporate interests. Sanders again and again has supported big government policies causing all of these problems that he rails against - promising that if we just give him even more control over our lives and wealth he'll make things better - and then the process continues to repeat until finally he has it all.
“The 10 PLANKS stated in the Communist Manifesto and some of their American counterparts are:
1. Abolition of private property and the application of all rents of land to public purposes.
2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.
3. Abolition of all rights of inheritance.
4. Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels
5. Centralization of credit in the hands of the state, by means of a national bank with State capital and an exclusive monopoly.
6. Centralization of the means of communications and transportation in the hands of the State.
7. Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the state, the bringing into cultivation of waste lands, and the improvement of the soil generally in accordance with a common plan.
8. Equal liability of all to labor. Establishment of industrial armies, especially for agriculture.
9. Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries, gradual abolition of the distinction between town and country, by a more equitable distribution of population over the country.
10. Free education for all children in public schools. Abolition of children’s factory labor in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production.”