Posted on 10/14/2015 6:35:15 PM PDT by markomalley
In Tuesday night’s Democratic presidential debate on CNN, Sen. Bernie Sanders said he was going to explain to Americans what democratic socialism is.
Moderator Anderson Cooper asked: “Senator Sanders, a Gallup poll says half the country would not put a socialist in the White House. You call yourself a democratic socialist. How can any kind of socialist win a general election in the United States?
Sanders replied: “Well, we're going to win because first we're going to explain what democratic socialism is. And what democratic socialism is about is saying that it is immoral and wrong that the top one-tenth of 1 percent in this country own almost 90 percent--own almost as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent. That it is wrong, today--in a rigged economy--that 57 percent of all new income is going to the top 1 percent.
“That when you look around the world, you see every other major country providing health care to all people as a right, except the United States. You see every other major country saying to moms that when you have a baby, we are not going to separate you from your newborn baby, because we are going to have medical and family paid leave, like every other country on Earth.
“Those are some of the principles that I believe in, and I think we should look to countries like Denmark, like Sweden and Norway, and learn from what they have accomplished for their working people.”
Shortly later, Cooper asked Sanders: “You don't consider yourself a capitalist, though?”
Sanders replied: “Do I consider myself part of the casino capitalist process by which so few have so much and so many have so little by which Wall Street's greed and recklessness wrecked this economy? No, I don't. I believe in a society where all people do well. Not just a handful of billionaires.”
I see your comments around a bit. Frankly don’t agree with many of them. We have even gotten crossways a few times.
But you NAILED this one!!!
Well done, Sir.
And why THIS TIME its not going to be a total failure like all the times previous!
Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850)
Economic Harmonies - Chapter 23
He’ll be giving due credit to all the “Masters of the Craft,” right?
Pol Pot
Mao Tse Tung
Hugo Chavez
Bill Klintoon
Barack Obama
Stalin, et.al.
Lotta lawyers in that 1/10 of 1 percent bernie.
Guess why they will never actually do anything about this?
and, I’LL bet he lives in a pretty nice home and drives a very nice car and probably has illegals tending to his expansive lawns and gardens. Can anyone find out?
Democratic socialism is like National Socialism, without the snappy uniforms and stirring music...
Unless one of the Rinos gets the nomination, the GOP will be discussing what it means, too, Bernie. Someone get over to Venezuela quick. Find some refugees who made it here to tell the true story!
I met a girl from there at the Post Office, and her parents and grandparents were stuck in Venezuela. They were upper middle class before socialism. Now they are in poverty. She was at the post office mailing them necessary items, including canned food, rice and beans. She had four boxes. Students at her school gave her money to buy the stuff for her family. There was no guarantee her family would even get the boxes because everything gets stolen. We said a prayer together.
UHMMMM, Lemme guess..it was called, err what was it called? OH YA! THE NAZI PARTY.
Which BTW, allowed some free capitalist companies to exist because even MARX admitted that socialism can not survive without capitalism, as long as it was THEIR capitalism...
I.E. Krupp steel.
“I see your comments around a bit. Frankly don’t agree with many of them. “
It’s a big club. Fortunately you all have the God given right to be wrong ;)
And thats exactly the reason I say Cage Theory is existential. We put them in cages or they kill us.
History isn’t to be ignored.
LOL
Democratic socialism - when the state bribes enough people to vote to steal your stuff.
Bolshevism with a little patience..
Thanks, Bernie, not necessary.
The Soviet Union, PRC, Cuba, and Vietnam have already filled in the blanks.
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