After weekend at Bernie's, what's not to like about socialism?

lowell sun ^ | August 16 | Peter Lucas

[luke1825]

Socialism works.

If you have any doubt about that, just ask Bernie Sanders.

He may not have made socialism great again, but he did all right for himself.

He just bought his third house, this time a $600,000, four-bedroom dacha on Lake Champlain in Vermont. It is in the town North Hero (get it?) that has a population of around 800.

[FlingWingFlyer]

This is how socialism works. The elite do great. It’s the unwashed masses who get the **** end of the stick.

[Red Badger]

Socialism works for everyone except those it’s supposed to work for.................

[txrefugee]

Just like those fighters for the Workers of the World in the old USSR, who lived in luxurious dachas while the workers lined up for blocks in hope of getting bread for their families. We’ve seen Socialism/Communism fail repeatedly and have no excuse for believing Bernie and Hillary peddling this utopian garbage. Our grievous error was sending our children to schools where this history is never taught.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

Well, the Soviet Communist Party elite had their dachas . . . . .

[Red Badger]

Witness: Zimbabwe, Venezuela, North Korea, Washington DC.....................

[Buckeye McFrog]

Seriously. You been to D.C. lately?
You can literally feel the money bubbling-up towards you
through cracks in the sidewalk.

[bankwalker]

Socialism works for everyone except those it’s supposed to work for.................

Well said, Red!!

[outpostinmass2]

Seriously. You been to D.C. lately?
You can literally feel the money bubbling-up towards you
through cracks in the sidewalk.

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I attend a conference every year in D.C. hosted by the FDA. Every restaurant within a 1/2 mile has at least an 1 hour wait on a Tuesday night. It has been like this since 2009.

[wastoute]

I still say he did it to announce to the world he was made “an offer he could not refuse”. He could have just added it to his account in a Panamanian Bank and no one would know.

[gigster]

You couldn't touch that lake house for less than 2.5-3 million dollars up here in northern Michigan on Lake Charlevoix if you want a beach with it. Some friends that I used to work under the table for have a log cabin that's about 15,000 sq. ft. that would go for 6-7 million dollars on our lake complete with a 100' dock and boat lift.

[Red Badger]

That’s sulfur................

[gigster]

Akeksandr Solzhenitsen’s works should be given and taught to every high school kid in order for them to graduate,.

[mjp]

It was where the Soviet very few forced the very many to slave away to make the very few rich.

Socialism is a system of aristocratic privilege, court society, and servile masses. In socialism, the individual does not exist as an end in himself, but as the means to the ends of society. The ends of society are the ends of the rulers, so the individual is the means to the ends of the rulers.

[Buckeye McFrog]

I drive home from D.C. and get out to around Hagerstown when you finally start to see boarded-up homes and businesses again.

Then you know you’re back in the real world.