Ah Bernie sanders-libertarian really? Bernie is as are all progressive, socialist, commie, Nazi, sympathizers slavists. At least true libertines want no gov, not just less. To understand the political economic structure of any given state draw an oval. draw a vertical and horizontal line threw the middle. label one freedom and the other private property. Where freedom is maximized and private property is maximized is Anarchy. You’ll note that no Gov and property rights can’t exist unless you live alone on an island (why its an ellipse)
Bernie said we have too many people in our prisons the other day.
He said we have more people in US prisons than China does in their prisons with a much greater population over there.
Sanders also said that China was a “communist authoritarian country”.
I can agree with Bernie on that but then he swung into the racial composition of our prison population without making reference to the guilt of the prisoners or the crimes they committed to land them in prison.
Rudy Giuliani (a man I often don’t agree with) got smacked around some years ago when he tried to make the point that more African-Americans just happen to be the perps than their proportion of the population.
Its a fact, its not racism to say it.
But back in the 1940’s, 70 or so years ago, there were stats indicating that the leading religious affiliation of our prison population was Roman Catholic and an anti-Catholic author who was an associate of Socialist Norman Thomas actually put this into print around 1950.
The socialist author, Paul Blanshard, spent much of his life after that in Vermont where another socialist named Bernie Sanders would wind up living in.