Posted on 01/23/2020 7:01:28 PM PST by karpov
In recent weeks, Sen. Bernie Sanders has criticized his rivals for the Democratic presidential nomination for having too much baggage to win the diverse coalition needed to defeat President Donald Trump in November. But as the Vermont independent tops national polls for the first time, newly unearthed baggage from his own decades-long political career could call his own past statements and judgment into question.
As the leading member of a self-described radical political party in the 1970s, Sanders repeatedly compared Vermont workers to enslaved black people, according to archival interviews obtained by The Daily Beast. In one 1976 conversation, Sanders told a local newspaper that the sale of a privately held mining company by its founders harkened back to the days of slavery, when black people were sold to different owners without their consent, and compared the service economy to chattel slavery.
In recent weeks, Sen. Bernie Sanders has criticized his rivals for the Democratic presidential nomination for having too much baggage to win the diverse coalition needed to defeat President Donald Trump in November. But as the Vermont independent tops national polls for the first time, newly unearthed baggage from his own decades-long political career could call his own past statements and judgment into question.
As the leading member of a self-described radical political party in the 1970s, Sanders repeatedly compared Vermont workers to enslaved black people, according to archival interviews obtained by The Daily Beast. In one 1976 conversation, Sanders told a local newspaper that the sale of a privately held mining company by its founders harkened back to the days of slavery, when black people were sold to different owners without their consent, and compared the service economy to chattel slavery.
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I always viewed myself as a partial wage slave, working at least two days a week for the exclusive benefit of the various governmental units.
Now, retired, I’m free at last,...
It’s philosophically liberating.
Makes about as much sense anything else he’s spewed forth.
Barter will be revived with Sanders in place.
Hope the older voters are smart enough not to let the younger “FREE EVERYTHING “ voters put him into the Oval Office.
Well how about this... have a suggestion
Crazy Bernie Sanders needs to check out the requirements for running for President of Russia. Putin can run for only two terms which ends in March. Putin needs a replacement, who better than Crazy Bernie.
Slave labor ! Otherwise known as GRADUATE SCHOOL
His staffers proposed enslaving countless millions of Americans in labor camps... and didn’t even get fired.
Grad school is more like indentured servitude. There's a vague promise of improvement and independence after some indeterminate period. Slavery... no hope.
But perhaps I'm splitting hairs.
Bernie is a full-blown commie. Too many people are getting duped:
Bernie is a classical Marxist and jew, looking for a good communist revolution.
The poor man was born 100 years too late and in the wrong continent.
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