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Bernie Sanders Once Compared Vermont Workers to Black ‘Slaves’. As the leading member of a self-described “radical political party” in the 1970s, Bernie Sanders repeatedly compared Vermont workers to enslaved black people.
Daily Beast ^ | January 23, 2020 | Scott Bixby

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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TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: berniesanders; sanders
The more earnings are taxed, the close people become to being slaves of the government. Sanders supports that kind of slavery.
1 posted on 01/23/2020 7:01:28 PM PST by karpov
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To: karpov

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.


2 posted on 01/23/2020 7:04:41 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: karpov

Makes about as much sense anything else he’s spewed forth.


3 posted on 01/23/2020 7:05:56 PM PST by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrats' John Dean])
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To: karpov

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.


4 posted on 01/23/2020 7:11:33 PM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: karpov

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.


5 posted on 01/23/2020 7:15:49 PM PST by hapnHal
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Shhh! None of this is supposed to be discussed until after he has the nomination. Didn't you get the memo?
6 posted on 01/23/2020 7:43:55 PM PST by NRx (A man of honor passes his father's civilization to his son without surrendering it to strangers.)
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To: Paladin2

Slave labor ! Otherwise known as GRADUATE SCHOOL


7 posted on 01/23/2020 7:55:53 PM PST by Truthoverpower (The guv mint you get is the Trump winning express !)
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To: karpov

His staffers proposed enslaving countless millions of Americans in labor camps... and didn’t even get fired.


8 posted on 01/23/2020 8:02:15 PM PST by thoughtomator (... this has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.)
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To: Truthoverpower
Slave labor ! Otherwise known as GRADUATE SCHOOL

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.

9 posted on 01/23/2020 8:03:16 PM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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To: karpov

Bernie is a full-blown commie. Too many people are getting duped:


10 posted on 01/23/2020 10:09:42 PM PST by DennisR (Look around. God gives countless clues that He does, indeed, exist.)
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To: karpov

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.


11 posted on 01/23/2020 10:24:07 PM PST by PGR88
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