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Democrats Follow Bernie Sanders Off a Cliff
The Washington Free Beacon ^ | 15 Sep, 2017 | Matthew Continetti

Posted on 09/15/2017 8:26:52 AM PDT by MtnClimber

How rudderless is the Democratic Party? Its membership is so bereft of leadership and policy direction that 16 of its senators have signed on to a health care bill sponsored by a self-avowed independent democratic socialist from Vermont.

The "Medicare for All Act of 2017" would repeal Obamacare, along with most other private and public insurance, and replace it with a government-run, one-size-fits-all, centrally directed system of reimbursement for medical expenses. Sanders, who honeymooned in the Soviet Union, holds the same opinion of health insurance as he does antiperspirants: "You don't necessarily need a choice of 23 underarm spray deodorants or of 18 different sneakers when children are hungry in this country."

Senators Harris, Booker, Gillibrand, and Warren, who in addition to cosponsoring the bill may soon be fighting each other, as well as Sanders, for the Democratic nomination, are generals re-enacting the last war. They saw how well Sanders did against Clinton, they have marched in the anti-Trump "resistance" movement, and they want to inoculate themselves from accusations of ideological heresy.

(Excerpt) Read more at freebeacon.com ...


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: democrats; marxism

1 posted on 09/15/2017 8:26:52 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

Because marxism has worked so well before.


2 posted on 09/15/2017 8:27:24 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

Because it is what the Democrat Party has wanted for over seventy years.


3 posted on 09/15/2017 8:38:35 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: MtnClimber

They will not stop until they make us into Venezuela, Zimbabwe, Cuba and North Korea all rolled into one..................


4 posted on 09/15/2017 8:39:33 AM PDT by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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To: MtnClimber

Bernie Sanders: “You don’t necessarily need a choice of 23 underarm spray deodorants or of 18 different sneakers when children are hungry in this country.”

Hillary in 2004: “We’re going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good”

Karl Marx: “From each according to his ability, to each according to his need”


5 posted on 09/15/2017 8:39:47 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Benedict McCain is the worst traitor ever to wear the uniform of the US military.)
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To: MtnClimber

The most honest democrats of the entire bunch!


6 posted on 09/15/2017 8:42:42 AM PDT by jimmygrace
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To: MtnClimber

Nope. The Commie Bernie is standing on the cliff, waving bye to his compliant sheep making the leap. He’s too important (in his decrepit commie mind) to be lost like the expendable fodder.


7 posted on 09/15/2017 9:15:58 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper (WKU 2016 Boca Raton Bowl Champions)
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To: Red Badger

“They will not stop until they make us into Venezuela, Zimbabwe, Cuba and North Korea all rolled into one..................”

The idea is to destroy the country. Make it subservient to their demonic world government.


8 posted on 09/15/2017 9:17:02 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper (WKU 2016 Boca Raton Bowl Champions)
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To: MtnClimber

I’ve heard some radical types say, that the failures of socialism were due to it not being implemented properly. In their view the people in charge of failed socialist or communist countries simply didn’t do things right. The flaw was in the execution not in the doctrines of socialism.

I think that’s nonsense but the true believers such as a Bernie Sanders have a religious faith in that concept.


9 posted on 09/15/2017 9:17:31 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: MtnClimber
I'd call those people lemmings, but lemmings are smarter, so it would be an insult to lemmings. 😀
10 posted on 09/15/2017 9:24:11 AM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is DEPLORABLE :-))
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To: Red Badger
They will not stop until they make us into Venezuela, Zimbabwe, Cuba and North Korea all rolled into one...

As miserable as those countries are for their citizens - they're pure bliss for 'elites' at the top of those hellholes... unlimited power, more money than can be spent in many lifetimes... and always hidden torture rooms for 'fun'...

What our United States 'elites' don't 'get' is that most of them will be down in the hellhole with the rest of us... the 'top' is small when the hellhole forms.

11 posted on 09/15/2017 9:24:46 AM PDT by GOPJ ("$3 Million Dollars 'PER DAY' is spent to incarcerate criminal illegals.That's $1.2 Billion a year.")
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To: MtnClimber

I’m not bias...

I do’t care who they follow or off of which cliff...

Hillary
Liz
Joe

as long as keep going...


12 posted on 09/15/2017 9:28:09 AM PDT by G Larry (There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
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To: MtnClimber

It is insanity to blindly follow an ideology that has never worked and has resulted in the deaths of hundreds of millions. The lie and indoctrination promotes that Marxism/Socialism/Communism etc. can work in America if it ultimately ran like China ditching the Constitution having a quasi Capitalist/Communist/Socialist utopia. The funny thing is the Bernie Sanders sheep always uses the Venezuelan and Cuban example.


13 posted on 09/15/2017 9:33:45 AM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: MtnClimber

It’s like one of Jesus’ destructive miracles. Beautiful!


14 posted on 09/15/2017 9:42:17 AM PDT by t4texas (Remember the Alamo!)
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To: WKUHilltopper
The idea is to destroy the country. Make it subservient to their demonic world government

In an odd sort of way, Senator Sanders has a point. If the swamptings, both political parties, can't stop obscene profiteering by insurance, pharmaceutical, caregiver, and medical providers, there's only one way to pay for the mess. That's single payer.

I can't get past Republicans not in voting in January to repeal Obamacare. How does the problem get solved when Republicans, even given the power, won't legislate?

15 posted on 09/15/2017 9:51:37 AM PDT by grania (Deplorable and Proud of It!)
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To: MtnClimber

Good. I only hope it is a very, very tall cliff. These LIB lemmings deserve their fate. I only hope the traitors-to-their-electorate repub losers do the same.


16 posted on 09/15/2017 9:55:40 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Well, that’s sort of true. Pure socialism has never actually been tried because it doesn’t work.


17 posted on 09/15/2017 1:54:36 PM PDT by Hootowl
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To: MtnClimber
"Democrats Follow Bernie Sanders Off a Cliff"


18 posted on 09/15/2017 9:05:12 PM PDT by clearcarbon
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To: MtnClimber

Oh. Lord, God Almighty...please. please keep Bernie Sanders. Hillary Clinton, Barack Hussein Obama. Elizabeth Warren, Al Franken, etc. going strong in shooting their pie holes off as they collectively kill off the Democrat Party politically!!! LMAO!!!


19 posted on 09/16/2017 8:44:43 AM PDT by JLAGRAYFOX (Defeat both the Republican (e) & Democrat (e) political parties....Forever!!!)
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