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Bernie Sanders open to new busing policies
Washington Examiner ^ | 06-29-19 | John Gage

Posted on 06/29/2019 8:20:49 AM PDT by Steve1999

Sen. Bernie Sanders said he would be open to implementing busing in 2019 after the issue came up during the first Democratic primary presidential debate. “I am really concerned about the growing segregation — once again — the resegregation of communities all over this country," the 77-year-old Vermont independent told National Review in comments published Friday. "We’re seeing more and more schools which are being segregated. And that is something we have to deal with.”

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KEYWORDS: bernie; berniebusing; busing; education; nebusing; racism
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To: Steve1999

Does Bernie support busing white suburban kids into the inner city, where they will be endangered and subject to subpar education, while SIMULTANEOUSLY supporting self-segregated black-only zones in colleges?

I’m almost certain he does, although AFAIK he was never specifically asked.


21 posted on 06/29/2019 8:56:34 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Pearls Before Swine

To self: Sorry for repeat post.


22 posted on 06/29/2019 8:57:11 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Steve1999

Busing of students did not work then, and it will not work now. There are areas of greater or lesser concentration of some “racial” types, but forcibly putting children of one demographic group in close contact with those of another demographic group, just to satisfy “balance”, is wrong and done only with mischievous intent. The later alternative offering school CHOICE, in which the parents and the children has some voice in which school they could or should attend, with the aid of school vouchers issued by the state, provided the opportunity to escape really poorly administered school districts and put pressure on the real purpose of education, to provide an educational experience that led to gainful and fulfilling living as an adult.


23 posted on 06/29/2019 9:01:00 AM PDT by alloysteel (The difference between real life and fiction? Fiction has to make sense and follow some logic.)
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To: Steve1999

Are they going to use environmentally safe buses? What will AOC say? Oh, the horror. Gasp. Choke. Cough!


24 posted on 06/29/2019 9:11:30 AM PDT by Don Corleone (Nothing makes the delusional more furious than truth.)
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To: Steve1999

Of course he is.


25 posted on 06/29/2019 9:13:56 AM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death by cultsther)
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To: Steve1999; All
Re-edited from a Sen. Harris thread about busing...

Regardless what misguided, post-17th Amendment ratification Senator Sanders is saying about busing for school integration, patriots are reminded of the following.

The states have never expressly constitutionally given the feds the specific power to dictate policy for INTRAstate schooling. This is evidenced by the following excerpts from the writings of Thomas Jefferson, Justice Joseph Story, and other state sovereignty-respecting justices.

So while Sen. Sanders’ heart is arguably in the right place, federal Democrats and RINOs who want to win votes with promises of social engineering need to get themselves elected to state governments so that they can use the unique 10th Amendment-powers of the states to experiment with things like school bus integration, depending on what the legal majority citizen voters of a given state want.

Justice Brandeis had put it this way.

"It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single courageous State may, if its citizens choose [emphasis added], serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country.” — Justice Brandeis, Laboratories of democracy.

Note that constitutional limits on states as laboratories of democracy is that states cannot establish privileged / protected classes or abridge constitutionally enumerated rights, and must maintain a constitutionally guaranteed republican form of government.

Remember in November 2020!

MAGA! Now KAG!

26 posted on 06/29/2019 9:32:48 AM PDT by Amendment10
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To: AlaskaErik

[[Isn’t Vermont about as white as it gets?]]

It’s the Alabaster state


27 posted on 06/29/2019 9:33:24 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: Herodes

[[Integration is now an issue with these politicians???]]

They have to distract from the fact that they all want higher taxes soemhow


28 posted on 06/29/2019 9:34:31 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: Steve1999
The problem with Socialists is that they refuse to learn from history. If they did, there wouldn't be any Socialists left: history has proven that Socialism always fails.

Busing to gain a "proper" skin color mix, has always failed, too. Many, if not most, parents chose their home community with an important part of the selection based on the quality of the school system. Part of quality included being close enough to schools that the kids can walk to school. Forcing them to take a bus to a far away school has a simple solution - move. I guess Bernie would fix that by outlawing moving.

29 posted on 06/29/2019 9:37:16 AM PDT by norwaypinesavage (Calm down and enjoy the ride, great things are happening for our country)
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To: Steve1999

Bernie Sanders also deeply feels healthcare is a right.

Obviously Bernie Sanders violates the human rights of everybody he has ever been near in private.

If Bernie has never offered and performed professional healthcare services with a person he is alone with in the elevator, then he obviously has violated their human rights.

And if he has, since he isn’t a Medical doctor, he is guilty of malpractice as well as violating their human rights.

Just sayin,...be careful what you wish for Bernie. People might hold you accountable for the human rights abuser you really have become.


30 posted on 06/29/2019 9:44:01 AM PDT by Cvengr ( Adversity in life & death is inevitable; Stress is optional through faith in Christ.)
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To: Steve1999

I don’t care who goes to which school as long as there are high standards for behavior of the students. Anyone not there to learn should be suspended twice, third time permanently expelled from that school. If this happens at two different district schools, the kid is out of the district and parents have to pay for tutoring at home.


31 posted on 06/29/2019 9:48:12 AM PDT by Yaelle
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To: Steve1999

These socialists want more than busing. They want to integrate neighborhoods, like Julian Castro tried to do when running HUD. That is why it is very important to list your race as either Hispanic or black in the census if you have any trace of that in your background. The census is being used as a tool against white neighborhoods. The other thing you can do is not answer the race question at all.


32 posted on 06/29/2019 9:56:05 AM PDT by kaila
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To: BenLurkin
Does Bernie think he can fool young voters into believing that Jim Crow laws still exist?

Sadly, yes.

I bet if you surveyed a lot of AAs they would affirm they still exist.

33 posted on 06/29/2019 10:00:50 AM PDT by ealgeone
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To: Steve1999

Yeah, that worked so well in Dallas, TX back in the 70s. Not. After having my jr. high school in lockdown every single day with iron gates in the halls and students locked in their classrooms with no bathroom breaks due to physical attacks by angry blacks that were bused in, there was a white flight. We got the heck outta Dodge, too. My old school and neighborhood went from one black student to pretty much all blacks.


34 posted on 06/29/2019 10:03:08 AM PDT by bgill
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To: BenLurkin

No, Bernie is just pushing free transportation


35 posted on 06/29/2019 10:08:19 AM PDT by rdcbn
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To: Steve1999

Talk about being stuck in the 60s...


36 posted on 06/29/2019 10:32:05 AM PDT by ASOC (Having humility really means one is rarely humiliated)
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To: Steve1999

Bernie is missing the boat. The new wave is Blacks only graduations and Afrocentric education. The only lives that matter are “black lives” unless they kill each other or get aborted.


37 posted on 06/29/2019 10:53:16 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: Steve1999

OMG, talk about a party out of ideas! Let’s bring back the failed policies of the past! Great idea, not.


38 posted on 06/29/2019 11:22:05 AM PDT by jocon307
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To: AlaskaErik

“Isn’t Vermont about as white as it gets?”

Yes, it most certainly is. It also has very unrestrictive gun laws and a very high rate of gun ownership, and a very low rate of crime. Bernie could learn a few things from the reality around him, but that would be too much strain for his brain.


39 posted on 06/29/2019 11:30:34 AM PDT by jocon307
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To: BenLurkin; All

The government is not pushing segregation anymore. The people are segregating themselves, which is entirely different.

Bussing is not the correct answer. They’re preying on the notion that people my age don’t know anything about it, and will automatically support it because it sounds fair. Some of us are not that ill-informed, and we know how much that policy was hated.

Talk about exposing kids to bullying and student violence.


40 posted on 06/29/2019 11:38:35 AM PDT by Tacrolimus1mg (Do no harm, but take no sh!t.)
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