Posted on 01/28/2020 9:40:48 AM PST by Signalman
If recent polls are any indication, Sen. Bernie Sanders is surging in the race for the 2020 Democratic nomination. According to a CNN poll out this week, the Vermont independent has reached a statistical tie with Joe Biden for first place nationally. In New Hampshire, meanwhile, a WBUR survey shows the self-described democratic socialist with a 12-point lead. Polls vary, but Sanders is clearly winning over many Democratic primary voters.
At every stage in his adult life, Sanders has been an unabashed apologist for communism, an evil ideology with a body count of 100 million people dead in its wake. A cursory examination of this record should disqualify Sanders from public office:
While people such as my grandfather were languishing as political prisoners in Cuba, Sanders said that he was so “excited” about the island’s communist revolution that watching JFK get tough on Fidel Castro made him want to “puke.” In 1980, as most prominent democratic socialists criticized Iran’s taking of American hostages, Sanders joined a Trotskyist revolutionary party that defended the Islamic regime’s actions. When the United States was containing communism in Central America, Sanders flew to Nicaragua to lend credibility to the Sandinistas. The 78-year-old presidential candidate even honeymooned in the Soviet Union and came back full of praise for it. Some may not grasp how bizarre this was during the Cold War, but, at the time, it was almost unheard of to do such a thing. Despite his lifelong fascination with communism, not once did Sanders have the decency to meet Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, a renowned Soviet dissident who lived in Vermont.
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A socialist is simply a communist who hasn’t started the killing...yet.
Throughout his life, he has proven that, like Obama, he he despises the United States in every manifestation.
Hence the general antipathy of the Founding Fathers to the word “democracy”.
Communism for us but not for him.
Well no $hit! Some of us have been saying that for years!
Bernie is an all out Marxist but, Elizabeth Warren is at least a Marxist lite or a Trotskyist.
Social democracy bases its whole world outlook on scientific socialism, i.e. Marxism. …Yet more proof that there is no difference between social democracy/democratic socialism and Marxism. But people like Crazy Bernie still rely on those that insist on being ignorant.
— Also Lenin, from “The Attitude of the Workers’ Party to Religion”, 1909
Lenin’s Bolshevik Party started out as a faction in the Russian Social-Democratic Workers’ Party. So Lenin is basically saying that his Marxist party is Marxist. That doesn’t necessarily apply to today’s Social Democratic parties, most of which are working inside the capitalist system. Democratic socialism is something else and may not exist or be possible or work.
Centralization of credit in the hands of the state by means of a national bank with state capital and an exclusive monopoly.How far away is our own Fed from such a thing? It was enacted by a POTUS (Wilson) who described “socialism and democracy” as ”one and the same”, and looked upon totalitarian seizure of control of the federal government to respond to the imaginary threat of “corporations” as a public good.
good post
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