Posted on 07/17/2015 12:59:20 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
“Kennedy was young and appealing and ostensibly liberal, but I think at that point, seeing through Kennedy, and what liberalism was, was probably a significant step for me to understand that conventional politics or liberalism was not what was relevant.”
Vermont senator and Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders once said that he was “physically nauseated” by a speech made by President John F. Kennedy when Sanders was a young man, because Kennedy’s “hatred for the Cuban Revolution […] was so strong.”
“Kennedy was young and appealing and ostensibly liberal,” Sanders reminisced in a 1987 interview with The Gadfly, a student newspaper at the University of Vermont. “But I think at that point, seeing through Kennedy, and what liberalism was, was probably a significant step for me to understand that conventional politics or liberalism was not what was relevant.”
In the same interview, he also criticized Jesse Jackson’s decision to try and affect change by “working within the Democratic party” and offered some pointed remarks about Walter Mondale.
Sanders told The Gadfly that endorsing the Democratic ticket in 1984 and “campaigning for Mondale […] was a very difficult thing to do.”
“When I’d go around talking about Walter Mondale I would say that if elected president, I felt, Walter Mondale was going to be a pretty bad president,” explained Sanders. “Now sometimes you may have to make painful decisions.”
“If you go around saying that Mondale would be a great president, you would be a liar and a hypocrite,” concluded Sanders. “That is not what I was saying.”
Sanders’s remarks about Kennedy, Jackson, and Mondale are in keeping with the Independent senator’s long history of criticizing the Democratic Party.
In a Rutland Herald article published the following year, Sanders explained the crucial difference between himself and Jesse Jackson: “‘Jesse believes that serious social change is possible within the Democratic Party. I don’t.’”
And in a 1989 op-ed in the Burlington Free Press, Sanders lambasted “the corporate-controlled Democratic and Republican parties,” and praised the National Organization of Women “for supporting the need for a progressive third party in this country.”
“Like millions of other Americans, NOW understands that the Democratic and Republican parties are intellectually and morally bankrupt,” Sanders wrote.
“We do not have an effective national political movement which is prepared to fight for power,” argued Sanders, “and which challenges the basic assumptions and priorities of the corporate-controlled Democratic and Republican parties – two political parties which have no substantive ideological differences and are, in reality, one party – the party of the ruling class.”
Here’s Sanders’s Burlington Free Press op-ed:
Here’s the Rutland Herald story:
And here’s the full Gadfly interview:
Actually in a very limited way I can sympathize with Bernie about this.
I felt some of the same feelings when I was out working for McCain and Romney
Fortunately no one ever asked me if I thought they would be good presidents so I never had to make the tough choice of do I lie to them or not.
So he’s a filthy communist. I knew that the first second I saw him.
Looks like Hillary’s noise machine — and it will probably backfire on her sorry old ass.
And the dumb a** people are flocking to hear him speak. I just don’t know about my fellow Americans - or are they fellow Americans?
I have a nephew who is gaga for Sanders. When did supporting Communism become acceptable in decent society in this country? Do people not know their history and Communism’s historical record of tyranny and slaughter? I despair for the future of this country.
Brainwashed liberals like your nephew are indoctrinated in the lie that “Communism has never REALLY been tried !” If only Bernie gets to the White House, he’ll implement it just right.
“When did supporting Communism become acceptable in decent society in this country? Do people not know their history and Communism’s historical record of tyranny and slaughter?”
It has become ‘normalized’ by the left on campuses, in newsrooms, and everywhere else they’ve targeted as a means to control societal norms. It’s like desensitizing someone to something they’re allergic to. Expose them to small innocuous doses, and increase slowly over time - until there’s no reaction. It’s now ‘normal’ to be a communist in America. In fact, it’s chic.
Vermont needs an influx of bro’s and gangbangers to raise the demographic to the national average and cancel their white privilege!
Vermont needs an influx of bro’s and gangbangers to raise the demographic to the national average and cancel their white privilege!
Vermont needs an influx of bro’s and gangbangers to raise the demographic to the national average and cancel their white privilege!
No they don’t know. They have no idea. You can call Sanders a Communist all you want....these young folks don’t even know what that means and don’t care.
Indeed.
And the Muslim Student Association (aka the Muslim Brotherhood), learned very well from that lesson, and that’s why, since the advent of Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) and Boycott-Divest-Sanction (BDS), Anti-Semitism has ALSO become normalised and chic on campuses, and spread outwards from there.
It also shows that, irrespective of the fact that Generation X tends to skew conservative (at least when compared to the Boomers and Generation Y), the influence and viewpoints of Gen X are essentially irrelevant.
:’)
He’s as much a Marxist as hillary but he’s open about it.
The Republican Party has become the Tories of English politics, utterly useless except that any real conservative is apt to come up through them. There have been precious few of those.
Wrong!
Still claims to be a “socialist”-
Just as the Demonrats claim to be “progessives”
Just as planned parenthood claims to be good
All of the above hate God,America, and Christians-
They will allways try to decieve- Bernie has been doing
it forever-
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