Posted on 02/15/2016 2:21:41 PM PST by DJ Taylor
Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has been getting away for years with describing himself as a socialist, when in reality he is an outright America-hating communist.
This belief in communism is reflected in the Sanders platform. Even a brief glance reveals his plan to be hopelessly utopian and insane. It will extinguish freedom and shutter businesses and cause widespread suffering especially among the poor people he claims to want to help. It is a program for exporting the best and the brightest to places that appreciate them.
But identifying Sanders as a communist can be a risky proposition in modern-day America. The Left so dominates American culture that the word communist itself has become jarring, not because communism is bad but instead because leftists believe communism is good.
Left-wingers are students of George Orwell. They understand that language can be used for good or ill; to advance truth or mask it. To undercut the power that that emotionally charged word communism and its variants once had in this country when used by patriots to attack the nation's foreign and domestic enemies, the Left over time reversed its polarity. Over and over and over again in the culture, leftists drove home the false notion that communists were boogeymen invented by those who wished to control the population through fear. Another way of putting it is to say that the Left marginalized its own word in order to protect the profoundly antisocial idea it represents.
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My question is this: how do those supporting "democratic socialism" really think this will happen? Do they expect the government to make large corporations divide the shares of the company to the workers? Do they expect the government to steal money straight from the bank accounts of the rich and hand it out like candy on Halloween? What process do they really think will happen to make this utopian dream of equality happen?
Bernie Sanders is a Communist and an Ignoramus....(headline repeating alert)
Sanders for president - of Venezuela.
Look up the dictionary definition of democratic socialism.
Hello nazi=Bernee......
Communist just ain’t it.
A no-skills POS socialist competing with a no-skill POS totalitarian for the ‘Rat nomination.
Nice choices you have there, morons. Bwwwwhaaaaaa, ha, ha, ha.
Don’t cry for Argentina, or Venezuela . . . it’s time to pay the piper
The party is over in Argentina, and a crisis looms. But take Evita Peron’s advice from the 1978 musical bearing her name: “Don’t cry.” Both Argentina and Venezuela will now pay the piper and get what they deserve. We might also be rejoicing soon that socialist politics in Argentina could be over, if the country cannot get its beleaguered Frontier Market in pesos under control.
Venezuela was in the news this morning.. Not only did they run out of toilet paper a while ago, now the country is running out of food.
This is good news! no food means you wont have to worry that you have no toilet papaer
I’m aware of the definition - I have yet to see anyone supporting it explain how they think it would be implemented. Almost every person I know who does support it is a big loser or have children who are druggie losers. My kids are not - and I don’t want to pay for their idiot kids to sit on a couch and play video games all day.
“Bernie Sanders is a Communist and an Ignoramus”
-Department of Redundancy Department.
I call all those who espouse so called “progressivism” commies, because that’s what they are.
you mean they are two separate things. . . . . .
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