BERNIE: "Follow me, Socialists! I know the way!"
Posted on 04/03/2019 2:33:39 PM PDT by Borges
The transformation of the GOP into the party of Patrick J. Buchanan and Donald J. Trump—defined by cultural resentments, crude populism, and ethnic nationalism—is among the most important political stories of this century. But the GOP is hardly the only party that is undergoing some alarming tectonic shifts. Liberals wondering why conservatives who worry about Trump don’t join the Democrats should consider what is happening on their own side of the aisle.
If you want to understand just how radicalized the Democratic Party has become in recent years, look at the ascent of Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont. A self-proclaimed socialist, Sanders served as mayor of Burlington, Vermont, and was then elected to the House in 1990 and the Senate in 2006. It’s hard to overstate just how left-wing Sanders’s views have been, at least by the standards of American politics.
Sanders has been a consistent defender of regimes led by anti-American dictators like Daniel Ortega and Fidel Castro. He took pains to separate his brand of socialism from the “totalitarianism” of the Soviet Union, but on a 1988 trip, repeatedly drew contrasts between the Soviet system and the United States that cast his own country in an unfavorable light. In the 1970s, Sanders called for the nationalization of entire industries and 100 percent taxation on those making more than $1 million. Since then, Sanders has moved away from calling for government to own the means of production, but he has hardly experienced a Damascus-road conversion. He is still a proud leftist.
For most of his career, Sanders—who identified as an independent but who caucused with Democrats—was treated like a curiosity and even a bit of a crazy uncle by Democrats, who considered the label socialist to be a smear.
No more.
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...
Kill babies, invade America, give everything away, damage our own childrens' brains with public indoctrination ....We see it now and can do nothing short of armed conflict.
CHANGE MY MIND
The democrat party is gearing up for (un)civil war.
Kill babies, invade America, give everything away, damage our own childrens' brains with public indoctrination ....
They've been at it since at least the 1930's and have gotten too many feet in too many doors, too many noses in too many tents.
We see it now and can do nothing short of armed conflict.
CHANGE MY MIND
BERNIE: "Follow me, Socialists! I know the way!"
So the article for me was destroyed when I saw who published the article.
No need to waste time reading a radical Left-wing slap-down of deplorables.
The transformation of the GOP into the party of Patrick J. Buchanan and Donald J. Trump—defined by cultural resentments, crude populism, and ethnic nationalism—That is a manufactured, premise smuggling piece of political hysteria. Trump doesn't need to resent another culture. He carries around his own culture that works very well. Plus, any form of populism looks crude to coastal elites, and wanting a better America does not equate to racism no matter how many times that lie is told.
But the GOP is hardly the only party that is undergoing some alarming tectonic shifts.The people alarmed by the tectonic shift are parasites on the economy and/or leftists terrified at a brief glimpse of capitalist ankle. Stop clutching those beads, grandma. America will resume her trek to a bankrupt socialist nation-state soon enough.
>>>defined by cultural resentments, crude populism, and ethnic nationalism<<<
Quite a broad brush those Commie MF’er’s paint us with isn’t it?
I wonder if they could explain exactly what they meant sitting across from one of us Irredeemable Deplorable types.
The title was written by Captain Obvious. Colson wrote of it 35 years ago.
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Bernie is now on the conservative side of the democrat party. The lunatics have completely taken over.
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