Posted on 01/16/2020 4:55:22 AM PST by Kaslin
Communist curmudgeon Bernie Sanders is having his moment, threatening to actually win some of the early primaries and maybe even the nomination. This is bad, at least for the Democrats, since the idea of a weird crusty admitted socialist as their candidate is problematic – the problem being Americans aren’t insanely stupid enough to elect this guy president.
We hope.
Also note that I am excluding Vermont, New York and California from that statement, if you have somehow confused those mutant provinces with America.
But with Bernie rising in the polls, and his poisonous ideology gathering steam among the Democrat base, can we really laugh off this Soviet Union-loving crank?
Gropey Joe is collapsing, and we still have not seen the full effect of what happens when America gets a load of his loser son, the $50,000 a month stripper impregnator. Once Joe takes his first real body blow, he’s going down.
Heap Big Hack is the one trying to get as close to Sanders as she can without going full socialist – never go full socialist – but she’s flailing. Recently she decried our shameful failure to respond to America’s greatest crisis, that boy criminals pretending to be girl criminals still have to go to boy jails instead of girl jails. There’s no real room in the race for this forked-tongue phony. The kind of people who subscribe to her nonsense prefer the full-bore socialism of Sanders to Warren’s paleface imitation.
Remember Klobucharmania? Me neither. Amy is just in it to grab second place. She’s the sensible shoe of the veepstakes.
And there’s Pete Buttigieg, the Hero of Kandahar, the Moses of the Midwest. That pretentious little doofus. Never has someone had so much self-esteem and so little reason for it. Let’s put it this way – if the Democrat primary was Hogan’s Heroes, Pete Buttigieg would assume he was Bob Crane but he would really be Larry Hovis.
We could hope that the nomination of Bernie would lead the Democrats to a massive electoral repudiation that would spark a long-overdue re-think of the Democrat Party’s drift to the far left. That seems the most likely result. But imagine if Sanders won. If you are one of the two nominees, you have a shot at it, as Donald Trump proved. And keep in mind you that don’t have to win to prevail down the road. In 1964, Barry Goldwater got creamed; in 1980, his ideological protégé Ronald Reagan won and conservatism was changed forever, despite the best efforts of those pathetic losers writing for whatever the Bulwark is.
So, Sanders could win. Now it gets really scary. Him with executive power. Shiver. Think of his administration, a motley collection of weirdos, trustafarians, hipsters, professors, and beret-topped activists. Look at that psycho from Iowa Project Veritas exposed. It would be a socialist Freaknik.
What would these cadres of Bernie Bros with some power do? Nationalization of businesses. Giveaways to freeloaders, paid for by all his new taxes. If you want your health care run by a guy who never had a job until those idiots in Vermont elected him, vote Bernie. Say “Bye” to free speech, freedom of religion, and your guns. Our enemies would be emboldened, our allies betrayed, our military ruined, and our economy destroyed. But hey – maybe Bernie Sanders is the one guy in all of human history talented enough to make socialism work.
And, if he keeps true to the form of his idols, he would try to turn the full power of the government against anyone who objects. But gee, lucky our federal law enforcement, intelligence, and tax agencies are packed with non-partisan professionals who would never, ever abuse their power and position to help a Democrat politician go after his opponents!
He’s dangerous, even if he looks like a disgruntled koala. Just ask his gulag aficionado, firing squad-aspiring pals.
Let’s be clear about one thing – Bernie Sanders is not cute and he’s not funny. He’s an unrepentant adherent of a vicious ideology that has butchered better than 100 million people in the last hundred years. The risk of electing a doctrinaire Marxist is open civil war – with his murder-fetishizing acolytes on the anti-freedom side along with the Never Trump True Conservatives™ who contend that True Conservatism™ demands we submit to communist rule because Trump tweets mean things at fugly celebs.
American patriots are not going socialist, not while they have the means to resist. You are under no moral obligation to allow yourself to be voted into tyranny by other people. If the Democrats insist on him, and through some horrible chain of events he gets the majority of the electoral votes, they will have lit the fire that could Bern it all down.
let him win the primary.
He has no chance in the general
I love Kurt’s writing but I hate him hawking his books the last paragraph of every column.
There are SO many “young-uns” around that are essentially uneducated — certainly as far as History and Science is concerned — and they are driven largely by fashion, trends, and peer pressure, that I fear they may upset the applecart and vote in large numbers for the feel-good, snappy-sappy, slogan-driven, merchandised candidate.
They may deserve what they get for their ignorance — but I don’t deserve a seat in that boat, and I resent their dominance.
We’ll know soon.
Bernie will not be the nominee
The powers that be will shove him aside and nominate Michael Bloomberg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IPBgUKGdYk&t=0m42s
VT stands with Bernie forever; DE with “Old Joe,” who may be a few months younger than Bernie.
I don't know, Americans elected Odinga twice....
That's clever, but overrates the Sodomite. He would really be Major Hoffstatter, without the charm. Or maybe Frau Burkholder, without the femininity.
Ouch, that really hurt.
I found this to be the key paragraph. One would hope people start taking this seriously, especially with the recent Project Veritas exposure of the Iowa nutcase.
Since I have read all his books, and enjoyed them, I just don’t read that last paragraph. ;-)
People are gullible and easily misled and deceived by crafty messengers. The powerful influence weiled by our advertising industry is a testament to this fact. And people LOVE the notion of free stuff, especially when its at the expense of people they are jealous of and resent.
Sadly, the populace suffers from a lack of critical thinking skills. We are right now, and will continue paying paying a high social price for our national naivete.
Not saying that someone like Bernie will be elected president. This time.
Yeah but look at who he ran against.
He would really be Major Hoffstatter, without the charm.
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Hochstetter would have the same question about Buttigieg that he always had about Hogan:
“What is this man doing here?!”
This is hyperbole, right? Because, Americans are insane/stupid enough to elect Zippy the Chimp POTUS, given our history. Klinton's second term. O'Bummer's presidency: two terms. Kongress?
I don't put anything past stupid Americans.
The media will decided who the democrat candidate will be. That has been their pattern over the last couple of elections.
I think we should push for Bernie....
AOC plus are rooting for him.
I say, he’s the winner...
Trump is pushing for him...
He has no chance in the general
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I wouldn’t be so certain about that.
Despite her unlikability and campaign mistakes Hillary still had a shot at winning. She and Bernie share many disturbing traits that should make Americans very concerned. The main one being their obsessive desire to RULE instead of govern.
Also consider that Obama was twice elected. Anything is possible. The country is sharply divided and we have a leftist media machine that relentlessly pushes out its propaganda around the clock. It will be in high gear this year working to motivate and persuade voters to vote for the Dem candidate whoever it is.
“hawking his books”
Yeah, it’s annoying. I have read “Peoples Republic” and “Indian Country”. The first is more humorous, the second more serious. Good reads, IMHO.
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