Posted on 03/05/2020 5:43:19 AM PST by Kaslin
I want Bernie Sanders to thrive all the way to the Democrat’s convention in Milwaukee. I actively root for him. Not just for simple chaos or political giggles, though there’s some of that. No, I want Bernie to secure his party’s nomination so we can all stop pretending. There’s no such thing as a moderate Democrat.
This makes my Never Trump, Jeb! voting, Chamber of Commerce friends angry. “He’s a socialist! He’s said glowing things about communist regimes! How dare you – as a conservative – cheer the likes of Sanders?!”
Oh really? How dare you – as a conservative – pretend anyone in the Democrats’ field isn’t a full-blown socialist? Furthermore, how are the current luminaries of their party – Obama, Pelosi, Schiff, Schumer, etc. – how are any of them fundamentally different than Bernie Sanders? The answer is they’re not. They’re just better salespeople.
If I heard it once, I heard it a million times during coverage of Tuesday night’s election results. Fawning beltway media praising the “impressive, stunning, momentous” return of the Biden campaign, as if to celebrate a return to establishment normalcy for the swampy elites.
Biden has five decades of big government stank on him and that makes Republican, Democrat, and media establishment as comfortable with him as an old pair of jeans. They’d all love to see Biden win the nomination and go on to defeat President Trump.
They believe Joe Biden is a return to the politics of yesterday, as though that’s romantic. For establishment-types to claim the Democrats’ past is a moderate fairytale, they either stopped paying attention or are willfully misleading. Neither Biden nor any of the Democrats in this 2020 field are moderate.
Mayor Pete, you say? The guy who told a woman in Iowa – on camera, to her face – if she’s pro-life she has no home in the party. Klobuchar, perhaps? She’s supported mandatory, federal gun buyback programs and reversed her position on making English the official language of the United States.
Bloomberg? Lots of brass-buttoned, brandy snifter establishment-types had high hopes for him. Thankfully only American Samoa was duped. The man dripped with contempt for humankind. Blacks, pregnant women, overweight people, gun owners – he was an equal opportunity, nanny-state regulator of the worst order.
Meanwhile, President Trump has been so destructive and disruptive to the game in Washington, D.C., Biden has become the establishment’s support donkey. The folksy, Amtrak-riding, working-class fella from Scranton was always a romanticized version of the former vice president, but it’s certainly the furthest thing from being true today.
Biden wants huge tax hikes, open borders, limitless abortion, and trillions in spending on a man-made climate change hoax that proudly destroys good-paying energy jobs.
Oh, and he wants to put Beto O’Rourke in charge of gun control. Yes, the same Beto O’Rourke who said the government simply “wouldn’t allow” certain legal firearms any longer. “Yes, we’re going to take your guns,” he said proudly in a 2019 debate.
There’s nothing about anyone in the Democrat’s field that’s moderate, including their newly invented front-runner Joe Biden. Sure, they may act moderate. They may say the right moderate things. But how do they govern and vote? What are their policies?
The only thing moderate about some Democrats today is in their presentation. Obama was great at speaking in platitudes that sounded pretty while he destroyed private health insurance and emboldened nations hostile to ours and her allies.
Mayor Pete desperately wanted to be the white Obama, but it wasn’t his turn. He’ll be back for another try, just as his mentor before him. He may likely succeed. Socialism softly sold is what the Democrats have done well for years.
Then along came Bernie Sanders. I appreciate him. He’s honest. He’s angry. He screams a lot. He tells you exactly what and who he hates. (Anyone with money who’s not him). He tells you he has no intention of allowing you to keep your insurance. He tells you he’s going to raise your taxes – everyone’s taxes – and you’re going to love it. He wants your guns and your general state of independence.
Bernie Sanders makes no illusions. He wants total government control over every facet of your life, and in exchange, you’ll be allowed to share in what his government decides to give you. And you’ll get it for “free!”
Let’s put that in a debate today, side by side with Donald Trump. Let’s finally allow the country to see a clear, honest debate between free markets and individualism versus top-down, command and control socialism.
Yes, it’s alarming there are so many millions who are genuinely excited about the prospect of Bernie, so honest and forthright in his embrace of socialism. For now though, establishment Democrats, Republicans, and media folks seem to think Bernie’s honesty is just too scary to too many voters to win in 2020.
Maybe it is. But the dirty little secret is they know Biden and every other Democrat want the very same things Bernie does. Quite frankly, they’re not uncomfortable with it either. But they have to win first. So they want their socialism sold softly.
Just don’t call it “moderate.”
the democrats refuse to rebuke Communists.
McCarthy was right.
The Left is so far to the Left that there’s none of the ond extreme Left that’s extreme to them anymore.
(They ARE the people that HUAC was struggling to prevent ever having power)
It’s why so much looks like the far Right to them.
They think Clinton, an unrepentant McGovernite, is Right of Center.
Probably think McGovern and LBJ were moderates.
No such thing as a modera6 DEMOCRAT.
I do think the Left has been working a Fabian strategy for decades. They got Bill Clinton and Obama in there and made a lot of progress. Hillary was supposed to seal the deal, but she was a bridge too far and the people pulled back a bit. The Left wants to regroup and send in a “moderate” like Biden to quietly push us to the Left — but Bernie is coming in with a big brass band proclaiming that Happy Days of Communism Are Here. The Left is doing a face palm and saying, “Too soon! Too soon!”
Moderate means cowardly, dishonest, unprincipled or not very bright. Take your pick.
Does anyone else here remember 2016? All the wise Leftist pundits who said that Trump could never win, and that furthermore he would harm all the down-ballot candidates? There were plenty of Democrats who thought it was a great idea to push Trump forward since Hillary would obviously wipe the floor with him.
I say do not underestimate Bernie Sanders. Do not be overly confident in how our citizens, especially our youth, will react to the choice of Freedom versus “Free Stuff”. Like Trump, Sanders has charisma and the ability to highly motivate his followers. Biden on the other hand is a pathetic mess, corrupt and senile. He’s who I want to see on that debate stage.
And yet there are many voters who will proudly tell you they are moderate, like it's a badge of honor.
I agree with that. Biden is a dream come true for Republicans. I’m kind of amazed that the Democrat Establishment has been so set on making him their guy.
The only things in the middle of the road are dead animals and yellow stripes.
Agreed. The idea of Sanders being just one election away from the Oval Office is scary.
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