No fool like an old fool.
Is he going to admit at his advanced age that his entire life has been a mistake? Not likely.
Besides, by being wrong he has also managed to become wealthy.
Posted on 03/19/2023 7:09:03 AM PDT by Rummyfan
Lt. Hiroo Onoda hid in the Philippine jungle for three decades after World War II , devotedly carrying out his soldierly duties till 1974, when he returned to an unrecognizable Tokyo. Likewise, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) carries on a torch for the proletariat, long after the rest of the Left has dumped the worker for racial and sexual categories.
Even if you disagree with Sanders — and you must if you understand basic economics and human nature and have even a passing knowledge of how socialist societies have ended — you have to give the Vermont socialist senator some credit for steady commitment. Just as Onoda continued to venerate the emperor as a deity while evading raiding parties, Sanders continues to revere economic determinism even as he, from time to time, is forced to mumble new pieties on climate, sex, and race.
On March 4, Sanders harrumphed to HBO’s Bill Maher that the Democratic Party had abandoned the worker.
“When FDR was president, when Truman was president, even when JFK was president, you go out on the street and you say to people, ‘Which party represents the working class of America?’ Most people, I think … would’ve said the Democratic Party,” Sanders said. “Today, you go out on the street, and that is not the sentiment. In fact, the Republican Party probably has more adherents than the Democrats.”
Sanders predictably went on to blame corporations and Republicans for this real shift in working-class political sentiment — because if a Marxist doesn’t blame capitalism for rain, they take his Marxist card away. But what he said next did make sense....
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No fool like an old fool.
Is he going to admit at his advanced age that his entire life has been a mistake? Not likely.
Besides, by being wrong he has also managed to become wealthy.
Starting in the 1960s, the men and women of the New Left embarked on a search for what the socialist man of letters Irving Howe called “substitute proletarians.” The American industrial workers had shown zero interest in revolution. They wanted improvements in their working conditions and the occasional vacation on the Jersey Shore but were fervently patriotic.
Rococo marxists Tom Wolfe called them: gays, blacks, and other minorities, and now transexuals. The new underclasses.
To be fair he’s had some late success. He’s now pushing his agenda through Biden, which they cooked-up during the primaries.
What they have created is the most oppressive, irresponsible and incompetent totalitarian management in history.
For years Sanders had to claim to be an independent because admitting he was a Democrat would have hurt the Democrats. Then when he finally figured the Democrat’s base would no longer care but would embrace him he ran as a Democrat.
The whole Dem party and most of the Repubs are old Bolshevik trash.
Bernie carries on the fight from each one of his four vacation homes...all of which were bought on a Government salary.
Since at least the 1930s...maybe even 1913.
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