Posted on 12/24/2019 5:43:46 AM PST by karpov
You won’t hear young Democrats deride Bernie Sanders with the “Okay, Boomer” dig. At 78, he’s actually too old for the cohort, but that’s not why he won’t get dinged. He’s the most popular Democrat among the under-35 crowd, and judging by recent polling, he’s the second most popular Democrat overall. Sanders has raised nearly twice as money as the front-runner, Joe Biden, and seems to have scooped up support from a declining Elizabeth Warren in the past 60 days. Despite a heart attack that sidelined him for a week, he marches on, now buoyed by a poll showing that in a head-to-head match-up against Donald Trump, he would do better than Biden — though within the margin of error.
Sanders’s appeal, the experts explain, is founded on “authenticity.” Is he humorless, repetitive, cloying, and rigid? Sure. But these are signs that he really believes something! He’s not a packaged, blow-dried (no argument there), insincere pol cooked up in a political laboratory. He’s the real deal.
Let’s concede that Sanders is sincere, and that he is, with some small hypocrisies (did you know he was a millionaire?), honest. But what people actually believe is kind of important, and Bernie Sanders professes and sells a series of prejudices that do him no credit.
Sanders claims to be a democratic socialist in the European mold; an admirer of Sweden and Denmark. Yet his career is pockmarked with praise for regimes considerably to the left of those Scandinavian models. He has praised Cuba for “making enormous progress in improving the lives of poor and working people.” In his memoir, he bragged about attending a 1985 parade celebrating the Sandinistas’ seizure of power six years before. “Believe it or not,” he wrote, “I was the highest ranking American official there.”
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According to Predictit, Sanders has the 2nd best chance of getting the Democratic nomination, after Biden.
To me, Sanders seems like a relative you tolerate at holidays and wouldn't dare leave alone with your kids.
In all totalitarian dictatorships there is a ruling elite which lives high off the hog and scorns the ordinary people whose money they have taken.
The ruling elite gets rich and is not held accountable for its actions.
bernie doesn’t plan to take money from the ruling elite. He needs the ruling elite to fund his aspirations.
Worth stating again:
The primary beneficiary of socialist policies is the socialist politician. Second beneficiaries are the bureaucracies that support the policies and third is the actual stated/targeted beneficiary. All else is fluff.
And one more thing; all socialists are endless liars.
Anyone not complying needs to be re-educated, imprisoned or eliminated. And you need a police state with totalitarians in charge to accomplish this.
Bernie and his followers can’t wait to start shooting people for their crimes against socialism.
Mona Charen will still vote for Bernie over #EvilOrangMan.
This is less of a commentary on Bernie's popularity than an argument for why we should raise the voting age to 36.
Geez. Did I miss the ReMax ad for his houses going on the market for pennies on the dollar? Maybe I should check Zillow. Uh hey barnee-———FAH-Q. In a holiday sort of way.
Let’s concede that Sanders is sincere, and that he is, with some small hypocrisies (did you know he was a millionaire?), honest.
He's a millionaire, who like most Democrats and many Republicans in Congress, never earned an dollar of his fortune honestly. He married a crooked woman who served as president of a private college, plundering the endowment while bankrupting the institution. And he cashed in a big way on his run in 2016:
heavy.com/news/2019/06/bernie-sanders-house-home-photos/amp/
There is nothing cute or loveable about Sanders. He’s a vicious little commie who would enslave a nation if he got a chance.
Do not underestimate Sanders. Yes, his core support comes from ignorant young people, but the Democratic Party is made up of communists of various stripes who would support Sanders easily.
They don't want to give up the granting of such preferences to their political tools, only to limit how much use said tools are allowed to make of it.
He’s the delusional uncle who lives in your mom’s attic...
Name me a dictator who’s been around more than two or three years who isn’t at least a multi-millionaire.
billionaires provide jobs.
Yup, you nailed it.
Statism is the political system that concentrates power in the state at the expense of natural rights. It requires force and so it is the politics of unreason.
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