Posted on 02/05/2020 5:28:56 AM PST by karpov
Socialist Bernie Sanders’s emergence as a front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination is puzzling to many of us who have experienced socialism. We thought it dead—good riddance—when the Soviet empire collapsed 30 years ago. Our mistake.
One can only assume that the hardships endured by many millions of Russians, Chinese, Africans and Europeans have been forgotten, or never learned, by a new generation of Democratic voters. Mr. Sanders says he is a “democratic socialist,” whereas those unfortunates of the past were ruled by “communists.” He’s right that there are wide differences in degree. But although the postwar British Labour Party was freely elected, it brought Brits a more limited degree of the economic stagnation that afflicted the people of the undemocratic Soviet Union and its satellites.
For Mr. Sanders’s followers, the realities of 20th-century socialism have apparently been lost down the memory hole. What remains is the delusion, long embraced by theorists, that socialism is a morally superior system of governance, which fosters equality and compassion by transferring wealth from the rich to the poor— Robin Hood government. The reality has been tested by many millions, and found to be detestable. Government ownership destroys production.
Mr. Sanders’s pitch attracts idealistic young people, who draw an additional impetus from the natural rebelliousness of youth.
And millennials fear, for good reason, that they may not enjoy the financial security their elders do. But this danger has been foisted on them not by private capitalism but by proto-socialist policy excesses that already put the future viability of welfare-state benefits in doubt. It was Barack Obama and a Democratic Congress that expanded student lending, inviting young people to run up much of today’s $1.5 trillion in college debt.
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Bourgeois Socialist Bernie Sanders. Marx would’ve spit on him. Uncle Joe would’ve put one in the back of his head and kicked him into a shallow grave. Frederic Engles called him a “multifarious social quack” pg.5 Manifesto
http://www.slp.org/pdf/marx/comm_man.pdf
There has never been a justice system built to deal with this depth of wickedness we currently see in the republic.
Karl Marx’s failed 19th century cult of leftism has many brand names.
DNC = CPUSA Communists = NAZI Socialists = KGB = TOTALITARIANISM
The Soviets planted the seeds for our eventual overthrow decades ago. Khrushchev referred to it when he said they “would bury” us. It was a long-range plan.
I laughed out loud when I read a comment by some democRAT in Iowa yesterday. He said he was done supporting ButtPlug because he just realized he was gay.
How could you not know that ButtPlug wasn't gay if you were supporting him?
Everybody knows he's gay.
You still around? You have great stories on this.
Pres. Trump spent some time crushing the commies and the Dims actions supporting them in his SOTU speech, including introducing the real president of Venezuela.
This utterly misses the point. We all know about socialism. The problem is not what you are running against. We get that. What is it you’re running FOR? What do you want to DO? Global cronyism masquerading as free market capitalism is not serving folks well. Some of us think America First, Brexit, etc. is the answer. Others go for socialism. It isn’t my cup of tea, but you are not going to defeat socialism with the witches brew that the WSJ has been backing either.
And here in the US under FDR. People should read: FDR’s Folly a history of his malfeasance during the Depression and how he deepened it with his socialistic policies.
Bkmrk.
When sane rational people see the plans that these commies have in store for America,they’ll pull the lever for Trump.
Aye, there’s the rub. Rational common sense people are in short supply these days.
BTT
I don’t want to be any dumber than I already am.
I would love to have been able to take these jackass, socialist loving, fools to the old east-west German border and shown those fools exactly what REAL socialism was like. These fools simply do not know what they think they are voting for. Fools.
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