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The Myth of Bernie Sanders’s Honesty
American Thinker.com ^ | February 19, 2020 | Selwyn Duke

Posted on 02/19/2020 8:46:12 AM PST by Kaslin

Love him or hate him, and avowed socialist Bernie Sanders does evoke extremes in feeling, even conservatives often credit him with being honest. They shouldn’t. Not only has the Vermont senator and presidential contender changed positions to capture today’s “woke” Democrat Party left flank, but there are three factors to be considered when assessing honesty, and Sanders fails in the most dangerous way possible.

Oh, he certainly possesses authentic passion. Sanders isn’t empty to the core, as an early Arkansas Democrat critic said of Bill Clinton; he’s not a full-fledged opportunist such as Queen of Mean Amy Klobuchar or Pistol Pete Buttigieg, whose Marxist father, unbelievably, was a founding member of the International Gramsci Society (you can’t make this stuff up!). Nonetheless, Sanders would certainly understand late comedian Lenny Bruce’s observation, “We’re all as honest as we can afford to be.”

First there are the obvious, Romney-esque flip-flops. Sanders used to take what was once a not uncommon liberal position on immigration: Warning of how foreigners could take jobs from American workers and lower their wages (the late head of the United Farm Workers union Cesar Chavez was a staunch opponent of illegal migration). Now he proposes decriminalizing border jumping, breaking up ICE and CBP and insists that free health care for illegals is a human right.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2020demprimary; berniesanders; demlies

1 posted on 02/19/2020 8:46:12 AM PST by Kaslin
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Bernie Sanders sounds just like a 60’s burned out hippy everything free was a big thing then the free lunch tribe do have kids and it’s what we see now.


2 posted on 02/19/2020 8:50:04 AM PST by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: Kaslin

Commies lie. That’s what they do.


3 posted on 02/19/2020 8:50:08 AM PST by WKUHilltopper
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To: WKUHilltopper

“Commies lie. That’s what they do.”

Absolutely correct!!


4 posted on 02/19/2020 8:51:03 AM PST by Nuke From Orbit
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To: Kaslin

Everytime I watch Bernie, I feel like I’m watching a SNL skit.


5 posted on 02/19/2020 8:52:58 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: Kaslin

6 posted on 02/19/2020 8:53:21 AM PST by Bon mots
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To: Kaslin

There is nothing admirable about this man. Nothing.


7 posted on 02/19/2020 8:54:02 AM PST by all the best (You)
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To: Vaduz

“Bernie Sanders sounds just like a 60’s burned out hippy...”
It’s my understanding he did not have a real job till 40 and he used to ‘borrow’ electricity from his neighbors apartment. You got that right, the burned out hippy.


8 posted on 02/19/2020 8:54:08 AM PST by duckman ( Not tired of winning!)
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To: Kaslin

Anyone, like Bernie for instance, who extols the utopian end of socialism/Marxism/Communism simply a huckster dealing in lies. Nobody should give Bernie any respect whatsoever.


9 posted on 02/19/2020 9:04:47 AM PST by RatRipper
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Who would POSSIBLY think that a professional politician, who has never worked a day in his life, could conceivably be honest?

If I ever had to shake hands with him, I'd check to see if I still had my watch, wallet and wedding ring, and count that I had all ten fingers...

10 posted on 02/19/2020 9:11:40 AM PST by jonascord (First rule of the Dunning-Kruger Club is that you do not know you are in the Dunning-Kruger club.)
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To: duckman

Yep they changed the word borrow to demand.


11 posted on 02/19/2020 9:16:56 AM PST by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: Kaslin
Sanders is 100% a con act. His entire politics is a schtick. It's insincere. It's not that he's dumb or mislead or naive. It's a conscious power and money grab, his spirit and mind are slave to his ego. He is a sociopath. Some of them are successful, most lead failed lives because they are detected and hence rejected.

Bernie flies mostly undetected, certainly he is undetected in his cult masquerading as a political movement.

The way to defeat him, not that we need any help this time around, is not to get distracted by debating his ideas, which are insincere and a mask, but to expose the small man behind the curtain - the selfish conman - the very opposite of an altruistic collectivist.

12 posted on 02/19/2020 9:19:34 AM PST by tinyowl
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Today Bernie has the monopoly on die-hard socialists, so he’s pretty much getting that entire crowd.

Eventually more slick (and more dangerous) die-hard socialists are going to come down the pike.


13 posted on 02/19/2020 9:21:24 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: tinyowl

Even though Bernie has no shot at POTUS, we must admit, that he has been the one that has done more to lay the groundwork eventually for socialism to take root in this country, if we are not vigilant. He has inspired many who will eventually infiltrate our government and institutions.


14 posted on 02/19/2020 9:23:30 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Kaslin

About as honest as Lenin and Marx.


15 posted on 02/19/2020 10:33:30 AM PST by 353FMG ( In Trump we trust.)
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To: Kaslin

If you understand that Bernie is a Communist then you can understand that Bernie is totally Honest in a Communist context.


16 posted on 02/19/2020 12:25:34 PM PST by arthurus (L|_|-l/\/|-li=::?<<-o)
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