Posted on 02/21/2020 6:24:34 PM PST by karpov
WASHINGTON — In October 1985, a few months after Bernie Sanders traveled to Nicaragua to celebrate the sixth anniversary of that country's socialist revolution, the Soviet-backed government suspended the civil liberties of its citizens, including the rights to free speech, free assembly and labor strikes.
A few days later, Sanders, then the socialist mayor of Burlington, Vermont, received a pointed letter from a constituent. How, the letter-writer wanted to know, could Sanders continue to embrace a "another in a long line of dictatorships, whose only true concern is its length of stay in power"?
In a written reply, Sanders — who had praised Nicaragua's leaders upon his return from the trip — made no apologies. The Nicaraguan government was fighting a "brutal war" funded by the United States, he wrote, which made the situation "complex." Didn't the U.S. government, Sanders wrote, intern Japanese Americans during World War II? Didn't Lincoln curtail basic rights during the Civil War?
Thirty-five years later, Sanders is leading in national polls to become President Donald Trump's Democratic opponent in the 2020 election. Sanders has staked out positions that are clearly to the left of the rest of the field on trade, troop deployments and military action.
Both Republicans and Democrats are already using the c-word to blunt his appeal. In Wednesday night's Democratic debate, Mike Bloomberg described Sanders stance on wealth as "communist." Trump, meanwhile, has already called Sanders a Communist.
If Sanders wins the nomination, some Democrats worry that Trump and the Republicans will hammer him on long-buried words in defense of repressive governments in Nicaragua, Cuba and the Soviet Union.
Other critics argue that Sanders' record raises questions about his foreign policy judgment, and whether, after decades of denouncing America's use of force, he would continue the aggressive counterterrorism policies
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Lazy disgusting POS.
He’s been on the side of America’s enemies all his life.
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And so has NBCCBSABC “news”.
So they should get over it and stop shilling for the DNC
It won’t hurt him because his supporters are too ignorant of what socialism really does to people and countries.
If it looks like a duck...which it does.
[[Will Bernie Sanders’ long-ago praise of Socialist regimes hurt Democrats in November?]]
Noone even brought it up last time he ran i don’t think- they should have, but everyone was hush about it then-
Exactly!!!!
Exactly!!!!
Gosh, ya think?
There is a reason Bernie Bozo vacationed in the Soviet Union and not the top Socialist spots of Norway, Sweeden, Denmark, etc.
It is not as if Sanders’ “long-ago praise of Socialist regimes” does not reflect his current views. Sanders’ was and is a Commie.
funny how FakeNewsMSM aren’t at all concerned about Mini Mike’s close affinity with the Communist Chinese regime.
Since the Dems don’t want this guy, they ought to just let him be the nominee. He won’t ever run again after his defeat. Hopefully, our side will be awakened and gain us the House.
One would hope this information would destroy any chance of Bernie winning a general election. In any event, maybe Bernie’s followers should be called Sandernistas.
It is interesting that MSM organs are saying unkind things about socialist regimes and about domestic socialists. NBC must fear that overt socialism will lose the socialists both houses of Congress as well as the presidency and likely one or two more Justices and beaucoup judges. Time to take that one step backwards in order to preserve the possibility of that final leap forward that the Left has dreamed about since Mrs Bill was their anointed saviour.
The leftist media will certainly not mention a single word about bernie’s communist positions both past and present.
They hate you, folks and Donald Trump decided to pick up his shield and protect us for a while. We must have his back.
JoMa
Gee, ya think?
NBC wants an “open” socialist and a politburo, too, but it is way too soon for an open socialist to be running in an election. Bernie would set the cause back a few years by being the Candidate. The Left is pretty frantic right now because they thought in 2016 that they were over the top and would have it all in 2017 and could dispense with undirected elections and the Constitution. They saw it all slide away and are whirling about and crashing into walls as they scramble to pick up the pieces and force it through.
How funny would it be if a Russian-loving communist is the nominee after three years of the Russian hoax.
Do tell!
So long as Mini Mike might be the one to beat Trump, the news media will debase themselves so as to protect him and his chances. Plus, with good jobs in the field hard to find, who wants to antagonize one of the largest employers of journalists in the US.
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