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Bernie Sanders’ Communist Party ‘Flirtation’
Epoch Times ^ | February 22, 2020 | Trevor Loudon

Posted on 02/23/2020 8:13:57 AM PST by karpov

President Donald Trump says that he thinks presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is a communist. Bernie Sanders says he isn’t. The head of the Communist Party USA, Joe Sims, agrees with Sanders. After studying Sanders for more than a decade now, I agree with President Trump.

Bernie Sanders is a creature of Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). They’ve funded and manned his election campaigns. They’ve propagandized for him and supported him for well over 30 years now. Sanders would be nothing without the DSA. And they’re definitely small “c” communists.

But what about big “C” communists. The Communist Party USA, for example?

While the DSA is Sanders’ greatest love, he has also occasionally flirted with the DSA’s best friends in the Communist Party. Aside from a little jealousy, there was no great conflict here. The two organizations have collaborated for decades and share some cross-membership. Their policy positions are almost identical. The DSA’s more innocuous name does, however, make it a little easier to work inside churches, the Democratic Party, and other organizations.

Even as student in Chicago in the early 1960s, Sanders worked for a time for the Communist Party-controlled United Packinghouse Workers Union.

Sanders’ communist flirtation got a little more serious in the late 1980s.

A notice was placed in the Maoist-leaning newspaper the Guardian (NY) on Nov. 8, 1989, concerning an upcoming U.S. Peace Council 10th anniversary national conference. The U.S. Peace Council was a front for the Communist Party USA and an affiliate of the Soviet-controlled World Peace Council.

Mayor Sanders addressed the event, as did long-time Communist Party ally Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.), former Communist Party leader Jack O’Dell of the Rainbow Coalition, Zehdi Terzi of the terrorist Palestine Liberation Organization, and Gunther Drefahl of the communist East German Peace Council.

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: berniecommunist; berniesanders; communist; sanders

1 posted on 02/23/2020 8:13:57 AM PST by karpov
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To: karpov

CPUSA ‘endorsed’ Obama


2 posted on 02/23/2020 8:15:14 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Everyone knows Hillary was corrupt, lied, destroyed documents, and influenced witnesses. Rat crime.)
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To: a fool in paradise

Seeing Bernie bumperstickers on cars in sanctuary Hillsborough County, FL in preparation for the March 17 Presidential Preference Primary. Ballots here are in two languages everyone gets to vote and the Democrats always win. For the illegals and their spawn, Tampa is like hitting the lottery. Can’t wait to leave. Secession movement is taking too long. Bifurcated USA is the only solution. Thinking about Japan.


3 posted on 02/23/2020 8:32:19 AM PST by 4Runner
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To: karpov

It’s got to be great fun for the Democrat candidate campaigns to be arguing this weekend about how they are going to best angrily denounce Sanders as a communist and Bloomburg as an oligarch for the next two weeks and then figure out how to spend the rest of the year telling the country that one of them is going to be the best thing for America without ruining their own political brands.


4 posted on 02/23/2020 8:34:39 AM PST by jz638
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To: karpov

So Sanders is more of a NAZI than a Commie. Got it.


5 posted on 02/23/2020 8:39:37 AM PST by LittleBillyInfidel (This tagline has been formatted to fit the screen. Some content has been edited.)
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To: karpov

The LAST thing the CPA wants is to be identified with a loser Communist. They like lurking in the shadows, a club of ancient geezers and childish college students, sitting in cafes, discussing how they would do it better that the USSR and the CCP and the DPRK and Castro and Venezuela... They would still slaughter all the kulaks, but, you understand...


6 posted on 02/23/2020 8:41:00 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: karpov

LIBERALISM
You have 2 cows.
The State takes both cows, slaughters them for their own food,
and taxes you to death for worthless social programs, for having
the animals originally.

PROGRESSIVISM
You have 2 cows.
Progs advocate for advancements in science, technology,
economic development and social organization, but they’re so full
of bullshit, nothing ever changes.
You still have 2 cows.

SOCIALISM
You have 2 cows.
The State forces you to give one to your neighbor, shoots the neighbor
and forces you to milk them both, giving all milk back to the state.
The State gives you a cup of sour milk.

LEFTISM
You have 2 cows.
The State terrrorizes the animals until they can’t produce milk,
beats you and your wife to death, and puts your daughters & sons
into the Pedophile Nation, for the Epsteins, Weiners, Clintons etc.

MARXISM
You have 2 cows.
The government takes both and tosses you into a hog pen, where you’re
devoured and never found.

COMMUNISM
You have 2 cows.
The State takes both and gives you nothing.
They shoot your family and put you in a gulag.

DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISM
You have 2 cows.
The State takes both, promises more free cows, lets you vote and gives you sour milk.

FASCISM
You have 2 cows.
The State takes both and sells you some milk.

NAZISM
You have 2 cows.
The State takes both and shoots your wife and kids.

ANARCHISM
You have 2 cows.
The State shoots the cows, you and your family.

CRONY CAPITALISM
You have two cows.
The State takes both, milks, slaughters them, and makes a tidy profit from the sale
of choice meat cuts and fresh milk.
You get some lousy hamburger and a jar of sour milk.

BUREAUCRATISM
You have 2 cows.
The State takes both, shoots one, hires a sub-contractor to milk the other, and then throws the milk away.

CONTEMPORARY WALL STREETISM
You have two cows.
You sell one, bundle the other with a goat, a mule,
and two dry cows.
You pile into the derivatives market, buy a Gulfstream
and when it all comes down around your ears...
You go to the government for a bailout.

TRADITIONAL CAPITALISM
You have two cows.
You sell one and buy a bull.
Your herd multiplies, and the economy grows.
You sell them and retire on the income.


7 posted on 02/23/2020 9:01:28 AM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: karpov

How about this?
There was/is a NEVER TRUMP movement
Well, how about a NEVER BERNIE movement! (YES)


8 posted on 02/23/2020 9:07:10 AM PST by hapnHal
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To: hapnHal

NEVER COMMUNISM movement
Everyone is in agreement with NEVER NAZISM

Why is it so difficult for the Left to denounce Communism?


9 posted on 02/23/2020 9:23:17 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Everyone knows Hillary was corrupt, lied, destroyed documents, and influenced witnesses. Rat crime.)
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To: karpov
Bernie Sanders’ Communist Party ‘Flirtation’

Flirtation? He dated it, got married, took a honeymoon and started raising children. The only thing he didn't do was take its last name.

10 posted on 02/23/2020 9:40:15 AM PST by KarlInOhio (Democrats couldn't count a Siskel and Ebert vote, but they'll still try with those dead Chicagoans.)
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To: carriage_hill

Spot on well done should be a poster on every government building.


11 posted on 02/23/2020 9:48:11 AM PST by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: karpov

Silly me, I still don’t see a difference between a socialist and a communist, except that communists called themselves socialists until they start murdering a bunch of people.


12 posted on 02/23/2020 10:12:21 AM PST by Blue Collar Christian (I'm a nationalist.I'm white.Does that mean I'm racist?)
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To: karpov
"Bernie Sanders’ Communist Party ‘Flirtation’

Well, actually I'd say Bernie hit that.

13 posted on 02/23/2020 12:38:30 PM PST by tinyowl
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

Ping.


14 posted on 02/23/2020 7:36:41 PM PST by Fedora
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To: carriage_hill

#7. I’m really “cowed” by your posting. And no bullshit in it either. Holy Cow mister. You’re on a roll and so are some unlucky cows now known as hamburgers. But hay, that’s life.

Nice post. Want fries with them cows?


15 posted on 02/23/2020 11:09:22 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: carriage_hill

ping to save


16 posted on 02/24/2020 12:21:33 AM PST by octex
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

Got curly or waffle fries? Sure.


17 posted on 02/24/2020 5:56:21 AM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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