Posted on 02/27/2020 7:31:33 PM PST by karpov
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Now I have to decide if I’d support Bernie Sanders over Trump.
We all start from personal experience. I covered the Soviet Union in its final decrepit years. The Soviet and allied regimes had already slaughtered 20 million people through things like mass executions and intentional famines. Those regimes were slave states. They enslaved whole peoples and took away the right to say what they wanted, live where they wanted and harvest the fruits of their labor.
And yet every day we find more old quotes from Sanders apologizing for this sort of slave regime, whether in the Soviet Union, Cuba or Nicaragua. He excused the Nicaraguan communists when they took away the civil liberties of their citizens. He’s still making excuses for Castro.
To sympathize with these revolutions in the 1920s was acceptable, given their original high ideals. To do so after the Hitler-Stalin pact, or in the 1950s, is appalling. To do so in the 1980s is morally unfathomable.
I say all this not to cancel Sanders for past misjudgments. I say all this because the intellectual suppositions that led him to embrace these views still guide his thinking today. I’ve just watched populism destroy traditional conservatism in the G.O.P. I’m here to tell you that Bernie Sanders is not a liberal Democrat. He’s what replaces liberal Democrats.
Traditional liberalism traces its intellectual roots to John Stuart Mill, John Locke, the Social Gospel movement and the New Deal. This liberalism believes in gaining power the traditional way: building coalitions, working within the constitutional system and crafting the sort of compromises you need in a complex, pluralistic society.
This is why liberals like Hubert Humphrey, Ted Kennedy and Elizabeth Warren were and are such effective senators. They worked within the system, negotiated and practiced the art of politics.
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David Brooks is not right about anything.
This ***hole is also on my Airport List.
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Socialism is liberalism.
Yes, he is the end of “liberlism”
The end product that is.
The same for Ted Kennedy, who I can never forgive for making deals with Yuri Andropov when Andropov was head of the KGB.
David Brooks is the token “conservative” at the NYT.
He’s really a liberal.
$%^# u and your ego Brooks. Destroy the country just because you don’t like a guy huh? $#$% off arrogant New York @#$#@@@.
I would say David Brooks is really stupid but, that would be redundant, since he already knows...
Bernie 2020!
Sanders is where the DemocRats were heading anyway.
If capitalism precedes socialism and communism, liberalism is its enabling catalyst all along the process
No kidding.
David Brooks WILL vote for Bernie Sanders over Donald Trump and you can bank that.
Now that Crash and Bernie Sanders has opened the kimono on the Democrats’ real intentions, they’re scattering like cockroaches.
He greatly downplays the deaths caused by communism, it is closer to 100 million, not 20 million.
Stalin killed 4 million in 1932-33 in Ukraine alone.
Mao killed 50-60 million.
The goal for 30 years by both parties has been to import enough people to outvote the citizens, turn the USA into North Mexico and subsume it to the UN.
That’s what drives Bush League Republicans and Democrats.
If a socialist movement overthrows our government from within then we will need to defend ourselves
Absolute government control (socialism) never serves liberty and justice, only death to any opposition
Liberalism, socialism....same thing.
RINO David Brooks
writing in a liberal newspaper
saying that Sanders the communist is bad
while saying that Warren the communist is good
I feel just a little bit dumber after reading this.
C’mon, Brooks. You know you’d vote for a communist over Trump. Who are you kidding?
What’s the matter? Not impressed by the drool on the crease of his trousers?
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