Posted on 02/14/2020 1:49:24 PM PST by karpov
With a win in New Hampshire, a maybe-win in Iowa last week, and a month-long surge into second place nationally, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., is now in strong position to win the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination. It’s been a long road for the curmudgeonly man from Vermont, who spent years toiling on the fringes of official Washington. Of all things, the event that ultimately launched him into the Democratic Party’s mainstream turned out to be a binary 2016 primary contest with Hillary Clinton, a match-up in which the contrast ultimately benefited him more than her.
So, here we are, in February 2020, and a self-identified democratic socialist appears poised to be the candidate of the Democratic Party. That could easily change, and the party establishment will work hard to ensure it does, but let us not take for granted how stunning it is that a man as radically leftist as Sanders is the likely nominee as primary season heats up.
As Sanders and his supporters boast, he is not a normal Democrat candidate. He is the most radical member of the Senate. His platform would make him the furthest left major party nominee in the modern era.
Sanders is a European-style ideologue who seeks to radically transform the government and the economy, dismantling the system of free enterprise, and he’s not bashful about that. To be sure, his success has pushed other candidates left on issues such as health care and higher education, but Sanders still stands as the most radical candidate, which makes him the most appealing to many of his supporters.
As Sanders surges in the nominating contest, the sheer extremism of his platform should not be normalized simply because he’s earning a decent slice of the Democratic primary vote.
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1. $34 Trillion Socialized Health Insurance Overhaul
2. Mass Bailout of Student Loan Debt
3. Making Higher Education ‘Tuition Free’
4. Implementing ‘National Rent Control’
5. Instituting a Moratorium on Deportations
6. Effectively Abolishing ICE and CBP
7. Enacting a Green New Deal
8. Approaching Abortion as Population Control
9. Admiration for Dictators, Communists, and Bread Lines
10. Banning Hydraulic Fracking, Which Would Cripple the Economy
11. Issuing ‘Dozens’ of Sweeping Executive Orders to Implement Major Policies
12. Hiking Taxes, Even on the Middle Class
13. Making Taxpayers Fund Political Campaigns
14. Allowing Convicted Felons to Vote
15. Eliminating the Electoral College
16. Legalize Marijuana in the First 100 Days with Executive Action
17. Eliminating Nuclear Power
18. Nationalizing the Internet
19. Eliminate Billionaires
Sanders advocates MISERY for all but a few at the top.
People think he's a moderate because they're told by the media he's a moderate, and because he has a more soothing and calm demeanor than Bernie.
Yeah, well, he’s got to get past, ‘We The People’ first.
And we’re tired of going quietly to the train cars, Comrade Sanders!
20. Start a civil war
In other words like “Obama: We Are 5 Days From Fundamentally Transforming America” into United States of Stupidity.
Vote for Bernie in the primary.
He’s our best shot at getting the House back.
Make me desire BERNIE BERNIE BERNIE .... Those voting for him will be out in the open .....
Amerizuela. He’ll make Stalin’s birthday a national holiday and a memorial day for Che.
Lines for food are a good thing. Better than eating zoo animals I suppose - Venezuelan style.
Saw zebra on a menu once... in Scotland!
Eewww.
BKMK
I thinks this should be memorized so we can list them for our friends that are Democrats! Tell them what their news sources are not.
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Great list! I have a college pal who is now calling Sanders a “Moderate”. I told him that if Bernie is a Mod, that I have Kim Kardashian’s body and am engaged to the future King of Luxembourg!
Schweizer said, “I found that, really, over the course of 30 years, beginning when he was mayor of Burlington, VT, when he was in Congress, later, when he was in the U.S. Senate, he has steered lots of money to his family. Sometimes taxpayer money, sometimes campaign money. So, his family’s become quite wealthy through his public service.”
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Washington is no longer about lawmaking, it’s about moneymaking for the elites!
The Democrats have understood this for decades. Look how rich Pelosi, Biden, Kerry, Obama, Feinstein and Sanders became while in congress.
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