Posted on 02/24/2020 3:55:52 PM PST by karpov
His attitudes toward Cuba are generating Monday's headlines, but Bernie Sanders's record on another communist authoritarian state, Nicaragua, might be even more problematic for the 2020 Democratic presidential front-runner.
Where Sanders supported the Castro regime with words, he spent the 1980s providing active logistical and moral support to the Sandinista regime in Nicaragua. Sanders and his supporters present this effort as simply humanitarian in nature — as support to an impoverished nation rising from the ashes of an authoritarian dictatorship.
But that's not the true story.
Consider what happened in 1986, for example, when Sanders, then the mayor of Burlington, Vermont, orchestrated a 500-ton aid delivery to the Sandinistas and established a sister-town relationship with the Caribbean coastal city of Puerto Cabezas.
It was a notable choice for Sanders's favor, in that Puerto Cabezas was then a stronghold for the Sandinistas' war on the native Miskito native peoples living nearby. That Sandinista campaign was a vintage communist authoritarian war for domination of land and eradication of individual freedoms. It was both merciless and deliberate. Defending the regime's atrocities, one Sandinista officer based in Puerto Cabezas told the New York Times, "They are enemies of the people."
Words straight from the lips of Lenin, Stalin, and Mao. Words which evidently didn't concern Sanders. As Philip Wegmann reports, Sanders's association with this ethnic cleansing is unlikely to go away.
It is worth noting the Nicaraguan counterpoint here. After all, the Reagan administration's support for the Contras was an equal moral outrage to Sanders's support for the Sandinistas. The Contras showed a terrible disdain for human rights. But the moral difference, as applied to Sanders, is that the Sandinistas were allies of America's preeminent Soviet adversary. Moreover, it is Sanders, not Reagan, who is presently running to become president of the United States.
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You are not wrong.
I wonder if this MSM all out effort to take Bernie out is going to backfire. Many of these people are still ticked they screwed Bernie the first time. We’ll know very soon.
It will backfire in that Sanders will win at least the plurality by convention time. However, if he doesn’t get the majority, it’s going to be tough for him. The super delegates control 800 delegates. Don’t see too many of the establishment voting for Sanders. I think many of the super delegates may be on sale to the highest bidder as well. Well see.
1 posted on 2/24/2020, 6:55:52 PM by karpov
To: karpov
You are not wrong.
You are correct. You both are "far, far away" from being 'NOT WRONG!'
I served in the Navy with the Contra Freedom Fighters.
My take is that they pushed the Cuban news out first so they can bury this far more devastating story. Don’t be fooled by the DNC or media being scared of Bernie winning the nomination. In fact, I believe that by June, everyone Democrat/MSM is going to endorse him because if Bernie is denied the nomination again, his base will eat Milwaukee alive and many will stay home in November.
Yes, I agree. The DNC knows that they cannot be seen screwing Bernie or his base will revolt and the rats will take a historic beat down. So I concur by June they will hedge their bets and start the process of re-imagining Bernie. You will a lot of this Socialist Democrat BS and how it’s an evolved great thing with all the bad stuff removed They would of course prefer to take him out and tri-angulate off of him paint the rat candidate as “reasonable moderate who will work for the American People” in other words the usual election year rat scam.
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