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February 27, 2020
Bernie Sanders: Last Step in America's Slide to Socialism?
By Fletch Daniels

There can no longer be any doubt that Bolshevik Bernie Sanders is a runaway freight train with the Democrat establishment tied to the tracks in front of him near a stop called Super Tuesday.

Sanders absolutely steamrolled the field in Nevada, creating the sadly funny optic of Joe Biden celebrating like it was 1999, apparently thrilled that Sanders won only around 2.5 times as many votes as he did.

If Sanders can keep his Havana daydreaming under control, he will sail to the convention with the lion's share of the delegates provided by actual voters. Considering the voting coalition he pulled together in Nevada and the laws of political momentum, it is a good bet he may secure a majority of delegates and not just a plurality.

Democrats are almost out of time to change the trajectory of the race, although it remains to be seen if Sanders fantasizing about Cuban literacy rates slows him down. Some Democrats are begging the New York Nondisclosure Agreement to carpet bomb the airwaves and social media with attacks on Sanders knowing that if Sanders sails into the convention with a significant lead, they will be left holding a menu with a couple of equally horrible choices, the political equivalent of Brussels sprouts or liver and onion.

Their hope to pull off a convention bait and switch works only if somebody can keep the delegate count close. But who can pull it off? Mike Bloomberg? Not without a charisma transplant and the removal of layers of baggage. So far, he and Shrill Indian have combined to net one more delegate than is currently in the hands of the candidate from Minnesota who nobody has noticed is in the race. Joe Biden? He was last seen fantasizing about running for the Senate, even as his South Carolina firewall is fraying. Pious Pete, the Bible "scholar"? Sanders could not have hand-selected a better field of awful candidates to propel him.

At this point, suggestions to stop Sanders range from the fanciful to the absurd, with Joe Scarborough winning first prize for stupidest suggestion when he indicated it was time for Shrill Indian to drop out to help stop the Bolshevik, apparently surmising that her core of socialist voters can't wait to help Mike get it done.

An increasing number of Democrat talking heads are resigning themselves to the Sanders storm rolling in and trying to prepare the ground to receive its rain. Liberal revisionists have tried out two lines while the race is still somewhat in play: the Paul Krugman he's not really a crazy Marxist...he just plays one on TV special and the one about vote for Bernie because he won't be able to do the crazy stuff he has promised. These are political losers, but they are just the warm-up act for the socialism revisionism to come. Today's Democrat Sanders critics will soon pivot to singing homilies to socialism.

What we are going to be hearing ad nauseam is that Sanders is for a kinder and gentler form of Democrat socialism like what we see under Scandinavian skies in places like Denmark. Bernie loves to talk about how he wants to turn America into Denmark while spitting out proposals that would make old-school Soviets blush.

His Denmark delusion is hampered by the simple fact that Denmark is not a socialist country. Denmark ranked higher on the Heritage Foundation's Index of Economic freedom (12th) than the U.S. (18th).

The Prager Institute nailed it when it said Denmark is a "small capitalist country (and the size and population of Maryland) whose citizens pay oodles in taxes in exchange for oodles in benefits." The only redeeming feature that allows the sky-high taxes and benefits is the Danes' capitalism. Cut that leg off their stool, and they would be the Cuba that so enamors Sanders.

With his Denmark fetish, one can picture Sanders playing the role of Hamlet, holding one of any number of skulls of those people killed by Marxist regimes, muttering, "To be a Marxist country. That is the answer."

America's Hamlet is preaching societal collapse, and even some of the Democrats know it, which is why they pulled the "go ahead and vote for him because he can't do his crazy stuff anyway" argument off the shelf.

So how did we get to the point where the nation founded by champions of liberty is on the cusp of nominating a man who is a fellow ideological traveler with history's greatest foes of liberty? The Democrats have been on a steady march toward this Marxist moment for generations.

Ronald Reagan, in one of the greatest American orations, delivered back in 1964, saw that we were heading toward the moment, noting that "back in 1936, Mr. Democrat himself, Al Smith, the great American, came before the American people and charged that the leadership of his Party was taking the Party of Jefferson, Jackson, and Cleveland down the road under the banners of Marx, Lenin, and Stalin."

We are now 84 years past that 1936 Al Smith epiphany, and we are nearing the finish line, which is not surprising, since socialism is the natural destination for big-government Democrats as each successive generation ups the ante on the generation that came before.

My first direct run-in with Marxism came in college in the late 1990s when I was working on a master's degree. My first professor proudly declared himself a Marxist, which struck me as bizarre. But I soon realized that all my professors and most of my fellow students were also Marxists and that I was the real outlier. Since I had gone to a service academy for my undergraduate degree, I missed the memo that Marxism was cool, although it is now also seeping into military schools since many rely on the same pool of propaganda-pounding professors.

Most Americans don't yet appreciate just how much Marxism and its grievance-mongering offshoots have become the university mainstream in America, but this is of profound importance. America's colleges, with a few notable exceptions, have been churning out Marxists for decades, which is why an old Marxist who looks like a madman is this year's surprise hot political commodity.

The short-term problem for Democrats is that there are still too many older voters they need with an understanding of history who are horrified at the prospect of socialism.

But the long-term problem for Republicans is that the balance is tilting farther toward Marxism with each passing year as academia continues to crank out Marxist voters and influencers who are changing the ideological balance of society. Even if Sanders gets demolished in the 2020 election, Democrats will not tack to the center, since socialism is now the beating heart of their party. Sanders's candidacy is the outcome of this tectonic shift, not the cause of it.

Younger Americans, particularly those who cycled through American universities, have already been so thoroughly indoctrinated that most will not find their way back, which means that their number will continue to grow. They are like a cult of zombies that cannot be reasoned with in any real sense. Meanwhile, the media will work overtime selling socialism to the broader public.

A Sanders failed run will make it that much easier for the next socialist to run and win, since it will help to normalize the concept. Sanders's success serves as a warbling warning siren that America may be approaching its socialist moment.

The see-saw nature of politics means that the soil will likely be fertile for a Marxist to win in the near future, likely as early as 2024. Should that happen, America will be well on its way to becoming something irreversibly rotten under the false pretense of creating a larger state of Denmark.

Read more: https://www.americanthinker.co...m.html#ixzz6FA81ytgG



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[V]ote for Bernie because he won't be able to do the crazy stuff he has promised ....


That was exactly what many Germans believed about Hitler before he took over. Change the name, and that statement could have been lifted directly from any number of histories about the Nazi rise to power.




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— Immanuel Kant
 
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In this drifting blue state of Colorado, I live in an age restricted apartment with over 200 residents.

Getting close to the election, I will be visiting with the Democratic tenants urging them to stay home on election day to show the Democratic party that they must correct the drift to full blown Socialism that is certain to bankrupt their children.

The real purpose is to protect our Republican Senator Gardener as I believe that Trump will not need my help to retain the presidency.


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List: Democrats saying what a terrible nominee Bernie Sanders would be




Add Tom Friedman to this list...



Longtime New York Times columnist Tom Friedman is calling on Democratic Party "elders" like former President Obama to bring some maturity to the 2020 primary process after Tuesday's debate.

Friedman took particular aim at Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., who he said only represented a portion of the party and couldn't govern effectively or win elections with that type of leadership.

"There's got to be some kind of gathering of the elders of the party -- whether it's [Chuck] Schumer and [Nancy] Pelosi or President Obama, I don't know who, has got to come together," Friedman told CNN on Wednesday.

"These people need some adult leadership here right now. If you watched that debate last night, if you watch the last few debates, it was squabbling children. It was really frightening, it was not uplifting, it was not reassuring."

Friedman was just the latest person to express serious concern over the direction of the Democratic Party.

After Tuesday's debate, Democratic strategist James Carville argued that Sanders wasn't interested in actually winning the 2020 presidential election.

"Bernie Sanders says he's going to ban all fracking, so he's banning any chance of doing anything particularly in western and central Pennsylvania. Last time I checked, Florida is a key state, then you say something nice about Castro," he said on MSNBC, referring to Sanders' defense of Cuban dictator Fidel Castro.

"You're not trying to win the election. If you're not trying to win Pennsylvania, [and] you're not trying to win Florida, then maybe Arizona is the answer," he added. "But why would you do that? I mean, it doesn't make any sense -- you're not going to ban fracking. Castro is dead -- why are you even defending him? He's not trying to win, he's trying to make a point and that's what scares me."



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You will notice very few of them are saying they don't agree with him... they just don't think he can win




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Hillary Clinton, Democratic nominee for president in 2016:

"He was in Congress for years. He had one senator support him. Nobody likes him, nobody wants to work with him, he got nothing done. He was a career politician. It's all just baloney, and I feel so bad that people got sucked into it."

The Hollywood Reporter, January 21, 2020


It's surprising to be surprised by something this vile POS of a human says, but that statement (emphasis mine), from her, is just rich. She's out of her goddamn mind.
 
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Hahahahahahaaaaaaa

Actual news headline a few minutes ago:

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Huge numbers of ticks are wreaking havoc on the moose population in Vermont.


Or, the best description of Socialism I've heard in a while. How delightfully apropos right meow.

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I read that one of the first things the newly elected Bernie Sanders did as Mayor of Burlington, VT was to hang the flag of the USSR on the wall in his office.

Nope. Not a Commie at all. No sir. Roll Eyes


 
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"Bernie needs to understand"

https://twitter.com/FrancisBre.../1233154256636653569

"The party decides its nominee. The public doesn't really decide the nominee"

according to Anton Gunn, a former adviser to President Obama

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/...-not-voters-n2562125
 
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Here's a Devastating, Little-Known Story About Bernie Sanders. Why Haven't His Rivals Exploited It?

FTA -- ... (1) In 1998, then-Rep. Sanders cosponsored a bill that would allow Vermont and Maine to dump their nuclear waste in a poor and largely Latino town in Texas called Sierra Blanca.

(2) A Texas Observer article in 1998 covered protestors from Sierra Blanca confronting Rep. Sanders and being given the stiff arm. The story’s headline was “Sanders to Sierra Blanca: Drop Dead.” Sanders even rebuffed an offer to visit Sierra Blanca, telling its residents, “Absolutely not. I’m gonna be running for re-election in the state of Vermont.”

(3) Liberal hero Paul Wellstone—an actual progressive Democrat—gave a speech on the Senate floor calling this dump “environmental racism.” Former Texas Democratic Rep. Silvestre Reyes called Sanders actions “insanely callous.”

(4) After Congress approved the proposal, environmental regulators rejected the Sierra Blanca site. But a different site in Andrews County, Texas gained approval a few years later and Vermont/Texas maintain an interstate waste agreement.

(5) In 2016, Sanders’ tax returns revealed that as of 2014 Jane Sanders was still drawing a small salary as an alternate commissioner for the Texas Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Compact Commission as part of the agreement with Vermont that her husband pushed...




From back in the day, Bernie - street fightin' man.





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https://youtu.be/dgLxKLJBFOw



Sanders Pretty Much Tells Rust Belt Workers He's Ready to Brutalize Them

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/...e-rust-belt-n2561597

"the scientists are telling us" translation: I have no frigging idea what I am talking about
 
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This is how the DNC will de rail Crazy Bernie:


Bernie Sanders is hiding key data on his heart health, cardiologist says

February 27, 2020

Democrat presidential frontrunner Bernie Sanders suffered a heart attack on the campaign trail in October that left him with two arterial stents, according to the BBC. Since then, the Vermont senator has tried to downplay any suggestions that he may be too ill to run the country by releasing what he called a “full report” on his health post-heart attack — but now, one doctor says Sanders is keeping a crucial piece of his health record secret from the public.

According to the Washington Examiner, Dr. Richard Kovacs, president of the American College of Cardiology (ACC), told NBC News this week that one “‘standard’ indicator of heart health” is missing from Sanders’ records.

The Examiner reported:

The indicator, called the left ventricular ejection fraction, measures how much blood volume the heart pushes out with one heartbeat and correlates with the risk for future cardiac-related incidents.

Key measurement

According to Kovacs, the “left ventricular ejection fraction” is a standard piece of information given to patients after a heart attack. But as of yet, he said, the Sanders campaign hasn’t offered the number up.

“Normally the heart will push out 60%,” Kovacs, who reviewed letters from Sanders’ doctors about the candidate’s overall health, explained in an exclusive interview with NBC. “If you go down to 40 or 50%, we regard that as mild impairment of the left ventricle. Thirty to 40% would be moderate. If you get to 30%, that would be severe.”

Kovacs said the letters from Sanders’ doctors “imply with the heart attack that he had diminished heart muscle strength,” meaning a lowered fraction. Still, the letters seemed to acknowledge that Sanders’ heart health has improved since the October incident, Kovacs said, according to NBC.

Full transparency

But that apparent improvement hasn’t satisfied all voters. “Full transparency would be to release his ejection fraction,” Dr. Hadley Wilson, a board trustee for the ACC and cardiologist at North Carolina’s Sanger Heart and Vascular Institute, told NBC, adding that he doesn’t “really know” why Sanders would hide it.

“It is an important baseline,” he said. “But it does have to be taken into the whole clinical context.”

Wilson also noted that “a subsequent stress test in January and the other information about [Sanders’] clinical response were all very positive and encouraging.” But according to Kovacs, releasing this last measurement could finally put to rest lingering questions about Sanders’ health.

“It’s a patient’s personal private information, but there’s the importance of the number,” he told NBC.
Looking forward

Whether Sanders heeds the call to release that vital heart health metric remains to be seen — but based on his remarks at a CNN town hall on Tuesday, it looks like the 78-year-old senator isn’t in a rush to disclose any further information.

“I think we have released a detailed medical report,” Sanders said, according to the Washington Examiner, “and I’m comfortable on what we have done.”

https://www.conservativeinstit...-health-cardiologist


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When I see him go into one of his angry rants during a debate, I think to myself this not good for a 78 year old with a bad heart.



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When I see him go into one of his angry rants during a debate, I think to myself this not good for a 78 year old with a bad heart.


Just try to imagine what Trump will do to him in a debate.


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When I see him go into one of his angry rants during a debate, I think to myself this not good for a 78 year old with a bad heart.


Just try to imagine what Trump will do to him in a debate.


Sure the old sympathy vote from the on air heart attack. It works every time.


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When I see him go into one of his angry rants during a debate, I think to myself this not good for a 78 year old with a bad heart.


Just try to imagine what Trump will do to him in a debate.

Like what Robot wanted to do on Lost In Space; "Crush, Kill, DESTROY!". Sanders might very well croak on the debate stage.




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^^^^^ Wouldn't that tax only apply to income above $29,000?


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