I can’t help but wonder how many of those now
cheering the fact that Bernie has once again decided to throw his hat in the
presidential ring have bothered to take any amount of time to look beyond all
of his promises of ‘free’ and at the rather bizarre history of the man. After all, he is running to be the president
of our country. I only ask because it
was back in 1985 that old Bernie actually praised countries where people
"line up for food," calling breadlines a "good thing." Now personally I would think that that might
kind of depend on whether you were one of those in line or not.
The video of Bernie making those comments resurfaced
on Tuesday after he had announced that he’s running for president in 2020. In
the interview from the mid-1980s, Bernie was asked about breadlines in
Nicaragua and his support for the socialist Sandinistas who ruled the country
at the time. He said, “You know, it's
funny, sometimes American journalists talk about how bad a country is because
people are lining up for food.” He added,
"That's a good thing. In other countries people don't line up for food.
The rich get the food, and the poor starve to death."
Sanders's presidential campaign will be his second
bid for the White House, after losing his Democrat primary bid to Hitlery in
2016. Still, despite losing, Bernie said that his more progressive stances
helped push the Democrat Party further to the left in the two years following
his loss. It was in an interview just last year that Bernie said, "I can
tell you very happily, and I think any objective observer would confirm what
I'm saying, is that in the last year and half or so, the Democratic Party has
moved in a far more progressive direction than they were before I ran for
president."
In an email to supporters on Tuesday morning, Bernie
announced that he will be resurrecting many of the positions he ran on in 2016. He wrote, “Our campaign is about transforming
our country and creating a government based on the principles of economic,
social, racial, and environmental justice.”
Bernie has campaigned on Medicare for All and a $15 minimum wage in the
past. I think this time around it will
be safe to assume that all manner of ‘free’ stuff will be offered, not only by
Bernie, but by all of those who will be running under the ‘Democrat’
banner.
Regarding ‘free’ stuff, of those who have already
made their intentions known, regarding 2020, all have made it quite clear that
they are not going to be the least bit shy about offering to any of those
willing to vote for them everything including the kitchen sink. The Democrat motto for the coming election
will likely be. “Free, Free, Free, and even more Free!” I have no doubt that what we’re about to see
from the Democrats will be an all-out competition to see who it is that offer
the most ‘free’ stuff to the most people in their effort to become the next
president.
As for Bernie, he has long been identified as a
Democratic Socialist, drawing praise from the more progressive wing of the
Democrat Party, including from presidential candidate Peter Buttigieg, now the
mayor of South Bend, Indiana, who wrote a prize-winning essay in high school
praising Bernie for his "energy, candor, conviction, and ability to bring
people together to stand against the current of opportunism, moral compromise,
and partisanship which runs rampant on the American political scene." Last time Buttigieg chose to support Hitlery,
maybe this time he’ll feel the ‘Bern.’
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