Vintage Bernie footage shows now-presidential candidate praising breadlines, communist nations

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  1. Zorro

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    Only Blacks get reparations? Why is that?
     
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    In all fairness to Bern, He hasn't bought into the Idea yet.

    The details are yet to be worked out. They haven't figured out how to redistribute what they will demand.
    Like if you are a basketball player making more than 10 million a year, you might get a little less, or something maybe you know.
     
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    I gladly pay reparations to each and every slave I've ever held.
     
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    Careful, they are likely to trace your ancestry back 400 years and find that you owe for each one plus interest
     
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    Nope.
     
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    He has MODEST WEALTH in comparison to the vast majority who have served in congress as long as him.
     
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    Yup.
     
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    He is cool. He will make a fantastic president
     
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    Florida can electorally be a fairly important state. Look for the rest of the Dems to condemn Maduro for doing Socialism wrong.

    Socialism is only successful if it can blood suck from Free Markets. Most lefty garbage is virtue signaling. Look at what a GREAT Person I am! I want to give everyone free stuff!

    And of course they have to use force and theft to bring about this "Utopian Paradise!" Why? Because individuals won't do it on their own. In the mind of the "Progressive" this is because people are bad, though they firmly believe they can perfect these bad people through threats, coercion and brute force.

    These people are crazy.
     
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    Anyone who could muster up support for a POS such as Trump is not a good person at their core. No one with a moral compass could bring themselves to stand behind such a self-serving waste of human DNA.
     
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    Well, that is one explanation for why some people would consider something that happened 31 Years Ago to be a "Current Event".

    Must be a Trumpist Thing?

    As far as the OP?

    The sort of people that would care wouldn't be voting for Bernie anyway.
     
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    Where's the left's outrage over Venezuelan dictator Maduro's slaughter of Indians?

    The Maduro regime conducted an authentic massacre against Native Americans Indians for trying to receive food aid from Brazil. Why is the Left so strangely silent?
     
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    Just as I thought, you don't know what you're talking about
    Wealth Redistribution - show where that is what socialism is about
    Fun fact - the rich WERE taxed 70% in the "good ole days"......and still stayed rich. In fact THOSE guys made it a crime to take your business out of the US
    Free college tuition......so what. You're just mad because you (maybe) have already paid.
     
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    The rates were 70% but few actually paid that.
     
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    Exactly. He wants class warfare without actually understanding how taxes and the economy actually work. Especially when it comes to the wealthy, who already pay more than their fair share.
     
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    No you can't argue with the right because socialism fails every time. And the right knows that. the reason you can't argue is because you have no ground to stand on you have already lost if you support socialism. and that's all socialism Democratic socialism

    The reason you can't argue is because you can't hoodwink people on the right with socialism.
     
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    Bernie's points is that bread lines were a good thing because in other countries, the poor would starve without any bread lines. He saw the bread lines as a positive service for the poor. And that actually makes some sense.

    He also pointed out that the public transit in Moscow was very good. It is a good point that the government can handle public transportation well. He also complemented the palaces of culture they had, and their youth programs. He praised the Soviets for these specific programs, not their whole government in general.

    I looked at his comments on Nicaragua. He was very clear that he didn't support the government, but that the US was wrong to keep overthrowing governments in Latin America and using out military influence to help our corporations there. To be honest, the US has a very shady history in Latin America that doesn't get mentioned in history classes.

    I am not a Bernie supporter, but trying to spin his words to create fear is just morally reprehensible.
     
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    Yeah, and?....It's generally considered good manners to have a modicum of understanding regarding the topic on which you speak.

    "The term 'democratic socialism' is sometimes used synonymously with 'socialism', but the adjective 'democratic' is sometimes used to distinguish democratic socialists from Marxist–Leninist-inspired socialism which to some is viewed as being non-democratic in practice.[4][5] Democratic socialists oppose the Stalinist political system and Soviet economic model, rejecting the perceived authoritarian form of governance and highly centralized command economy that took form in the Soviet Union in the early 20th century."

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_socialism
     
  21. Polydectes

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    Well Venezuela is a democratic socialism as was Nazi Germany.

    So electing a dictator is better than a monarchy or an appointed dictator? Fat lot of difference that makes.
     
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    People that talk about this sorr of thing rarely have much understanding of it.
     
  23. Ericb760

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    If you can't tell the difference between what Sanders is selling and Venezuela and Nazi Germany, you have a lot of reading to do. Please get on it.
     
  24. Polydectes

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    It isn't any different. Venezuela is just the future of it.

    I know more than you about it. Or I'm not as stupid as you need me to be to say " duh yep it's different for some reason".

    Maybe go hoodwink people who are dumber it more self centered that's the constituency of whatever adjective you want to put in front of socialism.
     
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    Then keep building your strawman, but don't be surprised when people's eyes glaze over every time you shout "But,Venezuela!!!!"
     

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