As much as Villalba may claim he was only parroting Sanders, he must know what’s implied when you post a series of statements that ties a presidential candidate to an institution that murdered millions of innocent people.
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“Congress doesn’t regulate Wall Street”, Sanders said to a wave of cheers that echoed through Rose Music Hall. So, therefore, he’s seen among the Republican field, among the Democrat field as the outsider and that’s always appealing.
It’s an opening to attack President Obama’s narrative of an ongoing economic recovery. Their dissatisfaction is so strong that it has fueled actual outsiders – those who have no prior experience in office – not just those who disagree on policy with the Washington insiders. How can any socialist win a general election in the you United States?
Sean Casey, a fifth-year history student, said he organized Bruins for Bernie with other UCLA supporters to help interested students become involved in Sanders’ campaign. And even in Sanders’ social democracy, while people would be guaranteed health care and college education, they would not be guaranteed the right to a job, or the right to affordable housing, rights you will find in an actual socialist country such as Cuba. That said, here’s a rough attempt to sketch what it means to be a socialist.
One of the most riveting moments of Tuesday night’s Democratic primary debate came when CNN’s Anderson Cooper asked Sen.
Sanders and Hillary Clinton, the Democratic front-runner, agree on the big questions about the economy, but there are differences in their views, a few of which they discussed in the debate Tuesday night.
SANDERS: “Well, we’re going to win because first, we’re going to explain what democratic socialism is”. If he were younger, more charismatic and less weird, he’d do even better. When I interviewed him back in July, I asked him what it means to be a socialist, and he was quick to correct me. “When you have a command economy, when everything is dictated from one authority, that’s socialism, but it doesn’t come easily to those who resist it”. Much, if not all, of Democratic domestic policy falls within that definition. In fact, they actively oppose it, and it’s getting worse by the day.
This “new” liberal appeared on the national stage in the person of Jimmy Carter, and has utterly dominated the Democrat Party ever since. Contrary to the impression one might get from the media, however, that is precisely the role of self-described “democratic socialist” Bernie Sanders as well.
The Republican presidential candidate linked Sen.
The legacy of that era is still with us in a number of widely popular federal programs that are socialist in design even if most Americans don’t recognize them as such. In other words, the amount each worker in those countries produces in a given amount of time has improved more in those countries than it has here.
These reckless demagogues uttered nary a word about the national debt, the impending insolvency of Social Security and Medicare or how they would pay for these freebies. Of course, we have to support small and medium-sized businesses. And certainly appealing to voters who aren’t, who don’t follow politics as closely, or aren’t as engaged so they hear messages like this and perhaps want to know more. The talk of socialists and capitalists is really a distraction for this much more specific clash between different kinds of Democrats.
They routinely disparage conservatives as uncompassionate and portray themselves as superior and caring, but they have no answer to the hard reality that all their grandiose plans diminish prosperity and individual liberty across the board. Limiting college tuition and other benefits to the people who need them most would be less expensive.
That, my friends, is not compassion.
“The Nazis were never democrats and never real socialists either”. In fact, the nonvoter tends to be much more working class than middle class, much more Black and Brown than White, much more poor than financially comfortable. They still blame George W. Bush. If you were hoping to see Bernie and Rand face off in a head-to-head battle of issues no other candidates will cover, you might as well hope both somehow get their respective parties’ nominations, because Bernie will not debate Rand unless it’s required of him. His latest book is “Jesus on Trial: A Lawyer Affirms the Truth of the Gospel”.
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David Limbaugh is a writer, author and attorney.
