Bernie Sanders, a self-proclaimed democratic socialist in the mold of Northern European countries, to the murderous communist regimes of Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot, saying that “most of the times when socialism has been tried” there “has been mass genocide of people or any of those who object to it”.
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After the Hardball host was reluctant to declare an outright victor in Tuesday’s debate, he acknowledged “Hillary get’s the credit for winning the debate”. And after stumbling around for months trying to get her campaign out of the quagmire of missing emails and Benghazi investigations, she showed her debate skills are still intact. But the socialist rhetoric of Bernie Sanders and the Elizabeth Warren wing of the party is not a road to success or equality.
He’s where the party is headed. Secondly, and much more importantly, the direction the Democratic Party is drifting in.
“Quasi-“, Sanders agreed. “There are a few socialist programs”. Now it doesn’t bother anybody. The would-be nominee went on to insist that Americans needed to be reminded that every other “major country on earth” guarantees health care as a right, offers paid family leave and that the US far exceeds other countries in incarceration rates of people of color. “You can’t do that”. All the five candidates presented themselves a social-liberals, the first time that has happened in more than four decades. Because of the numbers. In fact, they actively oppose it, and it’s getting worse by the day.
“Does anyone here think I’m a strong adherent of the North Korean form of government?” You look at these polls, these debates, and everybody says, who won, who lost. European social-democrats too have been champions of imperialism for the last century, since 1914 when they turned their backs on their internationalist principles and supported their own capitalist classes against the workers of other countries during World War I. Ever since they have been selling out the interests of workers around the world in favor of their own capitalists’ interests in return for a slightly better life for themselves through the concession of social services. For that entire time, he has been arguing with people about whether the word “socialist” applies to him – and what he thinks socialism actually means. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) speaks at a rally in Los Angeles this month. And then you could hear all the applause lines.
An analysis of the plan by Gerald Friedman, an economist at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, projects that Conyers’ bill would reduce overall health care costs by $592 billion per year, ultimately saving consumers money.
It’s absolutely -it’s screwing up our democracy, it’s screwing up our healthcare, climate change it’s all because of the very top billionaires. 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. How ironic to see two ’60s retreads – people who see themselves as progressive, open-minded, forward-looking and advanced – so terribly confined by a exhausted, failed narrative. For one brief, shining moment, I thought he might follow up with a verbal dagger: “So be gone, scandal-plagued Hillary, you Machiavellian mess, and take your emails with you!” You’re gonna see it tonight. In what must have shocked his liberal viewers, Maher challenged Sanders, asserting there was no way to pay for his utopia, even if they were to tax the rich. While there was a longstanding and distinguished Social Democratic Party in Germany from the 1870 to the 1920s, Lane wrote, the Nazis fought against it, and after 1933 imprisoned its leaders.
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MATTHEWS: He’s where the party is headed.
