“What assurances can you offer myself and other people impacted by socialism that ‘Democratic Socialism’ will not have the same result?” a member of the audience asked BernieSanders during his town hall with Fox News.
Townhall|Beth Baumann:
Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-VT) came under fire for his praise of Fidel Castro, a communist mass murderer. According to Sanders, Castro deserves to be praised for his literacy rates and health care policies. Many people took issue with the statements, including Democrats. In fact, CNN dedicated an entire segment to break down Sanders’ past comments about Cuba and the Castro regime. “The View’s” Anna Navarro-Cardenas went off, saying Sanders’ comments put Florida Democrats, like Donna Shalala and Debbie Mucarsel-Powell, in danger come November.
Sanders was asked, point-blank, how his so-called “Democratic Socialist” policies would differ from other nations who had socialist policies.
“As someone from Russia, a country that was greatly impacted by the negative effects of socialism, what assurances can you offer myself and other people impacted by socialism that ‘Democratic Socialism’ will not have the same result?” audience member Margaret Beste asked.
“What happened in the Soviet Union was not socialism. It was authoritarian communism!” Sanders replied to a cheering audience. “And communism, whether in Cuba, whether in the Soviet Union, whether in other countries, was marked by totalitarianism, was marked by throwing millions of people into the Gulag. Stalinism was about as bad as it got.”
Sanders cited Finland as the perfect example of what “Democratic Socialism” he would want to implement.
“They have a very democratic society, with strong democratic socialist principles,” Sanders explained. “Everybody in Finland has health care as a right. Their educational system is perhaps the best in the world and college there is free. They take environmental responsibility very, very seriously.”
According to the Vermont senator, Finland has one of the lowest rates of poverty amongst children in the industrialized world and more people participate in elections than in the United States.
“When we talk about ‘Democratic Socialism,’ Margaret, I’m talking about Finland. I’m talking about Demark. I’m talking about Sweden. I’m talking about countries all over the world who have used their government to try to improve life for working families, not just the people on top,” Sanders said with a smile.
Martha MacCallum pressed Sanders about how to pay for the so-called “free” things he wants to provide Americans, like health care, college and child care, but he deflected. read more
He lies.
Socialism never works because it has to be implemented by force: more and more gets taken away from yet another and another “oppressor” group. And it presupposes making arrangements for redistribution by some authority who knows better. And invariably becomes corrupt.
I listened to this town hall. Sanders is dangerous. He’s dangerous because he’s been yakking his ideas his entire adult life and has honed smooth arguments that could con the relatively ignorant.
Funny, you don’t see the finns leading the world in technical or medical innovation what with the best educational system in the world and all.
Besides. If these Scandinavian countries are such happy socialist paradises, why hasn’t Bernardo moved his crusty ass and his scamming wife to one if them to be a grifter apparatchik? Something don’t add up.
Bernie Sanders is proof that some people do not learn from history, and he is determined to doom us to repeat the lessons he never learned.
Send Finland our sea of freeloading turd worlders , our ocean of single parent black families, and all our muzzie invaders and then maybe just maybe Finland’s socialist lite might work here. Just an illustration of why this country is not like white as the driven snow Finland.
Burnie is quickly running out of Utopian examples..
Remember , He started with Venezuela, and Greece…Finland
collapsed last Year.
Bernie isn’t familiar with Sweden’s tax policies but likes them?
What a tool.
In Denmark if you buy a new car the sales tax on it is 100%.
These Scandinavian countries tax their people on everything.