BERNIE SANDERS IS A COMMUNIST AND AN IGNORAMUS – IOTW Report

BERNIE SANDERS IS A COMMUNIST AND AN IGNORAMUS

FrontPage: Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has been getting away for years with describing himself as a socialist, when in reality he is an outright America-hating communist.

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This belief in communism is reflected in the Sanders platform. Even a brief glance reveals his plan to be hopelessly utopian and insane. It will extinguish freedom andshutter businesses and cause widespread suffering especially among the poor people he claims to want to help. It is a program for exporting the best and the brightest to places that appreciate them.

But identifying Sanders as a communist can be a risky proposition in modern-day America. The Left so dominates American culture that the word communist itself has become jarring, not because communism is bad but instead because leftists believe communism is good.

Left-wingers are students of George Orwell. They understand that language can be used for good or ill; to advance truth or mask it. To undercut the power that that emotionally charged word communism and its variants once had in this country when used by patriots to attack the nation’s foreign and domestic enemies, the Left over time reversed its polarity. Over and over and over again in the culture, leftists drove home the false notion that communists were boogeymen invented by those who wished to control the population through fear. Another way of putting it is to say that the Left marginalized its own word in order to protect the profoundly antisocial idea it represents.

 

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15 Comments on BERNIE SANDERS IS A COMMUNIST AND AN IGNORAMUS

  1. Communist
    Socialist
    Progressive
    National Socialist
    Democratic Socialist
    Liberal
    Democrat
    Fascist (Italian Socialist)
    Leftist
    Unionist
    Syndicalist
    Anarchist (20s type, not Uncle Al’s type)
    Christian Democrat

    All the same thing.
    Totalitarians.
    Anti-Freedom.
    Anti-Liberty.

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