DanBongino: A lifelong socialist, Bernie Sanders decided to do some re-branding during his 2016 presidential campaign. No longer was he a socialist, he’s now a “democratic-socialist” (which I suppose sounds and polls better). “When I talk about democratic socialism, I’m not looking at Venezuela. I’m not looking at Cuba. I’m looking at countries like Denmark and Sweden” Bernie declared during the presidential primaries.
It’s a dishonest comment from Sanders, who has praised Cuba numerous times in the past over a period of decades. In 2011 Bernie Sanders re-published an article on his official Senate website that argued: “These days, the American dream is more apt to be realized in South America, in places such as Ecuador, Venezuela and Argentina, where incomes are actually more equal today than they are in the land of Horatio Alger.” Un-prophetically, the article concludes with the line “Who’s the banana republic now?” (Answer: Venezuela). read more
Berns should put that in his campaign ads!
No?
OK don’t worry, Trump will. Heh.
Hey, Bernie, the only way that govt can make incomes more equal is to make everybody poorer. You really need to experience autocoitus.
Socialism does work from some angles. If you’re in charge, your subjects may be scavenging food from garbage, but your lobster and filet still show up on the table. They don’t have clean water to bathe in but your bespoke shirts arrive starched and ironed every day. The people on the streets can’t find any place to procure their insulin, but you have a Swedish personal doctor that lives in your mansion.
It must give a Socialist leader some pause, wondering what his subjects are doing wrong. Socialism is working gangbusters for him, what’s their problem?
“where incomes are actually more equal today”,,
Nah, I don’t think so
https://images.findagrave.com/photos/2010/276/20695972_128621678376.jpg
How’s that 401K working out for ya, Horatio?
Yet Obama won’t openly endorse Joey.
That’s gotta bern!