Sanders’s 1988 honeymoon trip to the Soviet Union in fact included stops in Moscow, Leningrad, and Yaroslavl. Looking back at Sanders’s trip last year in the Washington Post, Michael Kranish reported: “Returning to Vermont, Sanders held an hour-long news conference in which he extolled Russian policies on housing and health care, while criticizing the cost of both in the United States — and boasted that he was willing to criticize his homeland.”
Kranish’s account concludes:
Kranish’s account concludes:
Sanders, meanwhile, was so enthused by the trip that he soon began planning his next foreign venture: a visit to Cuba the following year, during his last month as mayor.
“Under Castro, enormous progress has been made in improving the lives of poor people,” Sanders said before leaving, while noting “enormous deficiencies” in democratic rights. While he failed in his goal to meet Fidel Castro, he returned home with even greater praise than he had for the Soviet Union.
“I did not see a hungry child. I did not see any homeless people,” Sanders told the Burlington Free Press. While Cuba was “not a perfect society,” he said, the country “not only has free health care but very high-quality health care .?.?. The revolution there is far deeper and more profound than I understood it to be. It really is a revolution in terms of values.”
Posted on February 23, 2020 by Scott Johnson
Stalin’s last laugh
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/02/stalins-last-laugh.php
Stalin’s last laugh
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/02/stalins-last-laugh.php
The Dirty Old Commie spouts the same old lies that American Communists preached throughout the Cold War.
The crap one hears about Democrats and Republicans working their tails off to find a compromise on spending and taxation is the same old garbage heard at the end of WWII. A free people were told that Communism and capitalism would Meet in the Middle someday and everything would turn out alright. Marry the best of the best from both systems could not fail.
Breed the best to the best and hope for the best works with thoroughbred race horses. It does not work in politics.
First off, marrying the worst (COMMUNISM) to the best (LIMITED GOVERNMENT) inevitably breeds the worst. More importantly:
1. Capitalism is an economic system that works to perfection for the most people in a severely limited form of government.
2. Socialism is a form of government that works for the least number of people.
3. Socialism and capitalism are, and always will be, incompatible.
Most important of all:
4. Frame the debate in terms that will resonate with voters; i.e. Socialism and a free people cannot live side by side. One must disappear so the other can thrive.
Finally, Democrats will try to get away with debating Socialist programs rather than debate the form of government they are demanding for everybody else. Media is on the side of Democrats; so it is up to opponents doing the debating who must not let Democrats get away blending the tax collector’s morality and Socialism’s form of government into a single debating topic. Starting here is essential:
While Democrats must say Socialism, their opponents must always say Communism. In short: Democrats will be forced to doublespeak non-existent differences between the two.
https://www.justplainpolitics.com/s...mes-The-Debate-For-2020&p=2981478#post2981478
The Dirty Old Commie’s goal does not vary one inch from Communism’s objective at the beginning of the Cold War. In short: Sanders is a stupid man that latched onto a lie that carried him to the U.S. Senate and possibly the White House —— lull Americans into believing that a little Socialism will not hurt.
Back in the late 1940s mainstream media and the education industry entered into a conspiracy of silence which did much to further the Meet in the Middle belief. That vague notion of a compromise between Communism and capitalism prepared Americans for bipartisanship legislation on spending and taxation.
Far too many Americans who were born after the Cold War was underway absorbed Meet in the Middle by osmosis. The fact is: The comrades know very well that there will be no compromise with capitalism, or private enterprise, or private property Rights, or traditional religions when Socialists/Communists have all of the political machinery in their hands.
NOTE: The most important thing about laissez faire capitalism in a representative form of government is that wealth is created and distributed without the private sector citizen forfeiting individual liberty and freedom of choice. No other form of government to date offered the private sector citizen as many individual liberties as laissez faire capitalism offers when it flourishes in a LIMITED representative government.
Democrats will never give up the gains Communism made since the FDR years. To relinquish even one gain means they will have to fight battles they already won. Democrats got to where they are at today step by step. They succeeded in large part without destroying the American work ethic. The work ethic is now in danger of being lost because of the promises the Dirty Old Commie & Company are making. A growing number of Americans already see the work ethic as a sucker’s game when they can get free stuff for not working. Fools never ask:
Basically, Communists convinced a whole of lot fools that the government forcing them to work for strangers is freedom. Count the number of fools who are turning out for the Dirty Old Commie if you want proof.
To make Socialism/Communism work everything has to be taxed, taxed, and taxed again in order to create welfare jobs and build loyalty to bigger government. Oppressive taxation became circulation of the wealth rather than the Communism’s original equal distribution of the wealth lie. As the money circulates through tax and spend programs, a well-paid Socialist middle class, along with millionaire Socialist leeches, live on tax dollars. Welfare to big government Socialists equates to big tax dollars pouring into their bank accounts. The poor remain poor no matter how much the Dirty Old Communist supposedly does for them.
The private sector American was made to pay for it all through coercion combined with the loss of their individual liberties and property Rights. Before American Communists are finished they will succeed where the Soviets failed at creating a productive working class with one purpose in life: Maintain a religious Communist nobility. The concept of a religious Communist monarchy would be humorous were it not for the type of person that is sure to be elevated.
NOTE: Take tax dollar tithing away from American Socialists and their religion will die on the vine. Take the U.N. away from American Socialists and there is no place for them to go.
The fear that the next depression will not play out the same way the Great Depression did keeps the Parasite Class in a perpetual state of insecurity. They, more than anyone, understand that no amount of government power can stop a violent revolution from wiping them out. The czar’s government, with all of its awesome power over an unarmed population, could not stop violent Communists from succeeding. On the plus side no government can stop Communists from being overthrown by force.
As long as the media is dealing the cards the sly-sell works pretty well; however, there is a danger. What happens when enough people finally wake up and decide they do not want to be slaves or Communists by proxy?
And let us not forget God. In my lifetime God and Communism were declared dead by the press. God was quite elderly; so one can charitably assume that euthanasia played a part in the press’ rush to ease the Almighty’s departure.
On the other hand, Communism has always been a very sick lady; so her death was easier to fake. By falsely proclaiming the death of Communism after the Soviet Union imploded, Socialists are doing better than they did when they prematurely announced God’s demise.
There was a method in the Left’s macabre madness. If the public bought Communism’s death while she was still breathing, Socialists could continue their incremental ways with impunity while claiming that Meet in the Middle created a better world just as they prophesied.
Unfortunately, after Socialists/Communists solidify their police powers nobody will have individual liberties and no complaints tolerated.
Finally, the most important thing about laissez faire capitalism in a limited form of government is that wealth is created and shared without the private sector citizen forfeiting individual liberty and freedom of choice. No other form of government to date offered the private sector citizen as many individual liberties as laissez faire capitalism offers when it flourishes in a limited representative government.
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