Via AnCaps: L. Neil Smith on Bernie Sanders

Subject: Via AnCaps: L. Neil Smith on Bernie Sanders Tue Feb 02, 2016 6:35 pm

I confess that I haven't been paying much attention to Bernie Sanders. I've known a thousand of him. I grew up, politically, surrounded in, smothered by, crowded with creatures like Bernie Sanders, mostly in the movement to stop the war in Vietnam. I quickly learned that they had no regard for the moral principles involved, or the people whose lives were being taken or abused, except as poster children.

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When push came to shove, they were uninterested in ending war if it messed with their agenda. Abolish the draft? No! They had uses of their own for government-forced labor. Get rid of taxes, which would make it almost impossible for governments to wage war? No! They wanted those billions themselves! Repeal the nation's unconstitutional gun laws? Heaven forfend! They couldn't stand the idea of any guy who disagreed with them having the physical means to make them leave him alone.

I suppose that the hypocrisies of the left are no more murderous and glaring than those of the northeastern liberal right. I think it depends on what you're used to. My regard (if you choose to call it that) for Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Leader Mitch McConnel (and the feebs who elected them) has gone from contempt to loathing.

But if you take nothing else from this essay, take this: Bernie Sanders is the advocate for a political system that murdered over two hundred million people in the twentieth century alone. Here is what that looks like: 200,000,000. That's ten cities the size of Greater Los Angeles.

Bernie Sanders informs us that he's a "democratic socialist". He's a Democrat, right enough, running for that party's nomination for President, and the wet dream of virtually everybody in it. But half a century of political experience has taught me that "socialist" is just a euphemism for "communist". Bernie Sanders is the left wing equivalent of RINO (Republican in name only) and LINO (Libertarian in name only). Bernie Sanders is ashamed to tell you what he really is. Bernie Sanders is the advocate for a political system that murdered over two hundred million people in the twentieth century alone.

Socialism is a crude attempt to make theft respectable, stealing things at gunpoint from people who have earned or found or created them, pretending to give them to people who have not, while holding onto a middleman's fee of 99% for themselves and their friends, the government. Bernie Sanders is the advocate for a political system that murdered over two hundred million people in the twentieth century alone.

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Via AnCaps: L. Neil Smith on Bernie Sanders

Via AnCaps: L. Neil Smith on Bernie Sanders

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