@Fred_Snerd
If CNN was a woman, she would marry Bernie Sanders.

@Fred_Snerd

Bernie is a fanatic.

@Fred_Snerd

You are too kind. Bernie is not just a socialist. He was a communist.

Bernie has had communist tendencies for a long time. [nypost.com]

1. While attending the University of Chicago in 1964, Sanders joined the Young People’s Socialist League, the youth wing of the Socialist Party USA
2. He organized for a communist front, the United Packinghouse Workers Union, which at the time was under investigation by the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
3. After graduating with a political science degree, Sanders moved to Vermont, where he headed the American People’s History Society, an organ for Marxist propaganda.
4. Bernie produced a glowing documentary on the life of socialist revolutionary Eugene Debs, who was jailed for espionage during the Red Scare and hailed by the Bolsheviks as “America’s greatest Marxist.”
5. This Eugene Debs, the subversive hero of Sanders, denounced even by liberal Democrats as a “traitor,” bashed “the barons of Wall Street” and hailed the “triumphant” Bolshevik revolution in Russia.
6. “Those Russian comrades of ours have made greater sacrifices, have suffered more, and have shed more heroic blood than any like number of men and women anywhere on Earth,” Debs proclaimed. “They have laid the foundation of the first real democracy that ever drew the breath of life in this world.”
7. In a 1918 speech in Canton, Ohio, Debs reaffirmed his solidarity with Lenin and Trotsky, despite clear evidence of their violent plunder and treachery.
8. Sanders still hangs a portrait of communist Eugene Debs on the wall in his Senate office.
9. After failed runs for Congress, Sanders in 1981 managed to get elected mayor of Burlington, Vt., where he restricted property rights for landlords, set price controls and raised property taxes to pay for communal land trusts. Local small businesses distributed fliers complaining their new mayor “does not believe in free enterprise.”
10. Sanders took several “goodwill” trips not only to the USSR, but also to Cuba and Nicaragua, where the Soviets were trying to expand their influence in our hemisphere.
11. In 1985, he traveled to Managua to celebrate the rise to power of the Marxist-Leninist Sandinista government. He called it a “heroic revolution.” Undermining anti-communist US policy, Sanders denounced the Reagan administration’s backing of the Contra rebels in a letter to the Sandinistas.
12. His betrayal did not end there. Sanders lobbied the White House to stop the proxy war and even tried to broker a peace deal. He adopted Managua as a sister city and invited Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega to visit the US. He exalted Ortega as “an impressive guy,” while attacking President Reagan.
13. Sanders also adopted a Soviet sister city outside Moscow and honeymooned with his second wife in the USSR. He put up a Soviet flag in his office, shocking even the Birkenstock-wearing local liberals. At the time, the Evil Empire was on the march around the world, and threatening the US with nuclear annihilation.
14. Then, in 1989, as the West was on the verge of winning the Cold War, Sanders addressed the national conference of the US Peace Council — a known front for the Communist Party USA, whose members swore an oath not only to the Soviet Union but to “the triumph of Soviet power in the US.”
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@Fred_Snerd

That is why both extremes are bad for any society. Far left is just as bad as far right in the U.S. There is no difference between Trump supporters and Bernie supporters. The far left just doesn't accept it. They think they have a vision. Lol

Maybe they have visions and hallucinations but no vision for a good future.

@Fred_Snerd

What is really bad here that it is the truth and it hurts. Lol

@Fred_Snerd

Bernie has been exposed a long time ago. You will need to find a new hero.

@AnneWimsey

Do you know any one can justify anything wrong in the world? But public perception matters. Eugene Debs is not viewed as a crusader. If a person is not capable of winning a public opinion, he or she should stay home, not set out do to do what Bernie did. Tried for 6 years, wasted people's money and failed miserably.

@St-Sinner uuummm, UNIONS?