Bernie Sanders and What You Need to Know

[kcchiefs6465]

FYI. Sander wants to reintroduce because the Fairness Doctrine and threaten talk radio hosts because "95-98% are right wing extremists", ban certain people and companies from donating in political campaigns, ban hate speech, ban all guns that can be "used in self defense", he routinely claims that immigrants are damaging the middle class, routinely blames foreign countries for economic problems in the US, routinely says that the rich are in on a conspiracy to stop his goals, and the guy has even been caught off camera threatening a Libertarian journalist for asking him difficult questions.

Sanders is not some nice old guy. He is how totalitarianism comes to the United States and represents a Hugo Chavez style blend of Nationalism and Socialism. Most candidates have some nationalist and socialist beliefs, but Sanders is on a different level, which combined with his demagoguery, is the most dangerous kind. Unlike most democrats who love the rich lobbyist and won't actually try to destroy them (rather they would generally help them through regulatory, monetary, and tax policy [loopholes]), Sanders actually means it. He also really would take free speech, censor opposition through force, implement major gun bans, scapegoat everyone else citing conspiracies, and ignore what 90+% of economist have to say about price controls and international trade if he could.

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[Carlybee]

I don't know how anyone could vote for that delusional old windbag.

 

[Ronin Truth]

Socialist?

Yes.

That's all I need to know.

 

[rg17]

The supporters are even scarier!

 

[Brian4Liberty]

An old school Marxist has risen from the ashes, and it's making the new school crony corporatist socialist globalists (i.e. Hillary) nervous.

 

[Sola_Fide]

That's what we need. Less freedom of speech. This site should be shut down. Too much out-of-the-box thinking going on around here.

 

[kcchiefs6465]

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[ThePaleoLibertarian]

What you need to know about Bernie Sanders: he's a doddering old fool. The end.

 

[Spikender]

Liberty lovers are going insane this election for real.

We went from the likes of Ron Paul as our defacto candidate to supposed libertarians supporting Trump and Bernie Sanders.

It's sad that we even need to dig into these people to get libertarians back on track.

 

[qh4dotcom]

Liberty lovers are going insane this election for real.

We went from the likes of Ron Paul as our defacto candidate to supposed libertarians supporting Trump and Bernie Sanders.

It's sad that we even need to dig into these people to get libertarians back on track.

I am not going insane...I refuse to sell my soul to the Trump and Sanders devils.

 

[kcchiefs6465]

http://congress.freedomworks.org/legislators/bernard-sanders-0

Voted "Yea" on allowing states to create an internet sales tax, voted "Nay" on decreasing spending by .49%, voted "Nay" on Rand Paul's budget, voted "Nay" on making it easier for parents to opt their children out of standardized testing, voted "Nay" on eliminating the estate tax, voted "Nay" on disallowing the government from automatically deducting union dues from federal workers, voted "Nay" on reducing the federal government's role with regards to transportation and highway funds (voted against keeping those funds in the state), voted "Nay" on ending certain energy subsidies, voted "Nay" on ending mailbox use monopoly (only the USPS can use what they consider to be their mailbox), voted "Nay" on repealing Obamacare, voted "Nay" on preventing energy taxes such as the carbon tax, voted "Yea" on extending loan limits for several government entities, voted "Nay" on terminating TARP, voted "Yea" on extending unemployment compensation, voted "Yea" on reauthorizing the FAA, voted "Yea" on granting the FDA certain regulatory authority over tobacco, voted "Yea" on the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), voted "Yea" on increasing tobacco tax by [no more than] 61 cents per pack, voted "Yea" on raising the minimum wage, voted "Yea" on reauthorizing Amtrak, voted "Yea" on creating a "Strategic Energy Efficiency and Renewables Reserve" to invest in alternative energy, voted "Nay" on limiting funding for dairy education, voted "Nay" on restricting funding from being used in the renovation of a Californian city's public pool, voted "Yea" on the $295 billion Transportation Equity Act, voted "Nay" on removing the internet from its consideration as "public communication", voted "Nay" on reducing the deficit by a mere $50 billion over 10 years etc. etc. etc. etc. etc.


Within the first minute of the video:

Q: What does it mean to be a socialist?
A: A democratic socialist? What it means is that one takes a hard look at countries around the world who have successful records in fighting and implmenting programs for the middle class and working families. And when you do that, you automatically go to countries like Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, other countries which have had Labour government, or social democratic governments and what you find is that in virtually all of those countries, healthcare is a Right of all people, and their systems are far more cost effective than ours. College education is virtually free in all those countries.--Bernie Sanders

 

[kcchiefs6465]

Discussed material:

Here's Why Bernie Sanders is Wrong About Everything
Bernie Sanders Pushes More Stupid Socialism During Reddit AMA
Bernie Sanders Says US Should Be Like Scandinavia--Here's Why He's Wrong

Related Episode:

Did Sweden Prosper Because of Its Welfare State?



There are more related episodes listed at: http://tomwoods.com/podcast/ep-461-the-fallacies-of-bernie-sanders/

 

[Spikender]

I am not going insane...I refuse to sell my soul to the Trump and Sanders devils.

Haven't seen you in a while. How have you been? If my memory is correct, we didn't agree in a thread a while back. I'm glad to see you have clarity of thought on the Trump/Sanders issue though.