Guest Post by Pat Buchanan
What makes Sanders an appealing candidate for the Democratic nomination may prove poisonous to him as a party nominee in the fall… Vulnerable Democrats in moderate and swing districts would have to jump ship, abandoning the ticket to survive the slaughter.
Can a septuagenarian socialist who just survived a heart attack and would be 80 years old in his first year in office be elected president of the United States? It’s hard to believe but not impossible.
As of today, Bernie Sanders looks like one of the better, if not best, bets for the nomination. Polls have him running first or second in the first three contests: Iowa on Monday, and then New Hampshire and Nevada.
If Bernie can best main rival Joe Biden in Iowa, he will likely thump Joe in New Hampshire. Biden’s campaign, built around “electability,” could suffer a credibility collapse before he reaches South Carolina, where Joe is banking on his African American base to rescue him if necessary and give him a send-off victory straight into Super Tuesday.
If Sanders can beat Biden two or three times in the first four primaries in February, the last remaining roadblock on Sanders’ path to the nomination could be Mike Bloomberg’s billions.
Hillary Clinton may sneer, “Nobody likes him,” but Bernie has a large, dedicated, loyal following, especially among millennials, and tens of thousands more small-dollar donors than any other Democratic candidate.
He is flush with cash. He has a radical agenda that appeals to the ideological left and the idealistic young. The rising star of the party, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, is campaigning alongside him.
And, say what you will, Sanders is no trimmer or time-server. He has consistently voted his values and views. He voted no to Bush 41’s Gulf War, no to Bush 43’s Iraq War, no to NAFTA, no to GATT. In the ’80s, when President Reagan battled the Marxist Sandinistas in Nicaragua, Sanders was on the other side.
But what makes Sanders an appealing candidate for the Democratic nomination may prove poisonous to him as a party nominee in the fall.
For what does Bernie promise?
Free tuition at public colleges and forgiveness of all student debt. “Medicare for All,” a single-payer government-run health care system that would require a huge hike in middle-class taxes and abolish private health insurance for the 160 million Americans currently enrolled.
He would break up the big banks, go after Wall Street, add $60 trillion of federal spending in the next decade, and raise income, corporate, capital gains, estate and inheritance taxes.
He would expand the government’s share of the U.S. economy to levels rivaling that of France, the highest in the free world.
Bernie was first to back the Green New Deal and pledges to reach carbon neutrality in 10 years in energy and transportation. As for our oil, gas and coal producers, says Sanders, they “have evaded taxes, desecrated tribal lands, exploited workers and poisoned communities.”
How would Sanders deal with the millions of illegal migrants now within the country? He’d welcome them all in.
Bernie has proposed the abolition of Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection and wants to provide a pathway to citizenship for the 11 million to 22 million illegal migrants already here. He would decriminalize border-jumping and give health and welfare benefits to the invaders.
He would decriminalize the breaching of America’s borders.
“My first executive orders,” tweeted Bernie last week, “will be to reverse every single thing President Trump has done to demonize and harm immigrants, including his racist and disgusting Muslim ban.”
Leaders of the center-left think tank Third Way warn that a Sanders nomination risks a Democratic rout of the magnitude of the 49-state losses of George McGovern in 1972 and of Walter Mondale in 1984.
Vulnerable Democrats in moderate and swing districts would have to jump ship, abandoning the ticket to survive the slaughter.
Fearful of such an outcome to a Sanders-Trump race, super PACs run by moderate Democrats have begun to dump hundreds of thousands of dollars into attack ads to blunt his momentum in Iowa.
What Socialist Jeremy Corbyn did to Britain’s Labour party — leading it to the worst defeat since the 1930s — Sanders could do to the Democratic Party, write Jon Cowan and Jim Kessler of Third Way.
In 2016, Sanders ran a surprisingly strong race for the nomination, and it was later learned that a supposedly neutral DNC had been in the tank for Hillary Clinton. The Democratic establishment, the party elite, had collaborated to put the fix in against Bernie.
Yet Sanders supported Clinton that fall. If, however, Bernie’s last chance at the nomination is aborted by an establishment piling on, party super PACs running attack ads against him, and major media taking time out from trashing Trump to break Sanders, the Democratic Party will have the devil’s time of it bringing Bernie’s backers home in the fall.
Bernie’s believers might just conclude that the real obstacle to their dream of remaking America is neither the radical right nor Donald Trump, but the elites within their own party.
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Australia is looking better and better.
Sanders as a legitimate chance to be elected? That he might be the Dem nominee? What the fuck has happened to a once great nation?
The US is entirely fucked. Bend over and kiss your asses goodbye. Short of a civil war intervening, anything resembling a free US is gone. There will be no great awakening. Demographics are assuring that the US will be more stupid and more left leaning and more reliant on free shit with each passing second.
Get the fuck out if you can, or get ready for a monumental shitstorm.
This is going to end badly.
Isn’t it preferable to stay and defend the nation into which one is born than to run away to a country where you have no roots, no network and no hope of winning any foreign attack or civil war due to lack of arms or allies ? That’s if you survive the Kung flu .
Comment via ZH on Brandon Smith’s How Viral Pandemic Benefits The Globalist Agenda
“For those impressed that Australia quarantined the soccer team in Brisbane and is sending the Wuhan evacuees to Christmas Island
Australia is FUCKED
Australia is handing out voluntary self-report cards at the airport
>200,000 Chinese students are flying in to Australia for the start of university year as Australia has been making billions of dollars out of selling back-door citizenship in return for overpriced tertiary education fees for little Wang and Xi
Some of them are carrying the virus and spreading it everywhere before they even know they have it
Not to mention Australia has a massive Chinese population many of whom flew home to visit relatives for Chinese NY, or whose relatives came here
Australia has told the chemists not to sell n-95 masks. You can’t buy one here – stockpiling for health workers and government. Government reserves the best for itself in Australia”
“Isn’t it preferable to stay and defend the nation into which one is born than to run away”
all other things being equal, yes. but in the u.s. the average age for whites is about 60, the average age for blacks is about 23, and the average age for mexicans is about 9. almost no-one is financially or economically independent. and half the kids are born into or educated into an anti-american attitude. not much to work with, the chances of success are not good.
Don’t really know much about the history of war, weaponry and strategy do you? A smattering of White people have been known to burn down entire countries .
“A smattering of White people have been known to burn down entire countries”
I’m not sure burning down our own plays to our strength ….
Take a tour of Youtube and note all the ingenuity displayed by young white men making everything from knives to armored off road vehicles and get back to me on the threat of WeWuzKangs.
Let me know when they start using that shit. I will not hold my breath.
“get back to me on the threat of WeWuzKangs”
you’re focus is a bit off – the goal is not to defeat an enemy, but rather ourselves to win. it’s not that they’re such a threat, it’s that we have to have something left when it’s over, and we’re starting with so little that we’re not likely to have the critical mass afterwards to survive.
If one can win without defeating the enemy, let me know how that works . The spirit of truth and justice is is what’s left. Material shit can be had , but it makes nothing of the man. You no nothing of reality.
1) not a massive Chinese population here
2) bullshit on the masks bullshit. You get masks at the local hardware store in whatever quantity you want.
3) the virus is still an unknown. How many times have we seen these panics?
4) let me know when you start “defending”. You have been talking about it for years.
Sanders is a threat to be elected. How much worse does it have to get before you start defending?
You are full of shit. You are not going to defend shit, or you would already be doing it.
The country is flushed already, and you did not do any defending.
It is too late, and you damn well know it.
but australia is quite socialized. you sure that you and they are a good fit?
Let me know when you can purchase an AR 15 down at the local sporting goods. BTW, how’s your Mandarin coming?
Never heard the sayin’ ‘push comes to shove’ have you ?
Trump has done Jack and Shit for the average person. He has inflated his self identified stock market bubble, even more than Obama did. He continues to provide generous welfare to corporations and the 1%, while supporting cutting Social Security and welfare. We have 14 targets, I mean Aircraft Carriers @ 35 billion a pop, with faulty launch systems and 800 bases around the world, the democrats and republicans both agreed to give him an additional 130 billion dollars to bomb more brown people around the world.
I voted for Trump hoping for change, if you consider low taxes for corporations, while they still ship jobs overseas and when not possible, have doubled the H1B program to bring the cheap labor here, the change you want, then vote for Trump. Only but the most math challenged can see his tax plan was a increase in taxes to the average taxpayer. I know I should not vote, because it only encourages the criminals, but if Bernie vs Trump happens, I’ll get suckered once again into voting for some kind of change that is not totally based on fucking over the working class.
This is like 2016 all over again, with no one giving Sanders a chance, but rest assured, there are many like me who voted for Trump and can see what he has done for the “plebs”, which is not much, if anything. Medicare for all is a no-brainer. Talk to someone on Medicare what they think of it. I think it has a 80% approval rating. 90% of democrats and 75% of republicans support Medicare for all. Fuck, even Russia has Medicare for all. What we have is a system with a middleman that is a vampire on the medical system. Most people who go bankrupt from medical bills have insurance. What a fucking joke.
Will it cost money, sure will, but compared to what Americans pay now, it comes out about even. I pay 900 dollars a month for a 10000 deductible plan. Sanders will win. Book it. Same as people will not admit voting for Trump, they will not admit to voting for Sanders, but they will, in droves. However, I am sure they will steal it from him again and Trump will run against pervert Biden and will thump the shit out of him. The bought and paid for Senate will block Sanders anyhow and if not, well the CIA always has the heart attack gun….
your brown skinned bombing comment reflects your inability to think outside the hive mind.
Well they sure are not bombing Sweden, are they? I got no love for brown people, but I know better than to kick a hornets nest and expect not to get stung. America is now the evil empire, my how things change in 40 years.
Stop whining and take charge of your own health with diet and exercise.
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“many like me who voted for Trump and can see what he has done for the “plebs”, which is not much, if anything”
yes, we’re all disappointed with the lack of any progress on ending illegal invasion and any progress on active deportations. but trump has bought us extra time to prepare, and he has elected not to escalate conflict with iran, so there is that.
But it’s not free stuff when the GOPper elite does it.
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muh free market
I hope he dies. Soon. Or on the campaign trail.
No way in hell the DNC will allow the burn to be the nominee. Short of putting hilory out there or rigging the election the dems will contest another four years of Trump and we’ll have another four years of the same shit show from dems.
Llpoh has a valid point though, and I understand what Flash is saying, but fight the entire corrupt system? How?
4Th Turnings, we’re going to learn how tough they can be….
Loopy does not have a valid point. Where do you run? Bolshevism is world wide hence the name Globalism and no nation is more steeped in global SJW stupid than Australia, which is fastly becoming an actually colony of China.
Best to defend what you own in an area you know best with people you share a common heritage.
You fight locally . See Va 2A rally. That’s how you do it.
Exactly. Then again, most on our ‘side’ don’t want to fight; exactly why we are where we are to begin with.
Those who support Bernie are those who want everything given to them, they don’t understand economics, they don’t understand work, they are spoiled children whose little hands are always grasping for the gimmes. What do the democrats offer? Free shit. If a democrat gets in office you will be forced to call one another comrade because democrats are full blown bolsheviks.
Look to San Francisco and New York for what the future holds with democrats. If you are a criminal the democrats are your best friends. If you are a drug addled street shitter you have no better supporter than a democrat. If you are an honest, hard working soul who tries to do the right thing you can be assured the democrats will steal everything you have to give to the lazy and criminal.
With democrats you can shoplift, steal and murder to your heart’s content secure in the knowledge that only evil white men will ever go to jail.
“With democrats you can shoplift, steal and murder to your heart’s content secure in the knowledge that only evil white men will ever go to jail.”
when the white men are no longer a threat to the tribe’s power, the laws will be reinstituted and the criminals rounded up and sent to camps.
You might be surprised.
THE WRATH OF THE AWAKENED SAXON
by Rudyard Kipling
It was not part of their blood,
It came to them very late,
With long arrears to make good,
When the Saxon began to hate.
They were not easily moved,
They were icy — willing to wait
Till every count should be proved,
Ere the Saxon began to hate.
Their voices were even and low.
Their eyes were level and straight.
There was neither sign nor show
When the Saxon began to hate.
It was not preached to the crowd.
It was not taught by the state.
No man spoke it aloud
When the Saxon began to hate.
It was not suddently bred.
It will not swiftly abate.
Through the chilled years ahead,
When Time shall count from the date
That the Saxon began to hate.
“This destiny does not tire, nor can it be broken, and its mantle of
strength descends upon those in its service.” – Francis Parker Yockey,
IMPERIUM
Flash, you have it exactly right. I have a lot of respect for the Big Chief’s business acumen, and I even like the Aussies, and especially the Kiwis. But we fight the fuckers right here, every step of the way, and possibly quite soon.
Hope not,. I’m too damn old and broke up to hafta’ fight, but I ain’t running nowhere either. This is my hill.
Nitro – again, let me know when you start fighting. Because the US is at least within spitting distance of electing Sanders, and how much worse can things get than that?
If you were going to fight, it should have been yesterday. Becuase today is too late by the look of it.
Calm down everyone. The same people in charge now will still be in charge after all you suckers ‘let your voices be heard’ in November.
That’s why we all have to move to a different country where freedom is real…. like Australia .
My suggestion is stay put, plant more crops and and buy more ammo.
Howzabout YOU leave. I’m staying.
We won’t be needing any dead weight when electric Boogalo arrives. Take comfort in the fact you can safely watch everyone else who earned a victory celebration.
ha ha ha …the cold back hand of dumbass … ’bout a pint short of a quart if you axe me.
LMAO Like taking your guns and throwing you in jail if you insult a transgender.
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABbc-O_3_Ac&w=640&h=480%5DWell said. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
Put Tulsi on as VP, watch the DNC go absolutely berserk!
The Department of Education must be proud: An entire generation now raised so ignorant they embrace communism in an 80-yer old man with zero private experience.
A Bernie presidency will probably end like the other nations throughout history with communist jews at the helm – with millions of Christians starved and/or murdered. That said, I can’t in good conscience vote for Trump again. The betrayal is too deep. If Bernie is elected then so be it – let the fight come in my time rather than the time of my children or grandchildren. Fortunately, there’s is an alternative to the Democrat/Republican Kosher Sandwich, and probably the last hope for the West.
https://youtu.be/f5wW6qQJT-A
Yup. Trump bad…go vote for a democrat or better yet, don’t vote and let the democrats take over. You got a great plan there if you live in a fantasy world. In the real world you’re gonna love the new laws the democrats are gonna push through, like in Virginia.
If you think the GOP is stopping anything the democrats are doing, you’re the one living in a fantasy world.
“In the real world you’re gonna love the new laws the democrats are gonna push through”
well we’re approaching the time when laws won’t matter, only force. so far the right has been reluctant to engage – “experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed” and all that. but with bernie things will become insufferable right quick.
Fuck a bunch of laws. I could care less about gun laws. When I need a gun, I will carry. Better to be judge by 12 than carried by 6.
“Better to be judge by 12”
they will of course do away with trial by jury for us ….
“A Bernie presidency will probably end like the other nations throughout history with communist jews at the helm – with millions of Christians starved and/or murdered.”
that’s the plan. in every generation.
Folks,in primary those of you registered to vote please vote for Bernie,lets just get this shit show out in the open and let loose the frogs of war,this slow boil shit is not cutting it.
I don’t think there is enough money on the planet for all the free shit Bernie is offering. I like one or two things he has said, else than that I find the man’s thinking, scary.
oh there’s enough money, sure. there’s just not enough stuff.
Seriously, why aren’t you defenders out defending? I mean, how come you are not out defending when the transvestites are teaching little kids? I mean, I would have thought you defenders would be defending like mad on that shit.
Why are you not out policing and defending in the shithole lawless areas near you? Why are you not out defending against the illegal confiscations police are doing in just about every state?
Why are you not out defending against the corrupt government unions?
Why are you not out defending?
Y’all talk a great game. But you are fucking shithouse at defending any damn thing. Y’all couldn’t defend a damn chicken coop against a fox.
Y’all are full of shit.
“Why are you not out defending?”
are you?
No. But difference is I do not claim I will, nor do I say that I should.
But flash for instance has been saying Stay and Fight! for years. So far he has not fought anything except his morning woody.
“I do not claim I will, nor do I say that I should.”
fair enough. but … that means you’re not counting the cost of such. the rest of us do, and … well, the cost will be formidable. personally I don’t think we’ll win, even if we succeed in everything we do. but I’m not leaving.
I have no need to fight. I live in the rural South. Drags Queens are no doing story time here.
Coming from the dipshit that ran away from America. Nuf said. Sit in your shithole of a country until the Chicoms come for you. Better learn Mandarin, you are target number one. I would rather die on my feet, than sucking Chicom dick on my knees Like Aussies will. Your government is more of a sellout then the US and that is saying something.
Another defender who ain’t defending shit.
Australia is no shithole. We have no Detroit’s, Phillies, Baltimore’s, Newark’s, etc. A few slummy aboriginal settlements. But no shitholes like San Francisco, etc.
Why aren’t you out defending those places? Talk talk talk. But no defending.
I dunno, why am I not out defending cowshit in the middle of a field? Probably cause I don’t give a flying fuck about it. Same as all those wonderful places you named. In the end, those places will self destruct. Fine by me. I’ll defend what is worth defending. If people are stupid enough to send their kids to school who teach that shit, well that is on them.
Believe me when I say, if there was a place worth running to, I would. Problem is that there isn’t. Australia is probably better than most, but it is far from perfect with policies as bad, or worse than the US. Maybe Russia, if I was younger, but I could never learn the language. I flunked german and that’s about the easiest language for english speakers to learn, so I’m stuck here.
ha ha ha …you don’t get out of the wigwam much nowadays do you?
https://youtu.be/3pzSj18NxRs?t=1099
https://pjmedia.com/trending/confirmed-trump-supporters-are-smarter-than-clinton-supporters/
Ol’ Bern is plainly one of the creepiest old guys in politics. Surely he smells like “old” and rotting food in dentures. His mannerisms, his mein, his energy just oooooze creepy. Once again, the totalitarians fielding only their finest. What a POS. Creepy, communist bastard.
And at least within a bull’s roar of getting elected.
Like I said, that about sums up the US. It is over.