Appearing Sunday evening on CBS News’ 60 Minutes, Democrat presidential frontrunner Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) argued the United States is not a “great” country in several “very significant ways.”
A transcript is as follows:
ANDERSON COOPER: Donald Trump got elected talking to white middle-class Americans, white working-class Americans, promising to–to make America great again. Your stump speech, your critics say, sounds like nothing works in America, hasn’t for generations. Is America great?
SEN. BERNIE SANDERS: In many ways, we are. In some ways, very significant ways, we’re not. We’re not great when half of our people today are living paycheck to paycheck. When 500,000 people tonight are going to be sleeping out on the streets, including 30,000 veterans. You know, my father came to this country at the age of 17 without a nickel in his pocket. Couldn’t speak a word of English, had very limited education. We are a great nation, because people like my father would never have dreamed in a million years that their kids would become United States senators or be successful in many other ways.
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The man is a very dizzy and angry clown. Kept locked up in Vermont doing odd jobs until he stumbled into the Washington DC paradigm. He is more than willing to play commissar at the expense of those who work and earn for a living. He has profited nicely from his time in DC as his wife and children have also. She singlehandedly destroyed Burlington College and made out like a bandit in the process.
Listen to the survivors from Venezuela for the real dope on socialism and its horrid effects.
The illegals from Venezuela and the surrounding area are voting for him. Look at the Nevada results.
You have to wonder whether such a piece of commie trash being allowed to live and go his own way is a sign of greatness or a sign of decline and derangement? Regardless, he’s got “The Guru” now.
“a sign of greatness or a sign of decline and derangement”
a sign of greatness if he’s irrelevant, a sign of decline and derangement if he’s relevant.
Pretty darn good answer!
Government had always been and will continue to be, the source of all of the problems he complains about (either in their direct action or in their crony capitalist protections of other horrible actors in the market). He of course wants MORE and MORE government, doing even worse things, creating even bigger problems down the road. When his father came to this country, virtually nobody in the nation ever dealt with the federal government except when they got their mail. Now, virtually every second of every day is “regulated” in some manner by the federal government (not to mention state and local parasites). It is so bad that according to one book, every American commits at least 3 felonies a day, without even knowing it (“Three Felonies a Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent”). Wake up Bernie…..YOU ARE THE PROBLEM.
“He of course wants MORE and MORE government”
no, you’re not getting it. he wants to be the government himself. that will eliminate all his problems.
(same as libertarians ….)
“every American commits at least 3 felonies a day”
LOL…at least we are the honest felons.
Yes and the only ones prosecuted lately it seems.
He’s currently in the lead in the Democratic primaries, based on that fact alone I’d have to agree with him.
To have an avowed Marxist in the lead in a Presidential election should be an indicator of something being off.
Indeed, ALL of this is symptomatic of our underlying problems. Lincoln, LBJ, FDR, etc. were “inevitable,” given the state of mentality at the time in the nation.
“an indicator of something being off”
? oh we’ve had LOTS of indicators of something being off.
HF, I believe Rush called it “Low Information Voters”.
“Low Information Voters”
no, they’re not low-information at all, they have all the information they need. “free stuff” -> “vote”.
Sanders is right in many of his criticisms. It is fair to say that a huge percentage of the country is being screwed over. Trump said it too. The problem with Sanders is that his solutions will make things worse. Criticism is easy. Solutions are hard.
” Solutions are hard”
for sanders, (((communism))) is the solution.
HF, it just might mean the Indonesian exchange student did as much or even more damage than many thought he would do in ’08. But hey, he did for America what his party did for Illinois.
“Off” is kind my friend, bring on the Gulag’s. My son bought me an actual physical copy of Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn’s commencement address at Haaaaahvaad in 1978 for Christmas (bless his heart, what 21 year old does that for their old man). It just goes to show that humans won’t learn from history even when it is slapping them in the face. WTF?
I laugh at the MSMBS nashing of tee about Bernie the democratic socialist communist. They are pretending that the rest of the Democrats aren’t democrat socialist communists. The only difference is that Bernie embrases the name and the others pretend to be constitutional democrats. Bloomberg is different. He is a democratic socialist crony fascist. The Democrats have been closet socialists for at least 70 years. There is no such thing as a moderate Democrat. They are either communists or lying.
Bloomie is an old line North East Republican. He has made his money and wants to keep you from making too much of your own.
I was just reading about the #Walkaway Campaign. Seems a lot of people are getting tired and perhaps concerned with the direction the democrat party is heading. People are getting tired of the constant hate, the constant America bashing, the constant, if you are not with us 100% then you are against us.
Most millennials/socialist can’t even have a rational discussion, if you opt to have an exchange of ideas, “This discussion is OVER!”
It’s amazing how much they hate America.
This however, is enlightening: https://www.walkawaycampaign.com/
The #WalkAway Campaign is a true grassroots movement, founded by former liberal, Brandon Straka on May 26th, 2018. The #WalkAway Campaign encourages and supports those on the Left to walk
away from the divisive tenets endorsed and mandated by the Democratic Party of today. We are
walking away from the lies, the false narratives, the fake news, the race-baiting, the victim narrative,
the violence, the vandalism, the vitriol. We are walking away from a party driven by hate. We are
walking toward patriotism and a new, unified America! We are the future of this great nation!
Maybe Martin Armstrong is correct and the next election a third party candidate is elected…….or maybe we get President Dwayne Herman Macho Mountain Dew, like it matters at this point.
“It’s amazing how much they hate America.”
you’re failing to grasp the actual situation. it’s not that they hate america. it’s that, under the influence of a for-export version of judaism, they hate anything that is not them. that’s all.
“if you opt to have an exchange of ideas, ‘This discussion is OVER!’”
yes, because they can’t discuss ideas, they can only discuss themselves, and everyone will see that.
‘This discussion is OVER!’”
These people are taught this reply, or something close. Had a women tell me this while talking about the liberal words “food insecurities” and “food deserts” while at the local Farmer’s Market which is located within sight of two large public housing developments, one about five hundred feet away.
“These people are taught this reply”
and it works for them because they’re taught that they are the center of morality, so if they say discussion is over then it’s over for everyone.
“America Is Not Great in Some ‘Very Significant Ways’”
but his tribe will make it great, by owning and controlling all of it and eliminating anyone that doesn’t submit. just like in the soviet union.
They’ve owned and controlled it since at least 1948 — about that time it seems that we lost our way … maybe that’s when we became less than great.
been a long time coming, because we had a long way down to go.
almost there.
Do you suppose President Sanders is planning a trip to Dallas next year for a ride in a motorcade?
he might give his inaugural speech from lenin’s tomb. “I intend to make america just like this guy” ….
amazing what you can find on twitter
Turn up the sound and enjoy…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0I4vTHz9dw
Bonafide and perfect “Socialist” (at the top of the heap) can say and get away with, “I want my life kept private”.
( Yours? Not so much).
Significant way #1: Crony career politicians.
And kneegrows of course.
Best argument I’ve seen against immigration.
When half of the people get a monthly government check, it becomes easy to vote for the guy who will keep the checks coming, at least as long as the fed can print the money to cover them.
There is a greater than insignificant chance Sanders becomes the next US president.
I am really glad I live in Australia. The US is fucked when a guy like this even makes it into the nominating process of the US, much less is the runaway Dem party nominee.
Even the nutjob lefties in OZ would not put up with this asshole.
I hope bern gets it. the debates with trump should be interesting.
https://youtu.be/tSRgx5xtz1o
Sen. Sanders’ appeal is to a large extent his anachronism:
by being a “socialist” he suggests the comforting thought that despite all evidence to the contrary there is still a “society.”
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2020/02/24/virginia-state-senator-says-dems-voted-against-raises-for-cops-as-payback-for-defending-2nd-amendment-890609
well it is ran by organized criminals so he does have a point, now who is running against organized criminals of the present contenders ? *crickets* obviously if one arose they would have an accident