Democratic p**********l front-runner Bernie Sanders used the final debate before Super Tuesday as an opportunity to defend his praise for the achievements of tyrannical c*******t governments. He defended the principle that it was important "when dictatorships, whether it is the Chinese or the Cubans, do something good to acknowledge that."
At one point, he said, “Cuba made progress on education,” and a part of the crowd booed. An angry Sanders responded, "Really? Really?"
Sanders, a proud socialist, has actually made a long career of talking up the silver linings of socialist regimes that he even admits are brutal, “authoritarian,” dictatorial, and otherwise undesirable. In doing so, he is just repeating those brutal authoritarian regimes’ excuses for their own brutality and authoritarianism. Benito Mussolini famously claimed to have made Italian trains run on time. Whether it was true or not, would he have deserved a pat on the back for doing what was expedient?
Back in 1989, Sanders described a trip to Cuba in glowing terms for his local newspaper. “I did not see a hungry child,” he said. “I did not see any homeless people. Cuba today not only has free healthcare but very high-quality healthcare. ... The people we met had an almost religious affection [for Castro].”
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We h**e to have to explain this, senator, but, when you visit unfree countries, their despotic regimes don’t generally expose you to a representative sample of the population. You're not going to see the starving children whose parents were shot as enemies of the people. You will likely encounter only fanatical supporters who are thriving due to their collaboration with the oppressor. And, while you’re busy touring unusually nice-looking medical facilities reserved for foreigners’ edification, the regime’s opponents are probably languishing in a prison that will not be on your tour, most likely starving and without any medical care.
That Sanders didn’t understand this is a sign of either disqualifying naivete or else outright complicity in evil. With that interview, as with many others, he was handing Castro a propaganda victory, parroting the brutal dictator’s visual propaganda in verbal form.
In a 1985 interview, Sanders sang a similar tune, much the same tune as he does today. Castro was “certainly not” perfect, he acknowledged, but people expecting his o*******w by Cubans “forgot that he educated their kids, gave them healthcare, totally t***sformed their society.”
Again, this merely makes excuses for Castro’s brutality. Sanders spoke as if the average Cuban is too satisfied and grateful to resist c*******t dictatorship. It couldn't be that they fear swift, certain retaliation by a lawless, murderous state. It couldn't be that so many of Castro's most capable opponents, many of whom contributed much more than Castro to the o*******w of the Batista dictatorship, were either murdered or forced to flee for their lives when Castro seized power.
When Sanders praises literacy programs under Castro, remember that Cuba's literacy was already as high as 75% when he seized power and began shooting his political enemies. Even setting all that aside, Sanders is actually just praising cynical c*******t efforts to make sure citizens can be indoctrinated more efficiently using the written word. Castro never wanted a genuinely educated populace. Why else would he have blocked internet access for Cubans? And why does Cuba’s regime even today continue to censor the internet and monitor citizens’ online behavior, lest they start getting ideas for themselves?
Sanders's error was even greater when he recently praised China’s c*******t regime for lifting a billion people out of poverty. He should know better, given that, unlike most Chinese, he lives in a free country, has access to the internet, and can look up facts.
China’s c*******ts were the cause of their nation’s poverty. They created a great famine. Later, they sentenced an entire generation of academics, doctors, thinkers, and innovators to a life of farm labor and "reeducation." As a direct consequence, their country is a backwater compared to what it could have been. Chinese populations that entered modernity without the Chinese C*******t Party — those in Taiwan, Singapore, and Hong Kong, for example — did far better economically despite starting off with far less than mainland China in terms of human and natural resources.
Even as he praises despots for their professed accomplishments, Sanders claims to support something different. “Democratic socialism,” he calls it. But what good is that adjective if it just means spreading the tyrants' lies and propaganda to fool audiences in free, democratic countries?
Besides, how many two-bit c*******t dictatorships didn’t claim to be “democratic” or have language such as “people’s democratic republic” in their names? It turns out that merely slapping the word “democratic” in front of the word “socialism” doesn’t make it so.
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Democratic p**********l front-runner Bernie Sanders used the final debate before Super Tuesday as an opportunity to defend his praise for the achievements of tyrannical c*******t governments. He defended the principle that it was important "when dictatorships, whether it is the Chinese or the Cubans, do something good to acknowledge that."
At one point, he said, “Cuba made progress on education,” and a part of the crowd booed. An angry Sanders responded, "Really? Really?"
Sanders, a proud socialist, has actually made a long career of talking up the silver linings of socialist regimes that he even admits are brutal, “authoritarian,” dictatorial, and otherwise undesirable. In doing so, he is just repeating those brutal authoritarian regimes’ excuses for their own brutality and authoritarianism. Benito Mussolini famously claimed to have made Italian trains run on time. Whether it was true or not, would he have deserved a pat on the back for doing what was expedient?
Back in 1989, Sanders described a trip to Cuba in glowing terms for his local newspaper. “I did not see a hungry child,” he said. “I did not see any homeless people. Cuba today not only has free healthcare but very high-quality healthcare. ... The people we met had an almost religious affection [for Castro].”
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We h**e to have to explain this, senator, but, when you visit unfree countries, their despotic regimes don’t generally expose you to a representative sample of the population. You're not going to see the starving children whose parents were shot as enemies of the people. You will likely encounter only fanatical supporters who are thriving due to their collaboration with the oppressor. And, while you’re busy touring unusually nice-looking medical facilities reserved for foreigners’ edification, the regime’s opponents are probably languishing in a prison that will not be on your tour, most likely starving and without any medical care.
That Sanders didn’t understand this is a sign of either disqualifying naivete or else outright complicity in evil. With that interview, as with many others, he was handing Castro a propaganda victory, parroting the brutal dictator’s visual propaganda in verbal form.
In a 1985 interview, Sanders sang a similar tune, much the same tune as he does today. Castro was “certainly not” perfect, he acknowledged, but people expecting his o*******w by Cubans “forgot that he educated their kids, gave them healthcare, totally t***sformed their society.”
Again, this merely makes excuses for Castro’s brutality. Sanders spoke as if the average Cuban is too satisfied and grateful to resist c*******t dictatorship. It couldn't be that they fear swift, certain retaliation by a lawless, murderous state. It couldn't be that so many of Castro's most capable opponents, many of whom contributed much more than Castro to the o*******w of the Batista dictatorship, were either murdered or forced to flee for their lives when Castro seized power.
When Sanders praises literacy programs under Castro, remember that Cuba's literacy was already as high as 75% when he seized power and began shooting his political enemies. Even setting all that aside, Sanders is actually just praising cynical c*******t efforts to make sure citizens can be indoctrinated more efficiently using the written word. Castro never wanted a genuinely educated populace. Why else would he have blocked internet access for Cubans? And why does Cuba’s regime even today continue to censor the internet and monitor citizens’ online behavior, lest they start getting ideas for themselves?
Sanders's error was even greater when he recently praised China’s c*******t regime for lifting a billion people out of poverty. He should know better, given that, unlike most Chinese, he lives in a free country, has access to the internet, and can look up facts.
China’s c*******ts were the cause of their nation’s poverty. They created a great famine. Later, they sentenced an entire generation of academics, doctors, thinkers, and innovators to a life of farm labor and "reeducation." As a direct consequence, their country is a backwater compared to what it could have been. Chinese populations that entered modernity without the Chinese C*******t Party — those in Taiwan, Singapore, and Hong Kong, for example — did far better economically despite starting off with far less than mainland China in terms of human and natural resources.
Even as he praises despots for their professed accomplishments, Sanders claims to support something different. “Democratic socialism,” he calls it. But what good is that adjective if it just means spreading the tyrants' lies and propaganda to fool audiences in free, democratic countries?
Besides, how many two-bit c*******t dictatorships didn’t claim to be “democratic” or have language such as “people’s democratic republic” in their names? It turns out that merely slapping the word “democratic” in front of the word “socialism” doesn’t make it so.
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Every Democrat in this country should read your well informed piece before they v**e in November. What they do before then can be of little consequence and, actually, President Trump will win.
Excellent Post on Sanders hidden political agenda of socialism, and its ugly face.
That's why when people say something is free, I counter with nothing is free!!
Behind all Democrats hand outs is socialism, revolution, and modem Sodom and Gomorrah of liberalism.
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