Friday, February 12, 2016

Bernie Sanders and His Communist Followers

Coach is Right ^ | 2/12/16 | John C. Velisek USN (Ret.) 

Bernie Sanders placed second in the Iowa caucus, edged out by .6% and a half dozen suspicious coin flips by the Hillary camp. He then crushed Hillary in New Hampshire. Though I believe electing either would be a mistake, Bernie Sanders is of the greatest concern to me.
Bernie Sanders is a Communist who admits to being a Democratic Socialist, a term that has little if any meaning to most people. Socialism as a pure definition means the control of all production by a central government. It has been a massively destructive failure everywhere it has been tried. Democratic Socialists point to Scandinavia as an example of a “successful” experiment. Yet even countries like Sweden and Denmark are pulling away from the principles that define Democratic Socialism. In those countries, capitalism is used as a safety net for the populace. But with the influx of refugees-read Muslim invaders-currently overwhelming the “everything is free” mentality of these nations, the social safety net is unraveling, national GDP is plummeting and debt is mounting. Even with a 70% tax rate, Sweden is falling behind on social payments required to keep the economic model alive.
The original ideas for socialism were put to paper by Karl Marx, who wrote a few pages of the moral blueprint for a moral society. The major architect of Socialism was Vladimir Lenin who attempted to work out the practical challenges of an economic system without the incentive of profit or any constraints not implemented by the government.
Just 4 years after the 1917 revolution, production in Russia had fallen to 14% of its pre-socialist levels, a trend which lasted until the forced collectivization of Stalin. Control of production was given to a central planning agency which set directives for...
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