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| Thursday, April 25, 2024 |
Miles from the Mainstream |
D.
R. ZUKERMAN, proprietor |
The Presidential Candidacy of Senator Bernie Sanders
July 19, 2015 -- Senator Bernard "Bernie" Sanders was elected to the U.S. Senate as an independent. He is, however, seeking the Democratic nomination for president in 2016. Sen. Sanders calls himself a "democratic socialist." LPR believes that socialism is not the same as populism. Populism can be summed up, in Lincoln's words, as "government of the people, by the people, and for the people." Socialism, for LPR, is government to the people -- big government to the people. Even mammoth government to the people, with the result that the elite enjoy the fruits of Mammon that fall from the Mammoth Tree of Government. An article about Sanders, by leftist Todd Gitlin, in The New York Times, July 12, commented, "Bernie Sanders is saying, 'Think big.'" Actually, as already here indicated, LPR thinks Sanders is saying: "Think Really Big Government." |
Curiously, for all his talk about wealth inequality, and need of "political revolution," Sanders seems not to notice the issue of social security poverty. Certainly, LPR is not aware that Sanders endorses the LPR call for a $5,000 credit card @3% interest for seniors, to make it possible for them to pay bills not noticed by leftist advocates of mammoth government. So far as LPR is aware, Sanders, like most pols, endorses the idea of very, very low interest rates -- only to benefit the banks he pretends to denounce. One other question about "Bernie." Does he have a foreign policy?
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