To be fair, Bernie Sanders went to the USSR as part of an official trip as mayor of Burlington, Vermont. He really did not go there for a honeymoon, as some of us have joked on social media.
Nevertheless, he did set up close city to city ties with the Sandinistas in Nicaragua and was very fond of their brand of socialism.
In other words, Bernie Sanders has always been fond of socialists, specially the ones who hate the US.
Bernie Sanders has gotten a free ride from the media and the GOP so far. I guess that most of us just think that Bernie will fizzle out after Hillary Clinton clinches the nomination. We shouldn't be so optimistic. Yes, Sanders won't get the nomination, but he has lit up a left wing movement that we will see the next time that the Democrats choose a president.
Add to this what we are seeing in colleges, and these anti-American lefties will be around for a while.
We can say that Trump is tapping into frustration, from free trade deals to illegal immigration to a sense that that we don't recognize the country anymore.
On the other hand, Sanders also is tapping into ignorance. He is misleading masses with promises that we can't afford and promoting a sense of entitlement that will frustrate his supporters the morning after they finally grow up.
We need to start calling out Sanders, and more specifically his crazy ideas.
I saw this editorial and I wish that more of us would take its message seriously:
Let's face it.And that's what irritates me more than anything else...free stuff, free stuff and more free stuff!
Sanders isn't a Democrat in the traditional sense.
He is a socialist who has based his entire run on a four letter word, "free."
It's one thing to promote socialism and the taxes or loss of personal freedom that come with it. It is utterly disingenuous to sell socialism by saying that we will raise taxes on the rich.
Memo to the GOP: Sanders won't be around by Labor Day. His movement will and may even push Hillary Clinton to the left. We need to win this ideological debate or we won't recognize the country for sure.
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