Bernie Sanders appeared on “60 Minutes” last Sunday (below) to say a number of things including his tendency to make sure to praise the world’s most hideous regimes, like Castro’s.
Rather than dialing it back, he doubles-down on the “good” things about communist rule on the island. He mentioned Castro’s great strides in literacy. It would never cross his mind that communist literacy campaigns are another pillar in totalitarian control. See, if the communist state controls all avenues of information and media, being able to read becomes another means to control and shape the individual’s mind. Far from liberating the person, it locks him and her in a communist mental prison. Bernie is so decrepit in his thinking that he can’t bring himself to think that literacy can be put to evil purposes.
To him, as in a Marxist, government is geared to outcomes such as the equal distribution of wealth. That feat doesn’t come naturally so great government power is required to control all sources of wealth. In contrast to him, our founder’s sense of government was based on its alignment with and under “nature” and “Nature’s God”. To be in accord with God’s design, government is subservient to a higher law which includes the moral law, and integral to the moral law – or law of nature – are the natural rights of human beings. Bernie’s conception tramples all over those fundamental natural rights to get to his artificial equality. Bernie’s entire career is an affront to the founding.
Don’t expect him to know or care. He’s an old dog who hasn’t learned any new tricks. All he can do is yap class warfare and blather about any issue (climate change) that furthers a Castro-like control of all sources of wealth. Personally, I think he knows but has spent his whole life mentally corrupted by Marxist drivel on the evils of one person having more than another. Keep this guy away from sharp objects and the levers of power.
He’s a huckster for national ruin.
RogerG