The vast majority of votes are counted in Nevada (88%). Bernie Sanders in a 8-person race got almost 50% (47%). Yeah, it’s a small state but it adds to the big “mo” for Bernie and his bros as he heads into Super Tuesday and its treasure trove of delegates. If Bernie was placed on a color swatch in the Home Depot paint department, he would be full-on red with the others still huddling around the darker end of the slip of paper.
Now begins – if the Dem hierarchy succumbs to what appears to be inevitable – the effort to mainstream his socialism. Bernie, his bros, and the Squad try to emphasize the “democratic” in front of “socialism”. Poison, whether administered through so-called “democratic” or totalitarian means, is frankly irrelevant. It sells, though, to a small slice of our over-credentialed but grossly ill-educated population.
Socialism is toxic no matter its modifier. Government with its army of employees, lawyers, regulators, enforcers, laws, programs, and regulations will make the word “private” in front of “citizen” a dead letter. Government and its politics will overhang and penetrate nearly all aspects of life like a Beijing smog. Albania as the Socialist People’s Republic of Albania wasn’t a basket case because a dictator – Enver Hoxha – ruled over it. It was ruined by socialism.
Now, Bernie, his bros, the Squad, and many in the activist base of today’s Dem Party want to recapitulate Albania right here in America. Of course, they try to dodge that reality by hiding behind the word “Scandinavian” like they do “democratic”. Scandinavia shed its 1960’s-70’s socialism by the 1990’s because it was making them into Albania. Rather than learn that lesson, Bernie and company want to relive the disaster.
The rest of this year’s Dem offerings are just slightly lighter shades of red on the swatch – still, though, on the darker end. They differ only in the size of the dose of poison.
RogerG