{"id":3888,"date":"2020-02-24T18:47:54","date_gmt":"2020-02-24T18:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.libertatevirtute.com\/?p=3888"},"modified":"2020-02-24T18:47:54","modified_gmt":"2020-02-24T18:47:54","slug":"full-on-red","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libertatevirtute.com\/full-on-red\/","title":{"rendered":"Full-On Red"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Bernie Sanders raises as fist as he speaks at his caucus night rally Des Moines, Iowa February 1, 2016. (Rick Wilkin\/Reuters)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The vast majority of votes are counted in Nevada (88%).\u00a0 Bernie Sanders in a 8-person race got almost 50% (47%).\u00a0 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.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n

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Now begins – if the Dem hierarchy succumbs to what appears to be inevitable – the effort to mainstream his socialism.\u00a0 Bernie, his bros, and the Squad try to emphasize the “democratic” in front of “socialism”.\u00a0 Poison, whether administered through so-called “democratic” or totalitarian means, is frankly irrelevant.\u00a0 It sells, though, to a small slice of our over-credentialed but grossly ill-educated population.<\/p>\n

Socialism is toxic no matter its modifier.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 Government and its politics will overhang and penetrate nearly all aspects of life like a Beijing smog.\u00a0 Albania as the Socialist People’s Republic of Albania wasn’t a basket case because a dictator – Enver Hoxha – ruled over it.\u00a0 It was ruined by socialism.<\/p>\n

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Enver Hoxha as communist dictator of Albania.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Shkoder, Albania, 2017. The consequences of Hoxha’s socialism.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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.\u00a0 Of course, they try to dodge that reality by hiding behind the word “Scandinavian” like they do “democratic”.\u00a0 Scandinavia shed its 1960’s-70’s socialism by the 1990’s because it was making them into Albania.\u00a0 Rather than learn that lesson, Bernie and company want to relive the disaster.<\/p>\n

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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.<\/p>\n

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RogerG<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The vast majority of votes are counted in Nevada (88%).\u00a0 Bernie Sanders in a 8-person race got almost 50% (47%).\u00a0 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.\u00a0 If Bernie was placed on a … <\/p>\n

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