Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders unveiled his vision of “democratic socialism” during a recent speech at George Washington University. Unfortunately, he did more to confuse the meaning of democratic socialism than to clarify it.
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He claims that “unfettered capitalism” is causing economic problems in United States. The reality is that capitalism in the United States is far from “unfettered.”
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Sanders contrasts his democratic socialism with the “movement toward oligarchy” which he conflates with unfettered capitalism.
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Sanders stated that he faces attacks “from those who attempt to use the word socialism as a slur.” But it is not “red-baiting” to recognize that socialism means a particular form of economic organization and that those authoritarian countries [Cuba, North Korea, and Venezuela] come closest to using that form of organization.
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So does Sanders want real socialism? The closest he got to specifics was to argue that his democratic socialism would entail an “economic bill of rights,” which would include the right to a decent job that pays a living wage, quality health care, a complete education, affordable housing, a clean environment, and a secure retirement.
But listing aspirations tells us nothing about how he would achieve them. Based on his voting record and advocacy, his program would likely involve massive new interventions that would curtail our economic freedoms and place greater reliance on government planners.
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Sanders is selling the following:the right to a decent job that pays a living wage, quality health care, a complete education, affordable housing, a clean environment, and a secure retirement.
But as this article says:
[L]isting aspirations tells us nothing about how he would achieve them. Based on his voting record and advocacy, his program would likely involve massive new interventions that would curtail our economic freedoms and place greater reliance on government planners.
Sanders is a con-man. He is selling vague, nice-sounded ideals and promising that his "elixer" can deliver them.
His argument, his entire platform, is not based on logic and rational thought. It is based on "pie in the sky" thinking and hopes as being something that he, Bernie, can deliver (a "miracle tonic that heals all that ails you") out of the back of his his festooned horse and wagon "factory" if you, the American voter, just give him your support.
The dangerous thing though is that while he is selling a "con," a "pig-in-a-poke," he has dragged the entire Democratic Party over their with him. Bernie has the entire Party, each member of the slate of Democratic candidates, now selling his/her brand of magic "elixers."
Socialism is the concept that government can force people to work on behalf of some vague collective, without allowing them to enjoy any personal benefit from their labor. Socialist politicians get people into this position by promising them that they will have everything “free.” Then they use force, torture, and murder to keep them there.
Examples of how socialism fails abound, yet useful idiots continue to fall for it.
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He claims that “unfettered capitalism” is causing economic problems in United States. The reality is that capitalism in the United States is far from “unfettered.”
...
Sanders contrasts his democratic socialism with the “movement toward oligarchy” which he conflates with unfettered capitalism.
...
Sanders stated that he faces attacks “from those who attempt to use the word socialism as a slur.” But it is not “red-baiting” to recognize that socialism means a particular form of economic organization and that those authoritarian countries [Cuba, North Korea, and Venezuela] come closest to using that form of organization.
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So does Sanders want real socialism? The closest he got to specifics was to argue that his democratic socialism would entail an “economic bill of rights,” which would include the right to a decent job that pays a living wage, quality health care, a complete education, affordable housing, a clean environment, and a secure retirement.
But listing aspirations tells us nothing about how he would achieve them. Based on his voting record and advocacy, his program would likely involve massive new interventions that would curtail our economic freedoms and place greater reliance on government planners.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Sanders is selling the following:the right to a decent job that pays a living wage, quality health care, a complete education, affordable housing, a clean environment, and a secure retirement.
But as this article says:
[L]isting aspirations tells us nothing about how he would achieve them. Based on his voting record and advocacy, his program would likely involve massive new interventions that would curtail our economic freedoms and place greater reliance on government planners.
Sanders is a con-man. He is selling vague, nice-sounded ideals and promising that his "elixer" can deliver them.
His argument, his entire platform, is not based on logic and rational thought. It is based on "pie in the sky" thinking and hopes as being something that he, Bernie, can deliver (a "miracle tonic that heals all that ails you") out of the back of his his festooned horse and wagon "factory" if you, the American voter, just give him your support.
The dangerous thing though is that while he is selling a "con," a "pig-in-a-poke," he has dragged the entire Democratic Party over their with him. Bernie has the entire Party, each member of the slate of Democratic candidates, now selling his/her brand of magic "elixers."
Socialism is the concept that government can force people to work on behalf of some vague collective, without allowing them to enjoy any personal benefit from their labor. Socialist politicians get people into this position by promising them that they will have everything “free.” Then they use force, torture, and murder to keep them there.
Examples of how socialism fails abound, yet useful idiots continue to fall for it.
