DumbOcrats new hero... An avowed socialist leading Hillary!

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Sanders, 73, has been preaching socialism for nearly half a century, and he cites Eugene Debs, the five-time presidential candidate of the Socialist Party of America, as his hero.
But he hasn’t always embraced the label.

“I myself don’t use the word socialism,” he said in 1976 in the Vermont Cynic, a student publication at the University of Vermont, “because people have been brainwashed into thinking socialism automatically means slave-labor camps, dictatorship and lack of freedom of speech.”

Even when Sanders ran for mayor of Burlington in 1981, “Bernie never mentioned the word ‘socialist’ in his campaign,” according to Greg Guma, a longtime Sanders watcher and the author of “The People’s Republic: Vermont and the Sanders Revolution.”
“In Vermont, everybody knows that I am a socialist and that many people in our movement, not all, are socialists. And as often as not — and this is an interesting point that is the honest-to-God truth — what people will say is, ‘I don’t really know what socialism is, but if you’re not a Democrat or a Republican, you’re OK with me.’ That’s true. And I think there has been too much of a reluctance on the part of progressives and radicals to use the word ‘socialism.’”

14 things Bernie Sanders has said about socialism

 

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Bernie's defense of socialism contrasted with how many people have died under socialism...
The highest death tolls that have been documented in communist states occurred in the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin, in the People's Republic of China under Mao Zedong, and in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge.
The estimates of the number of non-combatants killed by these three regimes alone range from a low of 21 million to a high of 70 million
Mass killings under Communist regimes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

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Mao is estimated to have killed 75 million, Stalin another 25 million... for those keeping score, that is 100 million people murdered by Leftists, in PEACETIME, in just 30 years of the mid-20th Century.

The closest second to THAT... is Islam which is estimated to have murdered 65 million people, over its 1200 year history.

Which isn't all that close... .

Meaning that the only thing that is more deadly to humanity than Left-think is DISEASE~