It’s okay to be angry about Bernie Sanders.

[Mindful]

The Vermont Senator has squandered left-wing populism for phoney anti-capitalism.

A couple of days before settling down to read Bernie Sanders’ new book, I saw one of those video clips of Jeffrey Marsh, the crazy they / them fella off TikTok. ‘It’s okay to be angry’, Marsh said, in his typically creepy style, like the lovechild of Norman Bates and Oprah Winfrey. And now here was Bernie, everyone’s favourite avuncular socialist, the mitten-wearing moral conscience of millennials the Western world over, also telling me it’s okay to be angry. It’s Okay To Be Angry About Capitalism, his new book is called. Would this be yet more TikTok-level therapy, only delivered by a he / him with principles rather than a they / them with issues? Sadly, yes, it kind of is.

Bernie’s tome feels like a self-help book for upwardly mobile leftists. It’s a book whose aim is not so much to radically change Western society as to flatter and inflame the moral revulsion that graduate radicals feel towards ‘dog-eat-dog’ capitalism. Or ‘vicious dog-eat-dog’ capitalism, as Bernie brands it. Anyone hoping for cool, Marx-style analysis of the social relations that pertain under capitalism will be sorely disappointed. This is less a study of the capitalist mode of production and its contradictory consequences and more an explosion of East Coast abhorrence at the ‘uncontrollable greed’ and ‘grossly immoral’ behaviour of the captains of our ‘uber-capitalist’ system who ‘lie, cheat, bribe and steal’ to make a buck. Sanders seems less interested in getting the working classes revolting than in massaging the middle classes’ belief that the hyper-rich are revolting people.

Bernie’s brimstone is relentless. It’s anti-capitalism as church sermon. He slams the ‘greed, corruption and rampant self-interest’ of the madly wealthy.

It’s okay to be angry about Bernie Sanders

The Vermont Senator has squandered left-wing populism for phoney anti-capitalism.

www.spiked-online.com

 

[Moonglow]

Damn if capitalists don't hate being outed.

 

[Votto]

It's amazing how rich folk can peddle this stuiff

Guess what people, Bernie and his socialist lemmings won't be paying your electric bills this year which will all go up

That's right friends, you thought last year was bad, you have not seen bad while under the power of Bernie and his buddies.

 

[Rust_Cohle]

The Vermont Senator has squandered left-wing populism for phoney anti-capitalism.

A couple of days before settling down to read Bernie Sanders’ new book, I saw one of those video clips of Jeffrey Marsh, the crazy they / them fella off TikTok. ‘It’s okay to be angry’, Marsh said, in his typically creepy style, like the lovechild of Norman Bates and Oprah Winfrey. And now here was Bernie, everyone’s favourite avuncular socialist, the mitten-wearing moral conscience of millennials the Western world over, also telling me it’s okay to be angry. It’s Okay To Be Angry About Capitalism, his new book is called. Would this be yet more TikTok-level therapy, only delivered by a he / him with principles rather than a they / them with issues? Sadly, yes, it kind of is.

Bernie’s tome feels like a self-help book for upwardly mobile leftists. It’s a book whose aim is not so much to radically change Western society as to flatter and inflame the moral revulsion that graduate radicals feel towards ‘dog-eat-dog’ capitalism. Or ‘vicious dog-eat-dog’ capitalism, as Bernie brands it. Anyone hoping for cool, Marx-style analysis of the social relations that pertain under capitalism will be sorely disappointed. This is less a study of the capitalist mode of production and its contradictory consequences and more an explosion of East Coast abhorrence at the ‘uncontrollable greed’ and ‘grossly immoral’ behaviour of the captains of our ‘uber-capitalist’ system who ‘lie, cheat, bribe and steal’ to make a buck. Sanders seems less interested in getting the working classes revolting than in massaging the middle classes’ belief that the hyper-rich are revolting people.

Bernie’s brimstone is relentless. It’s anti-capitalism as church sermon. He slams the ‘greed, corruption and rampant self-interest’ of the madly wealthy.

It’s okay to be angry about Bernie Sanders

The Vermont Senator has squandered left-wing populism for phoney anti-capitalism.

www.spiked-online.com

By buying this book you just helped Bernie buy his 5th beach house

 

[jotathought]

Good ol' Sanders .. he just needs to dry up and retire before his bones finish fossilizing. Notice he doesn't attack the millionaire's now after becoming one himself -- all in the name of capitalism.

 

[fncceo]

Damn if capitalists don't hate being outed.

As a capitalist... I'm fine with being outed... if you pay me.

 

[Mindful]

By buying this book you just helped Bernie buy his 5th beach house

I shan’t buy it.

I get my from Sacha Baron Cohen taking the Michael out of him.

 

[pknopp]

Nobody actually supports Capitalism.

 

[occupied]

Because Bernie is not living in a cardboard box his criticism of our rigged economy is all wrong? Explain that logic. One minor bank failure a few weeks ago nearly brought down the whole house of cards again and the government had to step in to clean up the mess. Is that even capitalism?

 

[leftwinger]

A true lifelong grifter of Taxpayer dollars.

These sorts run for President to collect millions in donations (But not to actually win). Paid back to wives, children, friends etc. in $250K BS jobs like media consultant. Nick Haley and Kasuck Come to mind.

 

[Rust_Cohle]

Because Bernie is not living in a cardboard box his criticism of our rigged economy is all wrong? Explain that logic. One minor bank failure a few weeks ago nearly brought down the whole house of cards again and the government had to step in to clean up the mess. Is that even capitalism?

Ever notice how in 2016 Bernie wore the same cheap suits he always wore and raged against Millionaires and Billionaires then when he sold out and became a millionaire himself he only went after Billionaires?

 

[pknopp]

Ever notice how in 2016 Bernie wore the same cheap suits he always wore and raged against Millionaires and Billionaires then when he sold out and became a millionaire himself he only went after Billionaires?

Ever notice how when a person notes how badly our system is broken, what he said isn't attacked, he is personally.

Tell us about the part where the government bails out failed businesses in Capitalism?

 

[occupied]

Ever notice how in 2016 Bernie wore the same cheap suits he always wore and raged against Millionaires and Billionaires then when he sold out and became a millionaire himself he only went after Billionaires?

You're still attacking the man rather than what he has to say. There's people in board rooms who have far more power to wreck your life than any politician. Why don't you have a problem with that?

 

[leftwinger]

Ever notice how when a person notes how badly our system is broken, what he said isn't attacked, he is personally.

Tell us about the part where the government bails out failed businesses in Capitalism?

you mean like the GM bailout resulting in net loss of $33B? Nothing but a transfer of Tax dollars to UAW leadership For continued voting support.

 

[Rust_Cohle]

Ever notice how when a person notes how badly our system is broken, what he said isn't attacked, he is personally.

Tell us about the part where the government bails out failed businesses in Capitalism?

You're still attacking the man rather than what he has to say. There's people in board rooms who have far more power to wreck your life than any politician. Why don't you have a problem with that?

I'm calling out his hypocrisy maybe you two should address that before asking something else

 

[Lisa558]

Because Bernie is not living in a cardboard box his criticism of our rigged economy is all wrong? Explain that logic. One minor bank failure a few weeks ago nearly brought down the whole house of cards again and the government had to step in to clean up the mess. Is that even capitalism?

Hard to buy the anti-capitalist rhetoric of a multimillionaire with three houses.

 

[pknopp]

you mean like the GM bailout resulting in net loss of $33B? Nothing but a transfer of Tax dollars to UAW leadership For continued voting support.

Yes, tell me where in Capitalism we find that? Or the part where we simply gave corporate farms billions of dollars. Tell me, why wasn't this taught?

 

[pknopp]

I'm calling out his hypocrisy maybe you two should address that before asking something else

Politicians will come and go. Our failing trajectory will continue downward.

 

[occupied]

I'm calling out his hypocrisy maybe you two should address that before asking something else

Why do you think it's hypocrisy to honestly gain wealth while calling out those who game the system? There's nothing wrong with writing a book or creating some product that people might want to buy. That's what a free market economy is supposed to promote.

 

[iamwhatiseem]

Damn if capitalists don't hate being outed.

Everything you have is due to capitalism, without it... you would be a peasant. And died a couple decades ago