Thank you, Bernie!
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By Jim Thompson
HCP columnist
First off, just for the record, I stated in this column months ago that I was in favor of socialism with the caveat that it is administered in a small group of people that know each other personally, like a family or, perhaps, an extended family.
Any scheme that is larger than that where all the members do not know each other and where an administrator or administrating body is required, does not work and has never worked.
Now, to Bernie Sanders.
Bernie, ironically an Independent, is the first candidate in the Democrat Party to fully fess up to what the Democrats mean by “socialism.” He is not talking about the dainty (but destructive) socialism of Scandinavia, he is talking about the full-throated, all-hands-on-deck communism of Fidel Castro. Which is what I have suspected to be the Democrats' intention all along.
Why do we know he speaks for the whole party? No one, not one, in the Democrat Party has condemned his policy promulgations. Bernie has thrown these out there for all to see, and there have been no objections. Yes, others among the Democrats are objecting to Bernie for the simple reason that they fear he cannot beat Trump, but have you heard a word of protest about his ideas?
So, now we know – if we had not known before – that the modern Democrat Party’s end game is full, all in, communism. Just like the old Soviet Union. Just like Cuba. Just like China. Just like Venezuela. All of you who have been shouting me down for years on this view owe me a big apology.
If there is any sadness in the Democrat Party, I suspect it is because Bernie fast-walked what they had been intentionally slow-walking. Bernie has taken the frog out of the pot of water with the slowly rising temperature and thrown it into the boiling caldron.
For that, we must thank Bernie. If anyone had scales on their eyes before, they should be lifted by now.
If anyone thinks communism is a desirable form of government, they should read up on the history of communism in the 20th century. Read "The Gulag Archipelago" by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Read the history of Cuba or China.
Look at the current news about Venezuela, once one of the great democracies in South America. Go to the Communism Museum in Prague (where they, ironically, point out their second-floor location, atop that bastion of capitalism, McDonald’s). They strip communism of any false niceties in their displays.
Explore why 100 million-plus people lost their lives in the 20th century in order for despots to implement communism.
Look at the lack of freedom of speech in China today as they flounder around in their feeble attempts to control the coronavirus.
Communism and socialism as practiced in the world in the last 100 years have brought nothing but misery and despair to masses of human beings. It is not charitable, it is not compassionate, it is not desirable. Those trying to implement it, always paint pretty pictures – until they seize control. Then, they live large and everyone else suffers mightily.
Overachiever Bernie has even short cut that part of the process. He owns three homes, and there have been countless documentations of him riding first class on airplanes. (Hint: Bernie, at least fake poverty until you are firmly in control.)
When it comes to the promises of communism and what they will mean to us if implemented, Bernie is as big a fraud as Lenin, Stalin, Mao and Castro. When it comes to telling us what the Democrat Party’s real end game is, he is Paul Revere.
You blew the schedule, Bernie, but we are indebted to you for your honesty and acts of exposure of the real intent. Thank you!
Jim Thompson, formerly of Marshall, is a graduate of Hillsboro High School and the University of Cincinnati. He resides in Duluth, Ga. and is a columnist for The Highland County Press. He may be reached at jthompson@taii.com.
HCP columnist
First off, just for the record, I stated in this column months ago that I was in favor of socialism with the caveat that it is administered in a small group of people that know each other personally, like a family or, perhaps, an extended family.
Any scheme that is larger than that where all the members do not know each other and where an administrator or administrating body is required, does not work and has never worked.
Now, to Bernie Sanders.
Bernie, ironically an Independent, is the first candidate in the Democrat Party to fully fess up to what the Democrats mean by “socialism.” He is not talking about the dainty (but destructive) socialism of Scandinavia, he is talking about the full-throated, all-hands-on-deck communism of Fidel Castro. Which is what I have suspected to be the Democrats' intention all along.
Why do we know he speaks for the whole party? No one, not one, in the Democrat Party has condemned his policy promulgations. Bernie has thrown these out there for all to see, and there have been no objections. Yes, others among the Democrats are objecting to Bernie for the simple reason that they fear he cannot beat Trump, but have you heard a word of protest about his ideas?
So, now we know – if we had not known before – that the modern Democrat Party’s end game is full, all in, communism. Just like the old Soviet Union. Just like Cuba. Just like China. Just like Venezuela. All of you who have been shouting me down for years on this view owe me a big apology.
If there is any sadness in the Democrat Party, I suspect it is because Bernie fast-walked what they had been intentionally slow-walking. Bernie has taken the frog out of the pot of water with the slowly rising temperature and thrown it into the boiling caldron.
For that, we must thank Bernie. If anyone had scales on their eyes before, they should be lifted by now.
If anyone thinks communism is a desirable form of government, they should read up on the history of communism in the 20th century. Read "The Gulag Archipelago" by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Read the history of Cuba or China.
Look at the current news about Venezuela, once one of the great democracies in South America. Go to the Communism Museum in Prague (where they, ironically, point out their second-floor location, atop that bastion of capitalism, McDonald’s). They strip communism of any false niceties in their displays.
Explore why 100 million-plus people lost their lives in the 20th century in order for despots to implement communism.
Look at the lack of freedom of speech in China today as they flounder around in their feeble attempts to control the coronavirus.
Communism and socialism as practiced in the world in the last 100 years have brought nothing but misery and despair to masses of human beings. It is not charitable, it is not compassionate, it is not desirable. Those trying to implement it, always paint pretty pictures – until they seize control. Then, they live large and everyone else suffers mightily.
Overachiever Bernie has even short cut that part of the process. He owns three homes, and there have been countless documentations of him riding first class on airplanes. (Hint: Bernie, at least fake poverty until you are firmly in control.)
When it comes to the promises of communism and what they will mean to us if implemented, Bernie is as big a fraud as Lenin, Stalin, Mao and Castro. When it comes to telling us what the Democrat Party’s real end game is, he is Paul Revere.
You blew the schedule, Bernie, but we are indebted to you for your honesty and acts of exposure of the real intent. Thank you!
Jim Thompson, formerly of Marshall, is a graduate of Hillsboro High School and the University of Cincinnati. He resides in Duluth, Ga. and is a columnist for The Highland County Press. He may be reached at jthompson@taii.com.