Bernie Sanders Won’t Die — and Neither Will Socialism

So let me get this straight. No more billionaires. The existence of billionaires is, morally, an abomination. That’s what Bernie Sanders claims. Yet we’re to have UNLIMITED health care. No premiums, no deductibles, no out-of-pocket — for anyone, ever. No college tuition. Ever. A Green New Deal, meaning trillions upon trillions spent abolishing the use of human energy as we know it over the next 5-10 years. Literally, a return to 1950 or 1850. Life as we know it, which depends totally on fossil fuels? Over.

No money. Yet unlimited spending. Does anyone grasp the irrationality and insanity of it all? I have worked in psychiatric hospitals. I have had conversations with schizophrenics. Their faulty premises make more sense than those of Bernie Sanders. Their numbers and logic, while they don’t add up, add up better than any of these leftist socialists demanding to take over the presidency (to them, a dictatorship) and impose totalitarian economics on us all a mere fifteen months from now.

The real issue here for the sane? Morality. Bernie Sanders is explicit. He claims: Money-making is immoral. One person having more money than another is immoral — and therefore HE, Bernie Sanders, has a right to take from one to give to the other.

You can’t impose a system like this upon millions of people — especially in a once free country like America — unless the citizens buy into the morality clause of Bernie Sanders. He’s counting on you not to question it. If you think they call you “racist” for supporting Donald Trump, you cannot imagine the vitriol if you question their morality clause, that man is his brother’s keeper and you do NOT live for yourself … only for others.

Think about it. Money is evil. Those who make the most of it are evil. Yet money is required to provide the utopia of no copays, no tuition for anyone, ever again. How can money be evil and yet be the basis for everything he holds dear at the same time?

What about the opposing idea of morality? The idea that he who creates it, owns it? That if he who creates it feels he has more money than he needs, he can give it away? Or perhaps invest it which (arguably) will be better for people since investing leads to jobs, while giving away only leads to handouts? Regardless, it’s up to the person who MAKES the money to decide WHAT TO DO WITH IT.

To a large degree, America has operated on that moral premise for several centuries. Look what happened: It became the most innovative, wealthy and comfortable society in all of human history. The middle class and even the poor would be envied by the wealthy royalists of a century or two before, thanks to the moral premise of capitalism Bernie Sanders seeks to eradicate. Capitalism (even when hampered by cronyism) wins — by a landslide. EVERYBODY wants to move here. NOBODY wants to leave. Not even the loathsome President Trump-haters, capitalism-haters and freedom-haters.

Bernie Sanders’ morality, on the other hand, has already been tried. It dominates Venezuela, Cuba and North Korea today. It dominated Soviet Russia, which collapses in despair just as all Communist countries do. And European countries — with strong elements of profit mixed with socialism — all go fiscally bankrupt, and sooner or later have to cut back or eliminate their social programs. And Bernie Sanders says we’re going to spend MORE than anyone ever has. That our spending will leave the spending of bankrupt welfare states in the dust.

THIS is the platform of the Democratic Party, going forward. It doesn’t matter whether they nominate Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren or Bernie Sanders. This is what we’re facing, a mere fifteen months from now.

Because leftist Democrats are all the things they accuse President Trump of being: A liar, a dictator and a power-luster. They don’t hate him because they really believe he does these things. They hate him because they WANT to do these things.

If Americans let this happen, it will be the greatest travesty — and tragedy — in all of human history. It’s a horrible spectacle to watch, and to be a part of. I’m not sure America has EVER been in greater danger. This includes the Nazis, the Soviets, the Deep South in the Civil War and the British Royalty at the time of the American Revolution. Our enemies are inside our country — millions of them. Stupid, ignorant fools who will vote for this. They want to destroy themselves, and the rest of us. Their cluelessness over what they’re doing offers no comfort.

Like Bernie Sanders, the idea of socialism will not die. Until we murder the false idea of morality upon which it’s based, socialism — like Bernie Sanders — will continue to haunt us.

What they propose is nothing less than the largest homicide-suicide ever perpetrated anywhere. If we don’t stop them, we all go down.

 

 

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