Heading into Super Tuesday, the media appears at its collective wit’s end. After the victory of Joe Biden in South Carolina, many attempted to portray a new day until the they faced polls in the morning showing Bernie Sanders again surging in states from California to Texas to even Massachusetts (where Elizabeth Warren is struggling to win her own state). Described as the “nightmare scenario,” the media and political establishment in Washington is back to clutching its pearls and speaking of a convention strategy to block Sanders, including Warren whose campaign calls such a move the “final play.”
The continuing support win for Bernie Sanders has sent the D.C. political and media establishment into vapors. On the eve of Super Tuesday, Pete Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar, Beto O’Rourke all lined up to endorse Joe Biden to try to stop the momentum for Sanders. Others are growing more and more shrill. Democratic strategist James Carville proclaimed the winner to be Valdimir Putin. His point was that both Sanders and Trump continue surging despite unrelenting attacks in the media. The fact is that many in Washington still cannot compute why so many voters will not listen to them about Sanders and Trump. The reason is that they are valued for the one thing that the establishment cannot offer: authenticity.
In 2016, I wrote a column on what I thought was a curious trend I was seeing in various states far outside of the echo-chamber of Washington some interesting anecdotes. On a trip to Alaska, I encountered support for the candidacy of Donald Trump in surprising numbers despite his portrayal in the media as a fringe candidate for what Hillary Clinton called a “basket of deplorables.” More importantly, the appeal for Trump was not the racist dog whistles so often denounced in the media. Rather, voters viewed him as authentic in a way that is entirely unimaginable in D.C. He was the outsider who would challenge the establishment and the collective opposition of the political and media elite only reaffirmed that appeal.
I returned recently to Alaska and spoke to some of these same voters to see how they now view Trump. What I found was not just continuing support for Trump but also support for Bernie Sanders. Both of these very different politicians shared the key element of authenticity for voters, who also resented the coordinated attacks by the political and media establishment.
One of my stops was Mike Carpenter’s trading post on the way to Denali National Park, a shack covered in a mountain of detritus from pelts to animal traps to a human hand in a jar. All prices are negotiable but advice comes free. Four years later, Carpenter remains a Trump supporter, only more so. With a MAGA hat now prominently hung over the counter, he said that Trump proved to be even better than he had hoped. He was sent to Washington to disrupt it and he did.
Sitting outside in front of the outpost was “Red” Cooney. (Red said no one knows his real first name but his Mom). Red, 75, is from Minnesota and has been in Alaska for 50 years. He also supports Trump. Like Carpenter, he recognized that Trump lies and engages in shady deals. However, he also viewed him as authentic in that he did not hide those traits. He is, in a way, authentically inauthentic. He does not ask for people to view him as a moral example, but he someone who delivers on the deal. The other person who was the talk of the outpost was the political antithesis of Trump: Bernie Sanders. People saw both men as not just honest, but brutally honest. Red estimated support in the rural area as “25 for Trump, 25 for Sanders, and the rest don’t care.”
Authenticity is a word rarely applied to Trump, but it remains his greatest selling point outside Washington. While rarely acknowledged, Trump has fulfilled many of his campaign promises with his push on immigration, the wall, taxes, Jerusalem, renegotiating NAFTA, dropping the Iran deal, rolling back regulations, opening areas like the artic to drilling, finishing the Keystone pipeline, gutting Obamacare and other promises. More importantly, he does not try to pretend what he is not: honest or moral. He openly talks about delivering wealth and having people vote their pocketbooks. He is the ultimate car salesman who you don’t trust but still want to get a good deal from.
Bernie Sanders is genuinely authentic. Indeed, Sanders seems immune from changes from clothing or political styles. There was never a popular time to be socialist but Sanders never budged. To the contrary, he praised Castro and spent his birthday in the Soviet Union during the cold war. He changes his positions at the speed of tectonic plate shifts. That is why you can hate socialism but love Sanders because you know (like Trump) exactly what you are getting. Elizabeth Warren in comparison was known as a pro-corporate, anti-consumer academic for much of her career before being a champion of the downtrodden.
For the establishment, Sanders’ authenticity is precisely the problem. He is the real deal who is unlikely to change as president any more than he did as a Senator. CNN and MSNBC have stood out in the level of open anti-Sanders bias. Many were shocked by the hostile questions against Sanders by CNN’s Abby Phillips in the presidential debate. Sanders may be surging across the country (and even pulling ahead of Biden in Texas), but NBC’s Chuck Todd objected to people even calling Sanders a “frontrunner.” Others like Chris Matthews has denounced Sanders as leading the country to a socialist nightmare while James Carville has called him a “communist.” Hillary Clinton has been virtually campaigning against him, including declaring that “no one likes Bernie.” Perhaps but many are voting for him, because, unlike Clinton, they know what they are getting with Sanders.
While trumpeting the new “Red Scare,” the establishment is pushing Biden and Klobuchar who continue to change positions to court voting blocks. For example, when she started to campaign in Nevada with one of the largest Hispanic populations, Klobuchar suddenly dropped her support for English being taught as a first language in public schools. She also previously supported building a wall along the Southern border until it became anathema to liberals. Biden has notoriously changed or denied positions on the campaign trail, including denying his support for the Iraq War.
The impression of these candidates is that what we see is merely the artificial product of image makers, pollsters, and speech writers. It is all pre-fabricated until they are post-fabricated. Voters had the same reaction of the character Tony Stark when he dismissed Captain America in the movie Avengers by saying “Everything special about you came out of a bottle.”
This election is shaping up precisely in the same way. Screaming about sociopaths or socialists only convinces many that they are real threats to the hated status quo. The more that the media screams about the end-of-days with Trump and Sanders, the more people want to bring about that day.
The problem to which you are referring is our ‘worst-political-class-in-history’ problem. That, in turn, is a function in the decline of character among our professional-managerial class generally. Don’t see a reliable way out of the problem.
says the morally upstanding curmudgeon who shows us what not to become when we retire: bitter
I see the assisted living center has taken Diane on a day trip to Starbucks so she can continue her stalking.
no one is stalking anyone
(the bitter old man need help)
you nailed it
Our shallow curmudgeon who seems old enough to know better, apparently longs for old times when Boss Tweed or Soapy Smith ruled politics and nepotism and party patronage ruled staff. By supporting the Citizens United party now, he is actively working to bring back those days.
We call them the ‘good old days’ because we weren’t good, we weren’t old, and we were talking about the nights. 😉
Little original here. We are going to have a bifurcation in the fall election, populist versus populist. I hope The Donald loses big time.
David Benson is the God Emperor of Making Stuff Up and owes me forty-three citations (one from the OED, one from the town ordinances and two from the Old Testament), an equation and the source of a quotation, after sixty-five weeks, and needs to cite all his work from now on. – Bernie is not a populist, he is a Socialist or Marxist. Take your pick.
If it does come down to Trump and Sanders as our choices in November, it truly will an authentic nightmare.
Where will an independent , moderate find shelter ?
With Saunders. Congress won’t allow him to overstep and he’ll head in the right direction.
Here is a good excerpt from an article by Caitlin Johnstone:
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The only problem? Biden’s brain is turning into sauerkraut.
There are two new clips of video footage making the rounds today, one featuring Biden at a rally telling his supporters that tomorrow is “Super Thursday”, and another featuring the former VP saying (and this is a direct quote), “We hold these truths to be self-evident. All men and women created — by the — you know, you know the thing.”
I’ve written about Biden’s recent struggles to form coherent sentences before, and it seems to be getting worse. There’s simply no comparing the befuddled, fuzz-brained man we see before us today with the sharp, lucid speaker we were seeing even a few years ago. The man’s brain does not work.
And yeah, it’s unpleasant to have to keep pointing this out. I’m not loving it myself. I resent Biden’s handlers and the Democratic Party establishment for making it necessary to continually point out an old man’s obvious symptoms of cognitive decline. But it does need to be pointed to, and it’s creepy and weird that they’re continuing to prop up this crumbling husk of a man while pretending that everything’s fine.
Not that Biden would be an acceptable leader of the most powerful government on earth even with a working brain; he’s a horrible war hawk with an inexcusable track record of advancing right-wing policies. But even rank-and-file Americans who don’t pay attention to that stuff would plainly see a man on the debate stage opposite Trump who shouldn’t be permitted near heavy machinery, much less the nuclear codes. And Trump will happily point that out.
It’s been obvious since 2016 that the Dems were going to once again sabotage the only candidate with a chance of beating Trump in favor of a scandalously inappropriate candidate, but wheeling out an actual, literal dementia patient for the role is something not even I would have imagined.
2020 is weird, folks. And it’s going to get a whole lot weirder. Buckle up.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/dems-converge-around-dementia-addled-warmonger-ahead-super-tuesday
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Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
Yes, Biden needs to be put out to pasture; a pasture ornament.
Paul C. Schulte, the best of the professional literature, that which persists, is well crafted. Good examples are the seminal papers by A. Einstein, the ones that I know in impeccable German.
In English, CalTech cosmologist Sean Carroll is clear and illuminating.
Some write better than others. When I was much younger I found Allan Turing impenetrable. Maybe not his fault.
Prof Turley – You are so right about “authenticity.” But more woe will be visited upon us by a Trump second term. Trump is truly as authentic as the first Russian Czar, Ivan the Terrible (1547 – 1575). Ivan was known for his paranoid rages, his purges of advisers, and mental instability. Check out their very authentic similarities –
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_the_Terrible
Check out their very authentic similarities
The provessor is capable of analogical reasoning and you’re not, so he’s not taking your advice.
Here’s the REAL problem – it is in a sentence from the article above – “the media and political establishment in Washington is back to clutching its pearls and speaking of a convention strategy to block Sanders”
Why the F is the “media” in that sentence at all??? Why should the media even have a dog in the fight. Isn’t it their job to REPORT the news, not BE PART OF the news??? But they are not really a free “media’. The Main Stream Media has become the propaganda arm of the DNC and the Left. The sentence should read, “the Democratic political establishment in Washington and its Propaganda Arm are back to clutching their pearls and speaking of a convention strategy to block Sanders.”
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
Squeeky – haven’t we been saying since 2016 that most of the MSM was an active arm of the DNC? It hasn’t changed.
Yes, PAULCS, but I think it needs constant pointing out. JT wrote the above as if it were somehow natural for the media to be involved. But it really isn’t. It is just so common that we all accept it and I think it slides under our radar.
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
JUST IN: State Dept., DOJ, FBI and others issue joint statement ahead of #SuperTuesday:
Americans “must remain aware that foreign actors continue to try to influence public sentiment and shape voter perceptions.”
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Oh Really? We already have the Mainstream Media doing that on behalf of the Democrat Party.
bythebook, it is not a matter of right or wrong, but rather you didn’t make whatever case you were attempting to explain.
Usually you do much better and I deeply appreciate your comments, ordinarily.
You got the message and don’t like it.
Next?
No,I didn’t get the message. Try again.
Read slower this time. Enjoyment is increased by savoring both the
subtlety and undeniable import of the sarcasm, yet the after taste is light and reminiscent of the aroma of a wet spring forest floor. I prefer mine with a Krispy Kreme.
JT makes 3 points,
1. The “media”, which he strives mightily to be part of, hates political controversy and wants the Democratic nomination settled now, so they can go back to……….what was it again?
2. Some Americans are more “authenticate” than others and unfortunately , most of us – those Democrats who voted overwhelmingly for Hillary in 2016 and are not voting for Bernie now, and Americans who voted for Trump’s opponent in the general election -are apparently not authenticate , or attuned to this magic sauce which also made Hitler and Mussolini so palatable.
3. Authenticity has not nothing to do with honesty and is best embodied in the bragging con man who cannot be believed on anything he says.
At least JT reveals himself. He can’t find the heart of America with a road map or tell truth from lies. He should not go to the State Fair unaccompanied.
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JT makes 3 points,
1. The “media”, which he strives mightily to be part of, hates political controversy and wants the Democratic nomination settled now, so they can go back to……….what was it again?
2. Some Americans are more “authenticate” than others and unfortunately , most of us – those Democrats who voted overwhelmingly for Hillary in 2016 and are not voting for Bernie now, and Americans who voted for Trump’s opponent in the general election -are apparently not authenticate , or attuned to this magic sauce which also made Hitler and Mussolini so palatable.
3. Authenticity has not nothing to do with honesty and is best embodied in the bragging con man who cannot be believed on anything he says.
At least JT reveals himself. He can’t find the heart of America with a road map or tell truth from lies. He should not go to the State Fair unaccompanied.
Bythebook, I don’t think that you were fair to Prof Turley. He is correct that the appearance of authenticity is important to voters who don’t like politicians who seem to be “faking it.” You yourself seem to understand that the popularity (at first) of Mussolini and Hitler was due to their “true beliefs.” I don’t think that JT is saying that so-called authenticity is his own criterion for approval.
We disagree RD. JT blasts those who oppose these 2 as dishonest establishment tools. In truth, they are most Americans who haven’t drunk the Kool Aid. While Sanders is 5 times the human and man as our low life President – I will vote for him if that’s our choice in November – his “authenticity” now includes not explaining how the revolution is going to work if elected or releasing all his health records 3 months after a heart attack. JT has been spreading false history on our last primary repeatedly here and otherwise picking nits off of Democrats while live crabs are crawling out of Trumps eye sockets. JT is a tool, and Sanders is just a host he’s riding on.
What if Bernie selected Tulsi as his VP running mate? I would very much look forward to the VP debates so we could watch Tulsi smack down the annoying Kammy Harris.
No, Tulsi is an officially disapproved Dem candidate. Russian bot, Russian talking points, Russian asset, anything the DNC estabishment doesn’t like is Russians Russians Russians
Donna Brazile gives an up to date example
https://www.mediaite.com/tv/donna-brazile-shocks-foxs-ed-henry-by-telling-ronna-mcdaniel-go-to-hell/
I’m all in for DONALD J TRUMP ,,,,but appreciate my right as an American citizen to have an opinion or vote for EITHER party candidates regardless of Donna Brazile telling me to Butt out. I have voted for Democrats in many cycles in many elections and I would again if they could put somebody up who advanced my interests. Generally they dont, not at the POTUS level, that’s for sure
I sincerely like Bernie and a lot of what he says but I can’t hold with the socialized medicine plans. Trump has my solid vote against Bernie.
I would agree to a very small extent with book that there is nothing inherently inauthentic about picking a candidate that meets your expectations. people who are experienced in party politics are not per se inauthentic compared to neophytes.
At the same time book discredits his point by excess. There is a very real way in which the candor of Bernie like Trump is charming and welcome.
For example. Bernie said the Cuban communists expanded literacy. (that is a fact) But some news guy called him on this. and suggested he repudiate it. but guess what! It’s true. That was one of their modest accomplishments. Overall they have still been a disaster for Cuba, but, why lie about the literacy thing? They have that feather in their cap. Bernie just called a spade a spade and kept moving. Good for Bernie. That’s an example of authenticity.
an example of inauthenticity? a slick talker like Pete B. who uses pleasing word combinations to say very little. much like Pres Obama! Charming speeches with little content.
Mr Kurtz – boy howdy, Donna Braizille has a thin skin. 😉 Hit a nerve there. A big a$$ nerve.
Look this Bernie Sanders mess is a Democratic creation. They allowed an Independent, a person who was and is clearly NOT a democrat to take part in Their primary. Tell me when was the last time Sanders ran as a DEMOCRAT for any office other than president. The Democrats have allowed him to USE their party to do what he could NEVER do as an independent have a chance to become president.
It’s sad. The Democratic establishment is using Joe Biden like they used Robert Mueller: A figurehead.
For 2 1/2 years all we heard was” wait until Mueller testifies…” Mueller’s testimony was so pathetic. It became so evident the Mueller lawyers handled the entire investigation.
The problem with Joe, “Wait til super Thursday…..”is his age and onset dementia will be on display the next 8 mos.
Already showing.
Don’t forget the promised Senate inquisition into Hunter’s alleged involvement in corruption in Ukraine.
“ … the media and political establishment in Washington is back to clutching its pearls and speaking of a convention strategy to block Sanders, including Warren whose campaign calls such a move as the “final play.”
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It must be an exercise in mind-short circuiting frustration for the punditry class in Washington to learn — many for the first time — that nobody gives a damn about their opinions. Sort of a refreshing awakening of reality that King Louie must have felt when his neck was placed in the lunette.It’s also the realization the big toe makes when it is jammed unceremoniously into the much too tight boot by the rest of the body after thinking all the while that it, and it alone, is what kept the whole thing upright.
Ah, natural justice — it just doesn’t get any better.
“O Fortuna!”
Ozymadian!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozymandias
It’s my favorite Shelly poem. Especially these lines so appropriate here:
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
Lifeless then and even moreso now.
Putting aside the obvious fact that JT is a legal pundit trying to transition – after the last 3 months, his reputation has suffered – to political punditry, 24/7 cable news and it’s audience – the President and a few others – has elevated punditry to heights unimagined by pioneers like Eric Sevareid , and Mespo – like Trump and the rest of us – spends too much time reading and commenting on them.
A “pundit trying to transition” ….. you mean like Caitlyn Jenner kind of thing? That kind of “transitioning”? 😉
He actually has a day job at George Washington University.
You’ve got it so right! But this is going to turn out uglier than 2016. The GOP was ready to be steamrolled by Trump. The Party elite knew there was a groundswell against them, and moved out of the way. But not so the Dems political and media elite. As I write, just hours before Super Tuesday, the resistance to Bernie is awesome. It may carry Biden to the nomination…but at what a cost!
The Dem convention is likely to make 1968 look like a bingo game. If Bernie is denied, his supporters will become a mob. The Dems will face a real crisis, and Bernie will be in the worst position of his career. The demand for him to run as an Independent/Socialist will be HUGE! And he knows that it will elect Trump. Absolutely. But can he resist?
Comparing President Trump and Comrade Sanders is like comparing apples and donkeys.
If you choose Trump, you get a continuation of basic economic truths and a belief in freedom and the market, as well as a commitment to the US Constitution that has made America the shining light on the hill.
If you choose Sanders, you choose someone who believes that the US has an economic system that is broken and who will destroy American’s basic constitutionally guaranteed freedoms. If you choose Sanders, you choose the pain and suffering of Venezuelans, Cubans, Nicaraguan and the malaise and decay of the Italians, Greeks, and French.
If you choose Trump you get continued prosperity, freedom to own property and make decisions about your family, and the America the world so envies and wants to participate in.
They are similar only to those who can’t see.
Donkeys eat apples.
The laws are passed by Congess, who collectively are not going to aim where you suggest. No matter who is Prez.
JT makes 3 points,
1. The “media”, which he strives mightily to be part of, hates political controversy and wants the Democratic nomination settled now, so they can go back to……….what was it again?
2. Some Americans are more “authenticate” than others and unfortunately , most of us – those Democrats who voted overwhelmingly for Hillary in 2016 and are not voting for Bernie now, and Americans who voted for Trump’s opponent in the general election -are apparently not authenticate , or attuned to this magic sauce which also made Hitler and Mussolini so palatable.
3. Authenticity has not nothing to do with honesty and is best embodied in the bragging con man who cannot be believed on anything he says.
At least JT reveals himself. He can’t find the heart of America with a road map or tell truth from lies. He should not go to the State Fair unaccompanied.
That gets a grade of D.
DBB:
You’re a generous grader.
It is spelled correctly and the sentence structure is adequate.
Mespo like, Benson demurs on showing where I am wrong. The Bernie love is too strong.
The grade is for incoherentcy. This is not up to your usual standard.
Happens.
Back it up Bernie Bros. Where am I wrong?
It’s called Stupid Tuesday, not Super Thursday as Joe Biden likes to call it.
David Benson is the God Emperor of Making Stuff Up and owes me forty-three citations (one from the OED, one from the town ordinances and two from the Old Testament), an equation and the source of a quotation, after sixty-five weeks, and needs to cite all his work from now on. – for an engineer, I am surprised you know what adequate sentence structure is.
Professors are expected to publish, oh benighted one.
David Benson is the God Emperor of Making Stuff Up and owes me forty-three citations (one from the OED, one from the town ordinances and two from the Old Testament), an equation and the source of a quotation, after sixty-five weeks, and needs to cite all his work from now on. – yes they publish and in journals only they themselves read. I have read some of these “papers” and found that in the hard sciences and math, the concept of the period was beyond them. The number of run-on sentences drove me almost crazy. It is a racket and we both know it.
those Democrats who voted overwhelmingly for Hillary in 2016
She won about 54% of the primary and caucus vote with a huge financial advantage, name recognition, and whatever dirty tricks her camarilla and the DNC could apply. The term ‘overwhelming’ does not mean what you fancy it means.
Hillary won by 56-43% against Bernie in 2016. That’s worse than she beat Trump. She kicked his a.s. The same will happen this year because the Democratic Party is not Democratic Socialist Party.
Hillary Clinton, fortunately, is not running. She goes out to pasture as well
“the Democratic Party is not Democratic Socialist Party.”
Yes they are. The party does believe in socialism and what Bernie is selling, but they don’t want to let the cat out of the bag just yet. So the orders came down to get in line behind ol’ senile Joe Biden. Yeah that’s the winning ticket! Will it be Joe Biden and Kamala Harris? Get excited Dems!! Not.
You are forgetting how many former Obama voters became Trump voters in 2016. It was a lot.
That’s worse than she beat Trump. She kicked his a.s
Which is why she’s in office, right?
Even with assiduous ballot harvesting, the Democratic candidate has managed to win a majority of the popular vote all of 3x in the last 50-odd years.
Good article, Professor. Yes, the most striking thing to me about both Trump and Bernie for awhile has been their respective abilities to touch into sheer emotionalism as motivating force while people reverse engineer their logical and factual reasons for liking them. Fascinating dynamic.
A lot of people feel like, no matter what, “government” is out to screw them so they might as well go with the person who will voice their particular grievances the strongest, facts be damned. Interesting point when societies hit these particular junctures — can’t say it bodes particularly well for ours here in the States based on past historical comparison.
The health insurance argument is totally case in point. On the Trump side you have a contingent that relies on the ACA but also support Trump, thinking he’s just kind of joking about taking theirs away. The ‘keep your g damn government hands off my Medicare’ crew. And then, also, you have the so called conservative crew that would truly be okay with a sizable segment dying off because they can’t afford the same level of coverage their white privilege affords them.
On the Bernie side, you have large swaths of people chanting “Medicare for all!!” in the same way Trumpsters chanted “build the wall!” with no regard for the fact that the rational and realistic justification for each, in this country, are largely fantasy driven. Ask a Bernie bro how Medicare for all will actually work when a) the government actually subs out the program to private insurance, there is no ‘dept. of insurance’ in Washington, and b) how the 80/20, supplemental insurance dilemma plays out and you’ll run into the same expression Trumpers are prone to when you point out there’s no f ing way Mexico was ever going to pay for the wall.
And yes, tonight on the Dem side we have a truly intriguing night. Kind of a big ‘playoff game’ of sorts because the Dem path forward will possibly be either set in stone or thrown into wildly uncertain territory.
And Trump will be on Twitter, lumbering around in the White House like the Gimp with ADD, misspelling words and raving about the paranoid mental constructs eating his brain like devious farm animals.
Good times. Getting my popcorn.
On the Bernie side, you have large swaths of people chanting “Medicare for all!!” in the same way Trumpsters chanted “build the wall!” with no regard for the fact that the rational and realistic justification for each, in this country, are largely fantasy driven.
The term ‘fantasy-driven’ does not mean what you fancy it means.
Road head from super models?
Pretty, pretty good, but I’m guessing he meant somewhere between the wall and the models, or maybe the wall with naked pictures of Kellyanne.
Okay, that’s a worthy graffiti project. Banksey esque sections of wall memorializing the sewer rat kellyanne (who I so hope is Anonymous). Actually it would be even better if Ivanka is Anonymous.
Mister Turley:. Help us build up that Wall!
Forget all this Bernie! Recall the Joe McCarthy era. We don’t need no Communists in our government.
Bernie Sanders would be, in Europe, anyway in the Nordic countries, in the center of the parliament, neither much to the left nor to the right of the majority. I believe that he would like to drag the USA over there, away from our current plutocracy with a current kakistocracy phase…
David Benson is the God Emperor of Making Stuff Up and owes me forty-three citations (one from the OED, one from the town ordinances and two from the Old Testament), an equation and the source of a quotation, after sixty-five weeks, and needs to cite all his work from now on. – The Nordic countries has disavowed Bernie and his policies. However, he would do fine in Cuba and Venezuela.
As for your first assertion, provide evidence. As for your second, it is simply false.
… reminds me of a helium balloon, bobbing in the wind, whichever way it blows …
David Benson is the God Emperor of Making Stuff Up and owes me forty-three citations (one from the OED, one from the town ordinances and two from the Old Testament), an equation and the source of a quotation, after sixty-five weeks, and needs to cite all his work from now on. – Read Weart.
DBB:
https://www.investors.com/politics/commentary/denmark-tells-bernie-sanders-to-stop-calling-it-socialist/
Yes, a welfare state. Call it what you will.
Professor:
A bit of balance please. Bernie has changed his position on the Second Amendment in a most un-techtonic manner. Demonstrating that he, like Captain Renault, blows with the prevailing winds.
I am shocked, shocked that you think so!
Upon starting to read this, I broke into a broad smile and my innermost music maker started
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Orff%27s_O_Fortuna_in_popular_culture
“Ha, ha, ha …”
Stick it to the Clintonistas, oh Burnie!
https://harpers.org/blog/2008/09/o-fortuna/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQ6oTVUmws0
Bernie is so authentic, he cannot tell how he is going to pay for his “free” give-aways. He is so authentic, he was against millionaires and billionaires, until he became a millionaire. His “summer camp” in Vermont is worth 600k and have 400 feet of Lake Champlain footage. Sounds like a Russian dacha.
has 400 feet, not have
Bernie Sanders authentic?
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I don’t see it
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Yes he’s a proud “socialist” happy to say it out loud and seems to not fear the repercussions of it
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But yet Bernie Sanders lives like a “capitalist”
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Perhaps he’s more like the great “illusionist”
hocuspocus13 – Bernie is as authentic as Warren. However, his Bernie Bros think he is authentic and that is the important thing. Having said that, his programs are insane and he probably will not live through the election.
With Bernie, singer Riley Green gets his wish:
Comrade;
In Bernie’s world all are equal but some are more equal than others.