Sen. Bernie Sanders has spent his entire career explaining away the inevitable downsides of massively increasing the power of the state over the individual.
Sanders once identified as a socialist who, with reservations, admired the economic achievements of Cuba under Fidel Castro, of Nicaragua under the Sandinistas, and of the Soviet Union right up to the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Sanders attended the sixth-anniversary celebration of the Sandinistas' revolution and praised Nicaraguan president Daniel Ortega.
Sanders praised the Soviets' social and cultural programs, saying American leaders had much to learn from the communist system.
In 1989, Sanders traveled to Cuba to seek a meeting with Fidel Castro-though he ended up settling for the mayor of Havana.
Today, Sanders calls himself a "Democratic socialist" and has become a millionaire.
One thing has remained constant as Sanders has shifted his focus from Nicaragua, Cuba, and the USSR to Denmark, Finland, and Sweden: In all of these countries, he's misled his followers about the political and economic realities on the ground.
https://reason.com/video/why-bernie-sanders-communist-misadventures-still-matter/
Sanders once identified as a socialist who, with reservations, admired the economic achievements of Cuba under Fidel Castro, of Nicaragua under the Sandinistas, and of the Soviet Union right up to the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Sanders attended the sixth-anniversary celebration of the Sandinistas' revolution and praised Nicaraguan president Daniel Ortega.
Sanders praised the Soviets' social and cultural programs, saying American leaders had much to learn from the communist system.
In 1989, Sanders traveled to Cuba to seek a meeting with Fidel Castro-though he ended up settling for the mayor of Havana.
Today, Sanders calls himself a "Democratic socialist" and has become a millionaire.
One thing has remained constant as Sanders has shifted his focus from Nicaragua, Cuba, and the USSR to Denmark, Finland, and Sweden: In all of these countries, he's misled his followers about the political and economic realities on the ground.
https://reason.com/video/why-bernie-sanders-communist-misadventures-still-matter/
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