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Communist Bernie Praises Soviets & Cuba


I doubt praising communism in a country where "better dead than red" was a popular belief will fly especially in more conservative swing states.

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He praised Cuba's education system. So did Obama. In 2016.


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How would you react if someone went of his way to single Hitler out for praise for making the trains run on time, implementing gun control, supporting universal healthcare, and/or being "pro-science"?

PS - I know. Conservatives were right about Obama being a Marxist. An admitted socialist like Sanders, who's an even more obvious communist sympathizer, is the next predictable step on that trajectory.

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Sanders praises communist governments and leaders themselves who were committing human rights violations like Daniel Ortega. He also believes in a communist economy. Like I said, a commie isn't going to be elected president in the U.S..

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This is the same tactic Fox News used against Obama for eight years. They went on and on about his interaction with Chavez, bowing to leaders, terrorist fist jabs, and czars. The only reason they are doing this to Sanders is because he's not a corporate puppet, and mainstream media is only interested in their bottom line.

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You don't know the difference between Faux news propaganda against Obama and reality. The reality is Sanders already made it clear that he supports a communist economic model which is the definition of democratic socialism. He will also get rid of all private health insurance and fracking which will wreck the economy causing millions of jobs as well as inflating taxes that the middle-class pay. I also don't like how this bozo voted against common sense guns laws repeatedly and against a common sense immigration bill. He's finally being exposed for the liar and hypocrite that he is! A political "outsider" whose been a politician for over 30 years? You'd have to be pretty stupid to fall for his lies.

And a commie still isn't going to be elected president of the U.S..

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“Shark Tank” panelist Kevin O’Leary said Monday on ABC’s “The View,” that Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) has zero chance of winning and turning America into a communist country.

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Trump has praised Kim Jong Un and Vladimir Putin numerous times. Trump would be praising the Castro brothers too if they hadn't previously made a deal with Obama.

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You honestly can't tell the difference between personal compliments for strategic diplomatic reasons (what Trump does with certain opponents, when he's not threatening to nuke them), and praising aspects of a totalitarian system, as Sanders has done countless times to communist regimes and policies over the years?

Sanders explicitly praised things like communist "bread lines" as a superior way of doing things.

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Trump has a diplomatic strategy for North Korea?

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Maximum sanctions pressure, personally buttering up the conceited dictator, laying out carrots (e.g. financial, stay in power) and sticks (e.g. ramped up exercises, possible war) to come. North Korea didn't go nuclear on Trump's watch. It's one of the many messes he inherited, and so far he's at least avoided war while getting the communist regime to stop firing missiles over Japan and publicly pledge (for whatever that's worth) to denuclearize. It's a work in progress but he seems to stand a better chance of accomplishing good things than Obama did.

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North Korea went nuclear on George W Bush's watch in response to him invading Iraq. Bush said that Iraq, Iran, and North Korea were part of an axis of evil. North Korea went nuclear to avoid being next on the preemptive strike list.
Obama's policy on North Korea was basically the same as all the other presidents (Republican and Democrat) since the end of the Korean War. Trump's policy seems like a publicity stunt that will most likely help Kim a lot more than it will help the US. I hope I'm wrong and Trump does get something accomplished there. I don't think that's where it's heading though.

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Hogwash. North Korea was going nuclear on Clinton's watch, secretly bypassing the "agreement" they had struck to halt the nuclear program, basically a glorified photo op with a bribe. The Bush administration rightly called them out for this after producing proof of their nuclear activities. The "nuclear test" NK responded with in 2006 was a failure that scientists dubbed a "fizzle". A kind of agreement was reached that stopped new tests for a while and let inspectors back in.

The first real North Korean nuclear tests were during the Obama administration. In 2009 they announced they were done with the agreement, kicked inspectors out, and conducted a much more powerful, borderline nuclear test. Over the next few years they had more solid nuclear tests, getting up to the ballpark of Hiroshima power.

Obama's response was basically....nothing. "Lead from behind" and all that. As on other geopolitical issues his hope was either to withdraw America or kick the can down the road to some other president. He told incoming President Trump that war was likely necessary with North Korea.

I don't know whether Trump's approach will yield long term fruit or not, but his predecessors accomplished little to nothing. And it's a mistake to describe it as just meeting with Kim or having photo ops. There's substantive action. At least Trump has the strongest sanctions we've imposed on North Korea and he's keeping them in place even during negotiations, stating that they won't be lifted until after North Korea has verifiably denuclearized.

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Bernie Sanders is NOT a communist! He is a democratic socialist! Look it up.

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I did.

Both don't believe in private enterprises. Economic system:

"worker-owned cooperatives or publicly owned enterprises managed by workers and consumer representatives. While the large concentrations of capital in industries such as energy and steel may necessitate some form of state ownership, many consumer-goods industries might be best run as cooperatives."
https://www.dsausa.org/about-us/what-is-democratic-socialism/#govt

The only difference is democracy would remain the political system instead of a dictatorship.

Sanders would have you arrested if you create your own business.

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Bernie "Bread lines are a good thing" Sanders is an enemy of what everything America stands for.

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