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		+	{{Officeholder
		+	|name=Bernie Sanders
		+	|image=Sanders.jpg
		+	|party=[[Democrat Party|Democrat]] and [[Democratic Socialists of America|Democratic Socialist]]
		+	|spouse=Deborah Shiling (1964 – 1966)<br>Jane O'Meara
		+	|religion=[[Jewish]] (In Name Only)
		+	|offices=
		+	{{Officeholder/senator
		+	|state=Vermont
		+	|terms=January 3, 2007 – present
		+	|preceded=[[Jim Jeffords]]
		+	|status=j
		+	|succeeded=
		+	}}
		+	{{Officeholder/representative
		+	|state=Vermont
		+	|district=At-large
		+	|terms=January 3, 1991 – January 3, 2007
		+	|preceded=Peter Smith
		+	|former=n
		+	|succeeded=[[Peter Welch]]
		+	}}
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−	BERNIE IS COOL, CONSERVADEPEDIA IS NOT. SOCIALISM FOREVER IS WHAT I SAY!!	+	'''Bernard "Bernie" Sanders''', [[Bernie Sanders' age|born September 8, 1941]] (age {{age|1941|9|8}}), is a [[Marxist-Leninist]], Communist, [[limousine liberal]] [[elitism|elitist]], millionaire 1%er,<ref name="1%er">Multiple references:
		+	*Curl, Joseph (June 6, 2017). [https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/jun/6/socialist-bernie-sanders-gets-superrich-in-capital/ Socialist Bernie Sanders gets superrich in capitalist U.S.]. ''The Washington Times''. Retrieved June 6, 2017.
		+	*Renzulli, Kerri Anne (March 15, 2016). [http://time.com/money/4235986/bernie-sanders-millionaire-finances/ Bernie Sanders Is a De Facto Millionaire]. ''Time''. Retrieved June 6, 2017.
		+	*Gross, Daniel (February 28, 2016). [http://fortune.com/2016/02/28/bernie-sanders-socialist-finances/ How Bernie Sanders, the Socialist, Quietly Entered the Top 4% of Earners]. ''Fortune''. Retrieved June 6, 2017.
		+	*Shaw, Adam (February 21, 2019). [https://www.foxnews.com/politics/lifestyles-of-the-rich-and-socialist-bernie-sanders-has-3-houses-makes-millions Lifestyles of the rich and socialist: Bernie Sanders has 3 houses, makes millions]. ''Fox News''. Retrieved February 21, 2019.
		+	*Schmidt, Ann W. (April 9, 2019). [https://www.foxnews.com/politics/how-did-bernie-sanders-make-his-money-a-look-at-his-wealth-and-assets How did Bernie Sanders make his money? A look at his wealth and assets]. ''Fox News''. Retrieved April 13, 2019.
		+	*Xiao, Bowen (April 16, 2019). [https://www.theepochtimes.com/socialist-bernie-sanders-is-part-of-the-top-1-tax-returns-confirm_2881908.html Socialist Bernie Sanders Is Part of the Top 1 Percent, Tax Returns Confirm]. ''The Epoch Times''. Retrieved April 16, 2019.
		+	*Kirkwood, R. Cort (April 16, 2019). [https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/32028-tax-returns-show-socialist-sanders-is-an-old-skinflint Tax Returns Show Socialist Sanders Is an Old Skinflint]. ''The New American''. Retrieved April 16, 2019.
		+	*Starr, Penny (April 15, 2019). [https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/04/15/socialist-sanders-tax-returns-top-1-percent-earners/ Socialist Sanders’ Tax Returns Reveal Presidential Hopeful in Top 1% of U.S. Earners]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved April 16, 2019.</ref> and [[demagogue]] who [[predator|prey]]s on naive and unsuspecting youth, minorities, and working people with [[class war]] [[hate speech]]. He currently serves as a  [[United States Senate|United States Senator]] representing [[Vermont]].  His extremism is visible in his 2020 Presidential campaign slogan, "No Middle Ground."<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uhJ_MmIbq0</ref>  Sanders is a pre-eminent leftwing [[Socialist mass murder denier]] and proponent of communist [[dictatorship]].<ref>Morris, Kyle (February 25, 2019). [https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/02/25/candid-camera-breadline-bernie-sanders-decades-long-defense-of-socialism-communism/ Candid Camera: ‘Breadline Bernie’ Sanders’ Decades-Long Defense of Socialism, Communism]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved February 25, 2019.</ref>  Sanders has openly advocated for the extermination and [[genocide]] of infants from the [[Third World]].<ref>https://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2019/09/05/bernie-sanders-population-control-n2552642</ref><ref>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/sanders-supports-us-taxpayer-funding-of-third-world-abortions-to-combat-climate-change</ref><ref>Murphy, James (September 6, 2019). [https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/33351-cnn-s-climate-town-hall-reveals-an-ugly-democrat-truth CNN’s Climate Town Hall Reveals an Ugly Democrat Truth]. ''The New American''. Retrieved September 8, 2019.</ref>
−	BERNIE	+	Sanders has long-time associations with Marxist, Communist, and Anti-American organizations.<ref>Bohon, Dave (June 2, 2019). [https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/32490-bernie-sanders-record-shows-longtime-communist-marxist-affiliation Bernie Sanders’ Record Shows Longtime Communist-Marxist Affiliation]. ''The New American''. Retrieved June 3, 2019.</ref> He ran for office on the Vermont ballot as a supposed 'Independent', is the founder of the [[Communist]]-dominated [[Congressional Progressive Caucus]], and caucuses with [[Democrats]].  He has been instrumental in the [[far-Left]] take over of the [[Democratic Party|Democrat Party]].  He calls himself a [[Democratic Socialists of America|Democratic Socialist]], registered as a Democrat to run for the presidency in the [[2016 presidential election|2016 elections]], dropped out, re-registered again for the [[2020 presidential election]] and dropped out again.
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−	A spectre is haunting Europe — the spectre of communism. All the powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: Pope and Tsar, Metternich and Guizot, French Radicals and German police-spies.	+	He served in the House of Representatives for eight terms after serving several terms as mayor of Burlington. Sanders has a 100% pro-[[abortion]] voting record.  Sanders has a child born out of wedlock.<ref>Multiple references:
		+	*Kruse, Michael (July 9, 2015).  [https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/07/bernie-sanders-vermont-119927 "Bernie Sanders has a secret"]. Politico website.
		+	*Gould, Martin (July 15, 2015).  [https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3155396/Bernie-Sanders-1960s-love-life-revealed-wife-woman-son-sugar-shack-home-lived-revolutionary.html "Bernie Sanders' very 1960s love life revealed - his first wife, the woman who had his son, and the sugar shack home where he lived as a 'revolutionary'"], ''Daily Mail'' website.</ref>
−	Where is the party in opposition that has not been decried as communistic by its opponents in power? Where is the opposition that has not hurled back the branding reproach of communism, against the more advanced opposition parties, as well as against its reactionary adversaries?	+	Sanders has [[Bernie Bros|a devout and violent following]].  He tickles his supporters' ears with all the usual [[Marxist]] claptrap:  Banks are bad, equality, the middle class, minimum wage, housing the homeless, free healthcare, free college, a government so big it will be like living in a [[utopia]]. He is a radical socialist who supports pro-[[abortion]] movements, such as [[Planned Parenthood]].
−	Two things result from this fact:	+	==2020 presidential campaign==
		+	:{{See also|United States presidential election, 2020|Bernie Sanders 2020 presidential campaign|116th United States Congress|Bernie Bros|Antifa|NeverTrump|Leftwing violence in the Trump era}}
		+	Sanders has inspired leftist acts of violence, including kind words for [[Antifa]] and mass shootings of [[Republican]]s and Trump supporters, in the name of socialist [[revolution]].  Sanders oft repeated slogan is, "There Is No Middle Ground."<ref>https://pjmedia.com/trending/bernie-sanders-says-there-is-no-middle-ground-then-blames-trump-for-division/</ref>  NBC News Director [[Chuck Todd]] compared Sanders supporters to [[Nazi]] [[Brownshirts]].<ref>https://www.rawstory.com/2020/02/chuck-todd-should-apologize-and-resign-msnbc-anchor-blasted-for-nazi-smear-on-leading-democrat/</ref>  Democrat hardliner [[Chris Matthews]] of MSNBC speculated that if socialism wins, there will be "executions in [[Central Park]]." <ref>https://nypost.com/2020/02/08/chris-matthews-warns-of-executions-in-central-park-if-socialism-wins/</ref>  Ironically, Sanders began his win streak of government run healthcare and [[liberal censorship]] at the same time the [[Communist Party of China]] was wrestling with the outbreak of the [[Coronavirus]].
−	I. Communism is already acknowledged by all European powers to be itself a power.	+	True to his Marxist convictions, Sanders claims that his own words "mischaracterize" his thinking.<ref>https://twitter.com/MSNBC/status/1144436123122524161</ref>  The Sanders campaign has defended Sanders' use of the N-word.<ref>https://www.mediaite.com/news/bernie-sanders-campaign-defends-use-of-uncensored-n-word-in-1997-book-critiquing-racism-is-not-racism/</ref>
−	II. It is high time that Communists should openly, in the face of the whole world, publish their views, their aims, their tendencies, and meet this nursery tale of the Spectre of Communism with a manifesto of the party itself.	+	===Policies===
		+	Among the dreams that Sanders presents as plans are:<ref>[https://berniesanders.com/issues Bernie Sanders on the issues] Retrieved March 3, 2020</ref>
		+	*Murder the preborn:  Fully fund Planned Parenthood, protect women’s availability to safe and legal abortion. health, and access to contraception.
		+	*Protect those who promote sodomy, lesbianism, gender dysphoria, etc.: Pass the  [[Equality Act]] under which faithful Christians will be  persecuted for obeying God and conscience.
		+	*Assault weapons: Regulate assault weapons in the same way that we currently regulate fully automatic weapons — a system that essentially makes them unlawful to own. Support “red flag” laws and legislation to ensure we keep guns out of the hands of domestic abusers and stalkers
		+	*Free  Pre-K and child care and public education (and indoctrination) for all.  Guaranteed universal  full-day, full-week pre-kindergarten education  funded in full by the federal government for  every child to  regardless of income, starting at age 3. Make transformative investments in our public education system.    Double the number of early childhood educators in this country  to more than 2.6 million. Guarantee everyone working in the field of early education a living wage. Require anyone providing direct service to young children have at least child a Child Development Associates (CDA) credential, require all assistant teachers have at least an Associate’s Degree in early childhood education or child development, and require all lead preschool teachers have a Bachelor's degree in early childhood education or child development. End  for-profit charter schools.
		+	*Education spending: Invest $10 billion to create and expand HBCU (historically black colleges and universities) medical, dental, and teacher training graduate programs. Invest $5 billion in HBCU infrastructure grants and cancel all institutional HBCU loan debt from the Capital Financing Program. Double Title III and Title V funds to decrease the funding gap between HBCUs and MSIs and predominantly white institutions  Set the starting salary for teachers at no less than $60,000. Spend $50 billion over the next decade to substantially expand access to summer and after-school programs, teen centers and tutoring. Provide year-round, free universal school meals. Ensure that the federal government provides at least 50 percent of the funding for special education. Rebuild, modernize, and green our nation’s schools.  Provide funding for union training fund programs to help early care and learning professionals, with strong protections for unionizing, etc.  regardless of immigration status.
		+	*College for all: Guarantee tuition and debt-free public colleges, universities, HBCUs, Minority Serving Institutions and trade-schools for all. Cancel all student loan debt for the some 45 million Americans who owe about $1.6 trillion. Invest $5 billion in high-quality teacher preparation programs at Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Minority Serving Institutions of higher education (MSIs), and Tribal Colleges.
		+	*Housing for all: Invest  $2.5 trillion to build nearly 10 million permanently affordable housing units. Investing $70 billion to repair, decarbonize, and build new public housing.  Make Section 8 vouchers available to all eligible families. National rent control standard.
		+	*Medicare for All: single-payer, national health insurance program to provide everyone in America with comprehensive health care coverage, free at the point of service, including home and community-based long-term care, in-patient and out-patient services, mental health and substance abuse treatment, reproductive and maternity care, prescription drugs,  dental, hearing, vision, and home. And more.
		+	*Jobs for all: Enact a federal jobs guarantee, to ensure that everyone is guaranteed a stable job that pays a living wage.    Create 20 million jobs as part of the Green New Deal, and millions of healthcare jobs  and new jobs in early childhood education.
		+	*Worker Unionization: Eliminate “Right to Work for Less” laws. Double union membership within Bernie’s first term, including by allowing unionization of farm workers and domestic workers. Shift the wealth of the economy back into the hands of the workers who create it. make corporations pay their fair share of taxes by reversing Trump’s corporate tax breaks and closing corporate tax loopholes to raise up to $3 trillion over 10-years.
		+	*High speed Internet for all: Provide $150 billion through the Green New Deal in infrastructure grants and technical assistance for municipalities and/or states to build publicly owned and democratically controlled, co-operative, or open access broadband networks.
		+	*Debt cancellation: Eliminate all of the $81 billion in past-due medical debt held by 79 million Americans.
		+	*Government banking business: Allow every post office to offer basic and affordable banking services.
		+	*Social Security expansion: Expand Social Security benefits for all recipients. Quadruple funding for the Older Americans Act and expanding other programs seniors rely on.
		+	*Veterans:  End restrictions on  access to care and benefits based on the nature of one's discharge.
		+	*Green New Deal: provide $200 billion to the Green Climate Fund. Transform  US energy system to 100 percent renewable energy. Invest  weatherization, public transportation, modern infrastructure and high-speed broadband.
		+	*Decriminalization: Cut the national prison population by 50%. Reversing the criminalization of addiction. Legalize marijuana and expung  past convictions.  Abolish  the death penalty, three strikes laws, and mandatory minimum sentences. Guarantee a “Prisoners Bill of Rights.”  Outlaw for-profit prisons and detention centers. Ban cash bail. Outlaw the use of facial recognition software for policing.
		+	*Immigration: Institute a moratorium on deportations.  Welcome refugees displaced by climate change.  Break up ICE and CBP..
		+	*Feminism:  Pass the Equal Rights Amendment.
		+	*Elections:Guarantee the right to vote for every American over 18, including those Americans currently incarcerated and including felons.
		+	*Punish prosperity: Increase  annual taxes on the  wealthiest 180,000  U.S. households, which would cut in half  the wealth of billionaires over 15 years.  Increase  IRS funding for enforcement and require  the IRS to perform an audit of 30 percent of wealth tax returns for those in the 1 percent bracket and a 100 percent audit rate for all billionaires.  The wealth tax includes a 40 percent exit tax on the net value of all assets under $1 billion and 60 percent over $1 billion for all wealthy individual seeking to expatriate to avoid the tax. Raise  taxes on companies the pay their CEO's far more than typical workers. Tax Wall Street speculators through the Inclusive Prosperity Act Financial Transaction Tax.
−	To this end, Communists of various nationalities have assembled in London and sketched the following manifesto, to be published in the English, French, German, Italian, Flemish and Danish languages.	+	===Staff===
		+	[[File:Bernie boxxing.gif|right|200px|thumb|Bernie goes toe-to-toe with capitalism.]]
		+	See: [[Individuals who have served on Bernie Sander's staff]]
		+	Sanders hired [[Paul Manafort]] partner [[Tad Devine]] as an advisor on both his 2016 and 2018 campaigns. Devine managed [[Putin]] ally [[Viktor Yanukovych]] campaign for the presidency of [[Ukraine]]. Upon Sanders announcement of his intention to run, Sanders immediately shot up as the top frontrunner of Democratic hopefuls in the [[2020 Presidential election]]. Many former Bernie supporters turned against him because of his disrespectful and nasty personality.<ref>Bleau, Hannah (August 31, 2019). [https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/08/31/many-sanders-supporters-not-enthralled-by-angry-bernie/ Many Sanders Supporters Not Enthralled by ‘Angry Bernie’]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved August 31, 2019.</ref>
−	Chapter I. Bourgeois and Proletarians(1)	+	Former [[Bernie Sanders]] campaign co-chair Nina Turner said voting for Joe Biden is like "eating a bowl of s***."<ref>https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/07/how-trump-could-win-reelection/612205/</ref>
−	[German Original]	+
−	The history of all hitherto existing society(2) is the history of class struggles.	+	====Anti-Semitism====
		+	A senior political advisor to Sanders and former adviser to the anti-Semitic [[Women's March]], Winnie Wong, tweeted a gif of [[far left]] [[UK]] [[Labour Party]] leader and [[anti-Semite]] [[Jeremy Corbyn]] dancing on the grave of former [[Prime Minister]] [[Margaret Thatcher]]. The gif also contains a [[Rose (symbolism)|Red Rose]], the symbol of the global socialist movement and conspiracy.<ref>https://tenor.com/view/corbin-corbyn-maggie-thatcher-dance-gif-7229175</ref> after Conservative Party Prime Minister [[Theresa May]] resigned in the Spring of 2019. Wong tweeted the image and wrote, "Jeremy Corbyn's gonna to be the next PM of England. That's gonna be so much fun."<ref>https://freebeacon.com/politics/sanders-advisor-tweets-gif-of-jeremy-corbyn-dancing-on-margaret-thatchers-grave/</ref> Thatcher, who was British PM at the demise of the [[Soviet Union]] famously said, "There is no alternative to [[capitalism]]."
−	Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guild-master(3) and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight, a fight that each time ended, either in a revolutionary reconstitution of society at large, or in the common ruin of the contending classes.	+	Leading anti-Semite [[Linda Sarsour]] is one of the chief surrogates of the Sanders campaign.
−	In the earlier epochs of history, we find almost everywhere a complicated arrangement of society into various orders, a manifold gradation of social rank. In ancient Rome we have patricians, knights, plebeians, slaves; in the Middle Ages, feudal lords, vassals, guild-masters, journeymen, apprentices, serfs; in almost all of these classes, again, subordinate gradations.	+	====Sexual violence====
		+	Sanders ran a campaign that was rife with sexual violence and harassment against males, females, and other genders. Sanders ignored complaints from at least two dozen [[male]] and female volunteers (and however many other genders) of "sexual [[violence]] and harassment" in his [[2016 presidential election|2016 presidential campaign]].<ref>https://www.politico.com/story/2018/12/30/bernie-sanders-campaign-harassment-1077014</ref> ''[[The New York Times]]'' reported that Sanders had apologized to female victims of sexual violence who "were not treated properly",<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/10/us/politics/sanders-sexism-apology.html</ref> however male victims of sexual violence in the Sanders campaign have not been addressed. Secondly, a mere "apology" does not address the serious issue of sexual violence in the Sanders campaign. No single person has been reported to have been arrested or disciplined.
−	The modern bourgeois society that has sprouted from the ruins of feudal society has not done away with class antagonisms. It has but established new classes, new conditions of oppression, new forms of struggle in place of the old ones.	+	Sanders did an interview with ex-stripper Cardi B who admitted to drugging and robbing men.<ref>https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-47718477</ref>
−	Our epoch, the epoch of the bourgeoisie, possesses, however, this distinct feature: it has simplified class antagonisms. Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps, into two great classes directly facing each other — Bourgeoisie and Proletariat.	+	====Unfair labor practices====
		+	Sanders’ campaign was hit with an unfair labor practice complaint alleging illegal employee interrogation and retaliation against staffers. The complaint to the [[National Labor Relations Board]], lists five potential violations of the National Labor Relations Act. The charge also alleges that the campaign unlawfully discharged an employee, modified a labor contract, and engaged in illegal discipline.<ref>https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/sanders-white-house-campaign-hit-with-federal-labor-complaint</ref>
−	From the serfs of the Middle Ages sprang the chartered burghers of the earliest towns. From these burgesses the first elements of the bourgeoisie were developed.	+	====Starvation wages====
		+	[[File:Venezuelan-Garbage-Truck-640x480 (2).jpg|right|250px|thumb|[[Venezuela]]ns eating "Bernie Burgers" out of a garbage truck.<ref>https://www.mediaite.com/online/video-of-venezuelans-eating-out-of-a-garbage-truck-led-maduro-to-walk-out-of-jorge-ramos-interview/</ref>]]
		+	While Sanders vowed a $15 minimum wage, he was only paying campaign workers $13 an hour. Many complained of poor working conditions. In response, Sanders raised pay to $15 an hour and cut their hours.<ref>Kirkwood, R. Cort (July 19, 2019). [https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/32891-sanders-starving-campaign-workers-ask-for-another-bowl-of-gruel Sanders’ Starving Campaign Workers Ask for Another Bowl of Gruel]. ''The New American''. Retrieved July 22, 2019.</ref><ref>Kirkwood, R. Cort (July 22, 2019). [https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/32918-sanders-will-raise-workers-pay-to-15-per-hour-by-cutting-their-hours Sanders Will Raise Workers’ Pay to $15 Per Hour — by Cutting Their Hours]. ''The New American''. Retrieved July 22, 2019.</ref>  Loss of hours and part-time status had the effect of reducing healthcare benefits.
−	The discovery of America, the rounding of the Cape, opened up fresh ground for the rising bourgeoisie. The East-Indian and Chinese markets, the colonisation of America, trade with the colonies, the increase in the means of exchange and in commodities generally, gave to commerce, to navigation, to industry, an impulse never before known, and thereby, to the revolutionary element in the tottering feudal society, a rapid development.	+	===Racism===
		+	Bernie Sanders said of [[Baltimore]], [[Maryland]]:
		+	{{quotebox-float|Residents of Baltimore’s poorest boroughs have lifespans shorter than people living under dictatorship in [[North Korea]]. That is a disgrace.<ref>https://twitter.com/SenSanders/status/728278867639676930</ref>}}
−	The feudal system of industry, in which industrial production was monopolised by closed guilds, now no longer sufficed for the growing wants of the new markets. The manufacturing system took its place. The guild-masters were pushed on one side by the manufacturing middle class; division of labour between the different corporate guilds vanished in the face of division of labour in each single workshop.	+	Sanders further added, "anyone who took the walk that we took around this Baltimore neighborhood would not think you’re in a wealthy nation, you'd think that you were in a [[Third World]] country”.<ref>https://www.baltimoresun.com/politics/bs-md-sanders-baltimore-20151207-story.html</ref>
−	Meantime the markets kept ever growing, the demand ever rising. Even manufacturer no longer sufficed. Thereupon, steam and machinery revolutionised industrial production. The place of manufacture was taken by the giant, Modern Industry; the place of the industrial middle class by industrial millionaires, the leaders of the whole industrial armies, the modern bourgeois.	+	Baltimore Deputy Police Chief was robbed at gunpoint.<ref>https://www.foxnews.com/us/arrests-announced-in-gunpoint-robbery-baltimore-deputy-police-commissioner</ref>  By mid 2019 Baltimore was a rat infested dump with 180 homicides.<ref>https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/07/video-proves-trump-right-baltimore-is-rat-infested-dump-with-180-homicides-so-far-this-year-video/</ref>  Baltimore is so infested with rodents the ''Baltimore Sunn' published a map of rat hot spot map.<ref>https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1155352238493069312</ref><ref>https://archive.fo/bn0Zx</ref>  [[Speaker Nancy Pelosi]] white-flighted from Baltimore in 1962.<ref>https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2006/10/07/family-dynasty-may-boost-pelosi-to-head-of-house-2/amp/</ref><ref>https://qz.com/393128/white-flight-decimated-baltimore-businesses-long-before-rioters-showed-up/amp/</ref>
−	Modern industry has established the world market, for which the discovery of America paved the way. This market has given an immense development to commerce, to navigation, to communication by land. This development has, in its turn, reacted on the extension of industry; and in proportion as industry, commerce, navigation, railways extended, in the same proportion the bourgeoisie developed, increased its capital, and pushed into the background every class handed down from the Middle Ages.	+	Sanders supports racist killer Dylann Roof’s right to vote.<ref>https://freebeacon.com/politics/bernie-sanders-dylann-roof/</ref>
−	We see, therefore, how the modern bourgeoisie is itself the product of a long course of development, of a series of revolutions in the modes of production and of exchange.	+	====New Jim Crow====
		+	[[File:Racist.jpg|right|200px]]
		+	:{{See also|The New Jim Crow}}
		+	Bernie Sanders voted for the Clinton era 1994 Crime bill,<ref>https://www.vox.com/2016/2/26/11116412/bernie-sanders-mass-incarceration</ref> authored by Sen. [[Joe Biden]]. The bill added more than forty crimes that would be eligible for the [[death penalty]]. The [[NAACP]] and other groups lobbied against the bill.<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/1991/10/27/us/civil-libertarians-go-after-crime-bills.html</ref>
−	Each step in the development of the bourgeoisie was accompanied by a corresponding political advance of that class. An oppressed class under the sway of the feudal nobility, an armed and self-governing association in the medieval commune(4): here independent urban republic (as in Italy and Germany); there taxable “third estate” of the monarchy (as in France); afterwards, in the period of manufacturing proper, serving either the semi-feudal or the absolute monarchy as a counterpoise against the nobility, and, in fact, cornerstone of the great monarchies in general, the bourgeoisie has at last, since the establishment of Modern Industry and of the world market, conquered for itself, in the modern representative State, exclusive political sway. The executive of the modern state is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie.	+	By 2001, the United States had the highest rate of incarceration in the world. [[Human Rights Watch]] reported that in seven states, [[African American]]s constituted 80 to 90 percent of all drug offenders even though they were no more likely than whites to use or sell illegal drugs. Prison admissions for drug offenses reached a level in 2000 for African Americans more than 26 times the level they had been under [[Ronald Reagan]].<ref>[https://www.thenation.com/article/hillary-clinton-does-not-deserve-black-peoples-votes/ Why Hillary Clinton Doesn’t Deserve the Black Vote], Michelle Alexander, ''The Nation'', February 10, 2016</ref>
−	The bourgeoisie, historically, has played a most revolutionary part.	+	Among other provisions, the bill targeted "Superpredators," and handed out 20-year mandatory sentences for gang membership or recruiting. The bill did "everything but hang people for jaywalking.”<ref>''[https://books.google.com/books?id=AK_DAwAAQBAJ&lpg=PA141&dq=we%20do%20everything%20but%20hang%20people%20for%20jaywalking&pg=PA141#v=onepage&q=we%20do%20everything%20but%20hang%20people%20for%20jaywalking&f=false The First Civil Right: How Liberals Built Prison America]'', Naomi Murakawa, Oxford University Press, Jul 10, 2014, p. 141.</ref>
−	The bourgeoisie, wherever it has got the upper hand, has put an end to all feudal, patriarchal, idyllic relations. It has pitilessly torn asunder the motley feudal ties that bound man to his “natural superiors”, and has left remaining no other nexus between man and man than naked self-interest, than callous “cash payment”. It has drowned the most heavenly ecstasies of religious fervour, of chivalrous enthusiasm, of philistine sentimentalism, in the icy water of egotistical calculation. It has resolved personal worth into exchange value, and in place of the numberless indefeasible chartered freedoms, has set up that single, unconscionable freedom — Free Trade. In one word, for exploitation, veiled by religious and political illusions, it has substituted naked, shameless, direct, brutal exploitation.	+	===Iowa and New Hampshire===
		+	:{{See also|2020 Antifa riots}}
		+	As Sanders rose in the polls, [[Leftwing violence in the Trump era|leftist violence]] escalated.
		+	[[File:Death-camps-trump-supporters.jpg|right|350px|thumb|The poster reads, "Deathcamps for Trump Supporters".]]
		+	*Bernie supporter tried to burn down GOP HQ in [[California]].<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WyYUshFe3k</ref>
		+	*[[Leftist]] attempted voter intimidation and suppression at Trump registration event by deliberately driving his vehicle through it.<ref>https://www.news4jax.com/news/local/2020/02/08/police-van-drives-through-republican-partys-voter-registration-tent/</ref>
		+	*Leftist wanted to "Slit Republican throats" at a voter registration table.<ref>https://www.conservapedia.com/Left-wing_violence_in_the_Trump_era#cite_note-608</ref>
		+	*GOP Headquarters vandalized in [[New Mexico]].<ref>https://newmexico.gop/police-called-protestors-vandalized-rpnm-headquarters/</ref>
		+	*Retired cop punched in the face when red hat triggers leftist.<ref>https://www.bizpacreview.com/2020/02/13/former-ny-cop-reportedly-punched-in-face-at-his-own-birthday-party-when-red-hat-is-mistaken-for-maga-cap-886522</ref>
−	The bourgeoisie has stripped of its halo every occupation hitherto honoured and looked up to with reverent awe. It has converted the physician, the lawyer, the priest, the poet, the man of science, into its paid wage labourers.	+	===Love of communism===
		+	A satirical article has Sanders reminiscing about his drunken honeymoon to ''[[Time magazine]]'' in his beloved [[USSR|Soviet Russia]] saying: {{quotebox|"on our honeymoon, I took Jane to [[Russia]], back when it was still known as the Soviet Union. Russia was an incredible place back then, before the billionaires ruined everything. Who needs 30 different types of deodorant anyway? In the glory days of the [[Soviet Union]], there was one brand, it was called “Deodorant,” and you had to wait four hours in line for it. By the time you got your hands on one, you were sweating so badly, not even the greediest billionaire’s fanciest deodorant could mask the stench. Or as I call it: The sweet smell of [[equality]]!"<ref>https://www.trumprussiaconspiracy.com/2019/01/29/bernie-sanders-and-wife-on-their-honeymoon-in-russia-singing-this-land-is-your-land-with-their-russian-comrades/</ref><ref>https://medium.com/the-haven/bernie-sanders-reminisces-about-honeymoon-in-soviet-union-bcbe3537e06c</ref>}} Vladimir Putin commented on the glory days of the Soviet Union: {{quotebox|"Whoever does not miss the Soviet Union has no heart. Whoever wants it back has no brain.}}
		+	Barack Obama said of Sanders during the 2016 primaries, "I am hurt, though, Bernie, that you've distancing yourself a little from me.  I mean, that's just not something that you do to your comrade."<ref>https://twitter.com/HowardMortman/status/1235556892396720129</ref>
−	The bourgeoisie has torn away from the family its sentimental veil, and has reduced the family relation to a mere money relation.	+	{{Anchor|Prison industrial complex}}
		+	===Prison industrial complex===
		+	Sanders adopted [[Linda Evans]] prison industrial complex slogan as part agenda.<ref>https://twitter.com/BernieSanders/status/1104190335805255680</ref> Evans is a [[far left]] radical member of the terrorist group [[Weather Underground]]<ref>http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/horowitz090601.asp</ref> who was convicted and sentenced in 1987 to 40 years in prison in connection with the 1981 Brinks armored truck robbery in which two police officers and a guard were killed. In a second case, she was sentenced in 1990 to five years in prison for [[conspiracy]] and malicious destruction in connection with eight bombings, including the 1983 [[United States Senate]] bombing.
−	The bourgeoisie has disclosed how it came to pass that the brutal display of vigour in the Middle Ages, which reactionaries so much admire, found its fitting complement in the most slothful indolence. It has been the first to show what man’s activity can bring about. It has accomplished wonders far surpassing Egyptian pyramids, Roman aqueducts, and Gothic cathedrals; it has conducted expeditions that put in the shade all former Exoduses of nations and crusades.	+	While in prison, she authored ''The Prison Industrial Complex'' with funding from the [[George Soros]] [[Open Society Foundations|Open Society Institute]].<ref>[http://sorosfiles.com/soros/2011/10/soros-funded-media-and-the-glorification-of-the-weather-underground.html Soros-funded Media and the Glorification of the Weather Underground]</ref>
−	The bourgeoisie cannot exist without constantly revolutionising the instruments of production, and thereby the relations of production, and with them the whole relations of society. Conservation of the old modes of production in unaltered form, was, on the contrary, the first condition of existence for all earlier industrial classes. Constant revolutionising of production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions, everlasting uncertainty and agitation distinguish the bourgeois epoch from all earlier ones. All fixed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify. All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind.	+	=== Bernie Sander's on Biden's dementia ===
		+	''See also:'' [[Biden's age]] and [[Bernie Sanders' age]]
−	The need of a constantly expanding market for its products chases the bourgeoisie over the entire surface of the globe. It must nestle everywhere, settle everywhere, establish connexions everywhere.	+	Bernie Sander's believes Biden's overall health and well-being is the issue when it comes to whether to whether or not Joe Biden is able to perform his presidential duties should he be elected.<ref name="Joe Biden, own your age">[https://theweek.com/articles/859219/joe-biden-age Joe Biden, own your age], ''The Week''</ref>
−	The bourgeoisie has through its exploitation of the world market given a cosmopolitan character to production and consumption in every country. To the great chagrin of Reactionists, it has drawn from under the feet of industry the national ground on which it stood. All old-established national industries have been destroyed or are daily being destroyed. They are dislodged by new industries, whose introduction becomes a life and death question for all civilised nations, by industries that no longer work up indigenous raw material, but raw material drawn from the remotest zones; industries whose products are consumed, not only at home, but in every quarter of the globe. In place of the old wants, satisfied by the production of the country, we find new wants, requiring for their satisfaction the products of distant lands and climes. In place of the old local and national seclusion and self-sufficiency, we have intercourse in every direction, universal inter-dependence of nations. And as in material, so also in intellectual production. The intellectual creations of individual nations become common property. National one-sidedness and narrow-mindedness become more and more impossible, and from the numerous national and local literatures, there arises a world literature.	+	Spefically, ''The Week'' reported about Bernie Sanders' comments about Joe Biden's age:
		+	{{Cquote|Sanders likewise [https://www.politico.com/story/2018/10/19/bernie-sanders-2020-918609 conceded to] [[Politico]] that his age is "part of a discussion, but it has to be part of an overall view of what somebody is and what somebody has accomplished," as well as "the overall health and wellbeing of the individual."<ref name="Joe Biden, own your age">[https://theweek.com/articles/859219/joe-biden-age Joe Biden, own your age], ''The Week''</ref>}}
−	The bourgeoisie, by the rapid improvement of all instruments of production, by the immensely facilitated means of communication, draws all, even the most barbarian, nations into civilisation. The cheap prices of commodities are the heavy artillery with which it batters down all Chinese walls, with which it forces the barbarians’ intensely obstinate hatred of foreigners to capitulate. It compels all nations, on pain of extinction, to adopt the bourgeois mode of production; it compels them to introduce what it calls civilisation into their midst, i.e., to become bourgeois themselves. In one word, it creates a world after its own image.	+	===Funding===
		+	The Sanders campaign is funded by donors in the wealthiest [[Zip code]]s in the United States.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3b-GvQTWzeE</ref>
−	The bourgeoisie has subjected the country to the rule of the towns. It has created enormous cities, has greatly increased the urban population as compared with the rural, and has thus rescued a considerable part of the population from the idiocy of rural life. Just as it has made the country dependent on the towns, so it has made barbarian and semi-barbarian countries dependent on the civilised ones, nations of peasants on nations of bourgeois, the East on the West.	+	Geographically, Bernie's top dollar zip code is 94110 in San Francisco. The average household income in this part of the Mission District, specifically the Inner Mission, the Bernal Heights area, is $166,302. The median home value is around $1.5 million and the median rent is almost $5,000 a month. The next top dollar zip code in San Francisco, 94117 or Haight-Ashbury where the average income is $201,503 and average home values top $1.6 million.
−	The bourgeoisie keeps more and more doing away with the scattered state of the population, of the means of production, and of property. It has agglomerated population, centralised the means of production, and has concentrated property in a few hands. The necessary consequence of this was political centralisation. Independent, or but loosely connected provinces, with separate interests, laws, governments, and systems of taxation, became lumped together into one nation, with one government, one code of laws, one national class-interest, one frontier, and one customs-tariff.	+	The Brooklyn zipcode of 11215 or Park Slope is the second biggest top dollar zip code of Bernie donors. It’s a place where a three-bedroom apartment can go for $2.9 million.
−	The bourgeoisie, during its rule of scarce one hundred years, has created more massive and more colossal productive forces than have all preceding generations together. Subjection of Nature’s forces to man, machinery, application of chemistry to industry and agriculture, steam-navigation, railways, electric telegraphs, clearing of whole continents for cultivation, canalisation of rivers, whole populations conjured out of the ground — what earlier century had even a presentiment that such productive forces slumbered in the lap of social labour?	+	In third place on Bernie’s donor list is 10025 or the Upper West Side of Manhattan. With an average rental price of $4,695 per month, it’s not exactly an inexpensive place to live. The UWS is the 8th richest neighborhood with a $190,281 mean household income.
−	We see then: the means of production and of exchange, on whose foundation the bourgeoisie built itself up, were generated in feudal society. At a certain stage in the development of these means of production and of exchange, the conditions under which feudal society produced and exchanged, the feudal organisation of agriculture and manufacturing industry, in one word, the feudal relations of property became no longer compatible with the already developed productive forces; they became so many fetters. They had to be burst asunder; they were burst asunder.	+	11238 or Prospect Heights, in fourth place, is a newly gentrified neighborhood in Brooklyn where the median sales price passed $1 million, and you can expect to spend $800,000 for a one-bedroom co-op.
−	Into their place stepped free competition, accompanied by a social and political constitution adapted in it, and the economic and political sway of the bourgeois class.	+	In fifth place is 98103, the Seattle neighborhood of Wallingford. With an average household income of $124,504, the University of Washington neighborhood with its $800,000 homes isn’t working class. Among the cheapest housing options is a $400,000 one-bedroom condo that’s a mere 757 square feet. The area is so expensive because it’s home to tech employees, including Microsoft engineers.  Microsoft employees are among Bernie’s top dollar donors.
−	A similar movement is going on before our own eyes. Modern bourgeois society, with its relations of production, of exchange and of property, a society that has conjured up such gigantic means of production and of exchange, is like the sorcerer who is no longer able to control the powers of the nether world whom he has called up by his spells. For many a decade past the history of industry and commerce is but the history of the revolt of modern productive forces against modern conditions of production, against the property relations that are the conditions for the existence of the bourgeois and of its rule. It is enough to mention the commercial crises that by their periodical return put the existence of the entire bourgeois society on its trial, each time more threateningly. In these crises, a great part not only of the existing products, but also of the previously created productive forces, are periodically destroyed. In these crises, there breaks out an epidemic that, in all earlier epochs, would have seemed an absurdity — the epidemic of over-production. Society suddenly finds itself put back into a state of momentary barbarism; it appears as if a famine, a universal war of devastation, had cut off the supply of every means of subsistence; industry and commerce seem to be destroyed; and why? Because there is too much civilisation, too much means of subsistence, too much industry, too much commerce. The productive forces at the disposal of society no longer tend to further the development of the conditions of bourgeois property; on the contrary, they have become too powerful for these conditions, by which they are fettered, and so soon as they overcome these fetters, they bring disorder into the whole of bourgeois society, endanger the existence of bourgeois property. The conditions of bourgeois society are too narrow to comprise the wealth created by them. And how does the bourgeoisie get over these crises? On the one hand by enforced destruction of a mass of productive forces; on the other, by the conquest of new markets, and by the more thorough exploitation of the old ones. That is to say, by paving the way for more extensive and more destructive crises, and by diminishing the means whereby crises are prevented.	+	And in seventh place is 90026. The Echo Park neighborhood in Los Angeles where the median price for housing is $813,000, and rents can hit $6,700 a month.
−	The weapons with which the bourgeoisie felled feudalism to the ground are now turned against the bourgeoisie itself.	+	In eight place is the Logan Square neighborhood of Chicago at zip code 60647. A condo will set you back over half a million dollars. The rush got so bad that a garage transformed into a home was going for $2.85 million.
−	But not only has the bourgeoisie forged the weapons that bring death to itself; it has also called into existence the men who are to wield those weapons — the modern working class — the proletarians.	+	Ninth and tenth on the list of Bernie’s money neighborhoods are two expensive Manhattan areas.  10003, Union Square and Greenwich Village in downtown Manhattan, is home to NYU where condos cost millions of dollars.  In tenth place is 10011 or Chelsea and the West Village of Manhattan. It’s also the single most expensive zip code in New York City. Not only is it the most expensive area in New York, but it’s the 23rd most expensive area in the country with a median sale price approaching $2 million. And with average monthly rents of over $4,000, it’s the 19th most expensive rental area in the entire United States. It’s also home to New York’s Silicon Alley, the city’s tech industry ghetto of dot com and fintech startups.<ref>https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/02/bernie-sanders-funded-wealthiest-zip-codes-america-daniel-greenfield/</ref>
−	In proportion as the bourgeoisie, i.e., capital, is developed, in the same proportion is the proletariat, the modern working class, developed — a class of labourers, who live only so long as they find work, and who find work only so long as their labour increases capital. These labourers, who must sell themselves piecemeal, are a commodity, like every other article of commerce, and are consequently exposed to all the vicissitudes of competition, to all the fluctuations of the market.	+	==2016 presidential primaries==
		+	At a press conference on April 30, 2015, Sanders announced his intention to run for the Democrat nomination in the [[2016 presidential election]].<ref>[https://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/04/29/vermont-sen-bernie-sanders-am-running-for-president/ "Vermont Sen. Sanders announces White House bid, says he's 'running to win'"] (April 30, 2015). FoxNews.com website/Politics.</ref> Sanders accused his main rival, [[Hillary Clinton]] of [[racism]], but in the end he backed the [[racist]] Democrat nominee.<ref>https://youtu.be/hlyx70WQqck</ref>
−	Owing to the extensive use of machinery, and to the division of labour, the work of the proletarians has lost all individual character, and, consequently, all charm for the workman. He becomes an appendage of the machine, and it is only the most simple, most monotonous, and most easily acquired knack, that is required of him. Hence, the cost of production of a workman is restricted, almost entirely, to the means of subsistence that he requires for maintenance, and for the propagation of his race. But the price of a commodity, and therefore also of labour, is equal to its cost of production. In proportion, therefore, as the repulsiveness of the work increases, the wage decreases. Nay more, in proportion as the use of machinery and division of labour increases, in the same proportion the burden of toil also increases, whether by prolongation of the working hours, by the increase of the work exacted in a given time or by increased speed of machinery, etc.	+	''[[USA Today]]'' reported a [[The indictment of 12 Russian nationals, 13 July 2018#Use of Organization 1|37-page indictment]] from special counsel [[Mueller office|Robert Mueller’s investigation]] shows that Russians worked to boost the campaign of Bernie Sanders to damage [[Hillary Clinton]]. The Russians “engaged in operations primarily intended to communicate derogatory information about Hillary Clinton, to denigrate other candidates such as Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio, and to support Bernie Sanders."<ref>https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/02/17/indictment-russians-also-tried-help-bernie-sanders-jill-stein-presidential-campaigns/348051002/</ref>
		+	[[File:SG-ted-devine-bernie-sanders-paul-manafort.jpg|right|350px|thumb|Ted Devine (left) Bernie Sanders (center) Paul Manafort (right). Devine and Sanders colluded with Putin stooge Victor Yanukovich and reported to Russian intelligence officer Konstantin Kilimnik. Manafort faces life in prison. Devine was hired by Sanders as chief strategist for his 2016 and 2018 presidential campaigns.<ref>https://twitter.com/PuestoLoco/status/1070005636535148545</ref>]]
		+	Sanders hired [[Paul Manafort]] partner Tad Devine of Devine Mulvey Longabaug as his chief strategist.<ref>http://dmlmessage.com/about/</ref> Devine and Manafort worked for the election of [[Putin]] [[crony]] [[Victor Yanukovich]] as President of the [[Ukraine]] in 2010.<ref>https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/07/bernie-sanders-strategist-tad-devine-paul-manafort-files-mueller</ref> In February 2019 Sanders entered the [[2020 presidential election]] and re-hired Devine's company, of which Devine is president.<ref>https://www.thedailybeast.com/bernie-sanders-hires-top-civil-liberties-advocate-faiz-shakir-as-campaign-manager</ref>
−	Modern Industry has converted the little workshop of the patriarchal master into the great factory of the industrial capitalist. Masses of labourers, crowded into the factory, are organised like soldiers. As privates of the industrial army they are placed under the command of a perfect hierarchy of officers and sergeants. Not only are they slaves of the bourgeois class, and of the bourgeois State; they are daily and hourly enslaved by the machine, by the overlooker, and, above all, by the individual bourgeois manufacturer himself. The more openly this despotism proclaims gain to be its end and aim, the more petty, the more hateful and the more embittering it is.	+	Sanders calls himself an outsider and anti-[[establishment]]. He has spent the last 40 years in politics, though admittedly, he has never been able to attain the level of "establishment", because he has been unable to be accepted by anyone, nor to receive much support on any of his issues. His own views are the reason why he has long been an "outsider", even though he's been admitted to serve in the government.
−	The less the skill and exertion of strength implied in manual labour, in other words, the more modern industry becomes developed, the more is the labour of men superseded by that of women. Differences of age and sex have no longer any distinctive social validity for the working class. All are instruments of labour, more or less expensive to use, according to their age and sex.	+	Sanders does take pleasure in creating the same straw men as Obama. Specifically, the GOP war on women. Calls to defund [[Planned Parenthood]] is an opportunity for Sanders to denounce the treatment of women. He would kill a child in the womb for any reason and at any term but the GOP is extremist. Sanders will say the GOP wants to deny women's health services. The facts are that 13,000 women's health centers are available that are not owned by Planned Parenthood. He supports babies chopped up and sold for parts. No concern for underage victims of rape not being reported. He is indifferent to the fraudulent billing of the US government.
−	No sooner is the exploitation of the labourer by the manufacturer, so far, at an end, that he receives his wages in cash, than he is set upon by the other portions of the bourgeoisie, the landlord, the shopkeeper, the pawnbroker, etc.	+	Class warfare is a favorite theme for Sanders, pitting rich against the poor. His Marxist linchpin is the argument that the banks are too big. He also claims that billionaires are hurting the country, citing the Koch brothers over and over. He believes that America needs to spend another $18 Trillion dollars despite being $18 Trillion in debt. He has also made claims supporting single-payer healthcare, free college tuition, etc.
−	The lower strata of the middle class — the small tradespeople, shopkeepers, and retired tradesmen generally, the handicraftsmen and peasants — all these sink gradually into the proletariat, partly because their diminutive capital does not suffice for the scale on which Modern Industry is carried on, and is swamped in the competition with the large capitalists, partly because their specialised skill is rendered worthless by new methods of production. Thus the proletariat is recruited from all classes of the population.	+	In one rant, Sanders claimed that Americans needlessly have too many choices when it comes to deodorant brands, noting that he counted 23 different types of the product for sale. Somehow he tied the story into feeding the poor. Reason.com produced a satirical video mocking its absurdity titled "The Bernie Sanders Save the Children Fund".<ref>[http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fspZiT8TdBE "The Bernie Sanders Save The Children Fund"] (May 27, 2015). YouTube video, 1:15, posted by ReasonTV.</ref>
−	The proletariat goes through various stages of development. With its birth begins its struggle with the bourgeoisie. At first the contest is carried on by individual labourers, then by the workpeople of a factory, then by the operative of one trade, in one locality, against the individual bourgeois who directly exploits them. They direct their attacks not against the bourgeois conditions of production, but against the instruments of production themselves; they destroy imported wares that compete with their labour, they smash to pieces machinery, they set factories ablaze, they seek to restore by force the vanished status of the workman of the Middle Ages.	+	He has said that [[America]] is racist, and he frequently puts America down.
−	At this stage, the labourers still form an incoherent mass scattered over the whole country, and broken up by their mutual competition. If anywhere they unite to form more compact bodies, this is not yet the consequence of their own active union, but of the union of the bourgeoisie, which class, in order to attain its own political ends, is compelled to set the whole proletariat in motion, and is moreover yet, for a time, able to do so. At this stage, therefore, the proletarians do not fight their enemies, but the enemies of their enemies, the remnants of absolute monarchy, the landowners, the non-industrial bourgeois, the petty bourgeois. Thus, the whole historical movement is concentrated in the hands of the bourgeoisie; every victory so obtained is a victory for the bourgeoisie.	+	Sanders is the author of "Rape Essays," a 1972 essay on sexual behavior filled with lurid sexual fantasies. He claimed that it was a satirical essay against traditional gender roles.<ref>Merica, Don (May 28, 2015). [https://www.cnn.com/2015/05/28/politics/bernie-sanders-rape-essay-1972/index.html Bernie Sanders distances himself from 'dumb' 1972 essay on rape]. ''CNN''. Retrieved October 11, 2017.</ref><ref>Peyser, Andrea (June 5, 2015). [http://nypost.com/2015/06/05/bernie-sanders-rape-fantasy-essay-reveals-left-wing-hypocrisy/ Bernie Sanders’ rape-fantasy essay reveals left-wing hypocrisy]. ''New York Post''. Retrieved October 11, 2017.</ref>
−	But with the development of industry, the proletariat not only increases in number; it becomes concentrated in greater masses, its strength grows, and it feels that strength more. The various interests and conditions of life within the ranks of the proletariat are more and more equalised, in proportion as machinery obliterates all distinctions of labour, and nearly everywhere reduces wages to the same low level. The growing competition among the bourgeois, and the resulting commercial crises, make the wages of the workers ever more fluctuating. The increasing improvement of machinery, ever more rapidly developing, makes their livelihood more and more precarious; the collisions between individual workmen and individual bourgeois take more and more the character of collisions between two classes. Thereupon, the workers begin to form combinations (Trades’ Unions) against the bourgeois; they club together in order to keep up the rate of wages; they found permanent associations in order to make provision beforehand for these occasional revolts. Here and there, the contest breaks out into riots.	+	Sanders uses what some people call [[Christian socialism]] to further his campaign, citing [[Pope Francis]]. However, Sanders cherry picks what elements of Christianity he agrees with and ignores the rest. He told a crowd of 300 in [[Alabama]] that [[Jesus]] was a socialist.<ref>Flynn, Mike (July 14, 2015). [https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/07/14/jesus-was-a-socialist-bernie-sanders-rocks-alabama/ "'Jesus was a socialist': Bernie Sanders rocks Alabama"]. Breitbart website/Big government.</ref>
−	Now and then the workers are victorious, but only for a time. The real fruit of their battles lies, not in the immediate result, but in the ever expanding union of the workers. This union is helped on by the improved means of communication that are created by modern industry, and that place the workers of different localities in contact with one another. It was just this contact that was needed to centralise the numerous local struggles, all of the same character, into one national struggle between classes. But every class struggle is a political struggle. And that union, to attain which the burghers of the Middle Ages, with their miserable highways, required centuries, the modern proletarian, thanks to railways, achieve in a few years.	+	Sanders has expressed his undying support for socialist tyrants and mass murderers. Some Florida Democrats call Sanders undying devotion to the [[authoritarian]] [[dictator]] [[Fidel Castro]] "unacceptable" and "insulting."<ref>https://freebeacon.com/politics/florida-democrats-slam-sanderss-castro-comments-as-unacceptable-insulting/</ref>
−	This organisation of the proletarians into a class, and, consequently into a political party, is continually being upset again by the competition between the workers themselves. But it ever rises up again, stronger, firmer, mightier. It compels legislative recognition of particular interests of the workers, by taking advantage of the divisions among the bourgeoisie itself. Thus, the ten-hours’ bill in England was carried.	+	==Democratic Socialism==
		+	[[File:Bernie-sanders-soviet-singing-1548699453.jpg|right|200px|thumb]]
		+	:{{See also|Democratic Socialism|Democide|Berlin Wall|North Korea}}
		+	Sanders began his electoral political career in 1971 as a member of the Liberty Union Party, which originated in the anti-war movement and the [[People's Party (1970s)|People's Party]]. He ran as the Liberty Union candidate for governor of Vermont in 1972 and 1976 and as a candidate for U.S. senator in 1972 and 1974.<ref>[http://media.cq.com/members/509?rc=1 Sen. Bernard Sanders (I-Vt.)] RollCall.com. Retrieved February 20, 2017.</ref> Sanders claimed the U.S. government and [[CIA]] were responsible for a series of domestic bombings.<ref>https://dailycaller.com/2019/05/01/bernie-sanders-false-flag-domestic-bombings/?utm_medium=email</ref> In 1980, Sanders ran for mayor of Burlington, Vermont at the suggestion of his close friend and political confidante Richard Sugarman, a professor of religion at the [[University of Vermont]]. He defeated the incumbent Democrat mayor by 10 votes and served for eight years, from April 6, 1981, to April 4, 1989. From 1980 to 1984, Sanders campaigned for the [[Socialist Workers Party]] and was investigated by the FBI because of his association with the Marxist group.<ref>Simonson, Joseph (May 30, 2019). [https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/bernie-sanders-campaigned-for-marxist-party-in-reagan-era Bernie Sanders campaigned for Marxist party in Reagan era]. ''Washington Examiner''. Retrieved May 30, 2019.</ref>
−	Altogether collisions between the classes of the old society further, in many ways, the course of development of the proletariat. The bourgeoisie finds itself involved in a constant battle. At first with the aristocracy; later on, with those portions of the bourgeoisie itself, whose interests have become antagonistic to the progress of industry; at all time with the bourgeoisie of foreign countries. In all these battles, it sees itself compelled to appeal to the proletariat, to ask for help, and thus, to drag it into the political arena. The bourgeoisie itself, therefore, supplies the proletariat with its own elements of political and general education, in other words, it furnishes the proletariat with weapons for fighting the bourgeoisie.	+	In 1986, Sanders unsuccessfully challenged incumbent Governor Madeleine Kunin (D) in her reelection bid. Running as an independent, Sanders finished third with 14.4% of the vote. Kunin won with 47%, followed by Lt. Governor Peter P. Smith (R) with 38%.
−	Further, as we have already seen, entire sections of the ruling class are, by the advance of industry, precipitated into the proletariat, or are at least threatened in their conditions of existence. These also supply the proletariat with fresh elements of enlightenment and progress.	+	In 1990 Sanders was elected to the [[U.S. Congress]] as a [[Socialist]] on a third party ticket. Sanders was a leading member of the [[National Rainbow Coalition]] at the time and was one of two candidates endorsed by the He was supported by the Democratic Socialists of America Political Action Committee. "DSAer Democrat" [[Neil Abercrombie]] also sought to regain the House seat representing [[Honolulu]].<ref>''Democratic Left'', November/December 1990, page 4.</ref> Sanders was endorsed by the [[AFL-CIO]], [[environmentalist]]s and Democratic Party leaders.<ref>''[[People's Weekly World]]'', Nov. 10 1990, page 23.</ref>
−	Finally, in times when the class struggle nears the decisive hour, the progress of dissolution going on within the ruling class, in fact within the whole range of old society, assumes such a violent, glaring character, that a small section of the ruling class cuts itself adrift, and joins the revolutionary class, the class that holds the future in its hands. Just as, therefore, at an earlier period, a section of the nobility went over to the bourgeoisie, so now a portion of the bourgeoisie goes over to the proletariat, and in particular, a portion of the bourgeois ideologists, who have raised themselves to the level of comprehending theoretically the historical movement as a whole.	+	DSA supported Sanders 2006 Senate race.<ref>http://www.dsausa.org/dl/Winter_2006.pdf</ref><ref>[http://www.campaignmoney.com/political/committees/democratic-socialists-of-america-pac.asp?cycle=06 CampaignMoney.com 2006 Cycle]</ref><ref>[http://www.dsaboston.org/yradical/yr2007-04.pdf TYR, April 2007]</ref>
−	Of all the classes that stand face to face with the bourgeoisie today, the proletariat alone is a really revolutionary class. The other classes decay and finally disappear in the face of Modern Industry; the proletariat is its special and essential product.	+	Sanders has praised failing and flawed welfare systems of other countries as a model for the U.S. to follow.<ref>Bleau, Hannah (July 27, 2019). [https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/07/27/bernie-praises-welfare-systems-of-other-countries-shies-away-from-term-democratic-socialism/ Bernie Praises Welfare Systems of Other Countries, Shies Away from Term ‘Democratic Socialism’]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved July 27, 2019.</ref>
−	The lower middle class, the small manufacturer, the shopkeeper, the artisan, the peasant, all these fight against the bourgeoisie, to save from extinction their existence as fractions of the middle class. They are therefore not revolutionary, but conservative. Nay more, they are reactionary, for they try to roll back the wheel of history. If by chance, they are revolutionary, they are only so in view of their impending transfer into the proletariat; they thus defend not their present, but their future interests, they desert their own standpoint to place themselves at that of the proletariat.	+	===Sandinistas===
		+	In 1985 Sanders traveled to New York City to meet with [[Daniel Ortega]] a few weeks after [[Nicaragua]] imposed a “state of emergency”, mass arrests of the socialist regime's critics, and the shuttering of opposition newspapers and magazines. Sanders refused to condemn the decision. Sanders said in a press conference that he was “not an expert in Nicaragua” and “not a Nicaraguan." “Am I aware enough of all the details of what is going on in Nicaragua to say ‘you have reacted too strongly?’ I don’t know.” Sanders later said that the Sandinistas’ brutal crackdown “makes sense to me.” TV talk-show host Phil Donahue told Ortega that his actions looked "[[fascist]]".
−	The “dangerous class”, [lumpenproletariat] the social scum, that passively rotting mass thrown off by the lowest layers of the old society, may, here and there, be swept into the movement by a proletarian revolution; its conditions of life, however, prepare it far more for the part of a bribed tool of reactionary intrigue.	+	In 1985 Sanders was "the highest ranking American official” to attend a parade celebrating the [[Sandinista]] seizure of power in Nicaragua as Daniel Ortega's guest. Other wire reports described it as an “anti-U.S. rally" with the crowd chanting “Here, there, everywhere/the Yankee will die.”<ref>[https://www.yahoo.com/politics/bernie-sanders-radical-past-how-the-vermont-230255076.html Bernie Sanders’ radical past: How the Vermont firebrand started wearing a suit and gave up on taking over big companies], Hunter Walker, Yahoo Politics, January 17, 2016.</ref>
−	In the condition of the proletariat, those of old society at large are already virtually swamped. The proletarian is without property; his relation to his wife and children has no longer anything in common with the bourgeois family relations; modern industry labour, modern subjection to capital, the same in England as in France, in America as in Germany, has stripped him of every trace of national character. Law, morality, religion, are to him so many bourgeois prejudices, behind which lurk in ambush just as many bourgeois interests.	+	Sanders thought the Sandinista [[Marxist-Leninist]] clique had much to teach Burlington: “Vermont could set an example to the rest of the nation similar to the type of example Nicaragua is setting for the rest of [[Latin America]].”
−	All the preceding classes that got the upper hand sought to fortify their already acquired status by subjecting society at large to their conditions of appropriation. The proletarians cannot become masters of the productive forces of society, except by abolishing their own previous mode of appropriation, and thereby also every other previous mode of appropriation. They have nothing of their own to secure and to fortify; their mission is to destroy all previous securities for, and insurances of, individual property.	+	In 1987 Sanders hosted Nora Astorga of the Sandinistas to Burlington. Astorga had lured Gen. Reynaldo Perez-Vega, a high-ranking figure in the Somoza regime, to her apartment with promises of sex. Perez-Vega’s body was later recovered wrapped in a Sandinista flag with his throat slit.<ref>[https://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/02/28/when-bernie-sanders-thought-castro-and-the-sandinistas-could-teach-america-a-lesson.html When Bernie Sanders Thought Castro And The Sandinistas Could Teach America A Lesson], Michael Moynihan, ''Daily Beast'', 02.27.16.</ref>
−	All previous historical movements were movements of minorities, or in the interest of minorities. The proletarian movement is the self-conscious, independent movement of the immense majority, in the interest of the immense majority. The proletariat, the lowest stratum of our present society, cannot stir, cannot raise itself up, without the whole superincumbent strata of official society being sprung into the air.	+	===U.S Peace Council===
		+	A notice was placed in the communist newspaper, the ''[[Guardian (NY)]]'' on November 8, 1989, concerning an upcoming [[U.S. Peace Council]] national conference.<ref>''Guardian'', November 8, 1989</ref> The U.S. Peace Council was a [[Kremlin]]-backed anti-American [[communist front]] organization. Speakers included Bernie Sanders, Rep.[[John Conyers]], [[Leslie Cagan]], [[Holly Sklar]], Jack O'Dell of the [[Rainbow Coalition]], Zehdi Terzi of the [[Palestine Liberation Organization]], Gunther Drefahl of the [[East German]] Peace Council among others.<ref>[http://www.aim.org/aim-column/should-the-nsa-be-watching-senator-sanders/ AIM Should the NSA Be Watching Senator Sanders? Cliff Kincaid  —  January 6, 2014]</ref>
−	Though not in substance, yet in form, the struggle of the proletariat with the bourgeoisie is at first a national struggle. The proletariat of each country must, of course, first of all settle matters with its own bourgeoisie.	+	==='Socialist Scholars'===
		+	Sanders was a regular speaker at the Democratic Socialist's alleged 'Socialist Scholars' conferences and other DSA conventions throughout the country along with [[DSA]] vice chair and former director of the National Gay and Lesbian Clubs Christine Riddiough, DSA director Jim Shoch, [[Harry Magdoff]], Paul Sweezy, [[Frances Fox Piven]], Joseph S. Murphy of CUNY, President of the [[SEIU]] Local 1199 Dennis Rivera, author Ellen Willis, Doug Henwood, Robert Heilbroner, Bill Tabb, Robert Fitch, Jane Slaughter and Ellen Meiksins Wood.<ref>''Democratic Left'', November/December 1991, page 11.</ref><ref>''Dem. Left'', Sept./Oct 1995, page 40.</ref> Sanders was introduced by Congressman [[Bob Filner]] as the keynote speaker at DSA's national convention in 1999.
−	In depicting the most general phases of the development of the proletariat, we traced the more or less veiled civil war, raging within existing society, up to the point where that war breaks out into open revolution, and where the violent overthrow of the bourgeoisie lays the foundation for the sway of the proletariat.	+	===I.F. Stone===
		+	In October 1988, [[KGB]] agent and American [[propagandist]] [[I. F. Stone]] wrote a letter endorsing Burlington mayor Bernie Sanders' congressional run: {{quotebox|<small>''Dear Friend,<br>I've been politically active all my life. I was a member of the Executive Committee of the Socialist Party in New Jersey, before I was old enough to vote.<br>Now I'd like to ask you to join me in a historic step forward in American politics. My favorite Mayor -- Bernie Sanders of Burlington, Vermont -- is running for Congress, and with our help he can win an unprecedented victory for us all.<br>Bernie is a unique figure in our political system. He's an '''unapologetic socialist''' who has been elected Mayor of Vermont's largest city four times. He has proved that a socialist, running as an Independent against the combined opposition of Republicans and Democrats, can be successful by speaking out for working people, the elderly and the poor.<br>Under Bernie's leadership, Burlington has become a vibrant, innovative city, nationally recognized for its accomplishments. The U. S. Conference of Mayors recently gave it the "Most Liveable City" award, and even the conservative U.S. News and World Report has spotlighted Bernie as one of the country's Top Twenty Mayors (December 21, 1987).<br>Bernie has been a leader in the struggle for peace and justice . His activism was instrumental in Vermont's strong support of the Nuclear Freeze in its town meetings in 1982. He has traveled to Nicaragua to speak out against the Reagan Administration's war, and to establish a Sister City relation between Burlington and Puerto Cabezas. More recently, he went to the Soviet Union to set up a Sister City program with Yaroslavl.<br>While socialism has a long and proud history in America, extending back to the utopian experiments of the early 1800s, it's been a long time since we've had a socialist voice in Congress. Not since Victor Berger of Milwaukee in the twenties , has the debate gone beyond the limits set by the conventional two-party system.<br>Having Bernie in Washington will widen out the limits of political discussion. He'll speak up loudly, as he has in Vermont, for real alternatives. He'll show that we need a pragmatic socialism to deal with the grave problems of our economic system.<br>I.F. STONE''</small>}}
−	Hitherto, every form of society has been based, as we have already seen, on the antagonism of oppressing and oppressed classes. But in order to oppress a class, certain conditions must be assured to it under which it can, at least, continue its slavish existence. The serf, in the period of serfdom, raised himself to membership in the commune, just as the petty bourgeois, under the yoke of the feudal absolutism, managed to develop into a bourgeois. The modern labourer, on the contrary, instead of rising with the process of industry, sinks deeper and deeper below the conditions of existence of his own class. He becomes a pauper, and pauperism develops more rapidly than population and wealth. And here it becomes evident, that the bourgeoisie is unfit any longer to be the ruling class in society, and to impose its conditions of existence upon society as an over-riding law. It is unfit to rule because it is incompetent to assure an existence to its slave within his slavery, because it cannot help letting him sink into such a state, that it has to feed him, instead of being fed by him. Society can no longer live under this bourgeoisie, in other words, its existence is no longer compatible with society.	+	===Voting record===
		+	Bernie Sanders has missed 4.4% of the roll call votes, higher than the average 1.7% of lifelong senators' records.<ref name=legislativerecord>[https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/bernard_sanders/400357 GovTrack.US]</ref> As of October 2015, he has introduced 353 bills in his 16 years in Congress, though only 3 of them were into law, giving him less than a 1% success rate.<ref name=sanderslegislation-washtimes>Miller, S.A.; Dinan, Stephen (October 27, 2015). [https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/oct/27/bernie-sanders-record-in-congress-shows-little-soc/?page=all Sanders has a tough time turning his socialist visions into reality]. ''The Washington Times''. Retrieved October 11, 2017.</ref>
−	The essential conditions for the existence and for the sway of the bourgeois class is the formation and augmentation of capital; the condition for capital is wage-labour. Wage-labour rests exclusively on competition between the labourers. The advance of industry, whose involuntary promoter is the bourgeoisie, replaces the isolation of the labourers, due to competition, by the revolutionary combination, due to association. The development of Modern Industry, therefore, cuts from under its feet the very foundation on which the bourgeoisie produces and appropriates products. What the bourgeoisie therefore produces, above all, are its own grave-diggers. Its fall and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable.	+	Between 1995 and 2007, Sanders passed 17 amendments by a recorded roll call vote, the highest of any member of Congress during that period.<ref>[https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/mar/24/bernie-s/bernie-sanders-was-roll-call-amendment-king-1995-2/]</ref>
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		+	===CPC founders===
		+	Once elected, Saunders was the founder of the [[Congressional Progressive Caucus]]. Co-founders included House members [[Ron Dellums]], Lane Evans, Tom Andrews, [[Peter DeFazio]], and [[Maxine Waters]].
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		+	Since 1998 the Progressive Caucus has held its own Progressive State of the Union. Attendees and speakers include [[Tammy Baldwin]] [D-WI], John Cavanagh co-director of the Institute for Policy Studies, [[John Conyers]] [D-MI], Peter DeFazio [D-OR], Karen Dolan,  Coordinator Institute for Policy Studies,  Earl Hilliard  [D-AL],  Maurice Hinchey [D-NY],  [[Stephanie Tubbs Jones]] [D-OH],  [[Barbara Lee]],  [D-CA],  [[Jerrold Nadler]] [D-NY],  [[Grace Napolitano]] [D-CA],  [[Major Owens]]  [D-NY],  Bernie Sanders,  [I-VT],  [[Jan Schakowsky]],  [D-IL], House Minority Whip David Bonior (D-MI), [[Dennis Kucinich]] (D-OH); [[Cynthia McKinney]] (D-GA); and [[Lynn Woolsey]](D-CA).<ref>[http://www.commondreams.org/news2000/0126-103.htm Common Dreams, Progressive Groups And Congressional Caucus To Present Their Third Annual Alternative State Of The Union Address, JANUARY 26, 2000]</ref><ref>[https://www.c-span.org/video/?118893-1/progressive-state-union-address CSPAN, JANUARY 19, 1999 Progressive State of the Union Address]</ref>
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		+	===CPUSA 'Jobs for All' bill===
		+	In 1997 Rep. Matthew Martinez of [[California]] introduced the "Martinez Public Works Jobs Bill" at the request of the Los Angeles Labor Coalition for Public Works Jobs. The leaders of the Coalition and its only affiliate, the New York Coalition for Public Works Jobs, are all members and supporters of the Communist Party USA. The bill had 33 original co-sponsors, including Sanders.<ref>[http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/45b/085.html The Job Creation and Infrastructure Restoration Act of 1997 (H.R. 950)], from the New York State Communist Party email list 16 March 1997, accessed  June 14, 2010.</ref>
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		+	===Anti-NAFTA===
		+	In 1995 Marcy Kaptur, [[Peter DeFazio]], [[Nydia Velasquez]], [[Gene Taylor]] and Bernie Sanders co-sponsored a Bill, to force the US to withdraw from NAFTA.<ref>''People's Weekly World'', January 21, 1995, page 4.</ref>
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		+	===Council for a Livable World===
		+	The Council for a Livable World, founded in 1962 by long-time socialist activist and Soviet agent, [[Leo Szilard]], is a non-profit advocacy organization that seeks to "reduce the danger of nuclear weapons and increase national security", primarily through supporting progressive, congressional candidates who support their policies. The Council supported Bernie Sanders in his successful Senate run as a candidate for Vermont.<ref>[http://www.livableworld.org/support/meet_candidates/ CLW website: Meet Our Candidates]</ref>
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		+	===Venezuela===
		+	Sanders orchestrated a deal with [[Venezuela]]n strongman [[Hugo Chavez]], Citizens Energy President [[Joseph P. Kennedy II]] and the Vermont Office of Economic Opportunity for a delivery of more than 2.5 million gallons of discounted heating oil.<ref>[National Post (f/k/a The Financial Post) (Canada) November 11, 2006 Saturday Toronto Edition]</ref>
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		+	At the height of the humanitarian crisis caused by [[socialism]] in Venezuela in 2019, Sanders still refused to call on fellow socialist [[dictator]] [[Nicolas Maduro]] to step down,<ref>https://freebeacon.com/politics/sanders-refuses-to-call-for-maduro-to-step-down-wont-say-explicitly-if-he-is-a-dictator/</ref> and he refused to describe Maduro as a dictator.<ref>Wolfsohn, Joseph A. (February 25, 2019). [https://www.foxnews.com/politics/bernie-sanders-refuses-to-call-venezuelas-maduro-dictator-says-democratic-operations-taking-place Bernie Sanders refuses to call Venezuela's Maduro 'dictator,' says 'democratic operations taking place']. ''Fox News''. Retrieved February 26, 2019.</ref>
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		+	===European Socialist ties===
		+	The Party of European Socialists dialogue with the US Democrats and the Transatlantic partnership "was a priority over the last years" (written in 2009).
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		+	Delegations, meetings and exchanges of information were held on a regular basis. After the [2006] victory in the Congress, where the Democrats won the double majority, a Party of European Socialists Delegation, led by PES President Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, discovered the new mood in Washington D.C., on 15–18 April 2007. It had meetings with Governor [[Howard Dean]], Chair of the [[DLC]]; Congressman Barney Frank (D-MA), Chairman of the Committee on Financial Services; Senator Bernie Sanders and with Senator [[Ben Cardin]]; [[John Podesta]], CEO of the [[Center for American Progress]], Former Chief of staff of [[President Clinton]]; John Sweeney, President of the [[AFL-CIO]] and [[Andy Stern]], Chair of [[Service Employees International Union]] (SEIU). The underlying motive of the delegation was reiterated with the need for US and EU progressive forces to actively prepare for the post-Bush EU-US relations.<ref>[http://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/partyofeuropeansocialists/pages/214/attachments/original/1395960135/Activity_Report_2007-2009_61209.pdf?1395960135 The PES in action 2007-2009, Activity Report of the Party of European Socialists Adopted by the 8th PES Congress 8th PES Congress], Prague, December 2009.</ref>
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		+	===CPUSA Draft Bernie for President campaign===
		+	In response to an organized campaign to draft Sanders for a presidential run in 2012, CPUSA member John Case wrote in the official communist organ ''[[Political Affairs]]'':
		+	:''To use [[Carl Davidson]]'s excellent slogan around which left and working class forces can mobilize-- "peace and prosperity vs war and [[Ascesis|austerity]]" --  this is clearly a time when we can qualitatively expand the base of support for the principles the slogan expresses. The question is: can we do this and not end up playing a Nader-like spoiler role, that concludes by electing the Right, in those campaigns, primaries, etc where our main objective is to move the political center leftward and strengthen the hand of center forces against the right. Of course, in those campaigns where the left coalition has winning chances, where the center is ready to be led by left forces, tactics differ.
		+	''
		+	:''The complexity of the US political process at this moment requires shrewd and careful AND BOLD calculations  There are few, if any, politicians on the left more shrewd than Bernie Sanders. I am not convinced about Bernie's denials. I got to know him somewhat in my years as a UE rep in Vt, and later as DO for the Communist Party in N. New England. With a few arguable exceptions, he has always -- both ideologicaly and politically -- pursued a working class line. As important, he become a demonstrated master of very concrete tactics directed at isolating the right, without appearing irresponsible or reckless to center forces. He kept focused on the concretes -- especially economics, and non-corrupt governance -- that blunted repeated attempts by the right to isolate him.''
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		+	:''He would have to run as a Democrat in the 2012 primaries, in order not to be counted as a spoiler. Unlike Nader, Bernie has never been a 'spoiler' politician. But running as a Democrat, after years of success as an Independent is something I think he would be temperamentally loath to do.  Part of his success at independence is due to some very peculiar features unique to Vermont political history, that would not be practical to reproduce nationally. Nonetheless, I am sure he will be tempted.
		+	''
		+	:''Personally, at this point, I think a primary challenge against Obama is a mistake -- the history of such challenges is not encouraging for defeating Republicans. Obama is not a Blue Dog-er, IMHO, but rather a liberal doing what Presidents do -- not straying too far from the Center. I think we should focus our primary challenge energies against the blue dogs and in local and state campaigns where we can strengthen and galvanize our grass roots base.  But I am willing to be persuaded otherwise --  only if we ourselves--the Left are grown-up enough to be as shrewd and smart and flexible as Kucinich on health care, or Sanders through most of his career.''<ref>[http://politicalaffairs.net/sanders-for-president/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Paeditorsblog+%28PA+Editors+Blog%29 PA Blog, Sanders for President? by: John Case Wednesday 29 December 2010]</ref>
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		+	===Globalism===
		+	Sanders advocates for a [[globalist]] and weak U.S. foreign policy in which the goal is "'global engagement based on partnership' rather than dominance or withdrawal."<ref>Savitsky, Shane (September 21, 2017). [https://www.axios.com/sanders-advocates-foreign-policy-of-global-engagement-2488020738.html Sanders advocates foreign policy of "global engagement"]. ''Axios''. Retrieved September 21, 2017.</ref> While originally holding protectionist and even some nationalist views, he has caved to the [[uniparty]] establishment and endorsed globalist policies.<ref>Caplan, Joshua (October 9, 2018). [https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/10/09/bernie-sanders-abandons-u-s-against-china-trade-stance-in-new-world-order-speech/ Bernie Sanders Abandons ‘U.S. Against China’ Trade Stance in ‘New World Order’ Speech]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved October 9, 2018.</ref> He supports giving every American a government job.<ref>Rodriguez, Katherine (April 24, 2018). [https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/04/24/sen-bernie-sanders-unveil-plan-give-every-american-guaranteed-government-job/ Sen. Bernie Sanders to Unveil Plan to Give Every American a Guaranteed Government Job]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved April 26, 2018.<br>See also:
		+	*Carney, John (April 26, 2018). [https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/04/26/carney-the-problem-with-the-job-guarantee-is-not-that-its-too-expensive-its-that-the-left-hates-us/ Carney: The Problem with the ‘Job Guarantee’ Is Not That It’s Too Expensive. It’s That the Left Hates Us]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved April 27, 2018.
		+	*Thomas, Cal (April 26, 2018). [https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2018/04/26/crazy-bernie-sanders-is-at-it-again-will-be-getting-guaranteed-job-and-more-soon.html 'Crazy Bernie' Sanders is at it again -- Will you be getting a guaranteed job (and more) soon?] ''Fox News''. Retrieved April 26, 2018.
		+	*Kupfer, Theodore (April 26, 2018). [https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/04/democrats-jobs-guarantee-bernie-sanders-is-mainstream-now/ Democrats’ Jobs Guarantee: Bernie Sanders Is Mainstream Now]. ''National Review''. Retrieved April 26, 2018.</ref>
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		+	In November 2019, Sanders released an [[open borders]] immigration plan that would end deportations, [[abolish ICE]], and give welfare to illegals, among other provisions.<ref>Multiple references:
		+	*Bleau, Hannah (November 7, 2019). [https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/11/07/bernie-immigration-plan-stop-racist-and-ineffective-wall-freeze-deportations-extend-entitlement-benefits-to-illegal-aliens/ Bernie Immigration Plan: Stop ‘Racist and Ineffective’ Wall, Freeze Deportations, Extend Entitlement Benefits to Illegal Aliens]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved November 7, 2019.
		+	*Shaw, Adam (November 7, 2019). [https://www.foxnews.com/politics/sanders-immigration-plan Sanders' immigration plan: Halt deportations, abolish ICE, welcome 50K 'climate migrants,' give welfare to all]. ''Fox News''. Retrieved November 7, 2019.
		+	*Morgan, Justin (November 7, 2019). [https://www.theepochtimes.com/sanders-immigration-plan-aims-to-stop-border-wall-end-ice-raids_3140374.html Sanders’ Immigration Plan Aims to Stop Border Wall, End ICE Raids]. ''The Epoch Times''. Retrieved November 7, 2019.
		+	*Sherfinski, David (November 7, 2019). [https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/nov/7/bernie-sanders-proposes-break-ice-and-halt-deporta/ Bernie Sanders proposes to 'break up' ICE and halt deportations in immigration plan]. ''The Washington Times''. Retrieved November 7, 2019.
		+	*Madden, Nate (November 8, 2019). [https://www.conservativereview.com/news/bernie-sanders-immigration-plan-even-extreme-imagine/ Bernie Sanders’ immigration plan is even more extreme than you could imagine]. ''Conservative Review''. Retrieved November 11, 2019.
		+	See also:
		+	*Buchanan, Patrick J. (November 12, 2019). [https://www.thenewamerican.com/reviews/opinion/item/34012-bernie-leads-his-party-to-open-borders Bernie Leads His Party to Open Borders]. ''The New American''. Retrieved November 12, 2019.</ref>
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		+	===Disregard for the law===
		+	Sanders showed his contempt for federal law by hiring an illegal migrant as his spokesperson.<ref>Mikelionis, Lukas (March 1, 2019). [https://www.foxnews.com/politics/bernie-sanders-2020-campaign-spox-wont-be-able-to-vote-for-him-due-to-her-illegal-immigrant-status New spokeswoman for Bernie Sanders won't be able to vote for him in 2020 -- she's an illegal immigrant]. ''Fox News''. Retrieved March 1, 2019.</ref><ref>Caplan, Joshua (March 1, 2019). [https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/03/01/bernie-sanders-campaign-hires-illegal-immigrant-as-deputy-press-secretary/ Bernie Sanders Campaign Hires Illegal Immigrant as Deputy Press Secretary]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved March 1, 2019.</ref><ref>Kirkwood, R. Cort (March 1, 2019). [https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/item/31617-sanders-who-opposed-importing-cheap-labor-hires-illegal-alien-as-campaign-s-deputy-spokesman Sanders, Who Opposed Importing Cheap Labor, Hires Illegal Alien as Campaign’s Deputy Spokesman]. ''The New American''. Retrieved March 1, 2019.</ref>
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		+	===Controversial votes===
		+	[[File:YFO.png|right|350px|thumb|Economics 101 teaches that a loan that cannot be discharged in bankruptcy would have a lower rate than loans that can be discharged.]]
		+	In 32 years of politics, Sanders authored 353 bills. Only three that made it into law and two of those were renaming post offices. [[Conservative Review]] has compiled a Liberty Score on Sanders. He gets a ''' 'F' ''' at just 16%.
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		+	Sanders headed the Veterans Affairs Committee. Under his purview; waiting list deaths, destruction and manipulation of medical records, whistleblowers punished, [[opioid]] abuse, fraud unpunished, mismanagement rewarded with pay raises, wait times to see a doctor has never been longer. Sanders has done next to nothing to fix these issues. Even as he campaigned, he remained a member of the committee with no plans to turn the duties over to somebody that would give it the time it deserves to fix.
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		+	During Sanders's 2006 Senatorial campaign, [[Republican]] opponent Rich Tarrant made an issue over Sanders 2003 vote against the [[Amber Alert]] even though he was actually in favor of the Amber Alert system to notify the public of missing children. The reason for his 'nay' vote was because the bill allegedly contained unconstitutional provisions<ref>[https://www.boston.com/news/local/vermont/articles/2006/09/21/sanders_vote_on_amber_alert_emerges_as_key_campaign_issue/?rss_id=Boston.com+%2F+News+%2F+Local]</ref> in it's 47 pages according to Sanders. Sanders earlier voted in favor of [[Megan's Law]],<ref>[https://votesmart.org/bill/2763/8163/27110/megans-law#.VsyGmigrKHs]</ref> which made sex offender information public. Bernie responded with an ad to try to clarify his position.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIa2KlEHhvc]</ref>
		+
		+	He was also one of only nineteen Congressman to vote against the Victims of Rape Health Protection Act passage, which would allow sexual assault victims to find out the HIV status of their suspected assailant<ref>[https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/106-2000/h505 "H.R. 3088 (106th): Victims of Rape Health Protection Act"] (October 2, 2000).  Govtrack.us website/Congress/Votes/House Vote #505 in 2000.</ref>
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		+	After damning evidence of election fraud by the group [[ACORN]], Sanders joined six Democrat Senators that voted to continue funding ACORN. The vote failed, and ACORN was stripped of funding in the Senate.<ref>Isenstadt, Alex (September 14, 2009).  [https://www.politico.com/news/stories/0909/27153.html "Senate denies ACORN funding"]. Politico website.</ref> Bill Wilson of [[Americans for Limited Government]] said, "The ACORN Housing Corporation has long been pushing the very loose-lending policies that helped destroy the housing industry. And now it has been exposed for working with prostitutes, as well. Yet, these seven Senators [Sanders] have knowingly voted to keep sending taxpayer money to a highly corrupt organization of pushers and pimps," <ref>Americans for Limited Government (September 15, 2009). [http://politicomafioso.blogspot.com/2009/09/alg-condemns-7-senators-for-voting-to.html "ALG condemns 7 Senators for voting to continue funding ACORN, calls for complete cutoff of federal funds"].  Americans for Limited Government website.  Reprinted at Politico Mafioso website on September 16, 2009.</ref>
		+
		+	==Ideology==
		+	[[File:Katyn bodies 1470221766 46847-475x300.jpg|right|350px|thumb|Mass grave of victims of Bernie Sanders beloved Soviet Union and socialist ideology.<ref>https://ww2gravestone.com/russian-brutality-massacres-russian-soldiers-ww2/</ref>]]
		+	:{{See also|Marxist-Leninism}}
		+	Sanders' godless utopian [[Socialist]] ideology is responsible for some, if not the most horrific and despicable [[crime]]s known to [[humanity]] in the entire history of the [[planet]]. The fact that few of the promulgators and instigators of these inhumane doctrines have ever faced scrutiny or [[justice]] is a crime itself. The failings of one generation to protect its children from the [[hate]], resentment, and twisted reasoning underpinning Socialism, which justifies the most atrocious [[human rights]] abuses and [[murder]] committed by [[government]]s, is an indelible [[moral]] blemish on the generations that fought the [[evil]]s of [[National Socialism]] in [[World War II]], and [[Communism]] in [[Cold War]].
		+
		+	In 1997, while Sanders shuttled across the country to various DSA conferences picking up the broken pieces of the communist dream, the ''The Black Book of Communism'' appeared documenting a history of political repressions by Communist states, including [[genocide]]s, extrajudicial executions, [[deportation]]s, killing population in [[labor camp]]s and artificially created famines. In the first chapter of the book entitled ''Introduction: The Crimes of Communism'', Stéphane Courtois states that "Communist regimes turned mass [[crime]] into a full-blown system of government" and they are responsible for a greater number of deaths than [[Nazism]] or any other political system.
		+
		+	Even former Swedish prime minister Carl Bildt criticized Sanders for his support for communist countries.<ref>Chasmar, Jessica (February 25, 2019). [https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/feb/25/swedens-former-prime-minister-rips-bernie-sanders-/ Sweden's former prime minister rips Bernie Sanders' Soviet Union praise]. ''The Washington Times''. Retrieved February 25, 2019.</ref>
		+
		+	=== Estimated number of victims ===
		+	According to the chapter, the number of people killed by the Communist governments amounts to more than 94 million.<ref>Werth, Nicolas; Panné, Jean-Louis; Paczkowski, Andrzej; Bartosek, Karel; Margolin, Jean-Louis (October 1999), Courtois, Stéphane, ed., ''[https://archive.org/stream/TheBlackBookofCommunism10/the-black-book-of-communism-jean-louis-margolin-1999-communism_djvu.txt  The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression]'', Harvard University Press, p. 4.</ref> Most of these murders occurred within Bernie Sanders lifetime, and even during his collegiate years when Sanders first committed his life to this vile ideology. The statistics of victims include deaths through executions, man-made hunger, famine, war, deportations and [[forced labor]]. The breakdown of the number of deaths is given as follows:
		+	[[File:COM.FIG1.gif|right|350px|thumb|Communist megamurders, 1900-1987. Source: Prof. R.J. Rummel. Two-thirds were killed by governments, quasi-governments, and guerrillas.<ref>https://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/COM.ART.HTM</ref>]]
		+	* 65 million in the [[People's Republic of China]]
		+	* 20 million in the [[Soviet Union]]
		+	* 2 million in [[Cambodia]]
		+	* 2 million in [[North Korea]]
		+	* 1.7 million in [[Ethiopia]]
		+	* 1.5 million in [[Afghanistan]]
		+	* 1 million in the [[Eastern Bloc]]
		+	* 1 million in [[Vietnam]]
		+	* 150,000 in [[Latin America]]
		+	* 10,000 deaths "resulting from actions of the international Communist movement and Communist parties not in power"{{r|Courtois_et.al_1999|p=4}}
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		+	According to Courtois, the crimes by the Soviet Union included the following:
		+	* The execution of tens of thousands of hostages and prisoners
		+	* The murder of hundreds of thousands of rebellious workers and peasants from 1918 to 1922
		+	* The Russian famine of 1921, which caused the death of 5 million people
		+	* The Decossackization, a policy of systematic repression against the Don Cossacks between 1917 and 1933
		+	* The murder of tens of thousands in [[Gulag|concentration camps]] in the period between 1918 and 1930
		+	* The [[Great Purge]] which killed almost 690,000 people
		+	* The deportation of 2 million so-called "[[kulak]]s" from 1930 to 1932
		+	* The death of 4 million [[Ukrainian]]s ([[Holodomor]]) and 2 million others during the famine of 1932 and 1933
		+	* The deportations of Poles, Ukrainians, [[Moldova]]ns and people from the Baltic states from 1939 to 1941 and from 1944 to 1945
		+	* The deportation of the [[Volga Germans]] in 1941
		+	* The deportation of the Crimean Tatars in 1943
		+	* Operation Lentil and deportation of the Ingush in 1944
		+
		+	=== Communist leaders ===
		+	Sanders has praised several left-wing dictators during his career.<ref>Lott, Maxim (April 29, 2019). [https://www.foxnews.com/politics/sander-nista-archives-show-bernies-past-praise-of-socialist-revolutionaries Sander-nista? Archives show Bernie’s past praise of socialist revolutionaries]. ''Fox News''. Retrieved April 29, 2019.</ref>
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		+	Sanders supported the so-called 'Democratic' 'People's Republic' of 'Korea' during debates with Clinton, saying that [[Russia]] was a worse threat to American security than North Korea (or himself), an objectively false statement full of typical [[liberal claptrap|liberal-socialist claptrap]]. The [[Kim Jong-un]] of North Korean fame said of Sanders: "I have greatest confidence in Senator Bernard E. [''sic''] Sanders in holding the lackeys of the U.S. administration to account".<ref>John Nichols (21 March 2011). ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=TxVsPrMD0dkC The "S" Word: A Short History of an American Tradition...Socialism.]'' Verso. ISBN 978-1-84467-679-8.</ref><ref>Patrick Martin (WARNING: SOCIALIST WEBSITE) [https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2015/08/27/sand-a27.html Bernie Sanders: Silent partner of American militarism] ''World Socialist Website''. 27 August 2015.</ref> Comrade [[Fidel Castro]] also praised the eminent "socialist transformation of America" under Sanders, adding falsely: "Americans have witnessed the utter failure of Capitalism, the destruction of its middle class and is tired of the endless wars. The Cuban model has proved its superiority and Americans now see through the government propaganda and now praise our country’s centralized economy, our health care system, our education system: Americans are hungry for Socialism."<ref>[http://worldnewsdailyreport.com/fidel-castro-bernie-sanders-will-bring-socialism-to-america/ FIDEL CASTRO: “BERNIE SANDERS WILL BRING SOCIALISM TO AMERICA”] October 29th, 2015 by Bob Flanagan</ref>
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		+	Sanders praised China for making "more progress in addressing extreme poverty than any country in the history of civilization" even as he admitted the country was becoming "more authoritarian."<ref>Hanchett, Ian (August 27, 2019). [https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2019/08/27/sanders-china-has-made-more-progress-addressing-extreme-poverty-than-anyone-else-sadly-theyre-more-authoritarian/ Sanders: China Has ‘Made More Progress’ Addressing Extreme Poverty Than Anyone Else – Sadly, They’re ‘More Authoritarian’]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved August 28, 2019.</ref>
		+
		+	Sanders fawning over communists and communism earned him the nickname '''Breadline Bernie.'''
		+
		+	===[[Eugene Debs]] documentary===
		+	In 1979, Sanders wrote, directed, and lent his voice for Debs' dialogue<ref>Shamsian, Jacob (September 18, 2015). [https://www.businessinsider.com/bernie-sanders-loves-eugene-v-debs-documentary-2015-9 "A documentary that Bernie Sanders made about a socialist politician 36 years ago says a lot about his politics today"]. Business Insider website/Politics.</ref> in a documentary which shows a long-standing respect on part of Sanders for what Debs stood for.<ref>Kurtz, Stanley (October 20, 2015).  [https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/425839/bernie-sanders-documentary-eugene-debs "Bernie Sanders’s documentary on Eugene Debs"]. ''National Review'' website.  See [[National Review]].</ref>
		+
		+	== Bernie Sanders' religious views and atheists/agnostics support of Bernie Sanders ==
		+
		+	''See also:'' [[Essay: Bernie Sanders is a closet atheist]] and [[Atheism and socialism]]
		+
		+	In many religious countries and even irreligious countries there is a stigma related to [[atheism]] and as a result many atheists are reluctant to: call themselves atheists and/or be outspoken atheists (see: [[Stigma of atheism]] and [[Views on atheists]] and [[Closet atheist]]).
		+
		+	Jon Green wrote about Bernie Sanders:
		+	{{cquote|Bernie Sanders is, as he’s suggested before, Jewish with an emphasis on the ish. His Jewish heritage has informed his morality and his politics, but he doesn’t claim to be observant in any officially religious sense.
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		+	In an interview with the ''Washington Post'' published this morning, Sanders went a step further, making that point as clearly as he ever:
		+
		+	:“I am not actively involved with organized religion,” Sanders said in a recent interview.
		+
		+	:Sanders said he believes in God, though not necessarily in a traditional manner.
		+
		+	:“I think everyone believes in God in their own ways, “ he said. “To me, it means that all of us are connected, all of life is connected, and that we are all tied together.”
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		+	As atheist blogger [[Hemant Mehta]] pointed out, that’s basically a really [[Political correctness|PC]] way of saying you’re an atheist. Sanders may have used the word “God” to describe his belief system, but it’s pretty clear that his version of God isn’t an old man in the sky. There’s no actual deity involved — no theism — just a generalized interconnectedness.<ref name="americablog.com">[http://americablog.com/2016/01/bernie-sanders-mainstreaming-atheism.html Bernie Sanders is mainstreaming atheism in American politics]</ref>}}
		+
		+	''Deseret News'' declared:
		+	{{Cquote|Speculation about Sanders' religious views ramped up last October after an appearance on "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" during which he was directly asked whether he believes in God.
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		+	It was the nature of the candidate's response that piqued the interest of some viewers.
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		+	[[Jimmy Kimmel]] [https://www.theblaze.com/stories/2015/10/23/did-you-catch-how-bernie-sanders-responded-when-jimmy-kimmel-asked-do-you-believe-in-god/ cited Sanders' claims] that he is "culturally Jewish" and that he doesn't "feel religious" and then asked about a belief in God. He also questioned whether Sanders thinks it is important for Americans to embrace a higher power.
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		+	"I am who I am and what I believe in and what my spirituality is about is that we’re all in this together," Sanders responded. "That I think it is not a good thing to believe that as human beings we can turn our backs on the suffering of other people."
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		+	He continued, "This is not Judaism — this is what Pope Francis is talking about — that we cannot worship just billionaires and the making of more and more money. Life is more than that."
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		+	A few months later, speculation once again raged after Sanders did an interview with ''The Washington Post'' in which he said that he doesn't necessarily believe in God in a traditional sense.
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		+	"I am not actively involved with organized religion," he told the outlet. "I think everyone believes in God in their own ways. To me, it means that all of us are connected, all of life is connected, and that we are all tied together."
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		+	His brother Larry Sanders also [https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/bernie-sanders-finally-answers-the-god-question/2016/01/26/83429390-bfb0-11e5-bcda-62a36b394160_story.html told the outlet] that the candidate was "quite substantially not religious."<ref>[Is Bernie Sanders an atheist?] by Billy Hallowell, ''Deseret News'', 2016</ref>}}
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		+	The ''Religion News Service'' states: "Presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders dashed the hopes of some atheists when he declared he had 'very strong religious and spiritual feelings' at a Democratic town hall."<ref>[http://religionnews.com/2016/02/04/bernie-sanders-disappoints-atheists-strong-religious-feelings/ Bernie Sanders disappoints some atheists with his ‘very strong religious’ feelings], Religion News Service</ref>
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		+	Sanders denies he is an atheist.<ref>[https://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/289002-sanders-i-am-not-an-atheist Sanders: ‘I am not an atheist’], ''The Hill'', 2016</ref>
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		+	Sanders identifies as "Jewish", though admits he's "not particularly religious".<ref>[https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/monitor_breakfast/2015/0611/Bernie-Sanders-I-m-proud-to-be-Jewish]</ref> This is consistent with many others on the [[secular left]], and indicates that Sanders is culturally Jewish, though actually an [[agnostic]]/[[Atheism|atheist]]. [[Liberal intolerance|He has shown strong intolerance]] for theologically orthodox, conservative Christians and Christian beliefs.<ref>Starnes, Todd (June 9, 2017). [https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2017/06/09/bernie-sanders-attacks-trump-nominee-for-following-teachings-christ.html Bernie Sanders attacks Trump nominee for following teachings of Christ]. ''Fox News''. Retrieved June 9, 2017.</ref><ref>Berry, Susan, PhD (June 10, 2017). [https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/06/10/omb-top-post-nominee-berned-stake-christian-faith/ OMB Top Post Nominee ‘Berned’ at Stake for Christian Faith]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved June 10, 2017.</ref>
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		+	Atheists seem to like Bernie Sanders, for some reason. The might have something to do with the connection between [[atheism and communism]], as the atheist [[Karl Marx]], the author of [[The Communist Manifesto]], once stated: "Communism begins from the outset (Owen) with atheism; but atheism is at first far from being communism; indeed, that atheism is still mostly an abstraction."
		+
		+	After Sanders' [[heart attack]] on the [[2020 presidential campaign]] trail,<ref>https://apnews.com/eab21e66d7734867b8620fe9efaeb8a2</ref> the was a notable lack of Sanders supporters offering "thoughts and prayers".
		+
		+	=== Atheists/agnostics support of Bernie Sanders in the 2016 Democratic presidential primary ===
		+
		+	''See also:'' [[Atheism and socialism]]
		+
		+	==== The Amazing Atheist ====
		+	[[File:Hemant Mehta at Skepticon 7.jpg|thumbnail|right|300px|[[Hemant Mehta]] ]]
		+	TJ Kirk, self-called [[The Amazing Atheist]], has pled to all Hillary supporters to stop supporting her, and to support Bernie, instead, because he believes the Socialist has integrity.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQINZ7N1Ses]</ref>
		+
		+	==== Hemant Mehta ====
		+
		+	The atheist Hemant Mehta voted for Bernie Sanders in the Democratic presidential primary.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sx1UVEho82Y Bernie Sanders Was Wrong to Punish a Nominee for His Religious Beliefs] by Hemant Mehta</ref>
		+
		+	==== David Pakman Show ====
		+
		+	David Pakman, of the David Pakman Show, is an [[agnosticism|agnostic]].<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONxAuq1nAxw Caller: Does David Call Himself an Atheist?]</ref>
		+
		+	Pakman hints at Bernie support while portraying Hillary negatively, where he shows his bias,<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/user/MidweekPolitics/videos]</ref> and calls the Best of Conservative politicians "the Best (Worst?)", indicating his negative bias toward [[conservative]]s. David Pakman often pretends to be unbiased, but is, in fact, biased against conservatives.
		+
		+	==== The Humanist Report ====
		+
		+	Mike Anthony of The Humanist Report has produced many videos in favor of Bernie Sanders, against Hillary Clinton, and against Donald Trump.
		+
		+	==== Jaclyn Glenn ====
		+	[[File:Kyle Kulinski.jpg|thumbnail|220px|right|[[Secular Talk|Kyle Kulinski]] at the political convention Politicon 2018.  Kulinski is the individual on the left.]]
		+	Jacklyn Glenn, a militant atheist, vegan, angry feminist, and closet lesbian, makes fun of people who are voting for Hillary just to put the first female President in the White House (while wearing a Bernie Sanders t-shirt),<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GHyDl6WXLk]</ref> and endorses Bernie Sanders.
		+
		+	==== Secular Talk ====
		+
		+	Kyle Kulinski is an atheist who describes himself as a [[New Atheism|new atheist]] and a [[progressivism|progressive]] atheist.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=As67_rhvTVY New Atheists Vs Progressives | Proposing A Ceasefire] by Kyle Kulinski (video)</ref>
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		+	Kyle Kulinski, of [[Secular Talk]], promotes Bernie Sanders in several of his videos,<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/user/SecularTalk/videos]</ref> attacks Hillary Clinton and Republicans, and compared [[Barack Obama]] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jf_H3pyayB0 to a Republican.]
		+
		+	==== The Secular Vegan ====
		+
		+	Isaiah, of The Secular Vegan, tells atheists to vote for Bernie, merely because he would be the first non-Christian President.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoMyiaOb6rE]</ref>
		+
		+	==== The Young Turks ====
		+
		+	Cenk Uygur, of [[The Young Turks]], is a self-described "fervent agnostic".<ref>Uygur, Cenk (April 29, 2008). "[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cenk-uygur/six-degrees-of-barack-oba_b_99110.html Six Degrees of Barack Obama]". The Huffington Post. Retrieved February 28, 2011. I am a fervent agnostic. I have argued vehemently against religion.... I went to school in Turkey until I was eight."</ref>
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		+	Cenk Uygur speaks highly of Bernie Sanders,<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nj2vdD0CMUI]</ref> while dismissing [[Hillary Clinton]] and Republican politicians as "robots", and practically every week, they release a video disrespecting Conservatives.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggFitmOTSok]</ref>
		+
		+	=== Bernie Sander's antipathy towards evangelical Christians holding public office ===
		+
		+	*[https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/06/bernie-sanders-chris-van-hollen-russell-vought/529614/ Bernie Sanders's Religious Test for Christians in Public Office] by Emma Green, ''The Atlantic'', June 8, 2017
		+	*[https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/watch-bernie-sanders-unconstitutionally-impose-religious-test-public-office/ Watch Bernie Sanders Attack a Christian Nominee and Impose an Unconstitutional Religious Test for Public Office] by David French, ''National Review'', June 7, 2017
		+	*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjQSwYV5Qzs Bernie Sanders Applies Religious Litmus Test on Nominee] - video
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		+	Related article:
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		+	*[https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/07/16/u-s-evangelical-christians-are-chilly-toward-atheists-and-the-feeling-is-mutual/ U.S. evangelical Christians are chilly toward atheists – and the feeling is mutual], Pew Research, 2014
		+
		+	==Personal==
		+	Bernie was born on September 8, 1941, in Brooklyn, New York.<ref>[https://observer.com/2016/04/bernie-sanders-heats-up-hipster-crowd-in-brooklyn/ https://observer.com/2016/04/bernie-sanders-heats-up-hipster-crowd-in-brooklyn/]</ref>  His mother was Dorothy Glassberg Sanders, his father was Elias Sanders, and his grandfather was Benjamin Glassberg.<ref>[http://spectator.org/articles/66102/my-hunt-bernie%E2%80%99s-grandfather My Hunt for Bernie’s Grandfather], by Paul Kengor, [[American Spectator]]</ref> Sanders graduated from the University of Chicago with a B.A. in political science in 1964.  Sanders has one illegitimate son born in 1969.
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		+	During his college years, he was involved in a pro-[[Vietcong]] [[propaganda]] distribution ring within New York known as the Alternate U.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sK5yB9-6O9A</ref><ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYcZoYWS2zE</ref> According to UV philosopher professor Richard Sugarman, Sanders would wake up every morning saying, "We're not crazy." Sugarman to ''Vox'', "Bernard, maybe the first thing you should say is 'Good morning' or something. But he'd say, 'We're. Not. Crazy.'"<ref>https://www.vox.com/2015/5/28/8682503/bernie-sanders-rape-fantasy</ref> In 1988, he ended up spending his honeymoon with his second wife Jane O'Meara in the USSR, with there being a video of him shirtless and singing "This Land is Your Land" with  Soviet comrades while drunk.<ref>Multiple references:
		+	* https://forward.com/schmooze/418282/footage-of-shirtless-bernie-sanders-singing-drunkenly-with-soviets-in-88/
		+	*Jasper, William F. (February 4, 2019). [https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/31375-exposed-fake-news-ignores-video-of-drunk-naked-bernie-sanders-singing-with-soviet-comrades “Exposed”: Fake News Ignores Video of “Drunk, Naked” Bernie Sanders Singing With Soviet Comrades]. ''The New American''. Retrieved February 22, 2019.
		+	*Dorman, Sam (May 3, 2019). [https://www.foxnews.com/politics/details-of-sanders-soviet-honeymoon-exposed-as-entourage-member-recalls-shock-at-bernies-america-bashing Details of Sanders’ Soviet ‘honeymoon’ exposed, as entourage member recalls shock at Bernie’s America-bashing]. ''Fox News''. Retrieved May 4, 2019.
		+	*Vogt, Bailey (May 3, 2019). [https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/may/3/bernie-sanders-local-80s-tv-show-resurfaces-he-ask/ Bernie Sanders local '80s TV show resurfaces; he asks kids about drugs: 'Anyone ever see cocaine?'] ''The Washington Times''. Retrieved May 4, 2019.</ref>
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		+	Also, in the 1980s, Sanders publicly praised the USSR and other leftist dictatorships and called bread lines a "good thing."<ref>Shaw, Adam (February 22, 2019). [https://www.foxnews.com/politics/vintage-bernie-footage-shows-now-presidential-candidate-praising-breadlines-communist-nations Vintage Bernie footage shows now-presidential candidate praising breadlines, communist nations]. ''Fox News''. Retrieved February 22, 2019.</ref>
		+
		+	===Communist background===
		+	Im 1963  Saunders spent time at a commune with the Hashomer Hatzair movement in [[Israel]]. The movement was a Marxist organization founded in 1913 and saw the Soviet Union as a model, and often flew the Red Flag at events.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/06/us/politics/bernie-sanders-kibbutz.html?_r=0 Bernie Sanders’s Kibbutz Found. Surprise: It’s Socialist], By STEVEN ERLANGER. ''[[New York Times]]'', FEB. 5, 2016.</ref> The commune's founder eulogized [[Joseph Stalin]]'s death , writing how shocked he and his comrades were, {{quotebox|"to hear of the terrible tragedy that has befallen the nations of the Soviet Union, the world proletariat and all of [[progressive]] mankind, upon the death of the great leader and extolled commander, Josef Vissarionovich Stalin. We lower our flag in grief in memory of the great revolutionary fighter, architect of socialist construction, and leader of the world's peace movement. His huge historical achievements will guide generations in their march towards the reign of socialism and [[communism]] the world over."}} [[Noam Chomsky]] wrote that he was fairly close to "Hashomer Hatzair, but couldn't join because it was split between Stalinists and [[Trotskyite]]s."<ref>''Al Hamishmar'', the movement's paper, had a headline which read, "The Progressive World Mourns the Death of J.V. Stalin/" [http://www.frontpagemag.com/point/261724/bernie-sanders-spent-months-marxist-stalinist-daniel-greenfield#.VrPxsICO11M.Facebook BERNIE SANDERS SPENT MONTHS AT MARXIST-STALINIST KIBBUTZ], Daniel Greenfield, '' Frontpage,'', February 4, 2016.</ref>
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		+	===Accusations of draft dodging===
		+	Sanders was of age to be drafted into the [[Vietnam War]]. However, he filed for [[conscientious objector]] status on religious grounds.<ref>Vespa, Matt (December 28, 2015).  [http://m.townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2015/12/28/apparently-bernie-sanders-would-be-a-lousy-commander-in-chief-and-hes-sort-of-an-ahole-to-his-staff-n2097445 "Apparently, Bernie Sanders would be 'A lousy commander in chief' and he's sort of 'an a**hole to his staff'"]. Townhall.com website.</ref> Sanders does not belong to any organized religion,<ref>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/bernie-sanders-finally-answers-the-god-question/2016/01/26/83429390-bfb0-11e5-bcda-62a36b394160_story.html? Why Bernie Sanders doesn’t participate in organized religion, WaPo, January 15, 2016]</ref> dismissing criticism because he has strong religious feelings.
		+
		+	===Greed===
		+	Sanders constantly complains about the rich 1% but [[Liberal hypocrisy|he doesn't live like a common man]] – he himself is a member of the 1%.<ref name="1%er"/> Bernie [[Limousine liberal|is a millionaire]] with three homes,<ref>[http://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/randy-hall/2016/04/13/millionaire-bashing-bernie-sanders-millionaire-three-homes Billionaire-Bashing Bernie Sanders Is a Millionaire With Three Homes, MRC Newsbusters.org, April 13, 2016]</ref> one in D.C., one in his hometown in Vermont, and a summer ''dacha''.<ref><small>"One cannot fully understand Russia without understanding the cultural context behind Russian dacha....October Revolution of 1917 brought with it a law, which forbid private ownership of land in Russia “forever”....Stalin figured that granting such privilege as summer dacha to his closest people in the government and to the VIP people from culture and science élite will be very motivating for them. ...Distribution was merit-based, one needed to fully comply with the ideology  and wait in a long line, sometimes for many years....getting a dacha became one the dreams of Soviet people, in the same line as getting an apartment or a car. There were many manipulations – how to get dacha quicker. In Russia law and rules were always particularistic, so if you knew somebody, you could get to the desired dacha much quicker.<br>https://understandrussia.com/dacha/ </small></ref>  Together, Bernie and Jane's 2014 total unadjusted gross earnings was $205,617.<ref>[https://www.cnn.com/2016/04/15/politics/bernie-sanders-jane-sanders-taxes/index.html Bernie and Jane Sanders earned nearly $206K in 2014, tax returns show, CNN, April 15, 2016]</ref>
		+
		+	==Awards==
		+	Sander shared Maurer-Stump Award from the Reading-Berks Democratic Socialists of [[Pennsylvania]] with DSA founder [[Michael Harrington]] in 1988. Sanders told Deidre Riley of the ''Reading Times'', "Revolution can be done through the government, if you raise the right issues." <ref>Socialist tells of need to expand awareness, Deidre Riley, ''Reading Times'', 1/3/88.</ref>
		+
		+	==See also==
		+	*[[Sam Farr]]
		+	*[[Linda Evans]]
		+	*[[Kit Wisdom]]
		+	*[[Atheism and human rights violations]]
		+	*[[Digital brownshirt brigade]]
		+	*[[List of dictators]]
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		+	Essays:
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		+	*[[Essay: Bernie Sanders is a closet atheist|Bernie Sanders is a closet atheist]]
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		+	==References==
		+	{{Reflist|colwidth=35em}}
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		+	==External links==
		+	*[http://www.sanders.senate.gov/ Senate site]
		+	*[https://berniesanders.com Bernie Sanders 2016 campaign website]
		+	*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KCoR6UYs1k&feature=youtu.be (Full Video) Bernie Sanders on the Soviet Union Press Conference 6/13/1988]
		+	*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w82pFvUq3o8 Bernie Sanders' 1979 Eugene Debs Documentary]
		+	*[http://media.smithsonianfolkways.org/liner_notes/folkways/FW05571.pdf Trade Unionist, Socialist, Revolutionary - Eugene V. Debs, 1855 - 1926], Transcript of Sanders' documentary
		+	*[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=coVE0PDGSw4&feature=player_embedded Socialist Senator Sanders Hawks His Book Like an Evil Capitalist]
		+	*[http://www.weaselzippers.us/236973-trump-ad-on-bernie-sanders-we-need-a-strong-leader-and-it-aint-this-guy/  "A lot of people are switching to these really long putters, very unattractive" Donald "People are praying for me" Trump Ad On Bernie Sanders: “We Need A Strong Leader” And It Ain’t This Guy]
		+	*[http://m.sfgate.com/news/article/Mike-Rowe-Bernie-Sanders-college-tweet-knucklehead-6702291.php Mike Rowe calls Bernie Sanders 'knucklehead' over tweet]
		+	*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2d3DMC6qyg Why Bernie Sanders' Communist Misadventures Still Matter]
		+	*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1c_PsUR1wvA "The Truth About Communism]" documentary narrated by Ronald Reagan, 1962
		+	*[https://www.aim.org/aim-column/socialist-lobotomies/ Socialist Lobotomies]
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Bernie Sanders
Junior U.S. Senator from Vermont From: January 3, 2007 – present
Predecessor	Jim Jeffords
Successor	Incumbent (no successor)
U.S. Representative from Vermont's At-large Congressional District From: January 3, 1991 – January 3, 2007
Predecessor	Peter Smith
Successor	Peter Welch
Information
Party	Democrat and Democratic Socialist
Spouse(s)	Deborah Shiling (1964 – 1966) Jane O'Meara
Religion	Jewish (In Name Only)

Bernard "Bernie" Sanders, born September 8, 1941 (age 84), is a Marxist-Leninist, Communist, limousine liberal elitist, millionaire 1%er,^[1] and demagogue who preys on naive and unsuspecting youth, minorities, and working people with class war hate speech. He currently serves as a United States Senator representing Vermont. His extremism is visible in his 2020 Presidential campaign slogan, "No Middle Ground."^[2] Sanders is a pre-eminent leftwing Socialist mass murder denier and proponent of communist dictatorship.^[3] Sanders has openly advocated for the extermination and genocide of infants from the Third World.^[4][5][6]

Sanders has long-time associations with Marxist, Communist, and Anti-American organizations.^[7] He ran for office on the Vermont ballot as a supposed 'Independent', is the founder of the Communist-dominated Congressional Progressive Caucus, and caucuses with Democrats. He has been instrumental in the far-Left take over of the Democrat Party. He calls himself a Democratic Socialist, registered as a Democrat to run for the presidency in the 2016 elections, dropped out, re-registered again for the 2020 presidential election and dropped out again.

He served in the House of Representatives for eight terms after serving several terms as mayor of Burlington. Sanders has a 100% pro-abortion voting record. Sanders has a child born out of wedlock.^[8]

Sanders has a devout and violent following. He tickles his supporters' ears with all the usual Marxist claptrap: Banks are bad, equality, the middle class, minimum wage, housing the homeless, free healthcare, free college, a government so big it will be like living in a utopia. He is a radical socialist who supports pro-abortion movements, such as Planned Parenthood.

2020 presidential campaign

See also: United States presidential election, 2020, Bernie Sanders 2020 presidential campaign, 116th United States Congress, Bernie Bros, Antifa, NeverTrump, and Leftwing violence in the Trump era

Sanders has inspired leftist acts of violence, including kind words for Antifa and mass shootings of Republicans and Trump supporters, in the name of socialist revolution. Sanders oft repeated slogan is, "There Is No Middle Ground."^[9] NBC News Director Chuck Todd compared Sanders supporters to Nazi Brownshirts.^[10] Democrat hardliner Chris Matthews of MSNBC speculated that if socialism wins, there will be "executions in Central Park." ^[11] Ironically, Sanders began his win streak of government run healthcare and liberal censorship at the same time the Communist Party of China was wrestling with the outbreak of the Coronavirus.

True to his Marxist convictions, Sanders claims that his own words "mischaracterize" his thinking.^[12] The Sanders campaign has defended Sanders' use of the N-word.^[13]

Policies

Among the dreams that Sanders presents as plans are:^[14]

• Murder the preborn: Fully fund Planned Parenthood, protect women’s availability to safe and legal abortion. health, and access to contraception.
• Protect those who promote sodomy, lesbianism, gender dysphoria, etc.: Pass the Equality Act under which faithful Christians will be persecuted for obeying God and conscience.
• Assault weapons: Regulate assault weapons in the same way that we currently regulate fully automatic weapons — a system that essentially makes them unlawful to own. Support “red flag” laws and legislation to ensure we keep guns out of the hands of domestic abusers and stalkers
• Free Pre-K and child care and public education (and indoctrination) for all. Guaranteed universal full-day, full-week pre-kindergarten education funded in full by the federal government for every child to regardless of income, starting at age 3. Make transformative investments in our public education system. Double the number of early childhood educators in this country to more than 2.6 million. Guarantee everyone working in the field of early education a living wage. Require anyone providing direct service to young children have at least child a Child Development Associates (CDA) credential, require all assistant teachers have at least an Associate’s Degree in early childhood education or child development, and require all lead preschool teachers have a Bachelor's degree in early childhood education or child development. End for-profit charter schools.
• Education spending: Invest $10 billion to create and expand HBCU (historically black colleges and universities) medical, dental, and teacher training graduate programs. Invest $5 billion in HBCU infrastructure grants and cancel all institutional HBCU loan debt from the Capital Financing Program. Double Title III and Title V funds to decrease the funding gap between HBCUs and MSIs and predominantly white institutions Set the starting salary for teachers at no less than $60,000. Spend $50 billion over the next decade to substantially expand access to summer and after-school programs, teen centers and tutoring. Provide year-round, free universal school meals. Ensure that the federal government provides at least 50 percent of the funding for special education. Rebuild, modernize, and green our nation’s schools. Provide funding for union training fund programs to help early care and learning professionals, with strong protections for unionizing, etc. regardless of immigration status.
• College for all: Guarantee tuition and debt-free public colleges, universities, HBCUs, Minority Serving Institutions and trade-schools for all. Cancel all student loan debt for the some 45 million Americans who owe about $1.6 trillion. Invest $5 billion in high-quality teacher preparation programs at Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Minority Serving Institutions of higher education (MSIs), and Tribal Colleges.
• Housing for all: Invest $2.5 trillion to build nearly 10 million permanently affordable housing units. Investing $70 billion to repair, decarbonize, and build new public housing. Make Section 8 vouchers available to all eligible families. National rent control standard.
• Medicare for All: single-payer, national health insurance program to provide everyone in America with comprehensive health care coverage, free at the point of service, including home and community-based long-term care, in-patient and out-patient services, mental health and substance abuse treatment, reproductive and maternity care, prescription drugs, dental, hearing, vision, and home. And more.
• Jobs for all: Enact a federal jobs guarantee, to ensure that everyone is guaranteed a stable job that pays a living wage. Create 20 million jobs as part of the Green New Deal, and millions of healthcare jobs and new jobs in early childhood education.
• Worker Unionization: Eliminate “Right to Work for Less” laws. Double union membership within Bernie’s first term, including by allowing unionization of farm workers and domestic workers. Shift the wealth of the economy back into the hands of the workers who create it. make corporations pay their fair share of taxes by reversing Trump’s corporate tax breaks and closing corporate tax loopholes to raise up to $3 trillion over 10-years.
• High speed Internet for all: Provide $150 billion through the Green New Deal in infrastructure grants and technical assistance for municipalities and/or states to build publicly owned and democratically controlled, co-operative, or open access broadband networks.
• Debt cancellation: Eliminate all of the $81 billion in past-due medical debt held by 79 million Americans.
• Government banking business: Allow every post office to offer basic and affordable banking services.
• Social Security expansion: Expand Social Security benefits for all recipients. Quadruple funding for the Older Americans Act and expanding other programs seniors rely on.
• Veterans: End restrictions on access to care and benefits based on the nature of one's discharge.
• Green New Deal: provide $200 billion to the Green Climate Fund. Transform US energy system to 100 percent renewable energy. Invest weatherization, public transportation, modern infrastructure and high-speed broadband.
• Decriminalization: Cut the national prison population by 50%. Reversing the criminalization of addiction. Legalize marijuana and expung past convictions. Abolish the death penalty, three strikes laws, and mandatory minimum sentences. Guarantee a “Prisoners Bill of Rights.” Outlaw for-profit prisons and detention centers. Ban cash bail. Outlaw the use of facial recognition software for policing.
• Immigration: Institute a moratorium on deportations. Welcome refugees displaced by climate change. Break up ICE and CBP..
• Feminism: Pass the Equal Rights Amendment.
• Elections:Guarantee the right to vote for every American over 18, including those Americans currently incarcerated and including felons.
• Punish prosperity: Increase annual taxes on the wealthiest 180,000 U.S. households, which would cut in half the wealth of billionaires over 15 years. Increase IRS funding for enforcement and require the IRS to perform an audit of 30 percent of wealth tax returns for those in the 1 percent bracket and a 100 percent audit rate for all billionaires. The wealth tax includes a 40 percent exit tax on the net value of all assets under $1 billion and 60 percent over $1 billion for all wealthy individual seeking to expatriate to avoid the tax. Raise taxes on companies the pay their CEO's far more than typical workers. Tax Wall Street speculators through the Inclusive Prosperity Act Financial Transaction Tax.

Staff

See: Individuals who have served on Bernie Sander's staff Sanders hired Paul Manafort partner Tad Devine as an advisor on both his 2016 and 2018 campaigns. Devine managed Putin ally Viktor Yanukovych campaign for the presidency of Ukraine. Upon Sanders announcement of his intention to run, Sanders immediately shot up as the top frontrunner of Democratic hopefuls in the 2020 Presidential election. Many former Bernie supporters turned against him because of his disrespectful and nasty personality.^[15]

Former Bernie Sanders campaign co-chair Nina Turner said voting for Joe Biden is like "eating a bowl of s***."^[16]

Anti-Semitism

A senior political advisor to Sanders and former adviser to the anti-Semitic Women's March, Winnie Wong, tweeted a gif of far left UK Labour Party leader and anti-Semite Jeremy Corbyn dancing on the grave of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. The gif also contains a Red Rose, the symbol of the global socialist movement and conspiracy.^[17] after Conservative Party Prime Minister Theresa May resigned in the Spring of 2019. Wong tweeted the image and wrote, "Jeremy Corbyn's gonna to be the next PM of England. That's gonna be so much fun."^[18] Thatcher, who was British PM at the demise of the Soviet Union famously said, "There is no alternative to capitalism."

Leading anti-Semite Linda Sarsour is one of the chief surrogates of the Sanders campaign.

Sexual violence

Sanders ran a campaign that was rife with sexual violence and harassment against males, females, and other genders. Sanders ignored complaints from at least two dozen male and female volunteers (and however many other genders) of "sexual violence and harassment" in his 2016 presidential campaign.^[19] The New York Times reported that Sanders had apologized to female victims of sexual violence who "were not treated properly",^[20] however male victims of sexual violence in the Sanders campaign have not been addressed. Secondly, a mere "apology" does not address the serious issue of sexual violence in the Sanders campaign. No single person has been reported to have been arrested or disciplined.

Sanders did an interview with ex-stripper Cardi B who admitted to drugging and robbing men.^[21]

Unfair labor practices

Sanders’ campaign was hit with an unfair labor practice complaint alleging illegal employee interrogation and retaliation against staffers. The complaint to the National Labor Relations Board, lists five potential violations of the National Labor Relations Act. The charge also alleges that the campaign unlawfully discharged an employee, modified a labor contract, and engaged in illegal discipline.^[22]

Starvation wages

While Sanders vowed a $15 minimum wage, he was only paying campaign workers $13 an hour. Many complained of poor working conditions. In response, Sanders raised pay to $15 an hour and cut their hours.^[24][25] Loss of hours and part-time status had the effect of reducing healthcare benefits.

Racism

Bernie Sanders said of Baltimore, Maryland:

Sanders further added, "anyone who took the walk that we took around this Baltimore neighborhood would not think you’re in a wealthy nation, you'd think that you were in a Third World country”.^[27]

Baltimore Deputy Police Chief was robbed at gunpoint.^[28] By mid 2019 Baltimore was a rat infested dump with 180 homicides.^[29] Baltimore is so infested with rodents the Baltimore Sunn' published a map of rat hot spot map.^[30][31] Speaker Nancy Pelosi white-flighted from Baltimore in 1962.^[32][33]

Sanders supports racist killer Dylann Roof’s right to vote.^[34]

New Jim Crow

See also: The New Jim Crow

Bernie Sanders voted for the Clinton era 1994 Crime bill,^[35] authored by Sen. Joe Biden. The bill added more than forty crimes that would be eligible for the death penalty. The NAACP and other groups lobbied against the bill.^[36]

By 2001, the United States had the highest rate of incarceration in the world. Human Rights Watch reported that in seven states, African Americans constituted 80 to 90 percent of all drug offenders even though they were no more likely than whites to use or sell illegal drugs. Prison admissions for drug offenses reached a level in 2000 for African Americans more than 26 times the level they had been under Ronald Reagan.^[37]

Among other provisions, the bill targeted "Superpredators," and handed out 20-year mandatory sentences for gang membership or recruiting. The bill did "everything but hang people for jaywalking.”^[38]

Iowa and New Hampshire

See also: 2020 Antifa riots

As Sanders rose in the polls, leftist violence escalated.

• Bernie supporter tried to burn down GOP HQ in California.^[39]
• Leftist attempted voter intimidation and suppression at Trump registration event by deliberately driving his vehicle through it.^[40]
• Leftist wanted to "Slit Republican throats" at a voter registration table.^[41]
• GOP Headquarters vandalized in New Mexico.^[42]
• Retired cop punched in the face when red hat triggers leftist.^[43]

Love of communism

A satirical article has Sanders reminiscing about his drunken honeymoon to Time magazine in his beloved Soviet Russia saying:

"on our honeymoon, I took Jane to Russia, back when it was still known as the Soviet Union. Russia was an incredible place back then, before the billionaires ruined everything. Who needs 30 different types of deodorant anyway? In the glory days of the Soviet Union, there was one brand, it was called “Deodorant,” and you had to wait four hours in line for it. By the time you got your hands on one, you were sweating so badly, not even the greediest billionaire’s fanciest deodorant could mask the stench. Or as I call it: The sweet smell of equality!"^[44][45]

Vladimir Putin commented on the glory days of the Soviet Union:

"Whoever does not miss the Soviet Union has no heart. Whoever wants it back has no brain.

Barack Obama said of Sanders during the 2016 primaries, "I am hurt, though, Bernie, that you've distancing yourself a little from me. I mean, that's just not something that you do to your comrade."^[46]

Prison industrial complex

Sanders adopted Linda Evans prison industrial complex slogan as part agenda.^[47] Evans is a far left radical member of the terrorist group Weather Underground^[48] who was convicted and sentenced in 1987 to 40 years in prison in connection with the 1981 Brinks armored truck robbery in which two police officers and a guard were killed. In a second case, she was sentenced in 1990 to five years in prison for conspiracy and malicious destruction in connection with eight bombings, including the 1983 United States Senate bombing.

While in prison, she authored The Prison Industrial Complex with funding from the George Soros Open Society Institute.^[49]

Bernie Sander's on Biden's dementia

See also: Biden's age and Bernie Sanders' age

Bernie Sander's believes Biden's overall health and well-being is the issue when it comes to whether to whether or not Joe Biden is able to perform his presidential duties should he be elected.^[50]

Spefically, The Week reported about Bernie Sanders' comments about Joe Biden's age:

“

Sanders likewise conceded to Politico that his age is "part of a discussion, but it has to be part of an overall view of what somebody is and what somebody has accomplished," as well as "the overall health and wellbeing of the individual."[50]

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Funding

The Sanders campaign is funded by donors in the wealthiest Zip codes in the United States.^[51]

Geographically, Bernie's top dollar zip code is 94110 in San Francisco. The average household income in this part of the Mission District, specifically the Inner Mission, the Bernal Heights area, is $166,302. The median home value is around $1.5 million and the median rent is almost $5,000 a month. The next top dollar zip code in San Francisco, 94117 or Haight-Ashbury where the average income is $201,503 and average home values top $1.6 million.

The Brooklyn zipcode of 11215 or Park Slope is the second biggest top dollar zip code of Bernie donors. It’s a place where a three-bedroom apartment can go for $2.9 million.

In third place on Bernie’s donor list is 10025 or the Upper West Side of Manhattan. With an average rental price of $4,695 per month, it’s not exactly an inexpensive place to live. The UWS is the 8th richest neighborhood with a $190,281 mean household income.

11238 or Prospect Heights, in fourth place, is a newly gentrified neighborhood in Brooklyn where the median sales price passed $1 million, and you can expect to spend $800,000 for a one-bedroom co-op.

In fifth place is 98103, the Seattle neighborhood of Wallingford. With an average household income of $124,504, the University of Washington neighborhood with its $800,000 homes isn’t working class. Among the cheapest housing options is a $400,000 one-bedroom condo that’s a mere 757 square feet. The area is so expensive because it’s home to tech employees, including Microsoft engineers. Microsoft employees are among Bernie’s top dollar donors.

And in seventh place is 90026. The Echo Park neighborhood in Los Angeles where the median price for housing is $813,000, and rents can hit $6,700 a month.

In eight place is the Logan Square neighborhood of Chicago at zip code 60647. A condo will set you back over half a million dollars. The rush got so bad that a garage transformed into a home was going for $2.85 million.

Ninth and tenth on the list of Bernie’s money neighborhoods are two expensive Manhattan areas. 10003, Union Square and Greenwich Village in downtown Manhattan, is home to NYU where condos cost millions of dollars. In tenth place is 10011 or Chelsea and the West Village of Manhattan. It’s also the single most expensive zip code in New York City. Not only is it the most expensive area in New York, but it’s the 23rd most expensive area in the country with a median sale price approaching $2 million. And with average monthly rents of over $4,000, it’s the 19th most expensive rental area in the entire United States. It’s also home to New York’s Silicon Alley, the city’s tech industry ghetto of dot com and fintech startups.^[52]

2016 presidential primaries

At a press conference on April 30, 2015, Sanders announced his intention to run for the Democrat nomination in the 2016 presidential election.^[53] Sanders accused his main rival, Hillary Clinton of racism, but in the end he backed the racist Democrat nominee.^[54]

USA Today reported a 37-page indictment from special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation shows that Russians worked to boost the campaign of Bernie Sanders to damage Hillary Clinton. The Russians “engaged in operations primarily intended to communicate derogatory information about Hillary Clinton, to denigrate other candidates such as Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio, and to support Bernie Sanders."^[55]

Sanders hired Paul Manafort partner Tad Devine of Devine Mulvey Longabaug as his chief strategist.^[57] Devine and Manafort worked for the election of Putin crony Victor Yanukovich as President of the Ukraine in 2010.^[58] In February 2019 Sanders entered the 2020 presidential election and re-hired Devine's company, of which Devine is president.^[59]

Sanders calls himself an outsider and anti-establishment. He has spent the last 40 years in politics, though admittedly, he has never been able to attain the level of "establishment", because he has been unable to be accepted by anyone, nor to receive much support on any of his issues. His own views are the reason why he has long been an "outsider", even though he's been admitted to serve in the government.

Sanders does take pleasure in creating the same straw men as Obama. Specifically, the GOP war on women. Calls to defund Planned Parenthood is an opportunity for Sanders to denounce the treatment of women. He would kill a child in the womb for any reason and at any term but the GOP is extremist. Sanders will say the GOP wants to deny women's health services. The facts are that 13,000 women's health centers are available that are not owned by Planned Parenthood. He supports babies chopped up and sold for parts. No concern for underage victims of rape not being reported. He is indifferent to the fraudulent billing of the US government.

Class warfare is a favorite theme for Sanders, pitting rich against the poor. His Marxist linchpin is the argument that the banks are too big. He also claims that billionaires are hurting the country, citing the Koch brothers over and over. He believes that America needs to spend another $18 Trillion dollars despite being $18 Trillion in debt. He has also made claims supporting single-payer healthcare, free college tuition, etc.

In one rant, Sanders claimed that Americans needlessly have too many choices when it comes to deodorant brands, noting that he counted 23 different types of the product for sale. Somehow he tied the story into feeding the poor. Reason.com produced a satirical video mocking its absurdity titled "The Bernie Sanders Save the Children Fund".^[60]

He has said that America is racist, and he frequently puts America down.

Sanders is the author of "Rape Essays," a 1972 essay on sexual behavior filled with lurid sexual fantasies. He claimed that it was a satirical essay against traditional gender roles.^[61][62]

Sanders uses what some people call Christian socialism to further his campaign, citing Pope Francis. However, Sanders cherry picks what elements of Christianity he agrees with and ignores the rest. He told a crowd of 300 in Alabama that Jesus was a socialist.^[63]

Sanders has expressed his undying support for socialist tyrants and mass murderers. Some Florida Democrats call Sanders undying devotion to the authoritarian dictator Fidel Castro "unacceptable" and "insulting."^[64]

Democratic Socialism

See also: Democratic Socialism, Democide, Berlin Wall, and North Korea

Sanders began his electoral political career in 1971 as a member of the Liberty Union Party, which originated in the anti-war movement and the People's Party. He ran as the Liberty Union candidate for governor of Vermont in 1972 and 1976 and as a candidate for U.S. senator in 1972 and 1974.^[65] Sanders claimed the U.S. government and CIA were responsible for a series of domestic bombings.^[66] In 1980, Sanders ran for mayor of Burlington, Vermont at the suggestion of his close friend and political confidante Richard Sugarman, a professor of religion at the University of Vermont. He defeated the incumbent Democrat mayor by 10 votes and served for eight years, from April 6, 1981, to April 4, 1989. From 1980 to 1984, Sanders campaigned for the Socialist Workers Party and was investigated by the FBI because of his association with the Marxist group.^[67]

In 1986, Sanders unsuccessfully challenged incumbent Governor Madeleine Kunin (D) in her reelection bid. Running as an independent, Sanders finished third with 14.4% of the vote. Kunin won with 47%, followed by Lt. Governor Peter P. Smith (R) with 38%.

In 1990 Sanders was elected to the U.S. Congress as a Socialist on a third party ticket. Sanders was a leading member of the National Rainbow Coalition at the time and was one of two candidates endorsed by the He was supported by the Democratic Socialists of America Political Action Committee. "DSAer Democrat" Neil Abercrombie also sought to regain the House seat representing Honolulu.^[68] Sanders was endorsed by the AFL-CIO, environmentalists and Democratic Party leaders.^[69]

DSA supported Sanders 2006 Senate race.^[70][71][72]

Sanders has praised failing and flawed welfare systems of other countries as a model for the U.S. to follow.^[73]

Sandinistas

In 1985 Sanders traveled to New York City to meet with Daniel Ortega a few weeks after Nicaragua imposed a “state of emergency”, mass arrests of the socialist regime's critics, and the shuttering of opposition newspapers and magazines. Sanders refused to condemn the decision. Sanders said in a press conference that he was “not an expert in Nicaragua” and “not a Nicaraguan." “Am I aware enough of all the details of what is going on in Nicaragua to say ‘you have reacted too strongly?’ I don’t know.” Sanders later said that the Sandinistas’ brutal crackdown “makes sense to me.” TV talk-show host Phil Donahue told Ortega that his actions looked "fascist".

In 1985 Sanders was "the highest ranking American official” to attend a parade celebrating the Sandinista seizure of power in Nicaragua as Daniel Ortega's guest. Other wire reports described it as an “anti-U.S. rally" with the crowd chanting “Here, there, everywhere/the Yankee will die.”^[74]

Sanders thought the Sandinista Marxist-Leninist clique had much to teach Burlington: “Vermont could set an example to the rest of the nation similar to the type of example Nicaragua is setting for the rest of Latin America.”

In 1987 Sanders hosted Nora Astorga of the Sandinistas to Burlington. Astorga had lured Gen. Reynaldo Perez-Vega, a high-ranking figure in the Somoza regime, to her apartment with promises of sex. Perez-Vega’s body was later recovered wrapped in a Sandinista flag with his throat slit.^[75]

U.S Peace Council

A notice was placed in the communist newspaper, the Guardian (NY) on November 8, 1989, concerning an upcoming U.S. Peace Council national conference.^[76] The U.S. Peace Council was a Kremlin-backed anti-American communist front organization. Speakers included Bernie Sanders, Rep.John Conyers, Leslie Cagan, Holly Sklar, Jack O'Dell of the Rainbow Coalition, Zehdi Terzi of the Palestine Liberation Organization, Gunther Drefahl of the East German Peace Council among others.^[77]

'Socialist Scholars'

Sanders was a regular speaker at the Democratic Socialist's alleged 'Socialist Scholars' conferences and other DSA conventions throughout the country along with DSA vice chair and former director of the National Gay and Lesbian Clubs Christine Riddiough, DSA director Jim Shoch, Harry Magdoff, Paul Sweezy, Frances Fox Piven, Joseph S. Murphy of CUNY, President of the SEIU Local 1199 Dennis Rivera, author Ellen Willis, Doug Henwood, Robert Heilbroner, Bill Tabb, Robert Fitch, Jane Slaughter and Ellen Meiksins Wood.^[78][79] Sanders was introduced by Congressman Bob Filner as the keynote speaker at DSA's national convention in 1999.

I.F. Stone

In October 1988, KGB agent and American propagandist I. F. Stone wrote a letter endorsing Burlington mayor Bernie Sanders' congressional run:

Dear Friend,
I've been politically active all my life. I was a member of the Executive Committee of the Socialist Party in New Jersey, before I was old enough to vote.
Now I'd like to ask you to join me in a historic step forward in American politics. My favorite Mayor -- Bernie Sanders of Burlington, Vermont -- is running for Congress, and with our help he can win an unprecedented victory for us all.
Bernie is a unique figure in our political system. He's an unapologetic socialist who has been elected Mayor of Vermont's largest city four times. He has proved that a socialist, running as an Independent against the combined opposition of Republicans and Democrats, can be successful by speaking out for working people, the elderly and the poor.
Under Bernie's leadership, Burlington has become a vibrant, innovative city, nationally recognized for its accomplishments. The U. S. Conference of Mayors recently gave it the "Most Liveable City" award, and even the conservative U.S. News and World Report has spotlighted Bernie as one of the country's Top Twenty Mayors (December 21, 1987).
Bernie has been a leader in the struggle for peace and justice . His activism was instrumental in Vermont's strong support of the Nuclear Freeze in its town meetings in 1982. He has traveled to Nicaragua to speak out against the Reagan Administration's war, and to establish a Sister City relation between Burlington and Puerto Cabezas. More recently, he went to the Soviet Union to set up a Sister City program with Yaroslavl.
While socialism has a long and proud history in America, extending back to the utopian experiments of the early 1800s, it's been a long time since we've had a socialist voice in Congress. Not since Victor Berger of Milwaukee in the twenties , has the debate gone beyond the limits set by the conventional two-party system.
Having Bernie in Washington will widen out the limits of political discussion. He'll speak up loudly, as he has in Vermont, for real alternatives. He'll show that we need a pragmatic socialism to deal with the grave problems of our economic system.
I.F. STONE

Voting record

Bernie Sanders has missed 4.4% of the roll call votes, higher than the average 1.7% of lifelong senators' records.^[80] As of October 2015, he has introduced 353 bills in his 16 years in Congress, though only 3 of them were into law, giving him less than a 1% success rate.^[81]

Between 1995 and 2007, Sanders passed 17 amendments by a recorded roll call vote, the highest of any member of Congress during that period.^[82]

CPC founders

Once elected, Saunders was the founder of the Congressional Progressive Caucus. Co-founders included House members Ron Dellums, Lane Evans, Tom Andrews, Peter DeFazio, and Maxine Waters.

Since 1998 the Progressive Caucus has held its own Progressive State of the Union. Attendees and speakers include Tammy Baldwin [D-WI], John Cavanagh co-director of the Institute for Policy Studies, John Conyers [D-MI], Peter DeFazio [D-OR], Karen Dolan, Coordinator Institute for Policy Studies, Earl Hilliard [D-AL], Maurice Hinchey [D-NY], Stephanie Tubbs Jones [D-OH], Barbara Lee, [D-CA], Jerrold Nadler [D-NY], Grace Napolitano [D-CA], Major Owens [D-NY], Bernie Sanders, [I-VT], Jan Schakowsky, [D-IL], House Minority Whip David Bonior (D-MI), Dennis Kucinich (D-OH); Cynthia McKinney (D-GA); and Lynn Woolsey(D-CA).^[83][84]

CPUSA 'Jobs for All' bill

In 1997 Rep. Matthew Martinez of California introduced the "Martinez Public Works Jobs Bill" at the request of the Los Angeles Labor Coalition for Public Works Jobs. The leaders of the Coalition and its only affiliate, the New York Coalition for Public Works Jobs, are all members and supporters of the Communist Party USA. The bill had 33 original co-sponsors, including Sanders.^[85]

Anti-NAFTA

In 1995 Marcy Kaptur, Peter DeFazio, Nydia Velasquez, Gene Taylor and Bernie Sanders co-sponsored a Bill, to force the US to withdraw from NAFTA.^[86]

Council for a Livable World

The Council for a Livable World, founded in 1962 by long-time socialist activist and Soviet agent, Leo Szilard, is a non-profit advocacy organization that seeks to "reduce the danger of nuclear weapons and increase national security", primarily through supporting progressive, congressional candidates who support their policies. The Council supported Bernie Sanders in his successful Senate run as a candidate for Vermont.^[87]

Venezuela

Sanders orchestrated a deal with Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez, Citizens Energy President Joseph P. Kennedy II and the Vermont Office of Economic Opportunity for a delivery of more than 2.5 million gallons of discounted heating oil.^[88]

At the height of the humanitarian crisis caused by socialism in Venezuela in 2019, Sanders still refused to call on fellow socialist dictator Nicolas Maduro to step down,^[89] and he refused to describe Maduro as a dictator.^[90]

European Socialist ties

The Party of European Socialists dialogue with the US Democrats and the Transatlantic partnership "was a priority over the last years" (written in 2009).

Delegations, meetings and exchanges of information were held on a regular basis. After the [2006] victory in the Congress, where the Democrats won the double majority, a Party of European Socialists Delegation, led by PES President Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, discovered the new mood in Washington D.C., on 15–18 April 2007. It had meetings with Governor Howard Dean, Chair of the DLC; Congressman Barney Frank (D-MA), Chairman of the Committee on Financial Services; Senator Bernie Sanders and with Senator Ben Cardin; John Podesta, CEO of the Center for American Progress, Former Chief of staff of President Clinton; John Sweeney, President of the AFL-CIO and Andy Stern, Chair of Service Employees International Union (SEIU). The underlying motive of the delegation was reiterated with the need for US and EU progressive forces to actively prepare for the post-Bush EU-US relations.^[91]

CPUSA Draft Bernie for President campaign

In response to an organized campaign to draft Sanders for a presidential run in 2012, CPUSA member John Case wrote in the official communist organ Political Affairs:

To use Carl Davidson's excellent slogan around which left and working class forces can mobilize-- "peace and prosperity vs war and austerity" -- this is clearly a time when we can qualitatively expand the base of support for the principles the slogan expresses. The question is: can we do this and not end up playing a Nader-like spoiler role, that concludes by electing the Right, in those campaigns, primaries, etc where our main objective is to move the political center leftward and strengthen the hand of center forces against the right. Of course, in those campaigns where the left coalition has winning chances, where the center is ready to be led by left forces, tactics differ.

The complexity of the US political process at this moment requires shrewd and careful AND BOLD calculations There are few, if any, politicians on the left more shrewd than Bernie Sanders. I am not convinced about Bernie's denials. I got to know him somewhat in my years as a UE rep in Vt, and later as DO for the Communist Party in N. New England. With a few arguable exceptions, he has always -- both ideologicaly and politically -- pursued a working class line. As important, he become a demonstrated master of very concrete tactics directed at isolating the right, without appearing irresponsible or reckless to center forces. He kept focused on the concretes -- especially economics, and non-corrupt governance -- that blunted repeated attempts by the right to isolate him.

He would have to run as a Democrat in the 2012 primaries, in order not to be counted as a spoiler. Unlike Nader, Bernie has never been a 'spoiler' politician. But running as a Democrat, after years of success as an Independent is something I think he would be temperamentally loath to do. Part of his success at independence is due to some very peculiar features unique to Vermont political history, that would not be practical to reproduce nationally. Nonetheless, I am sure he will be tempted.

Personally, at this point, I think a primary challenge against Obama is a mistake -- the history of such challenges is not encouraging for defeating Republicans. Obama is not a Blue Dog-er, IMHO, but rather a liberal doing what Presidents do -- not straying too far from the Center. I think we should focus our primary challenge energies against the blue dogs and in local and state campaigns where we can strengthen and galvanize our grass roots base. But I am willing to be persuaded otherwise -- only if we ourselves--the Left are grown-up enough to be as shrewd and smart and flexible as Kucinich on health care, or Sanders through most of his career.^[92]

Globalism

Sanders advocates for a globalist and weak U.S. foreign policy in which the goal is "'global engagement based on partnership' rather than dominance or withdrawal."^[93] While originally holding protectionist and even some nationalist views, he has caved to the uniparty establishment and endorsed globalist policies.^[94] He supports giving every American a government job.^[95]

In November 2019, Sanders released an open borders immigration plan that would end deportations, abolish ICE, and give welfare to illegals, among other provisions.^[96]

Disregard for the law

Sanders showed his contempt for federal law by hiring an illegal migrant as his spokesperson.^[97][98][99]

Controversial votes

In 32 years of politics, Sanders authored 353 bills. Only three that made it into law and two of those were renaming post offices. Conservative Review has compiled a Liberty Score on Sanders. He gets a 'F' at just 16%.

Sanders headed the Veterans Affairs Committee. Under his purview; waiting list deaths, destruction and manipulation of medical records, whistleblowers punished, opioid abuse, fraud unpunished, mismanagement rewarded with pay raises, wait times to see a doctor has never been longer. Sanders has done next to nothing to fix these issues. Even as he campaigned, he remained a member of the committee with no plans to turn the duties over to somebody that would give it the time it deserves to fix.

During Sanders's 2006 Senatorial campaign, Republican opponent Rich Tarrant made an issue over Sanders 2003 vote against the Amber Alert even though he was actually in favor of the Amber Alert system to notify the public of missing children. The reason for his 'nay' vote was because the bill allegedly contained unconstitutional provisions^[100] in it's 47 pages according to Sanders. Sanders earlier voted in favor of Megan's Law,^[101] which made sex offender information public. Bernie responded with an ad to try to clarify his position.^[102]

He was also one of only nineteen Congressman to vote against the Victims of Rape Health Protection Act passage, which would allow sexual assault victims to find out the HIV status of their suspected assailant^[103]

After damning evidence of election fraud by the group ACORN, Sanders joined six Democrat Senators that voted to continue funding ACORN. The vote failed, and ACORN was stripped of funding in the Senate.^[104] Bill Wilson of Americans for Limited Government said, "The ACORN Housing Corporation has long been pushing the very loose-lending policies that helped destroy the housing industry. And now it has been exposed for working with prostitutes, as well. Yet, these seven Senators [Sanders] have knowingly voted to keep sending taxpayer money to a highly corrupt organization of pushers and pimps," ^[105]

Ideology

See also: Marxist-Leninism

Sanders' godless utopian Socialist ideology is responsible for some, if not the most horrific and despicable crimes known to humanity in the entire history of the planet. The fact that few of the promulgators and instigators of these inhumane doctrines have ever faced scrutiny or justice is a crime itself. The failings of one generation to protect its children from the hate, resentment, and twisted reasoning underpinning Socialism, which justifies the most atrocious human rights abuses and murder committed by governments, is an indelible moral blemish on the generations that fought the evils of National Socialism in World War II, and Communism in Cold War.

In 1997, while Sanders shuttled across the country to various DSA conferences picking up the broken pieces of the communist dream, the The Black Book of Communism appeared documenting a history of political repressions by Communist states, including genocides, extrajudicial executions, deportations, killing population in labor camps and artificially created famines. In the first chapter of the book entitled Introduction: The Crimes of Communism, Stéphane Courtois states that "Communist regimes turned mass crime into a full-blown system of government" and they are responsible for a greater number of deaths than Nazism or any other political system.

Even former Swedish prime minister Carl Bildt criticized Sanders for his support for communist countries.^[107]

Estimated number of victims

According to the chapter, the number of people killed by the Communist governments amounts to more than 94 million.^[108] Most of these murders occurred within Bernie Sanders lifetime, and even during his collegiate years when Sanders first committed his life to this vile ideology. The statistics of victims include deaths through executions, man-made hunger, famine, war, deportations and forced labor. The breakdown of the number of deaths is given as follows:

• 65 million in the People's Republic of China
• 20 million in the Soviet Union
• 2 million in Cambodia
• 2 million in North Korea
• 1.7 million in Ethiopia
• 1.5 million in Afghanistan
• 1 million in the Eastern Bloc
• 1 million in Vietnam
• 150,000 in Latin America
• 10,000 deaths "resulting from actions of the international Communist movement and Communist parties not in power"
  

According to Courtois, the crimes by the Soviet Union included the following:

• The execution of tens of thousands of hostages and prisoners
• The murder of hundreds of thousands of rebellious workers and peasants from 1918 to 1922
• The Russian famine of 1921, which caused the death of 5 million people
• The Decossackization, a policy of systematic repression against the Don Cossacks between 1917 and 1933
• The murder of tens of thousands in concentration camps in the period between 1918 and 1930
• The Great Purge which killed almost 690,000 people
• The deportation of 2 million so-called "kulaks" from 1930 to 1932
• The death of 4 million Ukrainians (Holodomor) and 2 million others during the famine of 1932 and 1933
• The deportations of Poles, Ukrainians, Moldovans and people from the Baltic states from 1939 to 1941 and from 1944 to 1945
• The deportation of the Volga Germans in 1941
• The deportation of the Crimean Tatars in 1943
• Operation Lentil and deportation of the Ingush in 1944

Communist leaders

Sanders has praised several left-wing dictators during his career.^[110]

Sanders supported the so-called 'Democratic' 'People's Republic' of 'Korea' during debates with Clinton, saying that Russia was a worse threat to American security than North Korea (or himself), an objectively false statement full of typical liberal-socialist claptrap. The Kim Jong-un of North Korean fame said of Sanders: "I have greatest confidence in Senator Bernard E. [sic] Sanders in holding the lackeys of the U.S. administration to account".^[111][112] Comrade Fidel Castro also praised the eminent "socialist transformation of America" under Sanders, adding falsely: "Americans have witnessed the utter failure of Capitalism, the destruction of its middle class and is tired of the endless wars. The Cuban model has proved its superiority and Americans now see through the government propaganda and now praise our country’s centralized economy, our health care system, our education system: Americans are hungry for Socialism."^[113]

Sanders praised China for making "more progress in addressing extreme poverty than any country in the history of civilization" even as he admitted the country was becoming "more authoritarian."^[114]

Sanders fawning over communists and communism earned him the nickname Breadline Bernie.

Eugene Debs documentary

In 1979, Sanders wrote, directed, and lent his voice for Debs' dialogue^[115] in a documentary which shows a long-standing respect on part of Sanders for what Debs stood for.^[116]

Bernie Sanders' religious views and atheists/agnostics support of Bernie Sanders

See also: Essay: Bernie Sanders is a closet atheist and Atheism and socialism

In many religious countries and even irreligious countries there is a stigma related to atheism and as a result many atheists are reluctant to: call themselves atheists and/or be outspoken atheists (see: Stigma of atheism and Views on atheists and Closet atheist).

Jon Green wrote about Bernie Sanders:

“

Bernie Sanders is, as he’s suggested before, Jewish with an emphasis on the ish. His Jewish heritage has informed his morality and his politics, but he doesn’t claim to be observant in any officially religious sense. In an interview with the Washington Post published this morning, Sanders went a step further, making that point as clearly as he ever: “I am not actively involved with organized religion,” Sanders said in a recent interview. Sanders said he believes in God, though not necessarily in a traditional manner. “I think everyone believes in God in their own ways, “ he said. “To me, it means that all of us are connected, all of life is connected, and that we are all tied together.” As atheist blogger Hemant Mehta pointed out, that’s basically a really PC way of saying you’re an atheist. Sanders may have used the word “God” to describe his belief system, but it’s pretty clear that his version of God isn’t an old man in the sky. There’s no actual deity involved — no theism — just a generalized interconnectedness.[117]

”

Deseret News declared:

“

Speculation about Sanders' religious views ramped up last October after an appearance on "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" during which he was directly asked whether he believes in God. It was the nature of the candidate's response that piqued the interest of some viewers. Jimmy Kimmel cited Sanders' claims that he is "culturally Jewish" and that he doesn't "feel religious" and then asked about a belief in God. He also questioned whether Sanders thinks it is important for Americans to embrace a higher power. "I am who I am and what I believe in and what my spirituality is about is that we’re all in this together," Sanders responded. "That I think it is not a good thing to believe that as human beings we can turn our backs on the suffering of other people." He continued, "This is not Judaism — this is what Pope Francis is talking about — that we cannot worship just billionaires and the making of more and more money. Life is more than that." A few months later, speculation once again raged after Sanders did an interview with The Washington Post in which he said that he doesn't necessarily believe in God in a traditional sense. "I am not actively involved with organized religion," he told the outlet. "I think everyone believes in God in their own ways. To me, it means that all of us are connected, all of life is connected, and that we are all tied together." His brother Larry Sanders also told the outlet that the candidate was "quite substantially not religious."[118]

”

The Religion News Service states: "Presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders dashed the hopes of some atheists when he declared he had 'very strong religious and spiritual feelings' at a Democratic town hall."^[119]

Sanders denies he is an atheist.^[120]

Sanders identifies as "Jewish", though admits he's "not particularly religious".^[121] This is consistent with many others on the secular left, and indicates that Sanders is culturally Jewish, though actually an agnostic/atheist. He has shown strong intolerance for theologically orthodox, conservative Christians and Christian beliefs.^[122][123]

Atheists seem to like Bernie Sanders, for some reason. The might have something to do with the connection between atheism and communism, as the atheist Karl Marx, the author of The Communist Manifesto, once stated: "Communism begins from the outset (Owen) with atheism; but atheism is at first far from being communism; indeed, that atheism is still mostly an abstraction."

After Sanders' heart attack on the 2020 presidential campaign trail,^[124] the was a notable lack of Sanders supporters offering "thoughts and prayers".

Atheists/agnostics support of Bernie Sanders in the 2016 Democratic presidential primary

See also: Atheism and socialism

The Amazing Atheist

TJ Kirk, self-called The Amazing Atheist, has pled to all Hillary supporters to stop supporting her, and to support Bernie, instead, because he believes the Socialist has integrity.^[125]

Hemant Mehta

The atheist Hemant Mehta voted for Bernie Sanders in the Democratic presidential primary.^[126]

David Pakman Show

David Pakman, of the David Pakman Show, is an agnostic.^[127]

Pakman hints at Bernie support while portraying Hillary negatively, where he shows his bias,^[128] and calls the Best of Conservative politicians "the Best (Worst?)", indicating his negative bias toward conservatives. David Pakman often pretends to be unbiased, but is, in fact, biased against conservatives.

The Humanist Report

Mike Anthony of The Humanist Report has produced many videos in favor of Bernie Sanders, against Hillary Clinton, and against Donald Trump.

Jaclyn Glenn

Jacklyn Glenn, a militant atheist, vegan, angry feminist, and closet lesbian, makes fun of people who are voting for Hillary just to put the first female President in the White House (while wearing a Bernie Sanders t-shirt),^[129] and endorses Bernie Sanders.

Secular Talk

Kyle Kulinski is an atheist who describes himself as a new atheist and a progressive atheist.^[130]

Kyle Kulinski, of Secular Talk, promotes Bernie Sanders in several of his videos,^[131] attacks Hillary Clinton and Republicans, and compared Barack Obama to a Republican.

The Secular Vegan

Isaiah, of The Secular Vegan, tells atheists to vote for Bernie, merely because he would be the first non-Christian President.^[132]

The Young Turks

Cenk Uygur, of The Young Turks, is a self-described "fervent agnostic".^[133]

Cenk Uygur speaks highly of Bernie Sanders,^[134] while dismissing Hillary Clinton and Republican politicians as "robots", and practically every week, they release a video disrespecting Conservatives.^[135]

Bernie Sander's antipathy towards evangelical Christians holding public office

• Bernie Sanders's Religious Test for Christians in Public Office by Emma Green, The Atlantic, June 8, 2017
• Watch Bernie Sanders Attack a Christian Nominee and Impose an Unconstitutional Religious Test for Public Office by David French, National Review, June 7, 2017
• Bernie Sanders Applies Religious Litmus Test on Nominee - video

Related article:

• U.S. evangelical Christians are chilly toward atheists – and the feeling is mutual, Pew Research, 2014

Personal

Bernie was born on September 8, 1941, in Brooklyn, New York.^[136] His mother was Dorothy Glassberg Sanders, his father was Elias Sanders, and his grandfather was Benjamin Glassberg.^[137] Sanders graduated from the University of Chicago with a B.A. in political science in 1964. Sanders has one illegitimate son born in 1969.

During his college years, he was involved in a pro-Vietcong propaganda distribution ring within New York known as the Alternate U.^[138][139] According to UV philosopher professor Richard Sugarman, Sanders would wake up every morning saying, "We're not crazy." Sugarman to Vox, "Bernard, maybe the first thing you should say is 'Good morning' or something. But he'd say, 'We're. Not. Crazy.'"^[140] In 1988, he ended up spending his honeymoon with his second wife Jane O'Meara in the USSR, with there being a video of him shirtless and singing "This Land is Your Land" with Soviet comrades while drunk.^[141]

Also, in the 1980s, Sanders publicly praised the USSR and other leftist dictatorships and called bread lines a "good thing."^[142]

Communist background

Im 1963 Saunders spent time at a commune with the Hashomer Hatzair movement in Israel. The movement was a Marxist organization founded in 1913 and saw the Soviet Union as a model, and often flew the Red Flag at events.^[143] The commune's founder eulogized Joseph Stalin's death , writing how shocked he and his comrades were,

"to hear of the terrible tragedy that has befallen the nations of the Soviet Union, the world proletariat and all of progressive mankind, upon the death of the great leader and extolled commander, Josef Vissarionovich Stalin. We lower our flag in grief in memory of the great revolutionary fighter, architect of socialist construction, and leader of the world's peace movement. His huge historical achievements will guide generations in their march towards the reign of socialism and communism the world over."

Noam Chomsky wrote that he was fairly close to "Hashomer Hatzair, but couldn't join because it was split between Stalinists and Trotskyites."^[144]

Accusations of draft dodging

Sanders was of age to be drafted into the Vietnam War. However, he filed for conscientious objector status on religious grounds.^[145] Sanders does not belong to any organized religion,^[146] dismissing criticism because he has strong religious feelings.

Greed

Sanders constantly complains about the rich 1% but he doesn't live like a common man – he himself is a member of the 1%.^[1] Bernie is a millionaire with three homes,^[147] one in D.C., one in his hometown in Vermont, and a summer dacha.^[148] Together, Bernie and Jane's 2014 total unadjusted gross earnings was $205,617.^[149]

Awards

Sander shared Maurer-Stump Award from the Reading-Berks Democratic Socialists of Pennsylvania with DSA founder Michael Harrington in 1988. Sanders told Deidre Riley of the Reading Times, "Revolution can be done through the government, if you raise the right issues." ^[150]

See also

• Sam Farr
• Linda Evans
• Kit Wisdom
• Atheism and human rights violations
• Digital brownshirt brigade
• List of dictators

Essays:

• Bernie Sanders is a closet atheist

References

External links

• Senate site
• Bernie Sanders 2016 campaign website
• (Full Video) Bernie Sanders on the Soviet Union Press Conference 6/13/1988
• Bernie Sanders' 1979 Eugene Debs Documentary
• Trade Unionist, Socialist, Revolutionary - Eugene V. Debs, 1855 - 1926, Transcript of Sanders' documentary
• Socialist Senator Sanders Hawks His Book Like an Evil Capitalist
• "A lot of people are switching to these really long putters, very unattractive" Donald "People are praying for me" Trump Ad On Bernie Sanders: “We Need A Strong Leader” And It Ain’t This Guy
• Mike Rowe calls Bernie Sanders 'knucklehead' over tweet
• Why Bernie Sanders' Communist Misadventures Still Matter
• "The Truth About Communism" documentary narrated by Ronald Reagan, 1962
• Socialist Lobotomies

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