Why Bernie Sanders' Communist Misadventures Still Matter
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- Опубликовано: 2 июн 2019
- Sanders no longer favors government takeover of "the major means of production." But his four-decade quest for political revolution continues.
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Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) has spent his entire career explaining away the inevitable downsides of massively increasing the power of the state over the individual.
Sanders once identified as a socialist who, with reservations, admired the economic achievements of Cuba under Fidel Castro, of Nicaragua under the Sandinistas, and of the Soviet Union right up to the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Running for office as a candidate for the Liberty Union Party in Vermont in the 1970s, Sanders sought a top tax rate of 100%, saying "nobody should earn more than $1 million."
Sanders wanted to stop businesses from moving out of their original communities, arguing that the ultimate solution to protect workers was national legislation that would "bring about the public ownership of the major means of production." He favored the government seizure of "utilities, banks, and major industries," without compensation to investors or stockholders.
Shortly after he was elected mayor of Burlington, Vermont, in 1981, Sanders told a room full of charity workers, "I don't believe in charities," because only the government should provide social services to the needy.
He traveled to Nicaragua in 1985 to meet Sandinista leaders, who had installed a socialist government after overthrowing an American-backed dictator. Sanders attended the sixth-anniversary celebration of the Sandinistas' revolution and praised Nicaraguan president Daniel Ortega.
In 1988, he visited the USSR, three years before it collapsed. After his trip, Sanders praised the Soviets' social and cultural programs, saying American leaders had much to learn from the communist system. In 1989, Sanders traveled to Cuba to seek a meeting with Fidel Castro-though he ended up settling for the mayor of Havana.
Today, Sanders calls himself a "democratic socialist" and has become a millionaire. He favors single-payer health care, free public college for all, and a $15 minimum wage. And he has distanced himself from some of his former positions in support of the Sandinistas and Castro, pointing instead to Nordic countries as examples to follow.
But one thing has remained constant as Sanders has shifted his focus from Nicaragua, Cuba, and the USSR to Denmark, Finland, and Sweden: In all of these countries, he's misled his followers about the political and economic realities on the ground.
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Anyone else notice that Bernie went from saying "millionaires and billionaires" to just saying "billionaires"?
TheJibbaholic he himself became a millionaire that fucking commie piece of shit
Luis Perez It’s not like they’re even close to each other. 1 billion is 1000 times higher than 1 million.
@@eddieg4437 At 1:13 he legit said no one should make over a million dollars. Then he later defended the fact that he's a millionaire because "He made an award winning book and anyone can do that."
Mr. Tunic Mayhe that is because he realized that millionaires aren’t nearly as much of a problem compared to billionaires. Maybe it is because the wealth of the billionaire class has been multiplying while the wealth of the worker class has been decreasing.
@@eddieg4437 That still doesn't change the fact that's he's being very inconsistent. It comes across as if he doesn't like anyone richer than him imo.
Bernie: “I asked them if they were with the government and they smiled.”
Nicaraguan: “Do we have a choice?”
@Aidan Kelly What? 😂
@cesar mendoza yup
contras were busy bayoneting babies
@@chriss780 so people they were fighting murdered men women and children who were considered rich or breakers but ok only bring up one side of the conflict you liberal shill.
Lol they voted out the sandinistas and then later were voted them back in, they willingly gave up power since they lost fair and square. Youre just rehashing anticommunist arguments and shoehorning them into every socialist country since you dont actually know anything about the actual history of these individual nations
"Nobody should earn more than a million dollars... except me."
Bernie Sanders has never said that someone shouldn't earn more than a million dollars. He asked if it was moral for someone to be a billionaire
_ RoB05 _ what a fucking lie. It’s literally inside this video. Go to minute 1.10 , instead of commenting why don’t u fucking watch the video
I love how people here are being intentionally stupid by ignoring the fact that that's a line from decades ago that ignores the inflation of today. In 2020, billionaires are to millionaires what millionaires are to the average person, it's a big gap nowadays you dummies.
Waf Because inflation rises to meet the value of individual dollars, the same gap existed back then between the two as it does now, a billion dollars was still 1000 times more than a million.
@@zackerycooper1206 Right, inflation. That is why a millionaire today is not the same thing as a millionaire 40 years ago. The gap between the middle class and millionaires back then is comparable to someone with tens or hundreds of millions of dollars nowadays.
Castro taught everyone to read and write, I’m sure that came in handy when they were put in front of a firing squad for saying Castro sucked
@Mr unknown -- No, they ran out of those. The went after normal Cubans who didn't have the funds to leave because they had to make the people too afraid to resist. THAT was their "revolutionary transformation of society".
Chris Do you mean CIA as run by the communist Brennan...?
@@alexstewart8097 Lets stop using communist as swear word in the liberal conservatives category of political oppositions. Who is this guy Brennan anyhow? If the guys a communist how come I've never heard of the guy? CIA is a US capitalist police, dirty tricks, assassination and coup planning team. It severs the US Empire.
@@alexstewart8097 The Cuban people are not afraid to resist which is why the Imperialist are afraid of them. The'd have Yankee boots in Havana by now if they though that Fidel or Raul was like Hussein in Iraq. Yet even in Iraq they are facing a people insistent upon their departure. More protests against the current Iraqi government and the US occupation.
One way or another Uncle Sam has had to wave goodbye to places he thought were his after WW2. China was the biggest loss handed to Congress with each party blaming the other for the loss. Who lost China they would cry. Then Korea here the Imperialist suggested that they and Stalin temporality evacuate Japanese Troops.
@Mr unknown so yeh it's ok to put rich people in front of a firing squad & execute them for their wealth, one question: how do you define rich?
"Healthcare in Nicaragua is free."
You get what you pay for.
You ignoramus, NO HEALTHCARE IS FREE.
It may shock you to know that every advanced industrialized natioN has a NATIONAL HEAKTH CARE SYSTEM except the USA.
Only a MORON like you would compare the National Heath Systems of Canada, Britain, France, Germany, Australia, Japan and every other European nation to the health system in Nicaragua.
But if you get satisfaction from believing in FAIRY TALES, then be happy in your DELUSIONS.
Millions of Americans who depended on the Health Care insurance provided by their EMPLOYER NOW HAVE NO HEALTH CARE AFTER LOSING THEIR JOBS.
Has that FACT EVER ENTERED THE EMPTY SPACE BETWEEN YOUR EARS?
National Health Care from the aforementioned nations are UNIVERSALLY PRAISED except for the CRETINS LIKE YOU WHO KNOW NOTHING.
Unlike the citizens of the USA NO CITIZENS IN THE AFOREMENTIONED NATIONS HAVE LOST THEIR HEALTH CARE BECAUSE OF COVID.
Only in the USA do such TRAVESTIES HAPPEN.
Shut your ignorant lying mouth.
@@brit1066 National health program is a nice name for compulsory insurance you have to pay and the elimination of health insurance freedom. This means that there will always be medical treatments which can't be covered by any ikind of nsurance no matter how rich you are. You won't be able to fully cover yourself - just for the sake of equality. As the years will go by, the cost of this compulsory insurance will go up and the coverage will go down. Moreover, the relative quality of the medical service you'll get will also degrade as the incentive for providing a better service evaporated.
How do I know this? I live in such country. My family health insurance cost per month is about USD2000, I can't have a better insurance coverage (by law) and the quality of the health service I'm getting is nowhere near of what I could get in the US.
If you wish to punish yourself for the stupidity of other people which are not responsible for their financial behavior - go ahead create yourself a national health program and enjoy it.
Omer Yehezkely I notice that you do not state WHICH COUNTRY YOU ARE REFERRING TO.
if you are STUPID enough to live in such a country you have only yourself to blame.
But if you bother to read the ENDLESS accounts of the National Health Systems in MANY MANY OTHER COUNTRIES COMPARABLE TO THE USA, you will see just how much better you are off under a NATIONAL SYSTEM.
Are you saying that if you cannot ford that $2000 a month then you get NO HEALTH COVERAGE.
As a Brit who has lived in the USA for 50 years, I have personal and family experience of BOTH SYSTEMS.
My experience in the USA has been EXCELLENT, because both myself and my wife have had good jobs with good benefits and now we have MEDICARE WHICH IS ALMOST AS GOOD AS THE NHS.
However I know of many people who have almost LOST EVERYTHING BECAUSE OF FAMILY HEALTH PROBLEMS AND LOSING THEIR JOBS.
While my family and my wife’s family in the UK GET VERY GOOD HEALTH CARE WITHOUT HAVING TO WORRY ABOUT LOSING CARE BECAUSE OF JOB LOSS.
Are you aware that the LEADING CAUSE OF BANKRUPTCY in the USA is failure to pay HEALTH CARE BILLS.
A situation UNKNOWN IN ANY OTHER COMPARABLE COUNTRY.
Oh and in the UK there is NO RESTRICTION on the desire to supplement health coverage with additional insurance.
So come on WHERE DO YOU LIVE?
Omer Yehezkely You are a fool, are you saying that COMPULSORY COVERAGE IS BAD?
Are you actually ADVOCATING NOT GETTING ANY HEALTH CARE INSURANCE.
I suppose you would say that because CAR INSURANCE is mandatory it is bad.
So once again I am curious as to where you live?
Are you saying that the law actually PREVENTS you from taking out additional health insurance.
I urge you to ask people who have ACTUAL EXPERIENCE OF BOTH SYSTEMS before making such IDIOTIC REMARKS.
I WILL LEAVE YOU WITH ONE FINAL THOUGHT.
My wife and I visit our families in the UK regularly, we have made dozens of trips over the years, at NO POINT have ever needed to purchase HEALTH INSURANCE but we have used the NHS in the UK a number of times. Never have we been questioned or asked for PROOF OF INSURANCE. Yet when our relatives travel FROM THE UK TO THE USA they have to purchase HEALTH INSURANCE WHICH IS EXPENSIVE.
Yep. It's free buuuuut you'll need to bring your own sheets, blankets, pillows, food, medicines and equipment. I know that sounds like a lot to ask but hey...."free"
"In America you can always find a party. In Russia the party always finds you."
Yakov Smirnoff
In Soviet Russia, Burn Feels You! - Cheesy Thing I Said
in America there are so many programs to help poor people. People starving is such a lie. The Lord rebuke this line devilish Rich hypocrite.
freedom is a gift of God that is catered to people in the free-market utilizing their god-given talents to come up with some amazing ideas and inventions and services. Only evil people would seek to attack people's individuality. Only evil people would seek to force others to pay wicked lazy people's way of life. The Lord rebuke this evil.
Jesus Christ is the way. Not these wicked socialist.
@@livefree316 How about one person dying of dehydration in the Milwaukee Jail or the Chicago torture cops of John Burge's midnight crew. Even Che Guevara did not get one of your "Bourgeois Justice" trials. Instead the execution order was to shoot from the neck down to make it look like Che died in battle.
@@livefree316 are you really saying capitalism is god's will?
@@livefree316 really... talk about brainwashing
When a politician tells you "you dont need such and such," thats when you know that person should no longer be in government.
Bernie is like all socialists. Who has too much? Anybody who has more than me! He doesn't need his large salary nor 3 houses. But he's only a millionaire. It's the BILLIONAIRES that need to go. *sigh *
"You don't need a government run welfare." Said no politician with the power to reform it.
"We don't need big government"
Ok so seeing as how Trump and Biden both say we don't need Single Payer Healthcare we need it then, you agree.
@@verdantmischief7092 there are always outliers. We dont need single payer healthcare
He said that nobody should own more than a million dollars, yet he's a millionaire.
M. Strain Jr. yup. Now that he’s a millionaire he doesn’t say that millionaires are bad. Now it’s billionaires lol. 🤦♀️
He is free to donate as much as he wants to whomever he chooses...but doesn't.
And his tax laws do not target the millionaires in his range
Inflation man, and a good amount is non liquid assets mind you that he bought during the 2008 recession.
point is, he wouldn't be a millionaire when he said that (even with his 2mil 2020) and he mainly is pointing to corporations not investors.
he said “earn”. Is he making a million dollars a year?
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Reminds me of the comic line, "In Russia, they're standing in line four hours for bread. Four hours!. That must me good bread."
This is because we have solved the problem of hunger so well that people are eating too much gaining weight and being useless. All the while ruining their teeth and still getting free dental work. That darn evil capitalism at it again
@Hans That's a good thing. In communists countries when you neglect teeth and they hurt too much to work, you just get a bullet in the head.
@Hans Damn, you are positively dilerious.
Apparently you can't differentiate voluntary consensual charity with stealing from people to get what you want via state coersion.
@Hans
Dude, I went to the dentist and got a cleaning for $50 cash. I do it once per year. That's not expensive.
@Hans
I'm not rolling in money, but $50 per year still isn't a lot.
I had a teacher who had to run from Nicaragua during the revolution cause they kept killing their own people
by "they" you mean the US backed contras?
@@Tychoxi It was both the contras and the sandinistas
Profile pic 10/10. Respect, my friend.
AND YOU CAN THANK RONALD REAGAN for that with his IRAN CONTRA DRUG TRAFFICKING SCANDAL and continuing the civil war between the Sandinistas and the Contras. How did that CIVIL WAR go in the USA back in 1861-1865? Did they have any outside interference and continuing interference after their civil war?
@@Tychoxi it was mostly NEW WORLD ORDER BACKED, these people been funding hitler and stalin, but non- us latinos in those areas were killing their own.
Bernie Sanders says that no one should make more than $1,000,000. His net worth is $3,000,000. We should tax him 100%.
I’m sorry, but I don’t take anyone who praises communist countries seriously.
Bernie is clearly past his time.
i bet that u dont know what communism is, are you American?
@@luke.4317 i bet that u dont know what freedom is,
are you Commie?
$1.50 for a ticket to the theater.... Of course, few Russians could afford something so extravagant.
For about 6 cents you can go to a Cuban Baseball game. The stadiums are also full. From $50 to over $1,000 for a MLB game. No luxury air conditioned boxes in Cuban games though.
Kim O'Brien you can see a baseball game in the USA for about $8. Sure it’s minor league and not MLB but neither is Cuba baseball. If a Cuban player is that good they will come play in the USA. Also those Minor league games in most cities are also packed.
He forgot the reason the ticket was the equivalent to $1.50
In a socialist country government sets the pay scale. And, nobody has enough to do more than survive.
@@joebouret747 Where's the pictures of the homeless living in tents and under tarps in Havana like in Los Angeles?
@@joebouret747 "...And, nobody has enough to do more than survive..." Hay that sounds like 30% of all American families.
"Socialist Success Story" is an oxymoron.
WRONG, Dump showed that SOCIALISM works very well. In his TAX BILL the STATE gave BILLIONS TO THE WEALTHY AND THE CORPORATIONS. Us working stiffs got VERY LITTLE.
THAT IS KNOWN AS SOCIALISM FOR THE WEALTHY.
socialism is so a few can be wealthy and the rest have to wait in bread lines.
Sticksbass So what is the difference between Socialism and Capitalism?
According to your claim THEY ARE THE SAME.
Sticksbass You make the USUAL MISTAKE of confusing Socialism with Communism.
They are not the same BY ANY MANNER OF MEANS.
live in venezuala for a while and find out.
*“Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.”* _~Thomas Sowell_
@eblman because stem jobs are in demand buffonis ignoramus
Only "fair" that the UN swing the "pendulum" the other way with Agenda 21, considering that the UN ironically made capitalism worse with Neoliberalism that made the wage gap bigger so that millennials would whine for communism because they can't pay off their student loan that Neoliberalism made more expensive just to cover the pharaohs' salaries.
FellowRser
Stem or Steam?
Because last I checked they ‘opened up’ and added art such as screeching like a harpy to that.
Also how much do they pay and how long will it take for your college debt to pay off?
Short enough that the college degree doesn’t loose value before that, or long enough for it to be was useful as a ‘ticket of completion’ for special Eds?
Wow my friend capitalism is booming look around you it is a pathetic miserable system that has collapsed
Aaron
Really?
Because last I checked it was the public sector (not the private sector) that was neglecting everyone, Marxist supporting cities burning themselves down, the government, state, collective demanding shops close.
See Nancy opening a shop that legally shouldn’t be open so she can have a hair cut, she made the law denying people from opening, dipshit.
Meanwhile the government, what you guys want to control everything has opened up its stuff... but only for government employees and at the pay of the tax payer.
The fact that we are even having this conversation, shows how close we are to ruin or worse
Old Man Strength: Your sentence smacks of demagoguery because it appeals solely to the emotions without stating the whys for your belief. Conversations about the economy and opinions on how to improve it (making it just and effective for the great majority, etc.) have been going on for thousands of years. Conversing to learn and/or inspire and/or to bring about positive change are ALWAYS worthwhile. If anything makes us closer to "ruin or worse" is, first, not having this conversation and, second, not doing anything to reverse the downward trend of how wealth is distributed and used (not to mention other issues, climate for instance).
lazurm very well written and thoughtful reply. My concern is not particularly profound or original; that is communism is generally a destructive form of governance. There is no perfect form of government in a world full of entropy and sin. It just seems to me that capitalism has a far superior record on elevating suffering. Putting power in the hands of a party or officials with martial powers is unsettling. The country which embraced liberty above comfort or safety is now considering the reverse
@@irone93 I'd agree with you almost totally except that Sanders isn't a communist; he's a democratic socialist. This is an extremely decisive difference and one too often not understood by a majority of U.S. voters. I'd be willing to bet that the major issues he often refers to would find agreement with the great majority of Americans. This isn't the venue to properly detail what I'm getting at but I'd urge you to read or hear what he actually states (his current home page would probably do).
I don't think Bernie's problem is his policy ideas and his observations of how U.S. capitalism actually works but, rather, his total devotion to his ideals, total to the point of finding difficulty in making the kind of compromises he'd have to make at this point in history. He's also not very warm, or more accurately, personable in one on one conversations, something that results demand in a politician because people are, after all, mostly emotional and not highly logical in their choices...or in their preferences for legislation.
For now, the U.S. will have to settle for if he may influence (hopefully) where we must go to improve the lives of average Americans. He's already done that, though there's a lot of work yet to be done. One small example is the current push for a "living wage" for all workers and there are several other issues finally inspired to action, by Bernie S.
It's called liberalism! They've indoctrinated the young minds full of mush in our K-12 schools systems and further indoctrination in camps we call college!!
@@benriding8678 I think you have an extreme view and, if I'm correct, you may be a pot calling the kettle black.
I find that most of our college students are learning critical thinking skills, though there are some exceptions, granted.
Do you want to include kindergarten and 1st grade classes "mush"? If so, how so...specifically?
Come to think of it, define your use of the word "mush", if you won't mind. I'm not only curious but if it means what I think you mean (I could be wrong), it probably lacks for accurate details.
I'm asking you to reduce the mushy characterization and try to get down to the specifics.
Having met someone who escaped from the USSR and listening to her horror stories, to hear that he praised that regime makes me sick!
Especially right up until the day it fell apart!
Yes, to speak highly of Russia in any form, should forbid a person to run for any office here.
@@joebouret747 And let's not forget his positive comment about Castro pushing literacy. Yes Castro did and the education was promoting the communist doctrine to the youth. Hitler did the same thing with Hitlerjugend. Remember his famous quote, " “He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.” Lenin and Mao also used young naive students to push their agenda. And now Bernie using that same mantra on the youth of America.
@@Pmtd1234
The same tactics.
Ending with the same results. Socialist FAILURE.
@@joebouret747 One of my granddaughters, 22 y/o senior in college, history major, a Democrat but has not been corrupted by far-left ideology, said that on paper socialism looks great, but all the research she has done, it always fails primarily because it negatively impacts productivity and innovation, plus corruption tends to be more significant with greater government involvement in the economy. She tries to discuss this with Bernie supporters, but when presented with facts they tend to yell and call her names. That sounds familiar!
At around 14:45 when he goes off about how companies in the USA produce so many items that we don't need such as 23 types of body spray, he deliberately ignores one of the fundamental principles of capitalism: If there is a demand, or what consumers consider a need, people will buy it and the company will grow. If there is not a demand, then either the company will stop producing it and produce something else, or the company will cease to exist. The market, when not influenced by government, has had a history of sorting out what people need and don't need.
Constitutionalist7357 I like the idea of 23 types of body spray. Competition and new ideas are the best recipes for combatting inequity.
Constitutionalist7357 What would be even better is if we could learn how to create our own body spray for our own purposes. DIY Economics!
Paraphrasing:
"Get money out of politics!"
"There are too many kinds of deodorant!"
"ATM fees are too high!"
How can Sanders think that money will be out of politics with the other two statements?
Bushrod Rust Johnson The ATM fee limit enforcement wouldn’t involve big money in politics to be fair. Don’t have to agree with it, but that’s a strategy of challenging power. The limiting of the number of consumer products would be a multi-trillion dollar dictatorship at that point, however.
You are deliberately ignoring the fundamental socialist principle: don't make the extraneous deodorant in the first place.
We truly need term limits.
i agree
"Hi, i'm Bernie Sanders and i'm going to look at these really pretty places and ignore actual problems because they people showing me around only want me to see the pretty stuff. Not the human rights violations, not the starvation, not the labor camps."
Sanders is like a used car salesman. He will upsell all the best parts of the car but forget to tell you the transmission is out.
@Stephen Bryant
Trump: you support Castro
Bernie: yes
Trump: but you are a democrat
Bernie: yes
Trump: But Castro is anti democratic
as apposed to the republicans that only bring up culture war issues and then pass policy that benefits the rich. yeah i’ll take bernie plz
@@glibbylive4564 the irony is your entirely wrong. You're using a stereotype that is basically neocons. Socialism does not work. It is never worked. And it will never work. And the reason is because it is not a sustainable ideal. And it almost every single form of socialist doctrine it's end goal is communism.
Modern Republicans on the other hand are not "for the rich". Modern Democrats on the other hand are very much for the rich. And more than that the richest people in the United States almost all uniformly vote Democrat do you think that they're doing it because the Democrats are somehow anti rich people? I don't think so. They're voting Democrat because the Democrats actually will back them and make sure that they stay rich. Because guess what? The news flash for you, is the fact that the Democrat party in 2022 and at least for the past 10 years have been rich white people.
@@GuardianDarkAngel they don’t uniformly vote democrat and even if they do voting as an optic is something the rich do all the time and then use their money to buy out both dems and republicans and get the policy they want instead of what the people want
@@glibbylive4564 well of course it's not going to be uniform it's not like every single rich and or wealthy person thinks exactly the same. But you look at 90% maybe 80% of Hollywood and they all vocally support Democrats especially on social media. This in turn influences people to vote the way that they view things. See you moved the goal post. I called out that rich people currently ALMOST always uniformly vote Democrat. You then, stepped away from your argument about Republicans, and then finally decided to include Democrats. And see, this is why I hate most of the people who advocate for socialism communism and who lean further to the left. Because they can't stick with the same argument. Their entire argument is that they just can't be wrong. And they will move the goal post as much as and as often as they need to even going so far as changing words and phrases definitions to do that very thing.
How about we agree that Republicans and Democrats are both bad but socialists align themselves with Democrats. Democrats whom are just as pro war as neocons. Democrats whom have fundamentally destroyed States like New York in California. Democrats whom have the highest taxes in their states as well as overwhelming amounts of homelessness and crime. And do you know why I don't like Bernie? Because he stopped complaining about millionaires whenever he became one. He went to socialist countries where there are people actually suffering, and literally decided to show off only the best parts of those countries as if to make them seem glorious and good. He is even publicly stated that bread lines are a good thing. And to put that phrase in context for you to understand. That means he believes in food scarcity and keeping everyone universally hungry. Living off of minimum amounts of food that they have to wait on every day in a line sometimes for hours at a time. And every time people escape these countries they all pretty much say the exact same thing. But when they do neoliberals and neo progressives decide to come out and be like I'm sorry your experience isn't valid you should listen to me a white champagne socialist who is just jealous they're not a millionaire.
"Healthcare in Nicaragua is now Free. It is terrible and it is very primitive, compared to what we get now but they now have it Free." - Bernie Sanders
Way to sell free healthcare Bernie.
This is why I am a Free Speech advocate. Keep talking Bernie, keep talking.
Chile under Pinochet vs Cuba under Castro. Both were dictatorships with massive human rights abuses. But one had the fortune to listen to Milton Friedman when it came to economic reform, while the other listened to Karl Marx. What system did more for the poor?
@I'll do it The kill count fo Capitalism is much higher! Except it kills indirectly: by way of letting patients succumb to their diseases, invading countries and killing their population for oil and other resources, and multimillion dollar companies commercialising and capitalising on everything. A good example for this is how a German company is now *selling water* to starving African kids in Namibia
In Nicaragua my family wealth was striped, and the men in my family were sent to prison for while, but their healthcare was free
Let's not Compared healthcare with other first world country. How you can pay double and have shorter low quality life
Bernie wants me to believe the crap sandwich he demands I take will be better than the bacon cheeseburger I choose to buy.
10 years behind the US medical system, more like 50!
Actually a guy Sanders knew went over about the same time with a Doctor and the Doctor said the hospital was 100 yrs behind..and he wasn't exaggerating
The current epidemic is showing how far the US medical system is behind the rest of the developed world though, particularly Europe
@@Shinaro777 hospitals are empty though, a month ago they were exposed.
Shinaro sir you might be misreading statistics and not taking major factors into account.
He talks about not needing 18 pairs of sneakers but he has 3 houses LMAO. Bernie so many people can’t buy one house for themselves why do you need 3? You can’t sleep in 3 places at once when there are poor people in this country. What a fraud
All commies live in palaces, while the people live in slums
@Amon Ra That's the trap the commies want you to fall for so you'll beg for public housing the size of a coffin with Agenda 21
He has one house from his marriage to Jane Sanders, who owned a house. One for DC because he is there so often. Then his normal home. I think it's pretty fair for a guy that works and lives in more than one place to have more than one house. To each according to his need, right? Anyone actually bitching about the homes he owns is a lazy idiot who can't be assed to actually fact check and do some research behind the reality of the situation. Not to mention he is tied to a mortgage on all of them except the one that Jane paid for.
Besides, there is nothing wrong with wealthy people like him wanting systemic change to help the poor. You don't need to be an animal to support animal rights just as you don't need to be poor to support the rights of the poor.
He has a house in vermont where he runs, he has a house in d.c. where he works, and a vacation home. That's it. If that's not reasonable idk what is
@@meghanlazz2765 Plus his wife bought one of the homes from money she had selling her old home too, which makes the case for it being even more reasonable
Bernie Sanders is in the dictionary under “useful idiot”.
Vermont you owe America a H-U-G-E apology.
Lmao we are so small. We barely make a difference
actually, it's "YUGE"!
James Bryson And the American people OWE THE WORLD AN EVEN BIGGER APOLOGY.
We are the laughing stock of the FREE WORLD.
Putin has difficulty preventing himself falling over laughing when he is with DUMP.
ThIs is the CHEAPEST AND MOST SUCCESSFUL WAR THE RUSSIANS HAVE EVE FOUGHT.
Start learning RUSSIAN.
@@brit1066 Enjoy your TDS...stay safe.
@@brit1066 ahh the obvious indoctrinated leftist, even with a name that screams zealot. You do know that science is about questions, not answers right? The CAPS also show your tds pretty strongly. Youre a pathetic waste of space and you "bernie bros" are less than human.
In Capitalist America, FOOD waits in line for PEOPLE!
...People who can afford to pay for it leaving everyone else starving and dying simply because they aren't well versed in the art of money making
Timefliesbye healthy one that doesn’t make you obese
@@kalanaherath3076 You've clearly never been to the USA. Most of our "poor" are overweight. And "the art of money making"? It's not rocket science. You apply for a job, and then you go to work, and then you save some of your money...
@@poliestotico healthy food is cheap too. Broccoli cost less than a bag of chips. Don't say people can't afford healthy foods. We just have more options and people choose to stuff their face with junk food. I'd rather have fat people than starving people.
@@kalanaherath3076 Come on. Why are people poor? There are three main reasons: Incompetence, bad luck and psychic health, or rather lack thereof. In America, it's way easier to get wealthier than before compared to less economically free countries. Don't always blame it on "the system".
The massive starvation and rampant homeless sounded like a huge problem but my mind was put to rest once I found out that I could buy a theater ticket for $1.50, thank you come Sanders for shedding light on the pros of communism
Like no one ever starved or died to make America or the British Empires rich and capitalist. The World Wars closed the path of capitalist development in Russia and China. Imperialism remains the highest stage of capitalism because the capitalist are much to greedy to let the rest of the world share in their markets if that was even considered possible. .
NO! He is a democrat, he has nothing to do with freeing slaves. That was the republicans. I'm not republican, but that goes to them. Libertarians, and dnc can't claim that.
Edit: I'm libertarian, we didn't pull that off, republicans got slaves freed. You need to respect that
That's not how it works...
That just means he wouldve been a Republican then and a Democrat now
The ancestors of most republicans are Democrats
And the ancestors of most Democrats are republicans
Are you a troll?
@@absoluteballs He has to be right? It doesn't matter what name you go by, it more matters what your principles are. Like the Swastika long ago was a symbol for peace in Ancient China and of course the Nazis turned it into basically a symbol of hate. You just can't say that the Nazis were peaceful because the swastikas were used as a symbol of peace.
@@absoluteballs the parties never switched over
11:30 Best part, Scandanavian leader saying they don't put socialism on a pedestal
They've got the schools and everything we watch on TV. Is anyone really surprised that this guy is now mainstream?
Love that last line: "Health care in Nicaragua is now free. It's terrible. It's primitive. But it's now free."
If only we could aspire to such heights haha
We could be right there in 8 years.
Finland has free healthcare, free education, social security for anyone who reside here, long parental leave for both, etc. All you have to do, is to give most of your money to government for your whole adult life :)
@@testi2025 Yep you've got to love that 55% federal income tax, paired with a plethora of other high taxes.
@@testi2025
Finland might as well should have been a Soviet-bloc country. I don't know why they resisted Soviet invasion.
Shaun Cameron Finland was a part of Russia in early 1900. And after the WW2 it was actually really close. In the 1980’s, some people ware angry at veterans “why did you fight against Soviets, we could be in it”. Finland is the only former soviet county, that has not had major reform after the collapse of Soviet Union. Luckily the current globalists in power, think Putin is behind all evil (Trump comes second), so no worries now.
He should "feel the burn" by moving to one of those countries .... just saying! Comrade Bernie
You should learn what communism is before you call someone a communist.
Bernie is not a communist, moron.
@F-35B LIGHTNING II fighter jet. #BlueLivesMatter By definition, he is not a communist. His beliefs do not line up with those of a communist. He is a Social Democrat. The same thing MLK was. Bernie and MLK shared very similar beliefs, so are you calling MLK a communist to?
@F-35B LIGHTNING II fighter jet. #BlueLivesMatter Bernie is not a communist. MLK, in terms of the economy, believed that America had one of the worst Wealth distributions in the world, and advocated for a Social Democracy. Bernies is not a Communist, no matter how you spell it out. He has been in politics for 40 years. He has been one of the most consistent politician on all of his beliefs.
@@EugeneVDebs-bt5pd he is
He just said how much he admired the soviet union and fidel Castro
“I am a socialist, I like socialism and we need to be more socialist: like Denmark.”
Sooo, you want to be more socialist by being more capitalist?
That is a scam when he uses the nordic countries they are capitalists!
He means capitalism with strong social welfare and social program
@@ronalddino6370 Then why he love Cuba and communist Russia so much?
@@enarodriguez9360 he wants to become a dictator somehow
@@enarodriguez9360 because cuba is based with higher life expectancy and lower infant mortaility than amerikkka
cope and seethe imperialists
This guy really makes me wonder about the voters in Vermont.
I visit vermont at least 15 days or so every year (I'm a skier.) Once you get away from the capitalist leaning ski resorts and head into some of these towns (brattleboro/rutland/bellows falls) it is downright scary. I felt like I was in a northern version of deliverance in some of these towns. Rutland is a zombieland meth/opiod disaster.
I Like Bernie , Hes sich a Tool , Here:" they are very free about calling their Shirts Houses shitty" wow amazing, or "they were very Open about acknowledging that they should make Progress" i cant believe it!!
Thats the Problem with Career politicians Like him
Have you ever wondered about the BRAINDEAD MAGA HATS.
Chris And your EVIDENCE IS?
Or are you just a PUTIN LOVER.
@Chris oh youre one of These Persons, youre a Young politically motivated Person WHO will wake Up in His retirement Home and regretting being so hateful and blind
The price of a ticket in the Yaroslavl theatre may indeed have been the equivalent of $1.50. But, the average salary of a worker at the time would be uh, around the equivalent of $100/month. Not that those equivalents mattered at the time, because Russia didn't allow currency conversion, but still.
Source: a person who lived 18 years of his life in Yaroslavl.
Edit: "their healthcare system is free" - yeeeeeeeeah, it was free on paper, but if you wanted to get any helpful treatment at all before you died, you had to either know someone powerful, or bribe someone powerful. The queues for the "free" treatment were booked months in advance.
Ken P Many Americans die every year from not being able to afford healthcare and have a much lower life expectancy than many countries with free healthcare. The main difference is healthcare goes first to the rich than trickles down. Generally speaking, healthcare is 10% of GDP in America. It's 20% of GDP. Health care for all is undoubtedly a system that should be free for all. Health care for all was also first enacted by Nazi Germany, one of the most right-wing governments in all of history.
@@jameswhite3415 The untimely demise of many healthy people in these communist countries due to political reasons far outweighs any perceived benefits you believe their corresponding healthcare systems provide. And only the naive would imagine communism results in a fair and equal society. The communist party elites get the best healthcare, food, benefits. Only now you are living under a totalitarian government and there is no recourse to even the playing field. People like you have no clue what you're talking about.
@@jameswhite3415 Beautiful, start with Health Care on down, completely in the hands of government....Then it can be run just wonderfully and efficiently just like the Ca. DMV. Are you delusional or stupid? Because it's 1 of the 2.
Discernment Why do countries with healthcare for all have a longer life expectancy, spend far less on healthcare, why has no country that's switched go Medicare for all ever gone back, why do the facts disagree with you etc.
@@jameswhite3415 I'm going to say this once and quickly. The vast majority of countries with socialized health care are the size of 1 of our medium sized states with 95+% of the citizenry of the same ethnic group, faith, educated in a very similar manner, similar moral compass, majority 2 parent homes etc. etc. Still, if someone urgently needs treatment and they can scrap the money together they're coming here for it. If you're going to throw Canada at me, that's especially true for them, or they suffer maybe dying before ever recieving often subpar treatment if they eventually do get it. These other countries aren't the world's #1 parasite destination either, but for the ones that have been taking in so called refugees, we're watching them self destruct before our eyes. Do unbiased research, talk to people from those countries that are the age where regular medical treatment is required. I've got no interest in hearing someone indoctrinated parroting theoretical Leftist talking points. I hope at least you're young and just naive, because if you're my age like I said, you're either very gullible and stupid or very delusional.
Thieves but well educated ones, that's how it sounds to me.
@@iamshikhersrivastava He's a relatively capable liar.
"Accused me of being a dumb dupe, Maybe I am" - well folks I heard it from the horse's mouth and I am convinced.
Horse's mouth? That sounds a little backwards.
@@dixonpinfold2582 mouth horses?
@@emeraldwolf7920 Horse's ass. ;)
I have friends and family that are Cuban and he just pisses me off.
David Q
You sound racist
¿Do you know how many ruthless right wing dictators the US has sponsored and supported through out Latin America?
¿have you ever read about Operación Condor, Operation PBSCUCCES, Bahía de Cochinos, the United Fruit Company, the School of the Americas and operation Iran-Contras?
come on dude, this clip is pure and RAW PROPAGANDA
@@XavierbTM1221 You are free to move to somewhere else. I here Venezuela is nice this time of year.
@@joeshmoe7967 Imbecile.
@@XavierbTM1221 said _"PBSCUCCES, Bahía de Cochinos, the United Fruit Company"_
None of these people look this stuff up ... lol.. like the "Joe Shmoe", they are mostly just kids who play video games, and have no clue of the history.
I'm pretty left leaning but this concerns me. I hate communism.
We do too. Its called democratic socialism. Not completely socialism and surely not communism.
It's frankly hilarious to see Comrade Bernie Sanders talking about 'working people' when he has never held a paid job outside of politics in his life, he has always lived off the taxpayers' money and during his decades as congressman he has never proposed a single significant piece of legislation and managed to get it approved; however, during his decades as a bureaucrat he did manage to become a millionaire and I love how he always used to criticize "millionaires" but after he became a millionaire himself he started to criticize "billionaires" from then on. In other words, he's a useless, hypocritical and shameless communist leech, like all communists.
@Uhavenoright toask Do you consider bernie sanders, a millionaire, to be part of the working class?
@@Clovis_the_Cat Obviously no, he has never truly worked in his life.
Bernie’s praise of Cuba did not age well 👀
you mean because they lost their only trade partner the USSR and because the illegal trade emargo against that island still exist? So curious why a country is poor if it literally is not allowed to trade with almost any country because that country / company would be sanctioned. You are so easily fooled.
"Healthcare in Nicaragua is now free. It is terrible..." I laughed out loud on that one. Never change, Bernie.
It's like, does he even listen to himself?
Except ours isn't terrible, so there's that.
Chris Carroll except it is, because if my appendix explodes I’m put into 66,000 dollars in debt.
I’m not joking. It happened to my brother.
Well it is a third world country that USA looted !!
Nice job with the failed conservative tactic of relativism. Keep comparing Nicaragua to the United States.
I understand why tyrants are tyrants, what I don't understand is why the public support them.
Because people like Bernie exploit envy and covetousness. He plays to the basest emotions by saying "look at what that guy over there has and look how little you have". Because he believes he knows best who should have what.
Because they're too dumb to realize Bernie isn't the enemy. They let the right convince them that socialism is bad while they collect their Social Security checks
Socialism is bad and socialists are my enemy.
Sanders is a tyrant, once he tasted his book deal over a million dollars 💵 tyrants want more power
carpo719 if I get to retire I will not be getting social security check because their will not be any left. All of the politicians cannot do anything but fill their pockets (Bernie included), voting in their raises, while they tax us more. So, why is Warren a millionaire but only makes 170k a year? And you know she don’t live in the projects eating Mac and cheese saving her money.
Social security has been around since the 30’s and the social security system is broken.
But I still love this country, cause I have family members in other countries when hospital get crowded, if they think you have no money, you are moved to the back of the line or they keep your family members until the bill is paid.
"A person doesn't need 18 pairs of shoes." Really! I'd like to see his wardrobe closets in all three of his houses.
Whenever a poor person hears "Socialism" they should duck and cover. Mostly, because they are the first to die.
Please explain what you mean by SOCIALISM. Most uninformed FOOLS get it mixed up with COMMUNISM OR FASCHISM so let's make sure you know what you are talking about.
By the way, do you know that the USA is a socialist country BUT THAT ONLY APPLIES TO THE WEALTHY who are well taken care of BY THE STATE.
Science-is-Truth my dude, socialism is the predecessor to communism, so it’s a fact that socialism will Inevitably become communism
Aye Calypso And CAPITALISM IS THE PRECURSOR TO FASCISM.
You see you have to have some INTELLIGENCE before you start a debate.
All you have are some IDIOTIC phrases that have been taught to you by people who also have no INTELLIGENCE OR UNDERSTANDING.
Go back to KINDERGARTEN and this time try to graduate.
You are an IGNORANT FOOL.
Science-is-Truth ok calm down, and I learned this from history, does Vladimir Lenin ring a bell? You ever opened a history book? he said “the goal of socialism is communism” so yes, I guess you could say I learn from history because I don’t want it to repeat itself, also, I’m confident in my ideas so I don’t feel the need to name call, such as ‘tolerant’ leftist like you do.
TheHortond - Really? Because we socialists generally say “eat the rich”, not “eat the poor”.
I must have missed the part that explains any jobs Bernie has had with the exception of his 3+ decades as a career politician living off the theft of the serfs.
He pretended to be a journalist exactly one time, he annoyed everyone on a commune.
@@OsamaBinKevo How lazy do you have to be to get kicked out of a hippie commune in Vermont?
How unfair. Bernie had several jobs. He just could not keep one.
Still better than any of the people in Washington!
I agree. Bernie has been in government for actually nearly 50 years and was only able to pass 7 legislative bills. He is even worse of a career politician than the Clinton's because he masquerades as the people's champion when he's been syphoning their money hunkering himself down in government.
Hippty hoppty I'm here to seize the private property.
and if you don't like it I have men with guns to convince you. and oh ya, I took all your guns last year.
just spat my coffee
He's not a socialist. He's a Social Democrat. He is a capitalist.
@KillerWhaleSFl I mean, Reason is really good though. Don't compare it to Fox News (Fox is right wing and Reason is libertarian_.
He is accurately referred to as a social democrat on the Reason Podcast.
But yeah, you're right. In Denmark, for instance, Bernie would be just barely centre-left.
@KillerWhaleSFl Very rarely do I ever see them pushing the same narrative.
There is being delusional....and then there is being Bernie Sanders....
I'll take delusional.
That covers the whole demoncrap party.
I agree
He has neer had a job his whole life. Just polotics. He was so lazy he got kicked out of a commune
Typical Jew.
@@SI-cd7xs Anti semite
@@lol-ct5qi facts are antisemitic
Will Bernie stand in line for food? Nope but everyone else would
No, he'll have someone else stand in line for him.
nope, he will be on his private jet flying to his next speaking engagement to tell everyone standing in those lines how lucky they are.
You see, he needs the food to lead the revolution.
While we're standing in line, he'll come around in his car and come out to greet us and say "well done, how're you folks doing?".
Cognitive dissonance. How is free, but "terrible" health care, a good thing?
Easy. Terrible is better than ZILCH
It's the illusion of "free" that makes it even less desirable
@@dosmastrify Perhaps if they weren't taxed and regulated into poverty, they could actually afford to pay for yourself without putting a gun to your neighbor's head and demand that he pays for what you want or even need.
Socialism is institutionalized violence. Always.
Well it's a bit like the European systems. I can't tell you how many Europeans I've met who are more than happy to take substandard healthcare. Most Americans think it's a hardship to put two patients in a single room. In South Korea they have an entire open floor setup like a warehouse.
@@dosmastrify you want a terrible brain surgeon then?
5:26 That's the sad truth about socialists I even saw in some friends. All that matters is the intention, not the outcomes. The fact that a large-scale socialist system doesn't work does not matter to them.
That's what boggles the mind! Throughout history its NEVER worked!
He is such a liar ,,,
Your such a sheep 😂
@@paulnavarro9986 true
@@paulnavarro9986 You are, too.
@boneappleteeth Exactly
@@stephenbryant5251 biden is now
I rode with two different Lyft drivers today both were Cuban just so happy to have escaped Cuba this last month
I just had one from Turkey who survived a terror bombing. He loooved the US.
Michael yeah. That happened.
Give me liberty or give me death.
Give em a couple of years; theyll want to go back.
It's amazing that people like Bernie, for all their 'good intentions', are incapable of understanding the evils of violating rights or the unintended consequences caused by such coercive means.
macsnafu in every. Single. Interview. He denounced communism and authoritarianism.
You people… fucking hell.
@@thedemonhater7748 So Bernie "denounces" authoritarian regimes. Wow, I feel so much better now!
Unfortunately, to achieve the system Bernie is promising you, authoritarian force MUST BE used against the population, or else the entire system collapses.
Bernie does not want to see. As far as good intentions??? He sees this as his only way to being lord over the people he resents. The rich. No one can say they care about people while attempting to prop up killers. He would not be that generous about the Catholic church amidst they recent discoveries of hiding child predators. But he double down on how we should look on the bright side of governments who murder their own people. He graves the power that comes from these socialist ideologies. Cares nothing for the individual human being. Its all about the plan and the revolution.
Ann G. MUST BE? Oh? To achieve single payer healthcare, we MUST BE an authoritarian regime?
Wow! I guess Germany, Belgium, Spain, Portugal, and every country in Europe is a communist dictatorship then. I was under the impression that they were all functioning democracies and republics with the notable exception of Russia, but that’s unfortunate.
You’re a moron.
@@thedemonhater7748 You're simple if you believe Socialism doesn't devolve naturally into authoritarianism.
The wealth gap definitely has grown since the 80's, but the median income in the US has grown as well....by almost 50%!!!! How does Bernie get away with claiming median income has shrunk? How you say? It's Political double speak....it's all BS...
My boss started a business because of the Reagan tax cuts. His net worth ascended to 14 million from about 100K. I started out at 4.50 an hour with a negative net worth and ended up making 60k a year and my net worth is somewhere around 700K. The wealth gap between us sure has increased but my pay and net worth is better that what I expected it to be and I am WAY better off as a result of his business venture...as well as the 300 people he employs....or rather his son now.
Creation of wealth that wasn't there before that provides for good paying jobs... IS A GOOD THING PEOPLE!!!!!
it is hard to not think bernie's entire life is actually a spoof or a gag
left wing, whatever it is, is such that its followers are constantly thinking, reactualizing some great-ass purpose. when you keep thinking about this great ideal of yours, it is highly possible that you start missing some aspects of your life, in the sense that they get neglected. the fact that you were once exactly the opposite that you are now, while sounding outrageous, is not impossible for a busy guy, you gotta give him that. he was busy and, yes, seems that some aspects of his dont add up, but that is not meant to be our business, given how he constructed his timeline
@@apoolplayer278 At least leftists think, you cannot say the same about right wingers.
the ones who listen to bernie their lives are a spoof but bernie profits from it.. hes the smartest one of them all. he got $ in the bank from these idiots i mean loving and caring people.
"bernie's entire life is actually a spoof or a gag"
Or a sick joke.
@@souljastation5463 Now that's a stupid statement. What do you imagine made us leave the left? Thinking. Unlike the majority of the cult.
Well, the trains had to be efficient if they were to move prisoners to the gulags...
"High priority" line items in the central planning office!
Bahahahahahaha
Bernie Sanders visited the USSR in 1988. The gulag was abolished under Khrushchev.
Meow Meow It wasn't abolished, just reduced in number and what got you sent there was relaxed.
Meow Meow not to mention the USSR was literally about to collapse.
Say hello to 90% of the university system in the USA. Sanders gets all his support from the youth. Socialism concentrates the nations wealth to a small 0.001% of government elites. Everyone else is super poor and same, works great for Sanders as an elite.
Excuse me the CCCP term is "central planner" elite is a capitalist term.
I also was one of those fools who believe that Scandinavian countries are socialist countries, without researching
He probably has one of those hero-ized Che Guevara postors in his living room?
"At the end of the day you don't need a choice of 23 different choices of under arm deodorant. " He thinks it's an innocent statement to make but it is a dead giveaway that he has not changed at all. His plans are to control every aspect of human life, how else would he go about reducing the number of available choice of deodorant ?
It reveals his basic outlook of “I know what you need better than you.”
He has a bad habit of not knowing how to make those ideas into words that make sense to an average man.From what i heard in this video he has great intentions and an open mind.Which is something I never saw in a US presidential candidate.
You guys have a false idea of choice there.You have 3 companies that are allowed to produce insulin in the US for example.Why is that?Why is something that should be up for contest among a large number of companies protected by huge capital and people close to the seats of power.
You are treated like cattle in your own state.
But i would still like to visit the US someday in the future.
This is all coming from a nationalist-european.
By making ppl aware of more important things than deodorants, by shift of perspective from profits to shareholders, to benefits of stakeholders
Exactly!
Just a control freak. If you own a deodorant company you can easily make it smell 10 different ways and change the packaging to suit your customers that's what businesses do cater to customers supply and demand.
I love how people say "they can't find any dirt on this guy."
How are your neighbors doing?
ask them
@@oldmangranny5oldmangranny56
I can't. They are YOUR neighbors.
...Shit like that just proves how incompetent you are in these types of discussions. Don't worry. Bernie will get you healthcare so a doctor can look at your failing brain.
id rather have a idealistic socialist mayor than a corrupt piece of s**t that sells his political representation to every single oligopolistic industry he can
@@XavierbTM1221 That is what you say now, your tune would soon change after they gained the power.
How anyone can support Bernie is beyond me.
How anyone can watch his opinions from the seventies or eighties and think this is relevant to his current platform is even more braindamaging frankly.
It's simple: Fuck capitalism
It's odd how his rhetoric changes after the fall of the Soviet Union, it's almost as if he was a Soviet agent.
6-8 million people died of hunger in the Soviet Union, secondly if the Soviet Union was so great why did East Berlin have to build a wall to keep their citizens in.
Yeah, just like Trump.
Bernie in 1980: nobody should make more than a million dollars.
Bernie in 2020: I’m a millionaire, but it’s the billionaires that are now the problem.
“Nobody should make more than a hundred dollars.”
“I make more than a hundred dollars, but it’s the guy making a hundred thousand dollars whose the problem.”
Just to put the difference into perspective.
Being a millionaire (having a million) is not the same as making more than a million (typically referring to annual income).
@@asdfsdffgdfg Exactly. For years he has been one of, if not the lowest paid member of the Senate. Just because he got lucky with a successful book doesn't change that.
I'm no Bernie fan--but your post is completely idiotic. He isn't making more than a million dollars. He HAS more than a million dollars.
@Christian Tompkins You lack critical thinking skills. He criticizes laissez-faire capitalism. Look it up.
Who are his constituents??? I blame the teachers.
Should blame the parents while you're at it. Even when teachers are spewing bull the parents should be correcting it and teaching their kid that not all teachers can be trusted, or straight homeschool their kids if possible.
Blame professors, not primary school teachers.
The NEA is a force in education which is more like indoctrination.
@Will Clark professors and high school teachers are the culprits.Many circumvent the curriculum and some evade subject with bogus lesson plans.
This presentation is very well done and all his so called followers and everyone else should see this!!!!
I actually sent this to a Bernie supporter. Hopefully he watches it Im only trying to help him take the blindfolds off
Still Bernie only politicians to stick to his views for decades
Bernie is like that loony, senile person in every family who espouses tinfoil hat conspiracy theories at every family gathering. You tolerate his cringe-worthy behavior, but ultimately never ever take him seriously on any subject.
There are no blind as those who refuse to see. I am appalled at how many people want free stuff, not knowing they will be paying for it one way or another.
Our society has been dumbed down just enough that people think they can get something for nothing.
You two lovers are actually the ones who are blind, FOR YOU SEE, 1% of the worlds population actually owns 50% of the worlds wealth!
crazy isn’t it? Hey maybe we could tax those guys? And the giant companies that don’t pay taxes? 🤔
@@unlockme7763 They built that wealth from nothing, they didn't just scoop it up or something.
@@unlockme7763 actually in the US the rich are the ones paying most of the taxes while the poor get back more from tax returns then they put in.
Aren't you paying for it now, but you're not getting anything from it
“Yeah hitler killed millions but at least they had highways.”
He also proposed the first animal rights laws
Ma Cho I love you because your brilliant 🥰
@Andreana Calhoun i don't live there
@Andreana Calhoun I'm from Spain in Europe and Yes i love my nation
@Andreana Calhoun why are you so rude?
7:50 We are allowed to see those programs in the United States. In the old USSR if you listened to or watched western broadcasts you were subject to arrest.
I believe in free enterprise , I don't believe in subsidies for the chemical companies I don't believe in subsidies for the oil industry or the coal industry or the corn industry free market Enterprise , I believe everyone should pay their FAIR share of taxes , the largest , strongest middle class is the best !
Denmark Sweden and Norway just have huge welfare programs and those are unsustainable because eventually they end up running out of other people’s money. Let people keep their own money and spend it how they want to and save and invest for their own future. Paying people to do nothing will never be a good idea.
That is Hugo Chavez only older, white and without the guns...
If he becomes commander in chief like he wants to, he’ll have the guns, too
@Sam Smith Judaism isn't a race.
Oh he has guns.
I love and appreciate the sentiment, but the easiest fault to find about charging the "1%" is what the hell do we do when they suddenly pack up and leave to go to a country that won't tax them an excruciating amount?
If the American press isn’t free anymore than our country is no longer free
"I visited Berlin in 1942. I saw beautiful autobahn, cheap and affordable Volkswagen cars (People's car), I saw their welfare state which is strongest in the world, I didn't see any homeless people on the street.. What a great country!!"
- Confused man
“National-Socialist Germany” wasn’t even socialist, the economy was capitalist with private owned business. They had socialist elements, but the private ownership indicates a more-capitalist like environment.
Fun-fact: the People’s Car never actually saw public (citizen) use since the factory had to be retrofitted to accommodate for military-equipment production.
Watch a documentary right here at You-Tube called "WW1 to 911: Everything is a rich man's trick". You will find with proof that wealthy people from Europe, and the United States gave the equivalent of billions of dollars to Hitler's Nazi regime secretly funneled through Prescott Bush's Union Bank in the 1930's. Prescott Bush was father to George H. Bush, and grandfather to George W. Bush. You can't build a powerful dictatorship, without lots of investment. Many rich people love dictatorships---why I can't fathom? This documentary is very enlightening, but also quite long (about 3.27 hours).
@@hitchhikerspongebob9851 Ehhhhhhh. It was technically privately owned but with a rule that the government could seize it at any point and redistribute it or take direct control if they felt it wasn't being productive enough. They could also take any land they felt they needed without compensation. That's a pretty big Sword of Damocles hanging over their head and basically meant the government got to have the final say in everything. Facism is somewhere between a welfare nanny state and total Communism with a heavy focus on National Pride and therefore wasn't 100% Socialist policies top to bottom, but to say it's Capitalist and not Socialist is a bit misleading.
@@hitchhikerspongebob9851 You can't use common sense and facts on people like BlueMonday.. lol - they all repeat the same mantra without every bothering to look any of this stuff up.
NiGHTSnoob I said it was capitalist with socialist elements, what else is there to say. Also, under authoritarian rule there is of course the possibility that they could take their stuff, but that’s not because there was a written rule (there was literally a dictator in power). And, to say that Fascism is anywhere near Communism is blatantly false. Communism is the ideology of being prideful of the common worker regardless of nationality while Fascism directly appeals to the downtrodden in a society who are prideful in their nation. To say that Nazi Germany was anywhere near communism is just incorrect. And, to be fair, they had a bustling economy that nearly conquered the world just a few years after having everything stripped from them. To call them a welfare-nanny state doesn’t do it much justice either.
On another side note, I don’t support these ideologies. I just like for the truth to be known about these governments so that we aren’t doomed to repeat history.
A necessary and informative report by Reason. Thank you.
I agree. Not enough conservative voices are giving calm and sensible arguments against his claims.
@@nanday100
That might be because not enough conservatives are serious about reducing the size and scope of government.
@@jeffersonianideal good point
@@nanday100
Thanks. Every once in a great while I tend to formulate a coherent one.
LOL! "Reason" and another one of their MISLEADING propaganda videos gets another "A" from JOSEPH GOEBBELS. So much BULLSHIT in this video it stacks up to Mt. Everest
A whole load of "muh communism" and "that wasn't real communism" comments inbound 😂
Watching these videos really makes me worried about the future of my country our spending is out of control especially with covid and furlough. I just wish there was a country with minimal gov
"Healthcare in Nicaragua is terrible, but it's free". No comment.
As of 2020, he no longer mentions millionaires, just billionaires now that he is worth 2.5 million.
Quick reminder he's the poorest member of congress
And one million dollars Then would be the equivalent of five million dollars today
@@Stoichia No one deserves to hoard a million dollars when there are so many impoverished and homeless in America. He has 2 homes that are unoccupied for most of the year. He is a hypocrite.
@@rollopolloboymarch1074 3 homes remember he got one for bowing to Hillary.
Except for legalizing THC, I believe this man is delusional
Even a broken clock is right twice a day
He does advocate for the socioeconomic reform like healthcare and education reform, but unfortunately he have no reasonable way to pay. USA must institute a Land Value tax in addition to cutting corporate taxes to fund public services like healthcare and education. This way the market is more free and the government can still raise more revenew while not having to raise wealth taxes such as the income tax and estate. This s the way Denmark does it. They have one of the freest market economies in the world, higher than USA. Denmark is BETTER at capitalism than USA
Anyone over 27 who still believes in Baron von Breadline needs to get their head checked.
Millionaire- I thought he didn’t believe anyone should make a million dollars or more.
BUT BOOKS! hmm shouldn't books be free?
Ever since publishing his book, he now strictly limits his speech that there should be no billionaires.
Yes, the man is a complete hypocrite.
@@brandonkenney6310 I liked when he prays to the Nicaraguan healthcare then says oh it's very terrible and primitive it's not very good but it's free. That's like someone giving you a car for free but it doesn't really run it does have a radio. What's the point? A car that doesn't run?
Have you changed a stance 30 years later? Hmm?
@@dosmastrify his stance hasn't changed. He's pro socialism in an effort to be unique to be elected on promises that have not worked anywhere. Nothing new. He's just really successful at it. It's fun isn't it? 😁
Bernie: Criticizing millionaires for what made them millionaires, while being a millionaire.
Jon G Bernie is literally fighting for human rights and for the well being of everyone. Being a millionaire is not what’s bad, but it’s not willing to pay your taxes and help society which is. You’re misleading as fuck
@@TheBieberbe1iber America is just America though : )
TheBieberbe1iber he says right in the video that no one should be a Millionaire. And yet he’s a Millionaire. Don’t preach to anyone about misleading as fuck. And taxes are immoral. It’s nothing short of legalized theft.
@@cosmosaic8117 He Changes His opinion now its Only the billionaires
Ben Dover how convenient
His cottage on the lake was 600 thousand. Cottage. 3rd home.
That's a little scandalous.
The Party watches you, Comrade!
Funny he says that people don't need multiple things like sneakers when there's children starving.. says the guy with 3 houses.
@Robert Bielski Help us? Please, he's an anti american Stalin wannabe dictator. He wants everyone poor except for those ruling classes.....he wants you to be his slave. You ok with that? Waiting in line for food???? Please move to Cuba
@@borismcgillicutty3042 Cuba increased its life expectancy drastically under communist leadership. in fact, the cuban life expectancy continues to increase while in america is has started to decline.
@@hoopaj00 So you're saying you're in favor of Communism....got it
@@hoopaj00 And I'd rather live free without the GOVERNMENT telling me what to do and die earlier than live longer under GOVERNMENT control....but some people are weak minded and would rather be told how to live than figure it out by themselves. Look at the Latin and African nations..tribal instincts and those people are more likely to follow a dictator. Why do you think the media is so anti white? Whites are standing in the way.....the colored people are easy prey for them. Give them shiny free stuff and they'll be loyal.
@Robert Bielski Well Trump is going to be re-elected and Bernie is being exposed as the communist he is....like I said, he manipulates weak young minds. You proved my point. Maybe you should have a closer look at things when you grow up.
WOW! Even as a young man he looked bat shit crazy!!!
And ugly as sin. I knew Bernie wasn't the best looking man but yikes!
Now he just looks old and batshit angry. Thankfully he has no chance of being president
There were many in college in the late 60s,just like Bernie they were theoretical gypsies who attended academic seminars on the evils of America.They were collectivists with no personal sovereignty who wished for free stuff and comfort without freedom and liberty.
Dan Mc the 60’s was one of the most embarrassing moments of the 20th century for the US...
What you’re saying is that these “theoretical gypsies” who held seminars on the “evils of America” were wrong? So all the entire counterculture movement that brought about the Civil Rights Acts, Second Wave Feminism and a plethora of liberal ideas that have bettered the world?
There is no “freedom” if you’re all ruled by money and race... and before the 60’s that’s all that the US was. It seems with the Donald you’ve all gone back to that.
Oh and let’s not forget all of the atrocities that the CIA did during the 60’s. Brainwashing their own citizens, killing their own citizens, funding terrorist organisations, setting up dictatorships in other countries, slaughtering and destroying entire countries, etc, etc.
The US even basically helped the creation of the Unabomber, as it does with most mass murderers and the ridiculous amount of people that go crazy under the system and add another mass shooting to the list.
Most importantly, the US funded the creation of Al Qaeda. Even 9/11 was in some way indirectly caused by your own government...
Chris you, Sir, are correct. Sanders reminds me of a modern-day Abraham Lincoln. If Lincoln came back today, he’d probably be called a socialist. It’s amazing how deluded an entire country can become because of Cold War propaganda. Lincoln even thought wage labour was next to slavery! This is morality and the fight against injustice under an unregulated, capitalist system - not Communism or even socialism. If anything he is more patriotic than Trump because he actually cares about the common man. I guess too many people are too set in their ways to realise people like Bernie aren’t trying to ruin the country - why would he, seriously? He has fought for so many good causes and then only things the elite can resort to is ideological propaganda where they try and smear him by calling him a ‘socialist’ and pretending it’s equivalent to laziness. Too many people watch Fox News.
This guy has never been a Democrat, yet they worship him. If he has the courage he should form his own party and not hijack one.
I can’t believe I voted for this guy in 2016. I was blind and I’ll never vote for a socialist again.
He doesn’t think government should control grocery stores or the means of production. Except for banks, healthcare, education, farms, utilities.
They already control all the things you've listed. And it's been a disaster
Every other fucking developed country has government controlled healthcare and most have education. Why tf do people think that only happens in communist countries. I live in Canada and iv never heard ANYONE say that we should go to a private healthcare system. Ofc having the government control everything is bad but stuff like healthcare and education isnt gonna cause genocide like a lot of people say.
@john oboczky The left and the liberal establishment don't get along so well. That is what this primary is all about.
john oboczky The economy in europe is going to shit (for reasons other then healthcare) and countries are on the verge of bankruptcy so ofc the healthcare system is going to suffer and people in Canada only go to the U.S for elective procedures (non life threatening). If someone needs an emergency surgery because their appendix bursts or they hurt themselves really bad then they get treated immediately and at very little cost to them, so there is no reason for them to leave. people go to the U.S because they can afford to pay to have and elective procedure done sooner. Meanwhile in the U.S people are dying because they are going bankrupt because of the healthcare system and drive to Canada to buy prescription drugs because they cost so much where they live. Those articles you listed are from liberal media outlets. Those outlets tend to be more socially liberal (don’t hate gay people, support gender and racial equality...etc) but are economically conservative so its not right to call them “left wing” because they are more centrist.
To everyone who says “you don’t need a million/10 million/100 million or even a billion dollars”
You do when you have a 1000000% inflation rate
No, a million is the magic number lol, just a million, first number that popped into my head. "Duh one pahcent duh one pahcent."
Communism is the worst idea mankind thought of.
Im constantly hearing the msm talking about trumps hair. But I've never heard a PEEP from them about bernies. what up wit dat chit?!?!
Maybe you should run on a Yang Gang program of free monthly haircuts.
Hell, what about Pelosi and and that death face of hers? She looks like she crawled out of her grave. Skin pulled so tight her eyeballs are practically bulging out of their sockets. Oh but to these ridiculous hypocritical blowhards "she's da boss". Hilarious.
@@donlebo6824 This is the typical two party way of choosing a president. In Nixon vs JFK it was said afterwards that Nixon's 5 o'clock shadow lost to Kennedy's youthful appearance after the debate in which issues don't matter but make up for the camera does.
@@kimobrien. Yeah, but were talking about old people on either side. Lefties complain about "old white men" running things but they vote for em'. I don't think it has to do with age. It's the politics. Same goes for them crying for a woman president. As long as she's not conservative.It has nothing to do with Republicans being afraid of powerful women. It's the fact The Left don't want a pwerful conservative female president. So that age-ist b.s. goes out the window for me as well as the "powerful female" crap.Their beef is Conservatism.Not the age or sex. Oh and Race. Lefties love to push that . Oh and while I'm on the subject of "conservstism" it's funny how these Dems talk shit about that , when that party was it once. Look up PMRC.
@@donlebo6824 I'm not a Democrat, Bernie Bro., Our revolution or DSA (Democratic Socialists of America). My Party the Socialist Workers Party runs our own candidates in every Presidential election since 1948. We don't withdraw in favor of one or other candidates either. TheMilitant.com and PathfinderPress.com reflect our politics. Two party politics is filled with hypocrisy including the Tipper Gore attempt to protect sensitive ears.
It blows my mind that so many people cant pick up the vibe that this Bernie ain't wrapped too tight in the head!
I knew it when he and his buddy were yelling down from the balcony while on the Muppet Show! That was a good job, he should have kept it! This politics thing doesn't seem like a good fit for him!
I love how he doesn’t realize that while in the Soviet Union they purposefully only showed in the nice stuff. Like no crap you didn’t see all of the poor starving people who hate their government, you were on a tour.
They do the same thing in North Korea.
Same thing in the US
I did not mention Stalin.
People can be allergic to some of the ingredients so might not all be able to use the same deodorant.
"Free everything!"
...who's gonna foot the bill, Bernie?
"It doesn't mattah!, free everything!"
The taxpayers!
Very smart, man. Shows you know zero and don't give a shit to even look into it but apparently think your hollow opinion is worth a comment