Rand Paul Warns Sanders Presidency Could Lead To 'Mass Genocide'

Right Wing Watch reports:

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., joined South Carolina radio host Vince Coakley yesterday to discuss the first Democratic presidential debate, where he said the candidates were “all trying to outdo each other in their disdain for the economic system of capitalism that made us great.”

The Republican presidential candidate linked Sen. Bernie Sanders, a self-proclaimed democratic socialist in the mold of Northern European countries, to the murderous communist regimes of Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot, saying that “most of the times when socialism has been tried” there “has been mass genocide of people or any of those who object to it.”

“It amazes me and it actually kind of scares me,” Paul said. “I’ve been spending more time going after Bernie and socialism because I don’t want America to succumb to the notion that there’s anything good about socialism. I think it’s not an accident of history that most of the times when socialism has been tried that attendant with that has been mass genocide of people or any of those who object to it. Stalin killed tens of millions of people. Mao killed tens of millions of people. Pol Pot killed tens of millions of people. When you have a command economy, when everything is dictated from one authority, that’s socialism, but it doesn’t come easily to those who resist it.”

All very true Rand and what you said needs to be said, but wimpy, middle-of-the-road policies and a desire to gain power also lead to eventual socialism.

As the great economist Ludwig von Mises put it:

The   middle-of-the-road policy is not an economic system that can last. It is a method for the realization of socialism by installments.

It is easy to attack an extreme lefty in the other party, but real courage is speaking out against the minimum wage  and calling for an end to the Fed, when are you going to do that Rand?

-RW