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| Bernie Sanders |
When Sanders (and his wife) made the comments in 1988, the Soviet Union was a hellhole.
-RWAstounding! After a 1988 trip to the USSR, @BernieSanders & wife Jane praise the Soviet system. When I visited Moscow the same year, the decrepitude overwhelmed me. The Sanders are 20 years older than me. To a shocking degree, they are blinded by ideology. pic.twitter.com/7KmHz4D8hf— Mike (@Doranimated) February 23, 2019
(ht Peter Klein)
Bernie is probably fine with a compulsory community as long as it produces the things he was raving about. At the same time he doesn’t appear interested in delving below the surface or regarding the underbelly of Soviet society. To do so might create a serious conflict for him since the scapegoat of Soviet capitalism wouldn not be available.
ReplyDeleteBernie is probably fine with a compulsory community if it produces the things he raves about. At the same time he seems incurious about what lies below the surface, a view of the underbelly of Soviet society. To do so might create for him a serious conflict. And since the scapegoat of Soviet capitalism would not be available he would have to suppress and/or lie to himself to maintain his faith in the goodness of the state, etc.
ReplyDeleteClearly age, biological gender, race, and ethnicity have nothing to do with one's political philosophy; we have Occasional-Cortex and Sanders both advocating socialism.
ReplyDeleteI'm surprised that these dupes had such a naively sanguine view of the USSR at such a late stage of its existence. I mean, I can maybe understand the Pollyanna attitude in the 30s when so many Marxists and Progressives saw only what they wanted to see when they returned from fact-finding trips to the USSR. But by the late 80s, I'm pretty sure the curtain of falsehoods and delusion was pulled aside, and no one was buying the narrative of glimmering cities, well-fed and happily-employed citizens, and overflowing bounty.
ReplyDeleteWhat an idiot!