Learning To Know Bernie

Remember, it is Sanders who:

• Traveled to the Soviet Union for 10 days in 1988 for a “strange honeymoon” – his words – and came away saying there are things America could learn from the communist regime, which had its “strengths.”

• Visited Nicaragua in 1985 and “hailed the revolution led by Daniel Ortega,” the Washington Post reported. Ortega, of course, was a Marxist-Leninist revolutionary who wrecked that country with Cuban-style communism. Perhaps most damning to Sanders, as we wrote last year, is the fact that “he sat idly by while Ortega ranted about American terrorism, and a crowd of reportedly a half-million chanted ‘here, there, everywhere, the Yankee will die.'”

• Toured Cuba, and returned “glowing with admiration for Fidel Castro, saying he had ‘solved some very important problems’ in that country.” The regime, Sanders said, had made “enormous progress” in “improving the lives of poor people and working people.”

• Promised to prosecute fossil fuel executives, which some believe “starkly reveals Bernie as a Leninist-Stalinist communist, ready and willing to impose his order by brute force; and that means prosecutions for economic crimes, ex post facto prosecutions, prisons, gulags and regimentation.” 
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