Sanders’ sobbing socialist
Posted on February 5, 2016 by Becky Akers
Woman crying while addressing Bernie Sanders
“If you had told me a year ago that a socialist talking about income inequality would almost upend a former Secretary of State [in Iowa’s caucuses;], I would have told you you were crazy,” or so Bernie Sanders’ supporters allegedly claimed after his surprising tie with Hitlery this week.
Seriously? Are socialists truly this stupid? Or do they willfully blind themselves to facts, including those that prove their ideology’s triumph in this nation? Don’t they realize that Hitlery—and virtually all Democrats as well as most Republicans—are dyed-in-the-wool socialists? (Strictly speaking, they’re actually fascists. Fascism, like socialism and modern communism, stems from Karl Marx’s confused and Satanic philosophy. Tragically, what most Americans expect from their governments now falls somewhere within that Marxist spectrum; for convenience, we’ll refer to all of them as “socialists,” despite their minor differences.)
Apparently, socialists’ memories are as deficient as their IQs, because a mere week before the Iowa circuses—sorry, caucuses, a spectacle at Sanders’ own rally demonstrated Americans’ entrenched collectivism:
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders … listened to emotional testimony from a woman “… [who] choked-up as she explained how ashamed she felt that she couldn’t support her family without help from her parents.” ‘I’ve been living off probably less than [$12,000] for some time because of disabilities and it’s so hard to do anything to pay your bills,’ she said. ‘You’re ashamed all the time … when you can’t buy presents for your children, it’s really, really hard. I worked three, four, five jobs sometimes, always minimum wage … I have a degree. Divorced. And it’s just waiting for disability to come through so my parents have to support me. It’s just hard.’”
Guess what happens next. Yep, the audience “[bursts] into applause.”
For most of this conniption, the camera remains on Comrade Sanders; it pans the lady’s section of seating near the end of the clip, but we don’t see her face clearly, nor do we learn her name. All we know is that she’s well-fed — overly so, in fact — and owns a healthy set of tear-ducts. We’ll dub her Lisa Leech.
We’ll also presume Ms. Leech ranted truthfully and spontaneously and that Sanders’ campaign didn’t plant her, as we’ve come to expect from the other Democratic candidate. Fine: do you see anything to cheer in her story? Yet Sanders’ followers applaud her confession of dependency, failure, and helplessness while their hero intones, “Thank you. Thank you … It is not easy for people to stand up and say that.”
It isn’t? Au contraire: socialists encourage serfs to toss their self-respect and bemoan their lot to strangers; bonus points if said hysteria hits national headlines. The subtext to such mortifying displays is, “You need government. You can’t handle your own problems. Only the State can save you — and you must cede it more power to do so.”
Indeed, Bernie himself testified to that encouragement with his very next statement: “But the truth is that until millions of people who are experiencing what you’re experiencing do say that we don’t make change.” He “added: ‘You can’t live in dignity on $10,000 or less.’” Yeah, far more dignified to bawl about your woes in public.
Let’s remember that Lisa Leech’s plight isn’t exactly desperate; unpleasant, yes, but not desperate. She isn’t starving on the streets with heartless capitalists stepping over her on the way to their counting-houses. She doesn’t worry about keeping a roof overhead. No, she mourns for the luxuries she can no longer afford, such as gifts for her kids (if she has any; again, I doubt this story’s legitimacy). And she’d rather sponge off taxpayers via “disability” than live with her parents. After all, Mom and Dad might remind her they didn’t raise moochers and demand repayment. Uncle Sam is far more munificent with our money.
Yet moving in with family is the only step Lisa’s taken that Americans would once have approved. Those truly down on their luck should look to family and friends for help. Doing so strengthens our relationships while keeping the beholden honest. It also reinforces our independence from the State — precisely why socialists disapprove such arrangements. No wonder they deem stealing from taxpayers more honorable than autonomy.
Ditto on Ms. Leech’s divorce. These vile dissolutions not only rip families apart, they condemn victims to poverty — and socialists’ answer to poverty is always more governmental meddling with the economy, more power for the State. Breaking our marital vows squarely advances socialism’s agenda; that alone should immediately arrest the rates of divorce, to say nothing of the heartbreak and personal upheaval. If Lisa had remained married, she’d likelier live in her own home rather than rooming with Mom.
Finally, the “disability” on which Lisa pins her hopes is not a solution but more of socialism’s economic voo-doo. Because they produce nothing but taxes and regulations, governments not only destroy prosperity, they must; insisting otherwise is like believing that the more vampires suck your blood, the healthier you’ll grow. We can demonstrate this truth theoretically, through common sense (governments have no resources but what they steal from us; stronger, bigger governments steal more than smaller, weaker ones; ergo, smaller, less intrusive governments leave more money in taxpayers’ pockets) and from experience (American markets have never been free, but they were relatively so compared with the Soviet Union’s. While hungry Russians waited in endless lines for necessities, Americans watched color TVs and snacked on food as abundant as Soviet queues).
Ms. Leech is absolutely right — if a leftist can ever be right — to bewail America’s unfair, corrupt, and imploding economy. But what else would we expect after a century of socialism? Commie utopias from East Germany to Cuba are notorious for the same implosions. And though the “softer” socialism that Europe and America embrace may be less brutal, it too impoverishes everyone but politicians and bureaucrats.
Lisa Leech and the audience applauding her embody all that’s killing America. As the “socialist talking about income inequality,” Comrade Bernie is but a symptom of our fatal disease.
Poster Comment:
But how many registered Democrats defected to vote in the Republican caucus? There were gobs of them. Maybe the thought they had better choices there.
