I’m not for name-calling but it’s time to start using the “Communist” again when referencing Senator Bernie Sanders, for the media won’t. Communist word has been watered down to Socialist and now Progressive. So, let’s refresh ourselves on Sanders’ past.
As a University of Chicago student he joined the Young People’s Socialist League, the youth wing of the Socialist Party USA. He also organized a communist affiliate, the United Packinghouse Workers Union, which was being investigated by the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
After graduating Sanders moved to Vermont, heading up the American People’s History Society, an organ for Marxist propaganda. There, he produced a very flattering documentary on the life of Communist Revolutionary, Eugene Debs. Debs was jailed for espionage and recognized by the Bolsheviks as “America’s Greatest Marxist.”
After years of no fulltime job and failed attempts for congress, Sanders eventually became mayor of Burlington, the state capital. Population 40,000. Sanders took several trips to the USSR, even spending his second honeymoon there. He also ventured to Cuba and Nicaragua, where the Soviets were trying to expand their influence in our own backyard.
In 1985, he traveled to Managua to celebrate the rise of the Marxist-Leninist Sandinista government. He called it a “heroic revolution.” Having spent most of his life either living off the earnings of female companions or gorging himself at the governmental trough, it’s not surprising he’s professed to be an anti-capitalist. But even the Democrats didn’t want Sanders in 2020, so they dragged up “Old Joe” from his failing Biden Basement Campaign.
Today Sanders a multi-millionaire, continues preaching the same phrase he’s used for 40 years, “the Oligarchs are coming!” He’s still wrong. The Golden Age is coming and the American dream is attainable for those willing to work for it.
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