Bernie opposed the Iraq War which cost a few trillion dollars. More in fact than the entire student debt, just to put it into perspective, not to make any recommendations. Bernie condemned Hamas for killing Israelis but Israel more strongly for killing huge numbers of Palestinians most of which are women and children and do not match the descriptions of the Hamas forces. Using a traditional definition of the 'Left' as favoring improved conditions for the poor, this country is now under Biden moving to the right in that sense, of rising rents and house prices, and declining prospects for being able to earn enough money to survive. Using the new definitions of the Left as favoring defunding the police and flooding the country with immigrants, I would be interested to hear his stance and reasoning.
Defunding the police is not a position held by a significant number of people, even on the left. There was a year or two when it was more popular, but I would never have called it mainstream left. Flooding the country with immigrants? Also a mischaracterization of the left. It's more a lack of (or at least reduced compared to the right) concern about numbers of immigrants, and rather concern about the welfare of them as people. But yes, Bernie is more of a true leftist than Biden. I think I agree with most of his ideas, but they're not all presented here, even the ones on the poll.
Bernie is old Marxist. Marxists can think only in terms of their ideology. Therefore they are wrong about 90% of the time because for them every evil in the world is caused by capitalism. This is true of Bernie except when he is acquiring more houses and personal wealth. Then he is a capitalist.
Leave it to conservatives to exaggerate how far left any leftist is. But he's definitely to the left of other mainstream American politicians and is more like a European politician - most of which are to the left of America, but not fully socialist. He wants to reform capitalism, and regulate it, not discard it.
Traditionally, the right wants minimal regulation and therefore reforms. Corporations self-police. There has been some anti-globalism injected in lately, though.
I have not had any contacts with true Marxist believers lately, but their usual analysis starts with, “The problem is capitalism … “ From then on it’s all boilerplate.
Bernie is the only one who puts the US population on a higher priority than starting wars. Every time the neocons are in charge we end up with more wars than we can fight. With G W Bush it was, since we were near wining in Afghanistan, more the forces to Iraq and then start a war there. The Biden Administration, and their contacts in the CIA and State Department thought Russia wouldn't dare interfere in our shells we supplied to Kyiv for bombarding Donetsk, and if they did we'd get them out within 45 days. It's been over 700 days now. I don't think we're ever going to get Donetsk flattened at this rate, and we want to go get China and Iran as well.
Bernie was right, or partially right about many national foreign policy issues. There were also other issues he was kind of off about. Libertarian Ron Paul also opposed the Iraq war, so this wasn't only just coming from the far Left.
Many stories have been written about the future, some Utopian, some dystopian, some very scary but I can't remember any as stupid as the situation we are in right now. Joe Biden gives a speech, most of it is lies, something he is well known for, yet, somehow the majority of the public heard it and believed it. So the US and the Western World are suffering from believing total crap.
There was no war in Ukraine, and Ukraine and Russia were negotiating their differences by financial means. Until the US sent in lots of weapons and told Ukraine they would win. We need a candidate whose main aim is something other than to increase weapons sales at any cost.
If Bernie were younger and was running for president, I'd vote for him over either Biden or Trump. I could care less about marxism or capitalism. the reality of jobs vanishing to AI, and what it means to be human will make both obsolete. The brainwashing of humanity that began with the industrial revolution will end, and what it even means to be human is going to completely change soon, and will likely resemble something closer to ancient Greece than what life has been like since the industrial revolution, though obviously there will be many, many differences from ancient Greece.
How many years have you been out of college? Not many I'll wager if you think that Bernie Sanders is the answer. As for ancient Greece, here's something for you to enjoy. From what I've read, upper class Athenians used these. This was struck in the 400s BC.
No it didn't cost near that much but what was his plan to remove Saddam Hussein and the threat he posed as all agreed? Why does he think the socialist thing to do is have Joe the Plumber pay of Jill the doctor's college? Why doesn't he condemn Hamas for their war crimes in putting their own citizens in harms way as human shields and the continued holding of the hostages and refusal to surrender and prolong the war? Where does he and you get the idea that ONLY the 'Left' want to improve the conditions for the poor or rather the poor to improve their condition? BECAUSE of Biden and Sander's and leftwing policies.......... Flooding with ILLEGAL immigrants and letting them and all other criminals out of jail to prey on the law abiding citizens.
Was Saddam in full compliance with the cease fire agreement? Where the Inspections reporting full cooperation? Was he continuing to fire at our flyovers and violate the no-fly zones? There was no second one, there was a cease fire in the first one which Saddam violated so the war continued. The Clinton administration was right about one thing and as they told the incoming Bush administration, Saddam WAS a threat and would remain a threat as long as he remained in power and would never give up his desire to possess a nuclear weapon. So what was your alternative to military force to remove him?
We had no right to remove him, any more than any other country has a right to attack us and remove our idiot presidents. Israel has been in violation of UN mandates for a long time with its settlements in the West Bank, but we are not going in and removing Israeli leadership. Attacking Iraq was just another way to justify ridiculous military spending that ultimately lined the pockets of our puppet masters. I am no fan of Saddam, especially with his gassing of the Kurds, but in the past we have not only allowed such monsters to live, but actively supported them and put them into power with the help of the CIA. Everything that happened in the Middle East post 9/11, including Iraq and Afghanistan, was complete unjustifiable BS.
We had ever right to do so as he was in direct violation of the cease fire agreement and continued to threaten our security forces and violate the no fly zones. He was given his last - this is it - we REALLY REALLY mean it this time - we're not fooling chance and he still refused to comply. This is not about some tit-for-tat with Israel this is about SADDAM and his sons and his requiem and his desire to be the major influence in the region, and the threat to his own people, the region and the world. He had been given his HUGE chance with the oil for food program which he immediately turned into an oil further my secret efforts to bribe the UN and other countries to let be get away with the violations and sell me proscribed items like the barrels of highly concentrated organophosphates, deadly in their own right, used to refine into more advanced nerve gas which we found hidden away from inspectors and the new artillery shells to deliver those gases once again. So what was your plan to remove him from power which was the policy that transcended the two administrations. What do you think would have happened with the sanctions lifted and the inspections ended and Saddam left to his own desires?
