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Daily Beast: Bernie Sanders Loves This $1 Trillion War Machine
It is unfortunate that opposing campaigns are just so focused on buzzwords like "socialism" when the issue is not that Bernie is so different as a politician. Rather, the issue is that despite his so-called opposition to the weapon industry, nepotism, private foundations, conflicts of interest, etc., Bernie simply does not live up to his own rhetoric.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/bernie-sanders-loves-this-dollar1-trillion-war-machine
MANCHESTER, New Hampshire Sen. Bernie Sanders has railed against big defense corporations at rallies, but he has a more complex history with the military-industrial complex. Most notably, hes supported a $1.2 trillion stealth fighter thats considered by many to be one of the bigger boondoggles in Pentagon history.
Sanders has made his opposition to Hillary Clintons hawkishness a cornerstone of his campaign. But he hasnt exactly been antiwar all his career. When it has come time to choose between defense jobs and a dovish defense policy, Sanders has consistently chosen to stand with the arms-makers rather than the peaceniksleading to tension with some of the most adamant adherents of progressive ideology.
In 1985, for example, protesters massed at the General Electric plant in Burlington, Vermont, where Sanders was serving as mayor. They were protesting the fact that the plant was manufacturing Gatling guns to fight socialists in Central America.
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There were protesters who were unhappy that General Electric was manufacturing Gatling guns at the plant, and so they would lock themselves to the gates and engage in civil disobedience. And so the mayor, Bernie, finally got cops to go in and arrest the protesters, Condon told The Daily Beast. The GE plant was one of the largest providers of jobs in the city. So it was economically important that the plant stay open and people who worked there went to work.
Sanders has made his opposition to Hillary Clintons hawkishness a cornerstone of his campaign. But he hasnt exactly been antiwar all his career. When it has come time to choose between defense jobs and a dovish defense policy, Sanders has consistently chosen to stand with the arms-makers rather than the peaceniksleading to tension with some of the most adamant adherents of progressive ideology.
In 1985, for example, protesters massed at the General Electric plant in Burlington, Vermont, where Sanders was serving as mayor. They were protesting the fact that the plant was manufacturing Gatling guns to fight socialists in Central America.
* * *
There were protesters who were unhappy that General Electric was manufacturing Gatling guns at the plant, and so they would lock themselves to the gates and engage in civil disobedience. And so the mayor, Bernie, finally got cops to go in and arrest the protesters, Condon told The Daily Beast. The GE plant was one of the largest providers of jobs in the city. So it was economically important that the plant stay open and people who worked there went to work.
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Daily Beast: Bernie Sanders Loves This $1 Trillion War Machine (Original Post)
TomCADem
Feb 2020
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(51,550 posts)1. K & R
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
highplainsdem
(48,975 posts)2. K&R! Thanks for posting this.
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden