Not everyone in the AA community is down on Bernie. "Ol Bernie Sanders For President" [View all]

[snagglepuss]

July 17, 2015

(ThyBlackMan.com) I like Bernie Sanders. He seems to be non-calculating, and he talks common sense. The same is true of Elizabeth Warren, and I think they would make a great ticket. In fact, the perfect ticket. The only problem is, Bernie Sanders is a self-avowed Democratic Socialist, and the American people have a knee-jerk response to the word “socialist.”

Americans have been conditioned by capitalists to revile the word “socialism,” even democratic socialism. They associate it with despotism and closed societies. So the people simply have to be educated into a better understanding of the “isms.” They have to be educated to understand that both socialism and capitalism can be either good, or toxic if taken to extremes. And at this point, capitalism has gone way off the reservation. According to a BernieSanders2015Princeton study it has destroyed American democracy. That’s right. Princeton University has done a study that has declared that America is no longer a democracy. It is now an oligarchy, completely controlled by the rich ( http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-echochambers-27074746


In addition, capitalism is responsible for the genocide of as many as 100 million Native Americans (6 generations over 100 years), slavery and Jim Crow, America’s current economic plight, and it threatens to destroy the planet by placing profits before science. Democratic socialism, on the other hand, simply means to have the common sense to give people priority over corporations, and between now and the next election the people can be educated to that fact – especially when they’re hungry and economically depressed.


With regard to Hillary Clinton, I don’t dislike her, but I don’t completely trust her either. She’s much too careful and calculating. She far too remote from the people, and far too much of a political animal for my taste. She gives me the impression that she’s much more interested in attaining the office of the President than she is helping the people. In short, she’s much too mechanical, and she doesn’t seem to have any real passion. Her passion seems to be manufactured. She strikes me as all ambition, and the people are merely an afterthought that she’ll make every effort to help, if it’s convenient. In addition, I haven’t forgotten that she’s a former Goldwater Republican, and I’m also very uncomfortable with her association with the Bilderberg Society. I don’t like secret societies – especially when they’re trying to control the world.


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Hettie,
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You said that Bernie Sanders don’t have “people Skills.” Well, that’s EXACTLY what most people like most about him. “People skills” implies a well honed ability to manipulate people. We don’t need that. What we need in America right now is someone who’s willing to just go from the shoulder, as we used to say back in the day, and that’s exactly what Bernie does. Bernie simply says what he thinks, while Hillary is prone to take a poll first to see what words are most popular and what words are least popular....

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...Bernie should be the ONLY CANDIDATE that the black community stands behind. He is HONEST. He has a proven track record. He always do what he say, and says what he do. Tell all your family and friends to vote for BERNIE.

Black America should stand for BERNIE 100% and not support that two-faced, drug-money backed, war-mongering Clinton. Yeah, she will take us to war again. As the first woman president, she will be anxious to go to war to prove she ain’t soft. We don’t need no more war.

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Clinton is not trustworthy. She say whatever she think necessary to make a political point. She don’t stand behind what she say. She won’t do what she say she gonna do. She has flip flopped so many times.

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Very on point. At this point, Bernie has my vote. I didn’t know about the Princeton study. That is scary