Q: Bernie Sanders, Independent Versus Liberty Perspective...
Submitted by mainebob on Sat, 09/08/2012 - 09:19From Bill Moyers & Company:
Bernie Sanders on the Independent In Politics
This is a great in depth interview with Bernie Sanders. My question for DP folks after watching this interview:
Where specifically do liberty folks agree or disagree with Bernie?
I think there is alot of common ground with the liberty perspective. Looking forward to a vigorous discusion.
Thanks,
Bob
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Bernie Sanders is a
Bernie Sanders is a socialist.
Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
John Adams
He is honest
He is honest but believes in a much greater role for the state in the economy. We want a decentralized state with private individuals much more involved in running the economy.
Didn't You Hear Him?
Audit the fed. Slash military spending. Deal with the deficit.
We have much in common with the far left.
We are more progressive than the Democratic Party, and more conservative than the Republican party.
Commerce with all nations, alliance with none.--Thomas Jefferson
There is no common ground...
other than breathing the same toxic air. Sanders would like nothing more than a direct debit card to the fruits of your labor, and to encode and enforce his own idea of "fairness" under the direction of his own hand picked and presumably "more fair gang" ...plain and simple.
Altruism with power = force and it has killed far to many people over the last 2000 years.
Finally this election thing is over and we can get on with the collapse of our currency forthwith!
Easy, Bernie is a socialist
and Ron Paul is for Liberty
Really there is not much common ground
...Easy to dismiss Bernie with a Label....
AND there are common points... The Two party system doesn't work because of big money... "...the billionaires and corporations now buying elections,... “I fear very much that if we don’t turn this around, we’re heading toward an oligarchic form of society.”
An Oligarchy..."a form of power structure in which power effectively rests with a small number of people. These people could be distinguished by royalty, wealth, family ties, education, corporate, or military control...."
Further, and more specifically we are headed toward becoming a Plutocracy meaning "power, dominion, rule" "...rule by the wealthy, or power provided by wealth."
How do Liberty folks see how the transition can happen from Oligarchy/Plutocracy to a Limited government, free market, sound money, personal liberty system?
There are Many Bobs...I'm the Maine Bob!