The Question Bernie Is Never Asked

[EasyAce]

By Jonathan V. Last
https://thebulwark.com/newsletter-issue/the-question-bernie-is-never-asked/

[H]ere is a thing that has literally never happened on a debate stage:

Someone, anyone, saying, “Senator Sanders, you campaigned for the Socialist Workers Party at a time when they were defending the Iranian hostage taking of American citizens. What does that say about your judgment?”

Or: “Senator Sanders, you supported the Nicaraguan revolutionary and dictator Daniel Ortega. You also supported the Cuban revolutionary and dictator Fidel Castro. Both of whom terrorized their people and worked aggressively against American interests. What does that say about your judgment?”

Or: “Senator Sanders, at a time when millions of political prisoners died at the hands of the Gulag Archipelago, you went to Russia for your honeymoon and came home praising the Soviet Union. What does that say about your judgment?”

If you want to argue that the crazy Marxist stuff Bernie believed 30 years ago doesn’t matter today, that’s fine. But he should have to make that argument out loud.

He shouldn’t just get a pass where no one even asks him about it at the same time that he’s casting aspersions on people for once holding views that were comparatively mainstream and even if they were mistaken, were several orders of magnitude less pernicious than the mistaken views Sanders once espoused . . .

[Cyber Liberty]

The press and the other Rat candidates don't want to ask because they have always wanted what Bern has always been selling.  If they ask, they'll draw attention to the fact that they are all socialists under the veneer.

[Lando Lincoln]

The press and the other Rat candidates don't want to ask because they have always wanted what Bern has always been selling.  If they ask, they'll draw attention to the fact that they are all socialists under the veneer.

Exactly.  The real questions never get asked, it seems.  Here is a simple one a debate moderator should ask the candidates:

What does “Ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country" mean to you?

[Bigun]

The press and the other Rat candidates don't want to ask because they have always wanted what Bern has always been selling.  If they ask, they'll draw attention to the fact that they are all socialists under the veneer.

  @Cyber Liberty and the reason the Dem elites HATE Bernie so is that he is completely honest about what he wants to do thereby ripping off the mask!

[goatprairie]

A lot of good questions never get asked.
 Another one to ask: how does a socialist end up being a multi milionaire and owning three houses?
Why is the poorest segment of Americans the fattest?
If it's so awful, why every year  millions of people from poor countries try to get into the U.S. legally and  illegally ?
All sorts of inconvenient questions.

[LMAO]

 Another thing that’s going to come back to haunt Bernie Sanders is his praise for the Venezuelan system not too terribly long ago

He said that the American dream was being discovered in places like Venezuela

[EasyAce]

Exactly.  The real questions never get asked, it seems.  Here is a simple one a debate moderator should ask the candidates:

What does “Ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country" mean to you?

@Lando Lincoln

They'd probably say it was a great catch phrase John F. Kennedy dreamed up without going into either the positive or the negative substance (there was both) of the remark. And then they'd probably regurgitate their usual laundry lists without once suggesting that the most appropriate answer to asking what your country can do for you is to leave you alone to make your way as best you can with what you have and without so much as a peep out of the State.

[EasyAce]

He said that the American dream was being discovered in places like Venezuela

@LMAO

If only he could comprehend that he's right in the way he doesn't prefer. They discover the American dream when their governments compel them to live lives standing entirely athwart it.

[Jazzhead]

The press and the other Rat candidates don't want to ask because they have always wanted what Bern has always been selling.  If they ask, they'll draw attention to the fact that they are all socialists under the veneer.

Winner, winner, chicken dinner!

[Cyber Liberty]

Winner, winner, chicken dinner!

 

We'll be asking that question repeatedly if the Rats are stupid enough to Nominate the old commie.  In the meantime, I'm fine with their attempts to keep it under wraps.  People will learn to see through the act, and the press will take a hit trying to cover for them during the Primaries.  It's a two-fer!