'Bernie' Is Not Seeking Our Party's Nomination For President

[The Magistrate]

20. Many Do Not Know What They Are Actually Supporting, Sir

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I have heard people describe Sanders as a 'traditional Democrat', as a 'New Deal' Democrat, as an example of the sort of Democrats we used to have, like Roosevelt and Johnson. Many are ignorant enough of the history to believe this. It is ludicrously false to fact. 'Bernie' bears not the slightest resemblance to any form of 'traditional Democrat'. People like 'Bernie' opposed the New Deal vociferously, and on the same ground as 'Bernie' opposes things today --- the New Deal in their view didn't go nearly far enough, and that Roosevelt was a weak sister who could have got far more, if only he had cared to. There probably aren't more than dozen people on this forum who, if alive and young at the time, would have regarded Lydon Johnson with anything but contempt, as first an collaborator with Eisenhower and then as the unworthy heir of the martyred John F. Kennedy. Who won election largely on a completely trumped up claim the Soviets had a tremendous superiority over us in nuclear missiles. But not so many people know these things, and are honestly taken in by the claims 'Bernie' is a real Democrat, the kind we used to have.





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