Bernie Sanders’ radical past: How the Vermont firebrand started wearing a suit and gave up on taking over big companies

Hunter Walker

In July 1985, Bernie Sanders traveled to Nicaragua, where he attended an event that one wire report dubbed an “anti-U.S. rally.” The leftist Sandinista government was celebrating the sixth anniversary of the revolution that saw it take power from an American-backed dictator, Anastasio Somoza. Sanders was in a crowd estimated at a half million people, many of whom were clad in the Sandinistas’ trademark red-and-black colors and chanting “Here, there, everywhere/the Yankee will die.”  Onstage, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega accused the U.S. government of “state terrorism” for supporting the rebels who were seeking to overthrow him. The Sandinistas and the CIA-backed Contras would fight into the next decade, with allegations of human rights abuses on both sides. At the 1985 rally Sanders attended, Ortega vowed the Sandinistas would “defend the revolution with guns in hand.”

 

Sanders was being hosted by the Sandinistas as part of a delegation of American “solidarity groups.” He told reporters their decision to show “support” for the Nicaraguan government was “patriotic.”  “We want to show support for a small country trying to be independent, and we want to tell the truth to the American people when we return,” Sanders said.....

 

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My Take - Well, Bernie has mastered the New Speak of the left....from the very beginning.  I would be interested to know what about America he actually likes?  He hates our economy, he hates our tax system and wants to tax everyone - at least the producers at any rate - at 90%, he hates capitalism,  he hates the military, the police, conservatives, he hates private ownership, freedom of speech and the Constitution.  But Bernie has his loves - Stalin, Castro and every other socialist monster that's ever lived, without a peep of moral outrage.  Under those circumstance his outrage over the things that are wrong here is meaningless - he's a typical socialist - Zero moral code.  And people want him to be President of the United States why?  Because they're as insane as he. As for the people of Vermount - they must be insane - and I have serious misgivings about the rest of New England.