Bernie Sanders is calling on President Trump to "think about resigning," citing past allegations of sexual misconduct against him, along with Trump's infamous Access Hollywood vulgarity.
Anyone familiar with my writing knows I am not a Trump defender, but for the media to trumpet Sanders, of all people, as a moral judge – of Donald Trump or anyone else – indicates the measure of America's political decay.
Senator Sanders is perhaps the most prominent and unapologetic socialist in American electoral politics. Socialism, as a principle of total societal organization, has been tried repeatedly for a century, to varying degrees of thoroughness, on all the inhabited continents of the Earth. It has been instituted in dozens of variations, against widely diverse cultural and historical backgrounds, by leaders of various temperaments and professional backgrounds. It has been promoted by both militant revolutionaries and self-described pacifists. Its intellectual vanguard has been peopled by educators, doctors, and poets.
In other words, there can be no longer be any excuse, qualification, or exemption broad enough to dismiss all the declared attempts at socialism as "inauthentic" socialism, "misapplied" socialism, or "corrupted" socialism. Socialism has proved to be just what you see. Its most famous instantiations – all of them lauded and promoted by the socialist thinkers and activists of the free world at the time – have led to massive failure and destruction, to put it mildly..........To Read More....
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