Little Stalins

August 3, 2019 By Jonathan F. Keiler

Assessing the Democratic stable of candidates based largely on debate performances is fodder for all manner of analogy and descriptors.

Comparing the debates to a reality game show is popular.  Few if any of the candidates display any retail political savvy or charm.  That they are a circular firing squad, a pack of hyenas devouring each other, and/or coffee klatch of resentful scare-mongers are all apt observations in one way or another.

Let me propose yet another: that they are mostly a bunch of little wannabe Stalins......Warren is the worst.........Warren supposedly has a proposal for everything, a know-it-all who will tell us how to live our lives, what doctors to see, what we can do with our money, who will be our neighbors, how or whether we will get the energy we need. That's what she's "fighting for."

Sanders is almost as bad, though perhaps a bit more Trotsky than Stalin.  ...................To Read More