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Is it time for Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-USSR) to retire to his three homes and spend his remaining years enjoying whatever he wishes to obtain with the millions he has earned in the service of socialism? If his appearance on “Real Time with Bill Maher” on Friday night is any indication, it seems as if the 81-year-old leveler, who has been in the Senate since Greta Thunberg’s fourth birthday, is well past his sell-by date and should give up all hope he may still have of out-Bidening Biden and becoming the next superannuated socialist in the Oval Office. Sanders showed his age, and his ignorance, when he failed to explain a basic tenet of the sinister political philosophy for which he has been advocating since Old Joe Biden was cheating in law school.
The senescent socialist was appearing on Maher’s show to sell his new book, It’s OK to Be Angry About Capitalism, which you can get in paperback from Amazon for a capitalistic $30. In the course of the discussion, Maher asked, “Are we confusing equality of opportunity with trying to guarantee equity in outcomes?” Yes, Bill, we certainly are, and that’s the primary difference between a free society and a socialist one: the former will strive to provide equality of opportunity while understanding that human beings are all different in their talents and capabilities, and thus equality of opportunity will not result in equity of outcome. A socialist state, on the other hand, will impose various institutionalized inequalities upon people in order to try to guarantee equity of outcome, and will resort to confiscation and worse if inequities persist.
The imperative to guarantee that all people will have the same (low) standard of living, without anyone making more money or enjoying more privilege than anyone else, is a basic tenet of socialism, although of course the political elites and other favored people are exempt from the rules that others must follow in socialist states. Sanders, however, despite being America’s foremost socialist (with the arguable exception of his friend, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez), demonstrated before the world on Maher’s show that he is unable to explain these fundamental socialist principles. Has he all along been more like Old Joe Biden than we knew — just a mouthpiece for handlers who are actually running the show?
Maher continued, “I think this word ‘equity’ has come into the language in the last few years and before that, we didn’t hear it a lot. And I think a lot of people hear ‘equity’ and they hear ‘equality’ like it’s the same word, but it’s not the same word and the same concept.” Then — O unhappy fate! — Maher turned to Sanders and asked, “So how would you differentiate between equity and equality?”
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Namer says
Bernie wasn’t explaining socialism, he was describing Communism.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
I sometimes wonder whether Bernie learned anything from the fall of the Soviet Union. It might have made sense had he been an advocate for Chicom style Communism, except that there is no country out there that will supply us w/ all the $$$ we need the way we supply China
Master Turkeychoker says
Socialist`s, Communist`s are all the same. Thieves, and Murderers`. Ya. Sanders believes in equality. He`s just more equal than everyone else.
DONALD FREDERICK BILL says
I spent 5 weeks sailing the North coast of Castro’s Socialist Cuba, getting a feeling for the stoic Cubans surviving in grinding poverty. One of the numerous sign on display in several of the cities declared: ” SOCIALISM O MUERTE” (Socialism or death) Most were appropriatly defaced by crossing out the O , and adding “ES” (SOCIALISM *IS* DEATH) I could not agree more.
wpm says
A man who never produced a single thing in his life ,owns three large expense homes , get millions in advance for book deals .Will he share his wealth with the great unwashed he says he is cares about? A man who has lived on the taxes paid by the good citizens of this country all his adult life . Share it fairly just keep your hands off of my stack Jack ,mentality of a true snake oil socialist (real communist) salesmen.
OLD GUY says
Sanders doesn’t believe in EQUALITY at all. He believes he is an elite and deserves your respect and life style way above that of us peasants. Socialist/Communist leadership is always right and the cream of the crop.
Hoi Polloi says
Is it ok to be angry about socialism? Will that book be free because Bernie pays for your copy? Is it ok to be angry that we have socialism disguised as capitalism to force us all to work for diminishing returns while they blame capitalism? Bernie?