Democrats embraced socialist who honeymooned in Soviet Union

NY Times:

Bernie Sanders Scores Narrow Victory in New Hampshire Primary

The Vermont senator tightened his grip on the Democratic Party’s liberal wing, benefiting from a field that has divided moderate voters.

The second place went to a gay male whose father was a Marxist.  The Democrat voters appear to have given up on moderation and appealing to the middle.

In third was Klobacher who probably is the sanest of the active candidates for the Democrat nomination despite a reputation for being mean to her staff and eating a salad with a comb.

Warren and Biden trailed badly.  Warren who is a Senator from Massachusetts had no home-field advantage in New England.  Warren tried to mimic Bernie on healthcare and she lost credibility.  Somehow Bernie still was able to get several suckers to vote for his awful policies.

The problem for Democrat "moderates" is that they have been too reluctant to challenge Sander's absurd policies which would destroy the health insurance and healthcare business in this country which is the envy of the world.

The young people who voted for the socialists and Marxists are the product of an education system that is teaching them that a failed system of government is the way to go.  They are being grossly misled.

Socialism has been tried and it has failed spectacularly.

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Realists understand socialism. They joke: How did socialists light their homes before they used candles? Light bulbs.

For those living under the boot of a tsar or a Chinese emperor, in a long-ago era when socialism had never been tried, socialism might have sounded attractive. But today, two things have changed. One is that humanity has a century of universally negative experience with state socialism. It has never worked, and it never will. The other change is that free markets have brought unprecedented and widely shared prosperity to Western economies — not through exploitation but through specialization and the free flow of goods and services. Markets work. Socialism doesn't.

In the United States, even the working poor enjoy luxury, convenience, and choice that no tsar or Chinese emperor ever did. This makes socialism the answer to a question that no thinking person alive today would ask. Simply witness how, in once fully socialistic economies such as those of China and India, the introduction of free markets and free trade are rapidly doing something that decades of foreign and charitable aid never could: eradicating world poverty forever.

So-called "democratic socialism" is not social democracy or center-left politics. It is, in fact, incompatible with the modern Western model of an open, liberal society and a market economy with progressive taxation and a generous welfare state. Rather, socialism is a revolutionary system of thought that would abolish America’s republican system of government and its free market economy. It condemns private property and profit as exploitative. It demands their curtailment and eventually, their destruction; it pushes for nationalization of industries including but not limited to banking and healthcare.
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It takes incredible ignorance to support socialism.