Why Bernie Wins in One Word: Class

[toomuchtime_]

The ONLY Dem candidate that has ANY class is Tulsi Gabbard. You're welcome.

Hopefully, Bernie will offer her Secretary of State?

https://nypost.com/2019/10/22/tulsi...s-foreign-policy-a-disaster-in-latest-retort/

lol Secretary of State of what? Bernie won't come anywhere near a win on the first ballot and in a brokered convention, it will be a choice between Biden holding on to Obama's tattered shirt tales or Bloomberg waving his billions around.

Partially correct, Hillary will be the nominee

Only if she has Biden and Bloomberg murdered.

Hmmmm.

 

[ThunderKiss1965]

Class: The Little Word the Elites Want You to Forget

"Aristotle, Niccolò Machiavelli, Alexis de Tocqueville, Adam Smith and Karl Marx grounded their philosophies in the understanding that there is a natural antagonism between the rich and the rest of us.

"The interests of the rich are not our interests.

"The truths of the rich are not our truths.

"The lives of the rich are not our lives.

"Great wealth not only breeds contempt for those who do not have it but it empowers oligarchs to pay armies of lawyers, publicists, politicians, judges, academics and journalists to censure and control public debate and stifle dissent."

In the link, Chris Hedges explains why the rich are happy to talk about race, sexual identity, gender, patriotism, religion, immigration, abortion, and gun control.

Because those issues divide the public into multiple warring tribes of culture combatants, and, in the process, demonstrating why malignant parasites like Trump and Bloomberg can switch effortlessly from one party to the other.

"Once oligarchs seize power, Aristotle wrote, a society must either accept tyranny or choose revolution."

If he was right, what's your choice?

The millionaire socialist telling other rich people they have to give up their money.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Is that why Russia's, Cuba's and Venezuela's economies are so awesome?

What did capitalism bring to Russia?
An economy that shrank by half and a poverty rate that went from 2% to 50%.
How much did Trump make from that con?

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What did capitalism bring to Russia?
An economy that shrank by half and a poverty rate that went from 2% to 50%.

If you believe the old poverty rate was 2%, you're a moron.

I agree, they should have lined up all the Party members and shot them.​

 

[jasonnfree]

The ONLY Dem candidate that has ANY class is Tulsi Gabbard. You're welcome.

Hopefully, Bernie will offer her Secretary of State?

https://nypost.com/2019/10/22/tulsi...s-foreign-policy-a-disaster-in-latest-retort/

LMAO -- I now see why you only cut and paste. Tulsi would never associate herself with Communist Sanders.

Tulsi and Bernie are pretty close together in their beliefs.

Where Tulsi Gabbard stands on the biggest 2020 issues

 

[georgephillip]

Trump will have lot's of defense contractor funding.

And that is true even if his October Surprise doesn't include an invasion of Iran

 

[g5000]

Got about as much class as Archie Bunker....perhaps you should peruse your dictionary for a different word

Perhaps you should read the dictionary and discover "class" has more than one meaning, and then read the context in the OP.

Class. Rich vs. poor. Upper vs. lower. Working vs. billionaire.

 

[g5000]

Bernie is rich

so if he hates the rich does he hate himself too?

He hates cheaters who hide their capital gains in the Cayman Islands and Luxembourg to avoid paying taxes, to the tune of trillions.

Speaking of cheaters how does a poor marxist mayor turned senator become rich in washington?

It took me ten seconds to find out.

How Bernie Sanders, The Socialist Senator, Amassed A $2.5 Million Fortune

Sanders, 77, has, in fact, amassed an estimated $2.5 million fortune from real estate, investments, government pensions—and earnings from three books, including the 2016 hit Our Revolution: A Future to Believe In. “I wrote a best-selling book. If you write a best-selling book, you can be a millionaire, too,” he recently told the New York Times, striking a downright Trumpian note.

Since his bid for the Democratic nomination raised his profile in 2016, Sanders has released a book a year. In all, he has pulled in at least $1.7 million from the series, starting with Our Revolution (220,000 copies sold, according to industry tracker NPD BookScan) and then Bernie Sanders Guide to Political Revolution (27,000) and finally Where We Go From Here: Two Years in the Resistance (26,000).



You're welcome.


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[Polishprince]

Class: The Little Word the Elites Want You to Forget

"Aristotle, Niccolò Machiavelli, Alexis de Tocqueville, Adam Smith and Karl Marx grounded their philosophies in the understanding that there is a natural antagonism between the rich and the rest of us.

"The interests of the rich are not our interests.

"The truths of the rich are not our truths.

"The lives of the rich are not our lives.

"Great wealth not only breeds contempt for those who do not have it but it empowers oligarchs to pay armies of lawyers, publicists, politicians, judges, academics and journalists to censure and control public debate and stifle dissent."

In the link, Chris Hedges explains why the rich are happy to talk about race, sexual identity, gender, patriotism, religion, immigration, abortion, and gun control.

Because those issues divide the public into multiple warring tribes of culture combatants, and, in the process, demonstrating why malignant parasites like Trump and Bloomberg can switch effortlessly from one party to the other.

"Once oligarchs seize power, Aristotle wrote, a society must either accept tyranny or choose revolution."



If he was right, what's your choice?

Of course he was wrong. At least among us in the American heartland. Just because someone thinks they are elite, they get neither antagonism or support from the average John Q Twelvepack out there. Bloomberg or whomever can walk up to be, but just because he a lot of billions doesn't entitle him to shit from me.

In the confrontation between Stone Cold Steve Austin and President Trump, Austin lays down the AMERICAN viewpoint of class.

 

[georgephillip]

Uhhhh, where did that money come from?

FDR got the money for his programs from those who had acquired it through capitalistic means, i.e., force or fraud:

Class: The Little Word the Elites Want You to Forget

"The Democratic president heavily taxed the rich and corporations. (The Republican administration of Dwight Eisenhower in the 1950s was still taxing the highest earners at 91%.)"

 

[WEATHER53]

His graduating class?
That usually won’t do it

 

[g5000]

Aristotle, Niccolò Machiavelli, Alexis de Tocqueville, Adam Smith and Karl Marx grounded their philosophies in the understanding that there is a natural antagonism between the rich and the rest of us.

You've obviously never read Adam Smith or De Tocquville.

I've read both and that statement about a natural antagonism between the rich and the rest of us is correct with respect to the writings of both men.

 

[g5000]

fncceo

Secret opposition of wealthy individuals to democracy—Their retirement—Their taste for exclusive pleasures and for luxury at home—Their simplicity abroad—Their affected condescension towards the people.

Democracy in America, Part I. by Alexis de Tocqueville

 

[georgephillip]

Aristotle, Niccolò Machiavelli, Alexis de Tocqueville, Adam Smith and Karl Marx grounded their philosophies in the understanding that there is a natural antagonism between the rich and the rest of us.

You've obviously never read Adam Smith or De Tocquville.

You've obviously never read Adam Smith or De Tocquville.

You're right.
However, the quote in my OP is from someone who has read those sources, so perhaps you would like to explain where he went wrong, assuming you have read Smith and De Tocqueville yourself?

 

[g5000]

Aristotle, Niccolò Machiavelli, Alexis de Tocqueville, Adam Smith and Karl Marx grounded their philosophies in the understanding that there is a natural antagonism between the rich and the rest of us.

You've obviously never read Adam Smith or De Tocquville.

You've obviously never read Adam Smith or De Tocquville.

You're right.
However, the quote in my OP is from someone who has read those sources, so perhaps you would like to explain where he went wrong, assuming you have read Smith and De Tocqueville yourself?

But beneath this artificial enthusiasm, and these obsequious attentions to the preponderating power, it is easy to perceive that the wealthy members of the community entertain a hearty distaste to the democratic institutions of their country. The populace is at once the object of their scorn and of their fears. If the maladministration of the democracy ever brings about a revolutionary crisis, and if monarchical institutions ever become practicable in the United States, the truth of what I advance will become obvious.

Democracy in America, Part I. by Alexis de Tocqueville

 

[Manonthestreet]

Got about as much class as Archie Bunker....perhaps you should peruse your dictionary for a different word

Perhaps you should read the dictionary and discover "class" has more than one meaning, and then read the context in the OP.

Class. Rich vs. poor. Upper vs. lower. Working vs. billionaire.

The one cancels the other.........the Berns appeal as class warrior is limited by his hypocrisy. Do as I say not as I do isn't a winner

 

[g5000]

georgephillip fncceo

But let us now suppose that the legislative authority is vested in the lowest orders: there are two striking reasons which show that the tendency of the expenditure will be to increase, not to diminish. As the great majority of those who create the laws are possessed of no property upon which taxes can be imposed, all the money which is spent for the community appears to be spent to their advantage, at no cost of their own; and those who are possessed of some little property readily find means of regulating the taxes so that they are burdensome to the wealthy and profitable to the poor, although the rich are unable to take the same advantage when they are in possession of the Government.

Democracy in America, Part I. by Alexis de Tocqueville

It does not get more naturally antagonistic than that.

 

[g5000]

I am a YUGE fan of Alexis de Tocqueville.

YUGE.

 

[toomuchtime_]

Aristotle, Niccolò Machiavelli, Alexis de Tocqueville, Adam Smith and Karl Marx grounded their philosophies in the understanding that there is a natural antagonism between the rich and the rest of us.

You've obviously never read Adam Smith or De Tocquville.

I've read both and that statement about a natural antagonism between the rich and the rest of us is correct with respect to the writings of both men.

Right, and it's called envy. It exists between the good looking people and the homely people, the smart people and those not so smart, it exists between the successful and the unsuccessful in any activity regardless of income. Life is just so unfair or life is just so great depending on which side of the divide you are on.

 

[B. Kidd]

Got about as much class as Archie Bunker....perhaps you should peruse your dictionary for a different word

Perhaps you should read the dictionary and discover "class" has more than one meaning, and then read the context in the OP.

Class. Rich vs. poor. Upper vs. lower. Working vs. billionaire.

The one cancels the other.........the Berns appeal as class warrior is limited by his hypocrisy. Do as I say not as I do isn't a winner

It is very natural for a taker like Bernie to wanna take from the makers.

 

[g5000]

""The federal government dealt with massive unemployment by creating 12 million jobs through the Works Progress Administration (WPA), making the government the largest employer in the country."

Uhhhh, where did that money come from?

You don't see Charles Koch or Bill Gates building very many interstates
or massive dams do you ?

Actually, all of our nation's infrastructure was built by private interests before the Progressive Era.