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Bernie's nomination as the POTUS candidate for the Democratic Party would bring one, big, unintended consequence to America

One big unintended consequence of a Sander's nomination



One big unintended consequence of a Sander's nominationBernie Sanders as the Democratic Party's nominee for the Presidency would spark a realpolitik crash course in socialism.   The course would offer enlightenment for those born after the collapse of the Soviet Union who are, today, ignorant of the abysmal, national failures of the socialist ideology.     Ironically, the education would be led by both left and right platforms of mass media – television, print, and web-based, including social media.  Making for strange bedfellows.  The left is not yet ready to openly endorse a full-blown, socialist agenda. Too much to lose, too quickly.  But Bern may hijack the party—of which he's not even an official member. 
The right will likely never be ready to embrace a Bernie.   But if Bern is the Dem nominee, Chris Matthews and Sean Hannity will be tutors on the same side outing the negative consequences of a Sander's presidency.   Both CNN's Anderson Cooper and conservative commentator Mark Levin will diss Bern's brand of socialism, throughout the Spring and early Summer, as long as he remains a serious contender for the nomination.   From within their own venues, the right and left will resist Bernie from Super Tuesday (March 3) through the Democratic National Convention (July 13–16) in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.   But beyond Milwaukee, if Bernie wins the nomination, the progressive left media will go dark on his socialism.  He is still, after all, running as a Democrat.  On the other side, the media on the right will shine a critical, high-beam spotlight on him all the way to November 2020.  Milwaukee is an apt site to decide if the Democratic Party is to become the Socialist Democratic Party.   Milwaukee was part of the House Congressional District that, in 1910, was represented by a journalist who became the first Socialist elected to the House, Victor Luitpold Berger (1860-1929). Berger served three terms there in the 1920s.  Compare these quotes from Berger's book, "Broadsides" © 1912, to Sander's ideology:

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  • "Socialism is defined as the collective ownership of the means of production and distribution. It is the name given to the next state of civilization, if civilization is to survive." (p. 15)
  • "Socialism must create a new kind of property – the collective property." (p. 20) 
  • "All industries of national magnitude would be carried on by the government." (p. 28)
A Bernie campaign gaining momentum after Super Tuesday would energize the college campus with increased enthusiasm for the socialist agenda—focused on free stuff.   An article posted here in May 2019 called Bern the Socialist Pied Piper of Campus Naifs. His nomination would rally university students to a decibel level far beyond the founding of the Intercollegiate Socialist Society (ISS) on September 12, 1905, four months before the Russian Revolution of 1905.  World War I sucked the oxygen out of the ISS as some students went to Europe—not for a holiday, but to kill the Hun.  The academe's professoriate, particularly in the humanities, long simpatico with the socialist agenda and vastly outnumbering conservative professors, will promote Bernie from the lecture hall.    The professorial shilling for socialism can be traced back to the 19th Century when many of the best and brightest graduates of America's pledging university system began seeking advanced degrees at what was then the premier, off-shore, post-graduate programs in the West – reaching the peak of influence in Bismarck's Germany.   As noted earlier on the CFP, "'Between the years 1820 and 1920 nearly nine thousand American students set sail for Europe to enter the lecture halls, seminaries, and laboratories of German universities. (The German Historical School in American Scholarship, Jurgen Herbst)'…Upon graduating in Germany, many newly minted PhD's returned to America to join the faculties of the most prestigious U.S. schools at the time.'"

There the German-educated professors groomed their successors, who, in turn, groomed their successors.  On down through multiple decades. Both right and left camps in the media will unite to shine a spotlight on the history of international socialism in the 20th Century.  They will both note Bernie's documented approval of the old USSR, once ruled by the mass murderer Uncle Joe Stalin, overseer of The Gulag Archipelago (unknown to today's US college students).  Stalin and Castro will marry up with today's failed socialist state in Venezuela. Some will even note the body count in Mao's China and Pol Pot's Cambodia as background noise to outing Bern's life-long love of socialism.  There's plentiful opposition research available on Bern, focusing on where he has historically endorsed international socialism. Enough to keep both left and right busy in the months ahead of the Democratic Convention.  If they listen to either left or right, some high school and college graduates will learn that their education covering the 20th Century was woefully inadequate, at best— intentionally perverted, at worse.   Bernie's nomination as the POTUS candidate for the Democratic Party would bring one, big, unintended consequence to America.   And because it would expose the largely ignored evils of socialism, it would be a very good thing for the nation. 


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Lee Cary -- Bio and Archives Since November 2007, Lee Cary has written hundreds of articles for several websites including the American Thinker, and Breitbart’s Big Journalism and Big Government (as “Archy Cary”). and the Canada Free Press. Cary’s work was quoted on national television (Sean Hannity) and on nationally syndicated radio (Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levin). His articles have posted on the aggregate sites Drudge Report, Whatfinger, Lucianne, Free Republic, and Real Clear Politics. He holds a Doctorate in Theology from Garrett Theological Seminary in Evanston, IL, is a veteran of the US Army Military Intelligence in Vietnam assigned to the [strong]Phoenix Program[/strong]. He lives in Texas.

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