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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]'ve lived in the Soviet block. I am from there. Don't make me laugh with your experience based on visits to that side. So go take a seat, because you are the condescending and misinformed one. I absolutely know more than you in this subject. Nobody said CCCP and Sweden are the same thing. The post was about the poor judgment of a BS supporter[/quote]

I'm the PP who had the Bernie door-knocker wearing the CCCP t-shirt.  I'm also "from there" and have spent a lot of time back in that part of the world since leaving (as a young child).  I genuinely can't tell if the other PP doesn't believe that the Bernie activist was wearing the shirt, or if he just doesn't think it should matter.

No, Sweden isn't the USSR, but it's still poor judgment on the part of the Bernie supporter.  It also trades on this really misguided romanticism about the USSR, as if the USSR began and ended with Ten Days that Shook the World.  Even the recent, and correct, revision of US history books to better account for the staggering losses suffered by the Red Army during the War against Fascism tend to leave out a huge part of the reason why the Soviets were so unprepared for a German invasion - Stalin had purged his generals in what amounted to a fit of pique.

But...I have the same reaction to Millennials in Che t-shirts.  They think they want a revolution, but they have no idea the human cost. [/quote]

All of this socialist paranoia about Bernie Sanders is ridiculous. He is not that radical. He is basically just a New Dealer but our society is so far right at this point, and so used to mistreating its working class, that we can't even see how incredibly reasonable the things he wants to do actually are.

We already have socialism in this country. Without it we would not have playgrounds, parks, libraries, public schools, social security, the WEEKEND, child labor laws, highways, bridges. food stamps. It is all socialism and Sanders' proposals are not farfetched in any way.

Here is Chomsky making this point. I am so sick of hearing the word "socialism" used as an insult. It only shows how successful the right wing propaganda has been in misleading the American people.

http://usuncut.com/politics/noam-chomsky-bernie-sanders-new-dealer-best-policies/[/quote]

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