A dark cloud is gathering over America. Fueled by the rhetoric of one man, a dangerous horde has awakened. The malcontents, the lazy, the grievance-mongers and conspiracy theorists have emerged to express their collective discontent with their station in life and with a country they believe has not done enough FOR them. The man responsible is Bernie Sanders. The Sanders worldview is now infecting the American social discourse like a penicillin-resistant STD.
Among the tenets of Sandersism are the following:
- Capital is static. If someone has a dollar, it is a dollar that you don't have. That is unfair.
- The Protocols of the Elders of Capitalism rule. They keep the average man from success.
- Despite having spent hundreds of billions of dollars on social welfare programs, America is a cruel country that has not done enough to help people.
- It is all a giant conspiracy being led by the oil companies, the insurance companies, the banks, and the pharmaceutical companies.
- Also part of the conspiracy: a group known as the billionaires. (With apparent exceptions for billionaires who give to Liberal causes.)
What Bernie Sanders has done is to empower people. But not to work harder. He empowers them to complain. He empowers them to envy others. He empowers them to blame everyone but themselves. Unfortunately, it is not just aging hippies from the 60s and other assorted bitter-clingers that Sanders speaks to. In addition, there is a new generation of clueless college students currently undergoing indoctrination by their professors who think Sanders has it right. And so this new generation will turn John F. Kennedy's words upside down and demand to know: What can America do for them.
For this, Sanders is to blame.
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