Certain ideologies kill people when they’re strictly enforced by a government — capitalism is not one of them.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) must have skipped that history class. The Hill reported that the Vermont senator accused Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s free-market ideology of killing people at a speech on Sunday night.
“Governor Walker has allowed his right-wing ideology to prevail and to deny some 120,000 people in Wisconsin options to get into Medicaid, and maybe, for the first time in their lives have health insurance,” Sanders said at a rally in Madison.
“As a result of that decision, there is no question that people will die, people will become much sicker than they otherwise would have become,” he continued.
Sanders should be an authority on murderous regimes, because he has supported them throughout his life.
According to The Daily Beast, Sanders praised the totalitarian regimes in Cuba and Nicaragua that killed thousands of people. He also answered ‘yes’ to a questionnaire that asked if “bread lines were a sign of economic health.”
It’s understandable, yet disappointing that millennials who grew up in a post-Sandinistas, post-USSR, post-Cuban Missile Crisis world would be ignorant to the fact that left-wing ideologies have killed tens of millions of people.
Sanders, however, lived through those historical time periods; he saw the mass murder of those ideologies, the failure of human capital to achieve its full potential, and the fact that he continues to be guided by that political faith is the definition of insanity.
