Rage, Hypocrisy, and the Campaign of Bernie Sanders

Bernie Sanders is a tireless advocate for the working poor. Unless you give his campaign donations. Bernie Sanders is for Universal Healthcare. Except when he’s voting or writing bills. Bernie Sanders wants to see fewer guns on the street. But he’ll support the NRA at every turn. Bernie Sanders has been an outspoken advocate of immigration reform. Except between the years 2007 and 2015 where he repeatedly said that immigrants were coming to steal American jobs, open borders are ethically wrong, indefinite detention of immigrants is permissible, and supported the “Minutemen.” Bernie Sanders is a feminist. But women’s rights are a distraction, women are only engaging in identity politics when they run for office, are the causes of their own cancers, and probably enjoy being raped.

Now, I’m supposed to ignore all of this because it’s Bernie Sanders and he’s “evolved.” But has he? Some of these incidents are quite old but hardly all and he has reiterated some of his more questionable statements.

For example, just a few days ago Sanders expressed admiration of Fidel Castro’s education plan. That’s a bit like saying Hitler had a great youth program. And yes, I understand he was trying to get people to like Castro for the communism rather than all the murder and autocracy, but … really? I mean, at this point why *not* just talk about…