{"id":6694,"date":"2016-01-29T03:59:46","date_gmt":"2016-01-29T03:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/01\/29\/bernie-for-president\/"},"modified":"2016-01-29T03:59:46","modified_gmt":"2016-01-29T03:59:46","slug":"bernie-for-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/01\/29\/bernie-for-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Bernie for President"},"content":{"rendered":"

I support the superannuated socialist Sanders for president — of Sweden.  <\/span><\/p>\n

(Adapted from a Rubio riff from last night's Republican debate.  Always give credit where credit is due.  Thou shalt not steal.)<\/span><\/p>\n

Sanders is a decent human being as far as I can tell.  He is not a stealth ideologue like the disgusting Hillary who hides her actual views behind a tsunami of blather.  And unlike Hillary the Mendacious, he is not just out for his own advancement.  Sanders is sincerely concerned for the welfare of working men and women.  But while he has the courage of his convictions, he has the wrong convictions.  Like so many leftists, he will not learn from experience.  Socialism has proven to be a miserable failure, and worse than that: in many places it has led to mass murder and the gulag.  But the Left is utopian in addition to being totalitarian, and so you cannot expect leftists to learn from experience.  <\/span><\/p>\n

Experience is of the present and the past; leftists live in and for the future.  Incapable of appreciating a genuine Transcendence, they believe is an ersatz transcendence to be attained by 'progressive' politics.  It's an illusion, but one definatory of the leftist worldview.<\/span><\/p>\n

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I support the superannuated socialist Sanders for president — of Sweden.  (Adapted from a Rubio riff from last night's Republican debate.  Always give credit where credit is due.  Thou shalt not steal.) Sanders is a decent human being as far as I can tell.  He is not a stealth ideologue like the disgusting Hillary who … Continue reading “Bernie for President”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}