Bernie Sanders Isn’t Promoting Social Safety Net, But Leninism
Sanders is not merely a proponent of a social policy on health care or education, two issues that without a doubt reflect real social problems that require urgent solutions. Sanders has set the reduction of inequality as a primary goal. Sanders has launched an ideological war against rich people. It is not merely a war against the tax code or the health care system. It is more than that. In other words, Sanders’ discourse is «a rebellion in slave morality,» meaning a negative energy against what is considered to be oppressive. It builds identity on the basis of rejection and negation of the other. Sanders has defended communist regimes only because they initially fought regimes of privilege and oppression. But he has failed to admit their own oppression. Sanders turned apologetic of the Castro regime despite the misery in which the Cuban people find themselves. He has also refused to condemn the Venezuelan regime and admit that Nicolas Maduro is a dictator. He called the resignation of Evo Morales in Bolivia a coup d’état while Morales resorted to fraud to perpetuate himself in power. Sanders has defined the Israeli leadership as «racist» but has been willfully ignorant to Palestinian incitement, terror and refusal to negotiate. Sanders is far from being totally defeated. Democratic candidates should not only focus on the need to defeat Trump but the need to defeat Sanders and his entire political folklore.

