This will be a short diary. Once again I’m gobsmacked listening to Chris Mathews compare the Bernie Sanders movement to a communist takeover. Conflating social democracy with communism. This is a man who has hosted a political talk show in prime time for the past few decades and he really doesn’t know the difference between those two things. Tonight he compared the Sanders win in Nevada to the Nazi takeover of France (ignoring, of course, the vast difference between Nazism and communism) These comments aimed at a Jewish man whose family barely survived the Holocaust. I’m without words.
This completely ignores the fact that one of your greatest Presidents was a social democrat (Roosevelt) and saved your economy from the Great Depression through social democratic policies. It also ignores the fact that some of the world’s most successful countries are social democracies (e.g. Scandinavia). Mathew’s reaction to that was that no-one knows who the Prime Minister of Denmark is. It is to weep.
I come from a country with a strong social democratic tradition (Canada). It has given us universal healthcare, a strong public education system and a sound social services. Someone needs to get this lunatic off the air. The amount of pubic brainwashing in the US is already too overpowering and this nonsense makes it worse. A clip from tonight.
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