Bernie's 1978 New Year's Resolution:

[Donkees]

Link to tweet

[lapucelle]

7. "Mind destroying schools"

[HarlanPepper]

31. Oh lort

[LanternWaste]

32. That's about the biggest load of unsupported allegations I've read today.

And I'm guessing you'll find an excuse why it's not your responsibility to support your own words with objective evidence... I guess that's something not taught in home schools.

[HarlanPepper]

30. It's a literal endless supply of "WTF"

And they think this stuff is POSITIVE!

[ehrnst]

28. But you're still "undecided" right?

[lapucelle]

2. "Mind destroying schools...brought to us by a handful of power-hungry individulals

who own and control our country."

Mind destroying schools...

[brutus smith]

13. He was right. That's why we have right wingnuts. No thought process.

[lapucelle]

34. We have wing nuts and no thought process because of schools ...

[HarlanPepper]

35. Scary isn't it?

Shit is getting cray.

[Hav]

44. So you blame teachers for creating

rightwingers? Is it their job to indoctrinate them with an ideology? That's the shit we usually hear from...well, rightwingers.
I guess that's that's the kind of argument you get when everything BS says has to be taken as gospel.

[PatrickforO]

18. I went to public school in the 70s. Much of it WAS mind destroying.

Now, it is much worse, I think. Kids learning 'creationism'. Jefferson Davis getting equal time in textbooks with Lincoln. New Math. Whole Language.

I went to a very good elementary school and we learned phonics, grammar and spelling, memorized multiplication tables, learned the basics of life and physical science. I can't remember much social studies there, though I'm sure we had it.

Then I did my sixth grade school year in Lubbock, TX. That was a holy roller joke.

Junior high and high school were OK, but by the time I got there were watered down. I would never have gotten the education I did if I weren't a voracious reader, and didn't like historical novels.

I'm not going to cut Bernie down for saying THAT in 1978, for sure. Remember the old Pink Floyd song off Wish You Were Here?

Welcome my son.
Welcome to the machine.
Where have you been?
We know where you've been.

You've been in the pipeline,
Filling in time.
Provided with toys,
And scouting for boys.

You didn't like school.
But you know you're nobody's fool!

Welcome to the machine.

It was like that for me, I think.

Though, to be fair, I should point out that it was during this era that the Republican fear mongering was gaining a foothold. There were plenty of drugs, but all the kids were tired - Vietnam was over. The Civil Rights Act was passed. The seventies was kind of a 'me' decade, you know?

Then my cohort all got jobs and/or went to college or vo-tech. And we worked. I've been a work now for over 45 years.

It IS a machine, and if you listened to George Carlin, you knew the rich didn't want us to think or be able to reason or God forbid be politically active. Nope. They wanted us to be obedient workers.

Now, about 43% of the people are that. Their minds are essentially destroyed.

Then, you have a huge swath of people who can't even tell you the basics of how our government works.

There's just a few of us, but we're products of the machine as well.

[beastie boy]

3. it's like he sleepwalked through the past 40 years...

Not even his vocabulary changed.

[lapucelle]

5. "Mind destroying schools..."

[JudyM]

9. It's called moral conviction. Noticeable because it's kind of rare.

[beastie boy]

17. It's called being a petrified fossil whom time forgot.

His "future" is nothing more than a long-forgotten past. Young Bernie supporters haven't learned the lessons of history, and are doomed to repeat it.

A curious and depressing coincidence: two years after Bernie's full of moral conviction resolution, Reagan won the Presidency in a landslide, and Senate went Republican for the first time in 28 years.

Not a good time to bring this up.

[David__77]

27. The use of "petrified fossils" is very funny to me.

...

[beastie boy]

36. It is, isn't it? But the analogy fits.

40 years, and even the wording didn't change...

[stopbush]

47. Bingo!

[beastie boy]

20. Assuming you have a point here, it took him 40 years to gain "people's" trust.

In this kind of timeline, how long do you think it will take him to get M4A, or any part of his platform, passed?

[HarlanPepper]

26. Hahahahahaha!

“General strikes”

[David__77]

29. Unions are passe to some.

...

[beastie boy]

45. We will have to order everything from China via Amazon

That's frightening indeed! Especially to Jeff Bezos. What will he do with all the extra billions he makes? He will have to invest all of it in the emerging markets!

[ehrnst]

46. Why then did he denounce his own staff for exercising their NLRB right to free speech?

The NLRB found this rule to be unlawful and explained: “Employees have a statutory right to speak publically about their complaints or concerns with their terms and conditions of employment, including to the press, without employer authorization.”

https://www.natlawreview.com/article/can-you-terminate-employee-talking-to-press

"It does bother me that people are going outside of the process and going to the media," he said. "That is really not acceptable. It is really not what labor negotiations are about, and it's improper."

Sanders said, ahead of a weekend Iowa campaign swing: "We are disappointed that some individuals have decided to damage the integrity of these efforts. We are involved in negotiations. And some are individuals that have decided to damage the integrity of that process before they were concluded."

https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/elections/presidential/caucus/2019/07/19/bernie-sanders-campaign-staff-wage-15-hour-union-elizabeth-warren-campaign-wages/1781159001/

[ehrnst]

37. You expect him to fail at being POTUS so badly, that he has to resort to

trying to convince people to strike in order to get anything done?

You really don't have much confidence in him, do you?

[beastie boy]

40. So he plans to go against the will of the duly elected congress who represent majority of Americans

then he plans to use what I assume you describe as organized labor to engage in economic sabotage to disable the government...

May I remind you that this is populist thuggery our founding fathers warned us about?

Organized labor is a small and dwindling minority in this country. Labor, on the other hand, includes people like lawyers, corporate managers, engineers, and, believe it or not, government employees. They are all salaried workers. How many of them will strike to grind the country to a halt, bringing untold havoc to their lives?

Labor in the US ain't what it used to be, considering, among other things, automation, the global nature of supply and distribution chains, as well as workforce itself.

Hence the reference to a fossil and the young people who haven't learned anything from history.

...Another 40 years, if we are lucky and the country doesn't go to hell in a basket? Perhaps.

[ehrnst]

42. If you think he will fail so badly at being POTUS that he will have to call a general strike

in an effort to get his policies enacted, why do you promote him as a candidate?

[beastie boy]

43. When was the last time a POTUS called for a general strike?

Imagine that he does, and the Congress votes immediately to make all strikes and unions illegal. How much support do you think he will have in Congress after he fails to convince Congress in the first year to go along with him? Will he then ignore the rule of law and disband Congress?

This smacks of a banana republic populist authoritarianism. And this is exactly why Sanders is so dangerous to the Republic.

[ehrnst]

24. But you're still "undecided," right?

"People trust him."



https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2020/jan/09/bernie-sanders/did-biden-laud-paul-ryan-proposal-cut-social-secur/

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — As a congressman in the 1990s, Bernie Sanders expressed an openness to making “adjustments” to the tax and benefit structure of Social Security. He also praised an overhaul of the social safety net program signed into law by President Ronald Reagan that reduced benefits and increased taxes on working families.

Sanders’ presidential campaign and allies have highlighted similar remarks by Joe Biden to attack the former vice president and make the explosive charge that Biden was an outspoken proponent of slashing the program.

https://apnews.com/31c432f20acba807a569c7004abaf473

Sanders camp admits anti-Warren script was deployed in multiple early states

Sanders initially attributed the talking points to rogue staffers, and supporters launched an online campaign to convince people the document was fake.

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/list/?category=&ruling=false&speaker=bernie-sanders

[sheshe2]

33. +1000👍

[jayschool2013]

4. Someone found Trump's 1978 resolution as well

[PatrickforO]

6. Well, certainly can't fault Bernie for being inconsistent.

That's what a lot of people like about him. Super Tuesday coming up...

[Donkees]

8. ...

[lapucelle]

22. Like on the Brady Bill and the PCLAA? N/T

[Happy Hoosier]

23. Well, not the inconvenient parts, of course! How silly! NT

[Uncle Joe]

10. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread Donkees.

[JudyM]

14. "Mind-destroying media"... he was on it long before it overtook our democracy.

[lapucelle]

21. "Mind destroying media and schools"...Yes, he was on media.

[lapucelle]

15. BS "estwhile leader of Liberty Union, VT's much-weakened third party"... N/T

[Happy Hoosier]

16. So he was a nut then too. Great.

[bucolic_frolic]

19. Yeah, that will play well in suburbia. Sanders is the GOP DREAM OPPONENT

Nothing could help Trump more than to nominate Sanders