{"id":9775,"date":"2015-06-11T14:03:27","date_gmt":"2015-06-11T18:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/?p=9775"},"modified":"2022-05-10T14:45:20","modified_gmt":"2022-05-10T18:45:20","slug":"bernie-sanders-is-the-most-dangerous-man-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2015\/06\/11\/bernie-sanders-is-the-most-dangerous-man-in-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Bernie Sanders Is The Most Dangerous Man In America"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I\u2019ve never feared for my safety quite like I did yesterday. I have been beaten, kidnapped, and shot at before. I\u2019ve had my gun pointed at a man\u2019s chest when police showed up. I\u2019ve live streamed a riot where drunken lunatics flipped cars and screamed \u201cFuck the press!\u201d. I\u2019ve been involved in some pretty precarious situations, but none were ever quite so frightening as watching 73 year old Bernie Sanders whip hundreds of radical leftists into a frenzy yesterday in Keene, New Hampshire. That might sound a bit hyperbolic, but I\u2019m dead serious.<\/p>\n

The Vermont Senator is running for President as a Democrat, and near everyone has dismissed him as a fringe candidate with no chance of winning. He has been referred to by some as \u201cthe Ron Paul of the left\u201d. He\u2019s no Ron Paul by any informed person\u2019s measure, but I too thought of him as little more than a political anomaly that could only come from a place like Vermont. Until yesterday, that is.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve never paid much attention to Sanders. In a handful of television appearances, he just seemed like a cagey, quirky guy with some really bad economic ideas. That wasn\u2019t who showed up to the recreation center on Washington Street in Keene yesterday though.<\/p>\n

Sanders is actually one of the best orators I\u2019ve ever been in the presence of. He speaks with passion, conviction, and skill. His timing, his change of speed and intonation, and his use of humor, allow him to connect with an audience like very few people can. He\u2019s very personable. Most people don\u2019t call him Senator or Mr. Sanders, they call him Bernie. He approaches everyone with a smile and a humble friendly demeanor, at least, until they challenge him. He\u2019s so good at all of this, that he even manages to charm a considerable number of libertarians who, despite their disagreement with his radical economic agenda, are convinced he at least means well.<\/p>\n

He uses that talent to tap into the most vile regions of the human psyche, and stir up that irrational fury that has sent so many societies spiraling into the depths of communism, suffering, and death. To hear him tell it, the solution to all our problems is so simple and obvious that the mind is repelled. The answer? Well, just have the government pay for everything, of course. How to pay for it? By taking money from the wealthiest people in the society. And why wouldn\u2019t we? According to Sanders \u201cwe\u201d are the wealthiest nation in the history of mankind, \u201cwe\u201d have every bit as much a right to those resources as the people who earned them, why should \u201cwe\u201d let \u201cTHEM\u201d have exclusive access to all that wealth? That\u2019s his whole entire message \u201cwe\u201d should take it from \u201cTHEM\u201c, the \u201cmillionaires and billionaires\u201d a phrase he throws around as a pejorative, like a racist might use a derogatory epithet.<\/p>\n

Unlike his nearer to the center Democratic counterparts, Sanders makes no effort to moderate this message. The concept of private property never even enters the picture for him. There was literally not a single portion of his address yesterday that did not advocate the expansion or creation of some federal program.<\/p>\n

Yet, despite nearly all Americans losing faith in the federal government, he received standing ovations on nearly every talking point. From raising taxes, to income inequality, to global warming, every last issue was a condemnation of wealth, and a call for government control, and the standing room only audience I was among couldn\u2019t have been happier to hand him any power he might ask for.<\/p>\n

Source: Bernie Sanders Is The Most Dangerous Man In America<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve never feared for my safety quite like I did yesterday. I have been beaten, kidnapped, and shot at before. I\u2019ve had my gun pointed at a man\u2019s chest when police showed up. I\u2019ve live streamed a riot where drunken lunatics flipped cars and screamed \u201cFuck the press!\u201d. I\u2019ve been involved in some pretty precarious situations, but none were ever quite so frightening as watching 73 year old Bernie Sanders whip hundreds of radical leftists into a frenzy yesterday in Keene, New Hampshire. That might sound a bit hyperbolic, but I\u2019m dead serious. The Vermont Senator is running for President as a Democrat, and near everyone has dismissed him as a fringe candidate with no chance of winning. He has been referred to by some as \u201cthe Ron Paul of the left\u201d. He\u2019s no Ron Paul by any informed person\u2019s measure, but I too thought of him as little more than a political anomaly that could only come from a place like Vermont. Until yesterday, that is. I\u2019ve never paid much attention to Sanders. In a handful of television appearances, he just seemed like a cagey, quirky guy with some really bad economic ideas. That wasn\u2019t who showed up to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9776,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[290],"class_list":["post-9775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-politics","tag-bernie-sanders"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}