Finally, Bernie Sanders had his own AOC meltdown moment when a Stanford student at a townhall asked him why the US dominates tech innovation, which creates so much of the wealth that he wants to redistribute and the billionaires he rails against. Ignoring the question, Bernie fell back on his standard cliches about how Europe has free healthcare, child care and education. The student again pressed him to answer the question:
WHY is American economic growth so much stronger than Europe’s? Bernie responded by criticizing America for having homelessness and income inequality, but he never answered the question.
FYI: The simple answer is that the US has a free-market capitalist system that rewards risk-taking and innovation instead of punishing achievement, which is what Bernie wants to end. Capitalism creates the wealth that he wants to steal and redistribute while dismantling the system that creates it (i.e., “killing the golden goose.”) Socialism is a system that will always fail because it’s based on government coercion, corruption and a failure to grasp basic human nature: that if everyone is rewarded equally no matter how hard they work, then nobody is going to work very hard.
That one question and his “These go to 11” answer exposed what Bernie always has been: A know-nothing socialist who failed at everything he ever did until he got into politics, and now he’s a millionaire with three houses. Like his protégé AOC, he has no concept of what actually creates the wealth he wants to loot. He’s like that crazy uncle who spends every Thanksgiving ranting about the government watching him through his TV set. You might find him amusing, even endearing in a “cranky Muppet” sort of way, but you’d never trust him with your retirement fund.
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