By Riley J. Hood—Milwaukee County Constitution Party

I try to right short articles and not impose too much on your time. Some subjects can’t be covered in under 600 words, and this is one of them. I asked for your clemency as you read this. What he stands for is so ungodly, that every time he speaks it is like nails on a chalk board.

He was born on September 8, 1941, in New York. He lived in Brooklyn, a child of Jewish immigrants from Poland. His father sold paint. He grew up in a rent controlled apartment. As a child, Bernie said, "I saw unfairness. That was the major inspiration in my politics." He decided he should be the commissar of what is fair. He has never grown up.

Sanders attended James Madison High School and Brooklyn College. He transferred to the University of Chicago. He was involved in the Congress of Racial Equality, participating in a sit-in against segregation in 1962. In 1963 he marched on Washington. In 1964, he was given a degree in political science. He lived in a kibbutz in Israel before settling in Vermont. During the Vietnam War, Sanders applied for conscientious objector status. His status was rejected, but by then he was too old to be drafted. He is a draft dodger. He failed at his first marriage to Deborah Schilling. In 1968 he impregnated Susan Mott and had a son, Levi, in 1969. He never married Susan, so he failed at fatherhood. He failed at private sector work. He failed as a teacher for low-income children through Head Start. He decided to become a tax-user rather than a taxpayer.

In the 1970s, he made several unsuccessful bids for office as a member of the anti-war Liberty Union Party. He left the group in 1979. In 1981, he was elected mayor of Burlington, Vermont. He had support from the Progressive Coalition. In 1990 he won a seat in Congress. He opposed the Iraq War. Vermont sent him to the Senate in 2006. In 2010, he made an eight-hour filibuster against extending the Bush43 tax cuts. He sought the 2016 Democrat nomination for President. His book, Our Revolution, brought Sanders $880,091.14 in 2017. In November 2018, Sanders published Where We Go From Here: Two Years in the Resistance, a platform-boosting book to support his campaign.

Bernie is calling for “a political revolution.” His platform is a never ending list of demands, and if he ever reaches those goals he will make up more, because revolutions always come back for more as opposed to movements. According to berniesanders.com, he wants AOC’s Green New Deal, and 100 percent renewable energy, “to solve the climate crisis.” His “Medicare for All” is an expansion of LBJ socialism. He wants to, “Create a single-payer, national health insurance program to provide everyone in America with comprehensive health care coverage, free at the point of service.” Taxation for all, rationed services for some. It is a “Every man from his ability to every man according to his need,” Marxist scheme. This includes “reproductive and maternity care,” meaning abortion, sterilization and population control. He wants to “repeal the Hyde Amendment and fully fund Planned Parenthood, Title X, and other initiatives that protect women’s health, access to contraception, and the availability of a safe and legal abortion.” He will “Oppose all efforts to undermine or overturn Roe v Wade, and appoint federal judges who will uphold women’s most fundamental rights,” aka baby killing.

He wants “College for All: Guarantee tuition and debt-free public colleges, universities, HBCUs, Minority Serving Institutions and tradeschools to all.” He wants to forgive all current college debt, with your money. He wants to double union membership, calling that “Workplace Democracy.” He will eliminate all State Right to Work laws. He wants “Housing for All,” by “investing $2.5 trillion to build nearly 10 million permanently affordable housing units.” He wants national rent control. He wants to ban evictions. He wants more Section 8 vouchers and dreams of ending homelessness. This amounts to the abolition of private property altogether. He wants to end cash bail and “Cut the national prison population in half.” He wants to abolish the death penalty for the guilty, end three strikes laws, and mandatory minimum sentences. He wants to legalize marijuana and expunge past convictions. He wants a “Prisoners Bill of Rights,” whatever he means by that. He wants to federalize schools and guarantee public school teachers 60k per year starting wage. He thinks after 50 years of forced busing schools are still segregated. He will end charter, choice, private and Christian schools, and put all education into the hands of the state. He wants a tax on “extreme wealth.” The income tax was sold under the banner of “soak the rich” as a 1% tax on the wealthiest 1%, and look what it became.

He wants gun-control, to “Take on the NRA and its corrupting effect on Washington.” He will expand background checks. Ban assault weapons. Ban high-capacity ammunition magazines. He wants a national buyback program and Red Flag laws. He wants complete citizen disarmament, and like his buddy Fidel Castro, asks “Armas para que?” I have only skimmed the Sander’s Platform. At best he is trying to be a Socialist Santa Claus, but his Platform goals comport with the 10 Planks of Marx’s 1848 Communist Manifesto, which are:

1. Abolition of private property in land and application of all rents of land to public purpose.
2. Aheavy progressive or graduated income tax.
3. Abolition of all rights of inheritance.
4. Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels.
5. Centralization of credit in the hands of the state, by means of a national bank with state capital and an exclusive monopoly.
6. Centralization of the means of communication and transportation in the hands of the state.
7. Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the state; the bringing into cultivation of waste lands, and the improvement of the soil generally in accordance with a common plan.
8. Equal obligation of all to work. Establishment of Industrial armies, especially for agriculture.
9. Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries; gradual abolition of the distinction between town and country by a more equable distribution of the population over the country.
10. Free education for all children in government schools. Abolition of children's factory labor in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production.

A glaring fault with Sanders and other Democrats is their hypocrisy. They pretend to be working people, but like Karl Marx, they are agitators posing as workers. They rail against rich businessmen, who turn a profit producing products and services, while they themselves are rich from the tax-money of the American people. According to www.opensecrets.org Bernie had, “an estimated net worth of $712,516 in 2015,” and www.cnbc.com states on May 26, 2019, “both 2016 and 2017, Sanders and his wife, Jane, had adjusted gross income of about $1.1 million.” Michael Kruse on Politico.com, said, “In the wake of his 2016 presidential run, the most lucrative thing he’s ever done, the 77-yearold self-described democratic socialist is a threehome-owning millionaire with a net worth approaching at least $2 million, taking into account his publicly outlined assets and liabilities along with the real estate he owns outright. In a strict, bottom-line sense, Sanders has become one of those rich people against whom he has so unrelentingly railed.” What Dems don’t emphasize is that they are the party of the wealthy, Michael Bennet 6.6million, Fake Cherokee Warren is worth 4.7million, Corey Booker 700K, Amy Klobuchar 600k, Kamala Harris 400k, and that is nothing compared to Hilary or Michael Bloomberg. It is another case of “do as I say, not as I do.”

The Milwaukee County Constitution Party asserts none of Bernie’s platform is original thought, but is an application of Marxism and the Communist Manifesto. The 10 Planks of Communism has led to the liquidation of hundreds of millions since 1917, under Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Ho Chi Minh, Pol Pot, and is still murdering. American doesn’t need Marxist ideology, and we don’t need Sanders, Warren and the Democrat Party to impose it on us.