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- He supported NATO’s bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999, a stance which caused one of his staffers to resign in protest. The bombing of Yugoslavia was committed under a “humanitarian” pretext, but it actually killed more civilians than military personnel.



- He supports continued drone strikes against the Middle-East

- He supports the imperialist state of Israel’s continued violence against the Palestinian people.



- He claims immigrants are lowering wages for American workers (even though a slew of economists have shown he’s wrong) thus fueling more American xenophobia and racism.



- He helped pass one of the most racist crime bills ever legislated in recent history. A bill penned by another racist liberal: Joe Biden.



- In 2006 Sanders said gay marriage was a “state” issue. This was consistently a right-wing talking point, and a refusal to acknowledge that gays, as tax paying citizens, should be afforded the same state and federal privileges of citizenship.



- He continued test-and-punish education policies that hurt schools with low standardized test scores (which overwhelmingly impacts low-income, POC communities) which the Republicans were against, some lesser evil. His education policies have been described as “corporate”.



- He wants to disarm the proletariat, but not the police or the military.



- He voted to extradite Assata Shakur, a black radical who took shelter in Cuba. This just goes to show how far Bernie Sanders is from being an actual socialist. Understanding the Black Liberation Movement, and the Black Panthers are core to understanding the race relations in America. Not only does this express a clear disconnect between Bernie and Socialism, it also shows how far disconnected he is from the struggles of the African American community, although he likes to flaunt his civil rights records as proof that that is not true. This is also a meaningful testament to where Sanders would stand in relation to a working class revolution.



- He’s a fucking capitalist