opinion

Sanders' autocratic style of governing bad fit for America

As the Impeachment of President Trump winds down to a silent thump in the collective throats of the Democrat Party masses, our national thoughts naturally turn to the recent NBC News/WSJ polling of Democrat presidential contenders in first-state-caucus Iowa. "Bernie" Sanders is up 2 points on Joe Biden! If "Bernie" wins big there, he will have a nice head of steam moving into New Hampshire, right next to his home state of Vermont. He could become unstoppable.

On a scale of Mao to Stalin, though, how bad would a President "Bernie" Sanders actually be? His (proposed) autocratic style of bypassing Congress to sign executive orders is attractive to the Left who prefer direct action of their own. This feeling among young people that a card-carrying commie knows better in any situation, whether it's health care, Social Security, agriculture, infrastructure, diplomacy or war, has been proven dangerous already from Moscow to Beijing. The 20th Century is flooded with the blood of martyrs, soldiers and freedom fighters who were killed for ... what reason exactly?

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We have seen the effects in our own hemisphere; witness Venezuela. Once one of the wealthiest and most stable of, well, a sort of democracy, Venezuela has stumbled into a quagmire of waste and corruption with nothing to clean up its culture now of oligarchy and kleptocracy. Those in power have stolen the country's wealth and denied any of it to the working- and middle-class people who created it. Isn't that who is supposed to benefit from the leadership of someone like "Bernie" in our own country?

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"Bernie" may mean well, but I doubt it. According to Hillary Clinton, he has no friends in the Senate because he got nothing done there. If nominated, he will lose big, and Donald Trump will hand the keys to the Oval Office over to Vice President Mike Pence in 2025. Meanwhile, the Dow will hit 37,000 (before the next fall); unemployment will be so insignificant, it will not be calculated; 200 million Americans will have decent jobs, health care and prescription drugs; everyone will be "eating clean, Bro!"; the ice caps will re-freeze, ocean water levels will subside; hurricanes, tsunamis, volcanoes, earthquakes and wildfires will lessen, and ... Oh, happy day! ... Pence will serve only one term.

Trump was right ... we'll get tired of winning!

Stephen T. Nelson

Berkeley