Timothy Birdnow

For those of you who still think Red Bern is somehow not a communist, read these two essays.

First we have this article from Freedomworks:

Joseph Simonson published an investigative report in the Washington Examiner that confirmed that Bernie Sanders campaigned for the Socialist Workers Party in the 1980 and 1984 presidential campaigns and was investigated by the FBI for ties to the Marxist party.

What does the Socialist Workers Party stand for?

Answer: A lot of bad stuff.

The party was founded in 1938 by devotees of Leon Trotsky. Trotsky led the Red Bolshevik Army into battle during the Russian Revolution that led to the founding of the Soviet Union and the rise to power of Vladimir Lenin. Joseph Stalin would follow Lenin as leader of the Soviet Union.

The Socialist Workers Party members promoted an ideology of international revolution and attended communist conferences around the globe.

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Simonson wrote that " In 1980, Sanders proudly endorsed and supported Andrew Pulley, the party’s presidential candidate, who once said that American soldiers should take up their guns and shoot their officers. Sanders was one of their electors for Pulley on the Vermont ballot, stating in a press release: ‘I fully support the SWP’s continued defense of the Cuban revolution.”

Sanders was investigated for his ties to Communists by the FBI. Oh, and he went to the Soviet Union on his honeymoon. Who does that? One suspects Sanders may well have been a Soviet sleeper agent.

The other essay is from Matthew Vadum in Frontpagemag. According to Vadum:

Bernie has been around communists a long time.

He used to work at the communist-led United Packinghouse Workers Union.

In the 1970s he belonged to the anti-war Liberty Union Party (LUP). Under the LUP banner, he ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. Senate and governor of Vermont. His platform called for all U.S. banks to be nationalized, public ownership of all utilities, and the establishment of a worker-controlled federal government.

Sanders quit the LUP in 1979 and was elected mayor of Burlington, Vermont. During his decade in office he displayed a Soviet flag in his mayoral office and claimed he did so to honor Yaroslavl, Burlington's sister city in the U.S.S.R. In addition, he made Puerto Cabezas in Communist Nicaragua another sister city of Burlington.

In 1989 Sanders addressed the national conference of the U.S. Peace Council, a Communist Party USA front group. The event focused on how to "end the Cold War” and "fund human needs.” Fellow speakers included radicals such as Leslie Cagan and U.S. Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.)

Interacting with the CPUSA was a dangerous thing. During the Cold War, CPUSA members swore an oath"to the Soviet Union, to a 'Soviet America,' and to the 'triumph of Soviet power in the United States," according to Professor Paul Kengor.

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For an American politician during the Cold War, Sanders was unusually friendly to the Soviet Union.

As Accuracy in Media has reported, in the 1980s he "collaborated with Soviet and East German 'peace committees'" whose objective was "to stop President Reagan’s deployment of nuclear missiles in Europe.” Indeed, he "openly joined the Soviets’ 'nuclear freeze' campaign to undercut Reagan’s military build-up.”

Bernie also reached out to Soviet allies. He travelled to Communist Cuba in the 1980s where he enjoyed a friendly meeting with Havana's mayor.

In 1985 he visited Nicaragua to celebrate the sixth anniversary of the ascent to power of Daniel Ortega and his Marxist-Leninist Sandinista government. Sanders wrote an open letter to the people of Nicaragua attacking the Reagan administration, which he claimed was a puppet of corporate interests, for its anti-Communist activities. "In the long run, I am certain that you will win, and that your heroic revolution against the Somoza dictatorship will be maintained and strengthened,” he said.

When he was stateside again, Sanders sent a letter to the White House saying Ortega was interested in meeting with President Reagan to try to negotiate and end to that nation's civil war. Sanders invited Ortega to visit Burlington but the dictator declined.

If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, swims like a duck, it's probably a duck. Bernie is not a democratic socialist. He wants the Revolution. Make no mistake.

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