Bernie the Faux-Prole

Paul Jacobs unpacks why Bernie Sanders is a phony and the darling of the non-working Left. He calls him a "faux-prole" which is French for false proletarian - because he says he is for the "working people" but in reality, socialism has long been the pretty much the exclusive domain of "intellectuals, college students, and government workers" who have made delusion an art form. He also spells out that Sanders is a demagogue in the true sense and cites chapter and verse as to why:

"Bernie Sanders is a demagogue because he attacks the rich and proposes solutions that pretend to favor the lowest socioeconomic classes. And, like most socialists, he plays, demagogically, on his constituencies’:

Emotions: Socialism has always been a philosophy of hatred of business, free markets, the rich, and private property;

Fears: The rich “buy” our elections. Now, specifically “the Kochs” (never Soros and comrades) do the buying, with Sanders’s solution being to effectively repeal the First Amendment (just one of many ominous totalitarian touches in his political vision);

Prejudices: It’s always “the rich” and “the one percent” — as if all are alike, as if there is no diversity in how fortunes are made;

Ignorance: Ask a socialist to define consumer surplus, marginal productivity, or explain the idea of mutual benefit through trade — they prove belligerently resistant to economic wisdom."

Socialism is a big con game. The few at the top are complete cynics who know that all this is crap and a subterfuge for gaining power and then calling the shots the way they want. The rest of the pack is just a bunch of useful idiots to help them get there. Real working people have figured him and his ilk out; it's only the "educated" that are continuously fooled.

http://townhall.com/columnists/pauljacob/2015/09/06/the-democrats-demagogue-n2048480