They seem to be unable to help themselves.
From the first minute of the February 25 non-debate in Charlottesville, SC, the seven Democrats on the stage appeared genetically designed to skirt economic facts, avoid the supposed rules of the US Constitution, and to be contemptuous of individual rights.
Straight out of the gate, socialist Bernie Sanders told the crowd that he thinks Chinese Communist President Xi Jinping is an “authoritarian leader”, yet, as Peter Schweizer notes on page 179 of his book, “Profiles in Corruption”:
After college, Sanders drifted around before heading to Israel to work on a kibbutz in 1963. The kibbutz movement was wide and varied, and for years, Sanders refused to reveal the exact kibbutz to which he was connected.
One wonders why…
During the 2016 presidential campaign, intrepid journalists discovered that he spent his time at a settlement connected to an Israeli political party called Mapam. This was a particularly political settlement, Kibbutz Sha’ar Ha’amakim, connected to a ‘Soviet-affiliated political faction.’ Kibbutz members admired Joseph Stalin until his death, calling him, ‘Sun of Nations.’ They would celebrate May Day with red flags.
But remember, Bernie’s not a fan of “authoritarians.”
And forget he ever praised Hugo Chavez, the corrupt, authoritarian former “President” of Venezuela, that he has praised authoritarian Fidel Castro, the communist dictator of Cuba, and, that, in 1988, Bernie spent his honeymoon in the authoritarian USSR just prior to its economic collapse (great economic insight, there, Bernie).
Bernie also fired-up the “debate” by claiming that, “Last year, real wage increases for the average worker were less than one percent.”
Sorry, Bernie. First, you haven’t defined “average worker”, and it’s not particularly wise to trust the government on anything, but, since Bernie is such a fan of government, lets turn to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which, just last year, noted wage growth was at the highest rate in a decade, due to the demand for labor and the low unemployment rate.
As Jeffry Bartash wrote for MarketWatch in March of last year:
Hourly pay earned by the typical employee rose sharply in February, pushing the increase in wages over the past year to a 10-year high of 3.4%... The last time wages grew that fast was in early 2009.
