Senator Bernie Sanders is everywhere on the internet!
New York Magazine writes that he is “quietly building a digital media empire.”
Mic.com calls it “one of the most powerful progressive media organizations in America.”
This matters because the players degree Sanders is one of four major Democratic presidential candidates.
I hate Sanders’ “empire” because it promotes bad ideas, yet his videos are watched more than mine. His videos have been watched almost billion times.
Some of them are just recordings of his raucous speeches, in which he rants about how Republican policies are hurting Americans. For example, “Tens of thousands of them will die” if Obamacare is repealed. (He ignores the fact that more people will live if the economy is allowed to grow.)
Sanders’ other films are edited, produced footage, much like the films I to do.
One of them begins with a speech by President Trump in which the president recites the song “The Snake,” in which a woman nurses a snake to bite her. “You knew damn well I was a snake before you took me in!” the president shouts. He opposed lax immigration controls.
However, video footage shows Trump calling criminals “animals,” with an “expert” saying Trump is using “the same kind of language that the Nazis used.”
The video does not mention that when Trump said “animals” he was referring to MS-13.
A recurring theme in Sanders’ videos is portraying Trump supporters as “greed personified” who are plotting to become even richer, such as by abolishing the inheritance tax.
Sanders never mentions that the inheritance tax applies to money that has already been taxed; that’s double taxation.
He could still argue against repealing it, but he should do it honestly.
Many of Sanders’ videos call for the government to make higher education free.
His employees interview themselves.
May Ayad, a Sanders media producer, tells us, “It’s not like one or two people saying, ‘I can’t afford college.’ It’s like the majority of college students across the country!”
Winn Decker, a research intern at the Senate Budget Committee, laments, “Student loans have prevented me from doing things like buying a house.”
Sanders’ assistant Terrel Champion tells viewers: “Someone has to pay the bill. The government should take on that responsibility!”
There is no mention of how existing government subsidies have already driven up the price of tuition, allowing it to rise faster than inflation. Nor is there a word about how Sanders’ wife bankrupted the Vermont college.
The point is that the government has to pay more!
The government should take responsibility for your health care, too, says Sanders’ video, which describes MSNBC host Ali Velshi as a “Canadian capitalist” who says, “There is no free market in health insurance anywhere on Earth that works.”
The video looks like a debate between Velshi and Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, but it is edited so that Jordon doesn’t have much to say.
It’s basic to win an argument if you don’t let the other person talk.
There is also no mention of the fact that Municipal Institute says Sanders’ “Medicare for All” plan will cost the federal government $32 trillion between 2017 and 2026.
Perhaps the most vital theme of Sanders’ videos is the wealth gap, which Bernie says “is not only immoral (but) causes working families to suffer (as) the poor get poorer.”
But that’s just wrong. The destitute are NO become poorer. The difference in wealth does not cause suffering. Yes, luxurious people have become richer, but the destitute and middle class richeralso. Sanders never admits it.
Sanders posts a novel video of economic ignorance almost every day.
He says it would be “easy” to have free healthcare, free college, decent pay. How will all this be paid for? Simple. Raise taxes.
One of Sanders’ videos features wealthy people shouting, “Tax me!” and “I should pay more!”
So pay more! No one is stopping you! Just don’t ask everyone to pay more.
Socialists believe that government is the solution to every problem. They also pretend that what government provides is free.
Sanders’ videos would be a joke if they weren’t watched by millions of people.
