Most educated people know that the type of socialist Bernie Sanders is isn’t the same as Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot. Not Rand Paul, apparently.
Bernie Sanders is proud to say he is a Democratic Socialist. His policies and beliefs are more in keeping with the majority of Americans, who support social security and Medicare for the elderly, and a reining in of money in politics and “too big to fail” banks, than many may realize.
Rand Paul on Thursday – after defending and trying to fix his claim that it’s OK to fire gay people and they should stay closeted in the workplace – sat down with South Carolina radio host Vince Coakley and decided to tell the American public blatant falsehoods about just what kind of socialist Bernie Sanders really is.
Paul equated Sanders’ brand of socialism to that of dictators like communist Joseph Stalin, Marxist–Leninist Mao Zedong, and communist totalitarian Pol Pot – which isn’t even a stretch, so much as an extreme falsehood.
“It amazes me and it actually kind of scares me,” Paul said. “I’ve been spending more time going after Bernie and socialism because I don’t want America to succumb to the notion that there’s anything good about socialism.”
“I think it’s not an accident of history that most of the times when socialism has been tried that attendant with that has been mass genocide of people or any of those who object to it.”
“Stalin killed tens of millions of people. Mao killed tens of millions of people. Pol Pot killed tens of millions of people. When you have a command economy, when everything is dictated from one authority, that’s socialism, but it doesn’t come easily to those who resist it.”
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Hat tip and audio: Right Wing Watch
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