2016 Postmortem

factfinder_77

(841 posts) Mon Apr 11, 2016, 11:08 AM Apr 2016

Young Sanders - Solidarity with revolutionary regimes in Iran, Nicaragua, Grenada, and Cuba

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2016/02/bernie_sanders_radical_past_would_haunt_him_in_a_general_election.html

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Young Sanders - Solidarity with revolutionary regimes in Iran, Nicaragua, Grenada, and Cuba (Original Post) factfinder_77 Apr 2016 OP

Nobody cares. Seriously, as many love this fact as hate it. Most have no clue. CentralCoaster Apr 2016 #1

I agreed with him then, and still do. Tierra_y_Libertad Apr 2016 #2

You mean those that battled US-backed right-wing regimes? marmar Apr 2016 #3

Were these a result of the 7 US-overthrown governments or 35 fascist dictators the US supported. TheBlackAdder Apr 2016 #5

well DetroitSocialist83 Apr 2016 #4

Come on, he's finding facts. His handle even has to tell us that. TheBlackAdder Apr 2016 #6

CentralCoaster

(1,163 posts)

1. Nobody cares. Seriously, as many love this fact as hate it. Most have no clue.

Reply to factfinder_77 (Original post)

Mon Apr 11, 2016, 11:16 AM

Apr 2016

Is your concern that Bernie might not win the Reagan/Ollie North crowd?

Seriously, Sanders has been on the right side of almost every issue I've checked. He's a true progressive democrat.

The thing is, Sanders wasn’t wrong about the right-wing lunatics or the fascist dictatorships. As he has spent decades pointing out, the CIA helped overthrow the democratically elected Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh in 1953. It was complicit in the assassination of Patrice Lumumba, prime minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, in 1961. In 1973, it assisted in the military coup against Salvador Allende’s socialist government in Chile, which eventually led to the murderous fascist dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.

Tierra_y_Libertad

(50,414 posts)

2. I agreed with him then, and still do.

Reply to factfinder_77 (Original post)

Mon Apr 11, 2016, 11:19 AM

Apr 2016

marmar

(77,081 posts)

3. You mean those that battled US-backed right-wing regimes?

Reply to factfinder_77 (Original post)

Mon Apr 11, 2016, 11:22 AM

Apr 2016

TheBlackAdder

(28,209 posts)

5. Were these a result of the 7 US-overthrown governments or 35 fascist dictators the US supported.

Reply to marmar (Reply #3)

Mon Apr 11, 2016, 01:01 PM

Apr 2016

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And the common thread to most of them was... Corporate Greed.

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DetroitSocialist83

(169 posts)

4. well

Reply to factfinder_77 (Original post)

Mon Apr 11, 2016, 12:55 PM

Apr 2016

we supported right wing drug Dealers in Nicaragua. The Sandinistas had the last laugh and are in charge to this day. He praised healthcare and education in Cuba. Obama did his same on his visit. He opposed our interventions in Iran which have given us the current situation that Obama is now trying to fix. Grenada was attacked by Ronald. You sound like Dick Cheney.

TheBlackAdder

(28,209 posts)

6. Come on, he's finding facts. His handle even has to tell us that.

Reply to DetroitSocialist83 (Reply #4)

Mon Apr 11, 2016, 01:03 PM

Apr 2016

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