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jfern

(5,204 posts)
Fri Oct 23, 2015, 12:10 AM Oct 2015

It wasn't economics that got Bernie first interested in politics

Bernie knows that his father's family, who were Jews living in Poland, would have been killed no matter how rich they were. Those who claim Bernie only cares about economics are full of shit.


As a child, Sanders said, being Jewish taught him “in a very deep way what politics is about.”

“A guy named Adolf Hitler won an election in 1932,” the senator said. “He won an election, and 50 million people died as a result of that election in World War II, including 6 million Jews. So what I learned as a little kid is that politics is, in fact, very important.”


http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/monitor_breakfast/2015/0611/Bernie-Sanders-I-m-proud-to-be-Jewish
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