Not philosophically but as far as a general election position.

No poll will ever tell you the correct answer to that question.

Do you think this is right? Or wrong?

I'm pro worker.

left-wing leaders. Two completely separate issues.

So, do you consider Bernie's support of some shady left-wing leaders right or wrong?

To be honest, I'm not that smart!

Lula Da Silva, who was convicted of crimes and corruption in his country, and Evo Morales, who was found by OAS, after an election audit he himself requested, to have run a rigged election.

You are welcome to argue that the above described left wing leaders and their actions described above are not shady, or that Bernie didn't embrace them, or that his embrace of these two particular left wing leaders is good. Just don't change the subject.

I am sure you are smart enough to do that.

9/11 victims families sue Saudi Arabia while also selling them weapons? Did you know women's rights in Saudi Arabia is among the worst in the world?

People don't have a problem with allying with Saudi Arabia or opening up a foundation and receiving donations from the House of Saud or King of Morocco but people get up an arms when a Latin left wing leader has positive views. The racial backlash in Bolivia after Morales is ugly.

I just said I objected to Obama's Saudi Arabia policy. How is that hypocritical?

What I find hypocritical is responses like "But... Obama!" in a thread that has to do with Bernie's embrace of certain far-left leaders.

I mean in general. Every President since FDR has allied with Saudi Arabia & sold them weapons.

and he said so.

One reason why I like Chuck Schumer because he did the right thing.

The US has a long history of backing right wing dictators.

Im not interested in coups of left wing leaders.

The House of Saud is way we worse and every President has allied with them since FDR.

Im against things like Coups in Honduras which is why I support Bernie.

Ok... How 'bout them Yankees?

I have a much bigger problem with The House of Saud than any left wing Latin America leader.

not military coups which for over a hundred years the U.S. has supported in Central or South America when their democratically elected leaders' policies differ from U.S. corporate interests.

Though that last excuse is pretty used up and without merit, so are the others.

Now... apply that same sentiment of yours to the excuses used consistently to cover-up the abject failure of a candidate's campaign.

Then (maybe...) the eyes, with renewed clarity, will open.

His positions in this area suck but they don't suck worse than some others isn't a very good argument.

I don't get people who go so far as to not take issue with a candidate. You are clearly saying that yes, some of Sanders positions in this area are really bad, but not as bad as some people.

Zero other reason to bring Obama or anyone else into it as a way of deflection from the topic.

Is worse than Evo Morales.

There is not zero reason because I'm actually upset with Saudi Arabia and have been for a long time. I'm not interested in making an enemy out of Iran either because we are the ones that overthrew their elected leader after he kicked out BP. Sorry I can't work up enough outrage for Morales or any left wing Latin America leader.

Why I support Bernie

Link to tweet

“...to the growing movement of anti-democratic authoritarianism worldwide"

And yet he strongly supported Evo Morales who unilaterally violated Bolivian law and served a third term as President and stacked the Bolivian Supreme Court so he could get a ruling in his favor.

That's not "anti-democratic authoritarianism"?

You see it. I see it. Everyone with half a brain sees it. It ought not need to be spelled out and spoon-fed like that.

Ethnic Rifts in Bolivia Burst Into View With Fall of Evo Morales

As the country’s first Indigenous president has tumbled from power, Indigenous Bolivians fear the loss of their hard-won political gains, and say a racial backlash has begun.

COCHABAMBA, Bolivia — In the days since the ouster of Evo Morales, Bolivia’s first Indigenous president, deep ethnic tensions that have long divided the country have erupted, complicating efforts to move Bolivia out of political crisis.

Mr. Morales, a champion of the Indigenous, has now been replaced by an acting president of European descent, and resentments have surfaced. Police officers have ripped the Indigenous insignia off their uniforms. Protesters have burned the Indigenous flag. And the acting president, who posted tweets many consider racist, initially appointed a cabinet without a single Indigenous member.

“We feel threatened,” said Juan Acume, a farmer from the Quechua, an Indigenous group, near a protest barricade of earth mounds and tree trunks across Bolivia’s main highway on Wednesday night. “They don’t represent us; they reject us, the Indigenous.”

Mr. Morales’s nearly 14 years in power represented a breakthrough for the three-quarters of Bolivians who are either of Indigenous descent or identify as members of Indigenous groups. But he also reinforced his base of support with explicit appeals to racial identity that many Bolivians found threatening and polarizing. Now that Mr. Morales has taken asylum in Mexico, his supporters fear the loss of their hard-won political and economic gains.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2019/11/15/world/americas/morales-bolivia-Indigenous-racism.amp.html

As bad as Evo Morales is right wing racism is worse.

It's unclear to me why this should be a point of pride for BS, or for his faithful followers.

that this could be perceived as positive for anyone running for office in the US. Well, maybe except for Che Guevara t-shirt wearing 19 year olds who claim communism is the way to go.

What's next? Sanders seeking Maduro's endorsement? Campaigning with Nicaragua's Ortega?

Bizarre.

Che Guevara t-shirt wearing 19 year olds who claim communism is the way to go

What could possibly go wrong?

Morales, for example, was part of "the growing movement of anti-democratic authoritarianism worldwide." He was removed while in the process of stealing an election that was illegitimate in the first place.

Embracing Morales puts one on the wrong side of a very troubling trend.

This is very disturbing.

When you're talking about autocracies, the designations of "left" and "right" are meaningless. When you're dealing with authoritarianism the political spectrum comes full circle.

Bookmarking to read the full article later.

to say he is not a "democratic socialist" but a true socialist like the others around the world.

So be it for the Democratic Socialism mask. He just let it slip overboard.

Just another reason that Sanders will never be the Democratic nominee. He just handed Elizabeth Warren a huge gift!