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These days, the American dream is more apt to be realized in South America, in places such as Ecuador, Venezuela and Argentina, where incomes are actually more
by wooter 9y ago
These days, the American dream is more apt to be realized in South America, in places such as Ecuador, Venezuela and Argentina, where incomes are actually more equal today than they are in the land of Horatio Alger. Who's the banana republic now?
- Bernie Sanders (on his site, https://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/must-read/close-the-gaps-disparities-that-threaten-america https://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/must-read/close-the-...)
- Brakenshire 9y agoYeah. Sanders and Corbyn are strange figureheads really. I've spoken to Labour politicians who think that Corbyn hasn't changed his mind since 1983. They all are still carrying all of this pointless and discredited Cold War era baggage. A friend of Corbyn's has praised North Korea and Stalinism, and Corbyn appointed him to a major position in his election campaign: http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/jeremy-corbyn-defends-andrew-murray-ex-communist-after-drafted-in-as-election-adviser-secondment-unite_uk_5919d8a4e4b07d5f6ba4bf4a http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/jeremy-corbyn-defends-... They do the job of right-wing ideologues for them by conflating social democracy with communism and authoritarianism. They still have not learnt the lessons of Orwell and Solzhenitsyn about the nonsense of arbitrarily taking sides.