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Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders doubled down on the link between terrorism and climate change Sunday in defense of his stance that global warming presents the greatest national security threat to the United States.comment:
Some of what he says seems to jibe with what I have written here on this blog. But does that mean that I support Sanders or agree with him? No, and I'll explain why.
It is interesting that Sanders mentions that people migrate to the big cities where they are subject to propaganda. If it weren't for that, left wing politicians would have a tougher time getting elected. In other words, the modus operandi that Sanders accuses the terrorists of - is the same one that the left uses itself, and Sanders is a Socialist.
In the US, all the blue regions are in, or near, the big cities that Sanders is talking about. Whether Sanders realizes or not, he is making a strong indictment against left wing politics. How this helps him is not very clear. But it doesn't help is rival, Hillary Clinton, either. They are both one and the same on the type of issues that the left advocates- for instance, man-made climate change.
But Sanders makes sense when he says too many people are migrating to the cities, where there are no jobs for them; thus presenting something of a problem. What he doesn't do is to advocate anything that would actually help solve the problem that he claims exists- man made climate change. He would be a far more interesting candidate if he advocated a return to homesteading in the United States. There's a lot of vacant land in this country. Everybody doesn't have to live in the city. Perhaps something can be done to reverse the trend towards migrating to the big cities? I don't see any solution coming from Sanders that are along these lines.
Sanders was asked if he found any direct link of climate change to terrorism, which he would not confirm. This leads me to believe that he is stretching the truth a bit. That's a bit of an understatement. He may be stretching the truth a lot.
If there is any direct link of public policy to terrorism, it is the open borders policies that this current administration favors. But this isn't really a partisan issue. Many on the GOP side favor open borders policy as well.
Therefore, Sanders statements are a bit misleading. His analysis is flawed, to say the least.
The article points to the polls that have Hillary leading by a substantial margin. One question was asked about which candidate could bring about change, and Hillary won that one too. But we've been getting "change" for the last eight years. Do they support Obama's version of change, or something else? If it is something else, what that something is isn't clear. Fighting climate change isn't exactly a new idea for the left.
Perhaps they should reconsider their ideas, if change is what they are really after. With this kind of talk, we are likely to see more of the same from these two candidates, if one of them is elected.
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