Like any good communist, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is an unrepentant hypocrite who wants to make things better for the masses as long as they remember they are pathetic peasants who are not as important as he is.
Sanders has spent the last few months jetting around the country on his “Fighting Oligarchy Tour.” With 19 speeches (and one Coachella music festival appearance) in 71 days, Sanders relied on private jets to get him where he needed to go so he could lecture about the “oligarchs” that are destroying the country.
Now, you might be thinking this makes Sanders look like a hypocrite. After all, carbon emissions are going to destroy the planet in six years, according to Sanders’s millennial protege Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY). Shouldn’t Sanders be flying commercial like everyone else to avoid being single-handedly responsible for all the carbon emissions from his private jets?
But have you considered that Sanders doesn’t want to wait in line to board a United Airlines flight? That was Sanders’s actual response: “You think I can sit on a waiting line at United?”
He added that there would be “no apologies” for splurging on private jets for himself.
“We’ve done it in the past. We’re gonna do it in the future,” he said.
So, what is the bigger tragedy: the inevitable destruction of the environment at the hands of evil fossil fuel companies, or Sanders having to wait to board with first class in an airport?
Is it hypocritical for Sanders to rant and rave about the climate while zipping around on a private jet to a bunch of speeches he scheduled as part of a public relations tour? Of course. But Sanders is a communist who has praised communist dictatorships in Cuba and the Soviet Union (the latter of which he visited for his honeymoon). Every communist country that Sanders adores has kept the citizenry in poverty while the leaders and the politically connected live a lavish life of luxury.
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As a political leader, Sanders embodies that communist spirit. He has a net worth of around $2 million, owns three homes, and hasn’t had a real job for decades. He has been in Congress since 1991 and has raked in the dough from book sales about how evil capitalism is. Sanders loves the high-life so much that, going back to 2016, staffers for Hillary Clinton complained about getting him to campaign for her because he “would only deign to leave his plush D.C. office or his brand new second home on the lake if he was flown around on a cushy private jet like a billionaire master of the universe.”
To be fair to Sanders, he is not a billionaire, just a millionaire. But he is exactly the kind of person who demands special treatment that isn’t given to the masses he preaches to and who thinks he should be immune from the criticism he has for his fellow millionaires and billionaires. Sanders isn’t trying to be the “master of the universe.” He just wants to stay true to how communism has always been practiced.