Yesterday, Bernie Sanders officially announced his 2020 presidential bid. He promptly raked in 6 million dollars in campaign donations within 24 hours of the announcement. He obviously remains an immensely popular figure on the Left. Even those on the Right tend to attribute certain positive qualities to Sanders, like authenticity and honesty. I’ve heard some Republicans describe him as the least repulsive Democrat on the national stage. Hardly a high honor, but I’m not sure he deserves even that much credit. Let’s not be fooled by the eccentric grandpa routine. Sanders is, in fact, an arrogant, power-hungry, hypocritical, cowardly, morally-deranged, communist. Let’s go through each of those carefully-chosen adjectives, point by point.
Arrogant and power hungry. Sanders is 77 years old. If he were to be elected president, heaven help us, he’d be 79 on inauguration day. There is nothing wrong with being elderly. We will all be elderly one day, should we be fortunate enough to live so long. But the presidency is an enormously stressful, physically-taxing, mentally-draining job. There’s a reason why Obama and Bush went into office as relatively young men and came out looking like they had the life-force sucked out of them by the Vulture from Spider-Man. Presidents age in dog years. Every year in office is like seven in civilian life. You have to be extraordinarily arrogant to think that you can effectively take on that kind of physical and mental stress at the age of 80. You have to be extraordinarily power-hungry to want it.
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