L.A. Times: Communist Bernie Sanders Seen as 'Credible Alternative to Hillary Rodham Clinton in 2016'

The man's a hardline Marxist-Leninist who throughout his career developed intimate ties with all manner of communists, including agents directly tied to the Moscow-backed Community Party of the U.S.A.

But in today's post-American Obama-Democrat world, the man's considered a credible alternative to Hillary Clinton for the Democrat Party nomination.

At the Los Angeles Times, "A BERNIE SANDERS PRESIDENTIAL BID WOULD TAKE ON THE BILLIONAIRES":

Bernie Sanders has no patience.

No time for small talk, glad-handing, saying how great it is to be back in Iowa. The middle class is circling the drain, oligarchs are taking over the government, and people — wake up, people! — are obsessing about football and baseball and what Kim Kardashian is wearing if, he says, she's wearing anything at all.

He is angry, righteous, waving his arms, hollering and contemplating a run for president, which is why 150 Iowans have turned out on a numbingly cold evening to hear Vermont's independent U.S. senator vent.

Sanders strides from between shelves at the Prairie Lights bookstore, muttering "hello, hello" by way of introduction, then launches into a 45-minute attack, aimed mainly at the billionaire Koch brothers and their conservative allies.

"What they are very clear about … is doing away with every single piece of legislation passed since the 1930s designed to protect the elderly, the children, the sick, the poor, the working families of this country," Sanders thunders. "And they do this under the guise of" — he adds a sarcastic lilt — "freedom."

"It's freedom for me to be able to do anything I want in my factory and put all the crap that I produce in our rivers and our lakes and into the air," he scoffs. "That's freeeedom!"

His jeremiad is delivered below and to the right of a sign reading "Science Fiction and Fantasy," an unfortunate, if fitting, bit of imagery. Sanders is an exceedingly long shot to win the Democratic nomination for president in 2016 — not to mention the White House — should he run.

But he speaks to a distinct strain of Democratic discontent, to liberals who view Hillary Rodham Clinton as too moderate, populists who see her as too wedded to Wall Street, doves who consider her too hawkish and Iowans who fret their state, which kicks off the presidential nominating process, will be ignored by the party's overwhelming front-runner.

Many hoped Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, the scourge of the financial industry, would challenge Clinton. But since she won't, some on the left have turned to Sanders, 73, a slouch-shouldered, self-described Democratic socialist who speaks with the vibrancy of an electric current and exhibits all the personal warmth of a snow bank.

He will decide in a few weeks whether to run but won't seek, he insists, to undermine Clinton or split Democrats and elect a Republican president, the way independent Ralph Nader helped put George W. Bush in the White House.

"I will not play the role of spoiler," Sanders says.

Nor would he wage a negative campaign, he says, suggesting he wouldn't even run against Clinton, per se: "I run on the most important issues facing America."

But Sanders has always been blunt, which wouldn't change just because some Democrats would prefer a bloodless coronation.

More than once Sanders has questioned Clinton's commitment to the middle class and those struggling to reach it. "I don't think that is the politics of Sen. Clinton or the Democratic establishment," he told a college newspaper in Vermont. Hearing his words read back, Sanders cracks a rare smile.

"You can quote it," he says....

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After a year at Brooklyn College, Sanders attended the University of Chicago, where he was, by his own account, a middling student. He preferred his own course of study, reading Marx and Freud and helping organize sit-ins to protest the segregated campus housing.

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Just another nice, sweet socialist who read Marx while in college, right? No, not at all.

Sanders is smart. He's known all along that for his radicalism to be politically viable he's had to candy-coat it with tolerant, nurturing deceptions designed to mask the fundamentally revolutionary aims of his leftist ideological agenda. He's not been quite as careful as President Barack Hussein, however. For example, he's long been proud to proclaim himself as as "democratic socialist," something Hussein would never do despite all the evidence of his Marxist-Leninist connections since childhood. Sanders, in a recent interview at the Nation, however, spills the beans about his ideological agenda as a presidential candidate in 2016. He says we need a "political revolution":

So when I talk about a political revolution, what I am referring to is the need to do more than just win the next election. It’s about creating a situation where we are involving millions of people in the process who are not now involved, and changing the nature of media so they are talking about issues that reflect the needs and the pains that so many of our people are currently feeling.

Essentially, what a political revolution means is that we organize and educate and create grassroots movements, which we certainly do not have right now.

See, it's "more than just win the next election." It's about changing the "political consciousness" of "85 to 90 percent" of the people, who represent the Marxist proletariat and lumpenproletariat sectors of the capitalist exploitation system. It's about overthrowing the obscene free market hegemony in the U.S., and eradicating the power of the "billionaires" who're directing the "extreme right-wing" power blocs in the Marxist superstructure of the criminal American regime.

Check the link to the interview. Sanders knows that "boring from within" takes an extremely long time, and there's no guarantee that radical revolutionary change will be achieved. At least he's much more transparent than the Democrat Party establishment, which has been taken over by the "progressive" (communist) faction in recent years, but is still operating on the basis of ideological subterfuge.

Still, it's an amazing thing for Sanders to be touted so highly as a credible alternative to Clinton for the Democrat nomination. It's a testament to the success of the left in bastardizing far-left revolutionary politics into something with milquetoast respectability.