Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) focused on the economic implications of Britain’s vote to leave the European Union in a Friday appearance on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”
“Well, I don’t live in Great Britain,” he said. “What worries me very much is the breaking down of international cooperation.”
Sanders referenced European conflicts of the past century: “The kind of blood that we shed there is unimaginable. You never want to see that again. On the other hand,” he said, “I think what this vote is about is an indication that the global economy is not working for everybody.”
The results of the referendum have already had an impact on financial markets, with the British pound dropping to a 31-year low and U.S. stocks plunging in early trading.
“What we need to do is create a situation where there is more international cooperation,” Sanders said. “But at the same time we do not forget about the people left behind.”
“Morning Joe” co-host Willie Geist pressed Sanders: “So based off what you’ve said, then, is withdrawal from the E.U. then a mistake for the U.K.?”
“I’ll let the people of the U.K. make that decision,” Sanders replied.
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His statements on Brexit should put to rest any notion that Bernie is a social democrat. The actual social democrats voted overwhelmingly to stay in the EU.
But not Bernie. He smells an opportunity for going straight to the Marxist revolution and is just dying to go full on with that.
This is the same sort of nonsense that Sarandon was espousing…make it really bad so the revolution can happen! And Bernie is right there with her.
His ideas are laughably naive, if they didn’t entail massive amounts of human suffering…of which Bernie could care less…if he thinks it advances the Revolution.
Bull shit, Bernie. Your statement, though in a different way, is almost as ignorant as Trump’s.
The vote is about xenophobia and not much of anything else. It was a vote against “those people,” who in parts of Britain (as in parts of the USA) are blamed by some people as the root of all their problems.
+1.
My reaction was the same. The Right wing/Trump faction of the Conservative party pushed this, and rather than seeing the bigger picture (this undermines liberal democracy, aids Putin, and turns England over to right wing loons) and the entirely racist campaign run the the leave side, he puts it into Marxist terms.
I have long wondered if Bernie ever stopped being a Trotskyite, this interview and his ongoing failure to endorse Clinton is lots of evidence he has not lost his Trotskyite view of the world.
And the damned thing is, he who doesn’t understand his signature issue most certainly doesn’t understand any political and economic implications/consequences of Brexit either (no surprise coming from a protectionist, though).
Did anybody read Josh’s Editor’s Blog today?