Louder with Crowder - Bernie Sanders: Fascist for Mediocrity | Louder With Crowder
Aired: 2016-01-21
Duration: 11:28


=== Fascism vs. Democratic Socialism (03:51) ===

[00:00:00]  The 1% will try to convince you that I don't like freedom.
[00:00:06]  I like freedom as long as it's not for people who are too rich or are too poor.
[00:00:15]  I want freedom for every one of the people in the middle.
[00:00:21]  And it needs to be government mandated! - What democratic socialism is about is having a government which reflects the interest of ordinary people rather than is currently the case of the billionaire class.
[00:00:42]  So the term fascism is thrown around so much nowadays.
[00:00:46]  It's a fun word.
[00:00:47]  What's a fun word, and you've heard it a lot in your college gender studies, I'm sure.
[00:00:52]  Oh, absolutely.
[00:00:53]  But it's lost all meaning.
[00:00:54]  People don't really know what it means.
[00:00:56]  And so I want to make the case, in looking at their policies and what they want to do and their world view, Bernie Sanders is the most fascist of all the candidates.
[00:01:06]  How dare you use that kind of incendiary language!
[00:01:11]  He's just a fascist for mediocrity.
[00:01:14]  He's a mediocre fascist.
[00:01:16]  Allow me to present my case.
[00:01:19]  And I know people complaining, Bernie Sanders sounds more like this, but for all intents and purposes...
[00:01:29]  Our Bernie Sanders sounds like he's portrayed by Gilbert Godfrey.
[00:01:31]  It's funnier that way.
[00:01:33]  The nerve!
[00:01:34]  So, um, first let's look at the definition of fascism.
[00:01:37]  It's important, by the way, I found, when I was looking this up, don't go by the first Google thing, Miriam Webster.
[00:01:44]  Google shows up right away, an authoritarian and nationalistic right-wing system of government and social organization.
[00:01:50]  Right-wing.
[00:01:51]  I was going, well, hold on a second.
[00:01:52]  Fascism is not right-wing.
[00:01:55]  I mean, Stalin, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Hitler, uh, I don't know.
[00:02:26]  It has no mention of left wing at all.
[00:02:29]  None.
[00:02:30]  So fascism, right wing, socialism, communism, which are actual left wing political systems of government.
[00:02:39]  We're just going to omit that.
[00:02:40]  So, let's look at the Merriam-Webster definition of fascism, okay?
[00:02:43]  It has a political philosophy, movement, or regime that exalts a nation or race above the individual and stands for centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition.
[00:02:59]  That's Bernie Sanders.
[00:03:00]  Okay?
[00:03:01]  Centralized government regimentation suppression of opposition.
[00:03:06]  So, what do I mean by this?
[00:03:08]  Um...
[00:03:10]  Let's look at a few, let's start with a few things.
[00:03:13]  So Bernie Sanders, right, he comes out and he says, Well, hold on a second.
[00:03:32]  The people will not have to pay for it.
[00:03:35]  The people.

=== Taxing the Wealthy (02:22) ===

[00:03:36]  So he said the people, right?
[00:03:37]  He's talking about the people signifying this group of people who matter, who will be affected.
[00:03:41]  Where's the money coming from?
[00:03:43]  It's not coming out of thin air.
[00:03:45]  Someone's paying for it.
[00:03:46]  You look at his tax plan, he wants to tax wealthier Americans more.
[00:03:51]  Specifically, any household joint over 250,000 household income, you're going to be paying, if you live in a moderately liberal state, over 60% in taxes.
[00:03:59]  Not to mention everything else.
[00:04:01]  So those don't count as the people.
[00:04:03]  Because he's saying the people won't have to pay.
[00:04:05]  What is he saying about the group of individuals?
[00:04:09]  They're basically subhuman.
[00:04:11]  They're not to be included in the people.
[00:04:13]  The wealthy, the successful, are not the people.
[00:04:17]  Only these folks count as the people.
[00:04:21]  That's a very limited definition of people.
[00:04:24]  Anyone above it, that's fascism.
[00:04:27]  So...
[00:04:30]  Let's go here.
[00:04:31]  While appearing in New Hampshire in September, okay, Sanders said that he had talked to a guy from Denmark.
[00:04:36]  And he told me that over there, it was very hard to be very poor, but also hard to be very rich!
[00:04:46]  And that made sense to me!
[00:04:49]  That's fascism for mediocrity, right?
[00:04:52]  We're talking about social regimentation, political, and forcible suppression of opposition.
[00:04:58]  So, It should be very, very hard to be very rich, very, very poor.
[00:05:03]  All of you have to be in the middle.
[00:05:05]  Otherwise, you're not part of the people, right?
[00:05:07]  The people won't pay for it.
[00:05:08]  So if you're rich, no, you're not part of the people.
[00:05:10]  If you're poor, no, you're not part of the people.
[00:05:12]  It should be hard to be very rich, and it should be hard to be very poor.
[00:05:17]  I want freedom for everyone of the people in the middle, and it needs to be government-mandated!
[00:05:27]  So how do you enforce that?
[00:05:29]  By taxing the wealthy an incredible amount and giving to people who are poor.
[00:05:33]  So if the poor people, maybe some of them deserve to be poor.
[00:05:36]  It's not popular to say.
[00:05:37]  Maybe poor people deserve to be poor, right?
[00:05:39]  Maybe they're lazy.
[00:05:40]  Maybe they don't work.
[00:05:40]  Maybe they don't employ people.
[00:05:41]  Maybe they don't start businesses.
[00:05:42]  No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
[00:05:43]  We need to make them part of the people by taking from the non-people, the wealthy, and making sure that everyone is in the middle.

=== Wage Wars (05:43) ===

[00:05:51]  From his own words, it should be very hard to be very rich or very poor.
[00:05:54]  Another example.
[00:05:57]  Good example, right?
[00:05:58]  Bernie Sanders believes...
[00:05:59]  In my view, anyone who works 40 hours a week deserves a living wage!
[00:06:07]  I don't agree.
[00:06:08]  That sounds mean.
[00:06:10]  No, I don't agree.
[00:06:10]  I believe that you have the right to be paid an appropriate amount correlating exactly to the value added by your position or services.
[00:06:18]  That's what I believe.
[00:06:19]  But I'm not a fascist.
[00:06:21]  See, I don't...
[00:06:22]  Let's, um...
[00:06:23]  It's like fast food, for example.
[00:06:25]  Okay?
[00:06:25]  So, everyone has a restaurant, right?
[00:06:28]  Like a fast food spot.
[00:06:29]  I don't know if it's McDonald's or if it's Wendy's.
[00:06:31]  You have one here, right?
[00:06:32]  Was it the KFC that's pretty bad?
[00:06:34]  Oh, it's terrible.
[00:06:35]  You're like, just don't go to that one on 28th Street because they never get the order right.
[00:06:39]  They're constantly screwing up.
[00:06:41]  So you actually, you'll reroute your...
[00:06:43]  I will drive way out of the way.
[00:06:45]  Right.
[00:06:46]  Exactly, right?
[00:06:47]  To get one that gets the right half the time.
[00:06:49]  Right.
[00:06:49]  Half the time.
[00:06:50]  Just half.
[00:06:51]  You just want a portion of your order to be right.
[00:06:53]  So, what is that fast food worker doing to that business?
[00:06:58]  Now, the fast food worker is the people.
[00:07:00]  The business owner, if he's successful above the tax price, is not the people.
[00:07:03]  He's costing that business owner money.
[00:07:06]  Because you have said, I'm going to go down the street, right?
[00:07:09]  But the business owner can't reflect that in the payment because he's not the people.
[00:07:13]  He has to pay him a minimum $15 an hour.
[00:07:16]  So what inevitably happens?
[00:07:17]  The business goes under because it's all about the interest of that person, not the value they add, not how good of a job they do.
[00:07:25]  It doesn't matter that you no longer want to go to that KFC because you get a rat anus instead of a white meat chicken breast, whatever it is that you order.
[00:07:34]  It doesn't matter.
[00:07:35]  You barely have to show up.
[00:07:38]  But that's fascism for mediocrity.
[00:07:45]  Somebody get that young man a living wage!
[00:07:50]  Because who does that affect?
[00:07:51]  People just think that helps people make a living wage.
[00:07:54]  No, but actually, disregarding the business owner, right?
[00:07:57]  We've established that people are successful who invest, who employ.
[00:07:59]  They're not the people.
[00:08:01]  They're not to be included.
[00:08:02]  But it also affects employees.
[00:08:05]  A $15 minimum wage.
[00:08:07]  Now, who do you think the $15...
[00:08:09]  I believe...
[00:08:10]  Because fascists, right?
[00:08:12]  I don't believe that people should be paid their service.
[00:08:14]  I believe that people should be paid this set amount.
[00:08:15]  And it should be hard to be rich.
[00:08:16]  And it should be hard to be poor.
[00:08:17]  You make this much.
[00:08:18]  Okay.
[00:08:19]  Who does that affect negatively as far as employees?
[00:08:22]  The crappy...
[00:08:23]  Do you think it's the crappy employee who causes you to go down the road?
[00:08:26]  Or do you think the really good employee...
[00:08:30]  Who do you think gets negatively affected?
[00:08:32]  I want to go with a good employee.
[00:08:33]  Because guess what happens when you pay someone $7 an hour or $8 an hour?
[00:08:37]  But there's an employee on the contrary, right?
[00:08:39]  Who has a report card where he's getting every order right.
[00:08:43]  He's smiling.
[00:08:44]  People, I have it.
[00:08:45]  There was a Dunkin' Donuts.
[00:08:46]  There was a lady who was so nice who became friends.
[00:08:49]  She had no teeth, but she was really, really sweet.
[00:08:51]  She was just always chipper and made sure to go above and beyond.
[00:08:54]  You remember those people.
[00:08:56]  And those people tend to move up pretty quickly.
[00:08:58]  And not to $15 an hour positions.
[00:09:00]  So, what happens?
[00:09:02]  The crappy person who can't put a cheese slice in a filet of fish gets $15 an hour.
[00:09:08]  No matter what.
[00:09:09]  The good employee who deserves $25 an hour, what do you think they probably get paid?
[00:09:14]  I'm gonna go with $15 an hour.
[00:09:16]  The crappy employee gets paid the exact same amount as the good employee.
[00:09:19]  Maybe your problem is going to the drive-thru in the first place with your carbon footprint.
[00:09:27]  You should be riding a bicycle!
[00:09:31]  So the business owner, they want to pay good employees more.
[00:09:34]  They want to do that.
[00:09:35]  Trust me, I'm a business owner.
[00:09:37]  They want to pay good employees more.
[00:09:39]  You don't want to pay me more.
[00:09:40]  I want to pay good employees more.
[00:09:41]  So they want to pay their good employees more, not ones who wake up at 10 o'clock and say their iPad didn't wake them up.
[00:09:47]  Not ones who forget to replace the breakers so the studio lights go out.
[00:09:52]  They want to pay their employees more because it reflects well on their business.
[00:09:57]  But since he can't, because he has to pay everyone $15 an hour...
[00:10:04]  Everyone's the same.
[00:10:05]  Here's the thing.
[00:10:06]  Bernie Sanders wants to legislatively enforce that everybody is paid the same regardless of performance.
[00:10:14]  And it's a huge irony.
[00:10:15]  We want big money out of politics.
[00:10:17]  We want big money out of influence.
[00:10:19]  You want more mediocre influence.
[00:10:21]  You want the people who are not contributing.
[00:10:22]  The people...
[00:10:23]  47% of them don't pay federal income tax.
[00:10:25]  Those are the only people because it's easy for you to buy their votes by legislating mediocrity.
[00:10:32]  We have to ensure there's no successful money in politics.
[00:10:35]  I'm not for crony capitalism.
[00:10:36]  I understand it.
[00:10:37]  So what do we want to inject?
[00:10:39]  The influence of the crappy employee who wants to vote in $15 an hour so he can screw the employee who deserves $25 an hour.
[00:10:48]  You're lying because you're not the people!
[00:10:53]  How much do you make?
[00:10:55]  $16.50.
[00:10:56]  Son of a bitch!
[00:10:58]  Steal his shit!
[00:11:00]  Steal his shit!
[00:11:02]  So the business owner is screwed.
[00:11:04]  It doesn't matter if his business is successful or not.
[00:11:06]  He's not allowed to pay based on performance.
[00:11:08]  And the good employees are screwed.
[00:11:10]  So that...
[00:11:12]  It's really hard to be rich and really hard to be poor.
[00:11:16]  Everyone has to be right in the middle.
[00:11:21]  Otherwise you're not part of the people.
[00:11:24]  That's mediocre fascism.
[00:11:27]  And that's Bernie Sanders.