Darrell Castle talks about the Democrat candidates and emphasizes front runner, Bernie Sanders and his call for Socialism in America. Transcription / Notes DEN OF THIEVES               Hello this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. Today is Friday February 28, 2020 and on today’s Report I will be talking about the Democrat candidates at least the ones still allowed to stand on the debate stage and since Bernie Sanders is apparently the frontrunner, my emphasis will be on him. I devoted a previous Report to Mr. Sanders during his candidacy in 2016 entitled, “The Democratic Socialism of Bernie Sanders”. Click the link to listen to that podcast, if you are so inclined. My own observation is that since then the Democrat Party has morphed into something unrecognizable. Is this the Party of working people, the Party of JFK?  No, it is now a Party of wealthy elitists who sneer and look down their noses at ordinary people. I mentioned before that Mr. Sanders refuses to allow himself to be labeled a Communist, despite his decades long defense of Soviet Communism and of Soviet satellite states, such as Cuba and Venezuela. He’s not a Communist, he insists, just a Democratic Socialist. He defines Democratic Socialism as the fight for justice, decency, and human dignity. It is the completion of the business of the New Deal begun by Franklin Roosevelt. Most of the other candidates refuse to denounce it since he is the leader people must be in favor of it, therefore, they must approve of it. Most young people seem to approve of it as well, and although fans once booed Santa at a Philadelphia Eagles game, what’s not to like about Santa Claus? There are many weird things about this election, and especially the Democrat Candidates, but one of the weirdest is that the others attack Mr. Sanders for not being liberal enough. In the Senate, he once voted against allowing gun manufacturers to be sued when their products are used to kill people. He was attacked for that vote but to his credit he owned it and said it was a bad vote. He should just stay with his first impression, but I guess he can’t do that. You are undoubtedly aware that I am an advocate of freedom, of liberty, of free markets and of capitalism. The values of freedom of thought, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and freedom of markets are all radically under attack. Those things are why America became what it once was, and they’re all being washed away. Mr. Sanders has consistently, his whole life, had different values from the ones I just mentioned. He and his wife took their honeymoon in Moscow during the Cold War and had glowing things to say about an empire that killed, God only knows, how many of its own people; at least 70 million.  The collective, as defined by and controlled by the state, rather than the individual seems to be most important to Mr. Sanders. When he was mayor of Burlington, Vermont, and 30 years old, he made Burlington a sister city to one of the dilapidated Soviet cities. He also went to Cuba and still gives glowing reports of Castro’s achievements. Castro was not all bad, you see, because he started a good literacy program. No mention of the fact that Bautista already had a successful literacy program in the 1950’s, or that literacy was restricted by Castro to the reading of Communist propaganda. The primary thing he did not mention was the fact that tens of thousands of those literate Cuban citizens risked their lives trying to float to Florida, clinging to a log so that they and their families might just experience one glimpse of a free country. Yes, Bernie, freedom is such an alluring thing that people are willing to die trying to achieve it. I’ve asked myself why this angry old man would cling to support for some of the most horrible dictatorships to exist in human history and I can’t see any logic to his views. Perhaps it is the opposite of love for them; its actually based on hatred. The enemy of my enemy is my friend,