Holocaust Denial and Sanders Delusional Candidacy

Holocaust Deniers Exist Today

South Floridians who still read local newspapers are aware of the high school principal in Boca Raton who felt that Holocaust deniers were entitled to their opinions and therefore, he could not come out and state that the Holocaust did indeed exist. 

There always are deniers.  Some still think the world is flat and the proven laws of physics and chemistry are arbitrary and subject to conjecture.  The opinions of such people are not to be given the weight that that principal, since fired, gave them, as to the existence of the Holocaust.  

Russian Troops Freeing Holocaust Survivors - 1945

The February 23 Sunday edition of the Palm Beach Post included a special section on the end of World War Two.  In it there were many photographs documenting the Holocaust.  A supply of this special section should be provided to the Boca Raton Holocaust deniers whose right to deny proven facts was defended by that principal.  Free speech only goes so far.  It should not be granted to outright lies.   That is dangerous.

The ready acceptance of undocumented and unproven “alternate facts” by some today does not in any degree reduce the fact that what is proven beyond any doubt to be true, is indeed true, no matter how much and vehemently one may deny it.  Those who persist in such denial conceivably have ulterior motives.

JL
   
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Sanders as the Democratic Candidate

Even though there are miles to go, it appears that the supporters of Bernie Sanders are in a strong position in regard to his getting the Democratic presidential nomination.  Their fervent belief in Bernie’s ideas seems to outweigh the likelihood that, even if Sanders’ progressive views actually can be shown to dominate a majority of Democratic voters’ beliefs (which I doubt), they certainly do not represent the preferences of a majority of Americans.  If Sanders is the Democratic nominee, and even if the others who aspired to that role give him their wholehearted support, it is likely that he will not be elected President and that the 2018 Democratic gains in the House will be lost, along with any hope of capturing the Senate.  This is the price the Democrats will have to pay for Sanders’ ideological purity.  Some of his ideas are good, and some not so good, but is his nomination worth giving Donald Trump four more years?  I think not.

Sanders’ people will maintain that Americans will come to support Bernie and just as they unexpectedly supported Donald Trump in 2016 in the crucial battleground States, they believe they will elect Bernie to the presidency.  I have my doubts.

Bernie ought to be pressured to give in to another candidate, one who does not carry his misunderstood “socialist” label, one that all Democrats can unite behind.  He cannot be blind to what will be the effect upon other Democrats running for office if he is the presidential nominee.  He would be another George McGovern who lost 49 states and collected 17 electoral votes against Richard Nixon in 1972.

But if he actually believes he will win, though, he is as delusional as Donald Trump was in 2016.  True, Trump won, but he never expected to win.  The difference is that Sanders apparently does believe he can win, making his delusions more severe than were Trumps’.   But if Bernie Sanders really knows the score, does he have his price and what is it?

JL

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