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Gage Skidmore
Election 2020
BY CRASHING WALMART MEETING, SANDERS PROVIDES PREVIEW OF SOCIALISM UNDER HIS
WATCH
J. Frank Bullitt
May 23, 2019
16 comments
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, polling second among Democratic presidential
candidates, will reportedly butt in on Walmart’s annual shareholder meeting,
where he will demand the company change its policies to please him. Voters take
note: This is how socialists operate. They believe all businesses belong to
them.
Sanders, who has long self-identified as a socialist, will “push for the retail
giant’s workers to get a seat on the board of directors” at next month’s
meeting, says MarketWatch. Fortune magazine is a little more descriptive in its
coverage. It says he “plans to crash” the meeting.
“Sanders, a longtime critic of labor practices at the nation’s biggest private
employer, will introduce a shareholder proposal at the June 5 meeting in Rogers,
Ark.,” Fortune reports. “The proposal, which has no chance of passing, calls for
Walmart to give its hourly workers a board seat.”
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How a private company structures its board is none of Sanders’ business. Yet he
believes that he has the right to dictate how Walmart conducts its affairs. The
fact the proposal “has no chance of passing” is irrelevant. The point is Sanders
is trespassing.
But that’s what socialists do. They have authoritarian urges they either cannot
or will not contain. They crave control, want to organize society by force, and
put in long hours diminishing the individual while expanding government’s reach.
Socialism is incompatible with human nature (except for those humans whose
nature it is to rule over others), and marginalizes and oppresses many while
empowering a few thugs at the top. Raw political power is its goal.
Remember these things the next time Sanders is provided a friendly media
platform, the next time Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is celebrated in the most
shallow way possible by some “news” organization, the next time one of the 23
other Democratic presidential candidates besides Sanders takes another leap
leftward to please the party’s socialist mob.
In an effort to obfuscate, the socialists will say they’re not communists, or
Marxists, or Leninists, or Maoists. What they won’t speak of is the journey, a
short one from the soft socialism they claim to support to the hard, boot-on-the
neck regimes that have caused so much misery.
Why? Because, as Austrian economist Friedrich Hayek wrote in “The Road to
Serfdom,” the worst always get to the top in socialist systems. He argued, and
history has confirmed, that “the unscrupulous and uninhibited are likely to be
more successful” in systems where government is at the center of society.
“They are precisely the kind of people who elevate power over persuasion, force
over cooperation,” says Lawrence W. Reed, president emeritus of the Foundation
for Economic Education. “Government, possessing by definition a legal and
political monopoly of the use of force, attracts them just as surely as dung
draws flies.”
Or, put another way, good men and women don’t get to the top in these systems
because good men and women don’t want to rule over others.
Intruding on a Walmart meeting uninvited would be just the beginning for Sanders
if he were elected president in 2020. His time in the White House would be
marked by many more unfriendly visits to private businesses. Sanders has been
watching how socialists regimes across the world behave, and he’s learned from
his comrades.
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16 COMMENTS
* James says:
May 23, 2019 at 9:47 pm
Has Sanders ever done an honest day’s work in his life??
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* Patrick Conklin says:
May 29, 2019 at 4:29 pm
Have you?? Funny that he has been on the right side of history every time
he has taken the floor of the House and Senate. Fighting for his
constituents. Which is more than just about anyone else there has ever
done. We don’t have a representative government, we have a corporatocracy.
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* Arnold Jackson says:
May 23, 2019 at 11:20 pm
If he isn’t a shareholder they should have had him arrested for trespassing
and fired anyone who let him in. Only shareholders have the right to attend.
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* Pouncekitty says:
May 24, 2019 at 1:40 am
Security can take care of this old fart. He’ll never get in the room.
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* Lon Layton says:
May 24, 2019 at 11:21 pm
Let him in and as he grabs the mike, the shareholders remain mute as he
starts his spittle enhanced tirade until he exhausts himself to an
unresponsive crowd. Picture the commercial that will provide for Trump
2020.
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* George Dixon says:
May 24, 2019 at 7:25 am
Sanders is channeling Sen. Warren’s ‘Accountable Capitalism Act’. The Act
mandates that both Workers and the Federal goverment be allotted seats on
every Corpoate Board.
Liberals are so ideologically absorbed that they think Liberalism
(Neo-Socialism) is in a competition with Capitalism. If they shared a brain
between all of them they would realize that every single aspect of Liberalism
depends totally on Capitalism.
Without the money Capitalism generates there would be no funding for social
welfare programs. Liberalism does not generate a dime, its focus is on
controlling the dimes other people generate.
Without Capitalism Liberalism would starve to death.
Liberalism is not sustainable even if it worked.
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* tonemonster2 says:
May 24, 2019 at 8:25 am
You need to be a share holder to attend an annual meeting, although I am not
sure Mr. Sanders knows that. You also need to be a share holder to introduce
a proposal to the board, although I am not sure Mr. Sanders knows that.
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* jrobinson says:
May 24, 2019 at 8:35 am
While everything youve written is absolutely true, one should note that this
is being leaked in advance… meaning, Walmart may already be ready to comply.
This may be pre-arranged. Ponder that.
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* Eric says:
May 24, 2019 at 8:57 am
Shareholders should all bring milk shakes. Lots of milk shakes…
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* Clarice M. Hair says:
May 24, 2019 at 9:31 am
“Successful” socialists are sociopaths, sadists.
How about someone swarm Bernie and demand he give up one of his three homes.
Or how about all three. Ever notice they get to gut everyone’s possessions
and property but their own?
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* Not Chicken Little says:
May 24, 2019 at 10:43 am
Do homeowners let the guy who cuts their lawn, tell them how to run the
house? Why not?
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* Chris Mallory says:
May 28, 2019 at 8:25 am
No clue if they still do it, but Wal Mart used to encourage employees to
buy stock which made them shareholders. So they aren’t just “lawn boys”.
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* James barton says:
May 24, 2019 at 11:56 am
Wait until he tries this interruption tactics with the news media. See how
quick they turn on him.
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* Trent says:
May 26, 2019 at 5:10 pm
Friedrich Hayek was spot on ~
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* Chris Mallory says:
May 28, 2019 at 8:24 am
I don’t care for Sanders, but he will not be trespassing and he is invited.
If you read the linked article, Sanders is acting as a proxy for a current
employee. Employees used to be able to buy stock, so this employee is
probably a shareholder if she is able to designate Sanders to speak for her.
Reading is fundamental.
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* Fred Z says:
May 28, 2019 at 9:16 am
Surely we have learned by now that large corporations are spineless except
where their boards and senior management have already defected to the left
and are hell bent on stealing shareholder value to support the left?
Wal-Mart shares have been doing well for the last while. If they chicken out
here sane investors will dump them.
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