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October 22, 2025

I hope you enjoy it!

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138 comments:

Leland said...: I’m fighting the Penguin Random House oligarchy in the publishing world by not buying this book.; 10/22/25, 8:11 AM
wild chicken said...: A stopped clock, etc.; 10/22/25, 8:12 AM
Aggie said...: Oligarchy, and the Fight Against Oligarchy, has been a reliable paycheck for over 30 years. Keep up the good fight, Bernie - there's at least another house in it !; 10/22/25, 8:14 AM
Jamie said...: I haven't watched the video yet, so the following is only in response to the pictures: if you're going to make a deal with the devil to preserve your looks, earlier is better than later for most people.; 10/22/25, 8:15 AM
n.n said...: The Democratic/oligarchic duality.; 10/22/25, 8:20 AM
ThatsGoingToLeaveA said...: Do note that the risk of oligarchy has worsened. For the first 24 years it was only "this great country" that was at risk of the oligarchy. Suddenly in 2018 it was the world at risk of oligarchy. Perhaps the reemergence of the risk of climate change will save us in the next news cycle.; 10/22/25, 8:25 AM
n.n said...: A climate of Diversity (i.e. color judgment, class bigotry). #HateLovesAbortion; 10/22/25, 8:26 AM
tim maguire said...: The best part is not just the word oligarchy, but that he reuses the entire phrase more or less verbatim. He’s plagiarizing himself.; 10/22/25, 8:27 AM
vermonter said...: On behalf of the sane people of Vermont, I'm sorry America.; 10/22/25, 8:28 AM
Lawnerd said...: Rich people have great influence on politics, news at 11. Sanders is a schmuck and Vermonters should be embarresed.; 10/22/25, 8:30 AM
Iman said...: Ballad of the Aged Grifter…; 10/22/25, 8:32 AM
Peachy+2 said...: Bernie is such a fraud. So many dems admire him - and he is nothing but a fraud.; 10/22/25, 8:33 AM
Peachy+2 said...: Youtube - owned by Google - washed clean/REMOVED all of Bernie's video where he yammered on about "MILLIONAIRES AND BILLIONAIRES"; 10/22/25, 8:34 AM
Peachy+2 said...: Bernie himself is a Millionaire.
Wonder what his book advance is here?
Does Bernie ever give to charity? I doubt it.; 10/22/25, 8:35 AM
Peachy+2 said...: Bernie: " I learned a new word today. Oligarchy!"; 10/22/25, 8:35 AM
narciso said...: The word is sysgy andyour're soaking in it; 10/22/25, 8:37 AM
Mike (MJB Wolf) said...: Something about this smells like the little boy who cried wolf.

He's been singing the same verse so long he doesn't realize he, the guy with three houses, IS the oligarchy.

How many constituents has he raised out of poverty so they can afford three houses?; 10/22/25, 8:37 AM
Quayle said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 10/22/25, 8:41 AM
Quayle said...: Ya dance with the partner ya brung.; 10/22/25, 8:43 AM
Lazarus said...: There is always an oligarchy. There is always an elite. It's just a matter of exchanging one for another.; 10/22/25, 8:47 AM
Beasts of England said...: While I disagree with almost all of his policies, the dude is amusing as the archetype of a red diaper baby.; 10/22/25, 8:51 AM
narciso said...: An enemy of this country like the whole rotten raskin clan and the halperins (most of them); 10/22/25, 8:51 AM
RNB said...: "Get Off My Lawn!," by Bernie Sanders. Will there be a book-signing and reception at his dacha?; 10/22/25, 8:59 AM
Ronald J. Ward said...: Citizens United v Feds.

What could possibly go wrong?; 10/22/25, 8:59 AM
Captain BillieBob said...: One of the best arguments for term limits I've seen on the web.; 10/22/25, 9:00 AM
Beasts of England said...: ’There is always an oligarchy.’

And being one of only a hundred Senators in a country of three hundred million people is a fine example of a political oligarch.; 10/22/25, 9:01 AM
narciso said...: Thou dost protest too much commissar; 10/22/25, 9:05 AM
narciso said...: Protests brought to you by the tides rockefeller and other outfits; 10/22/25, 9:09 AM
Wince said...: Choosing “Fight” oligarchy rather than “defeat” oligarchy for the title of his book encapsulates Sanders’ decades long grift about as succinctly as that video compendium documents its duration.; 10/22/25, 9:09 AM
narciso said...: Big pharmas pet st bernard; 10/22/25, 9:11 AM
Jaq said...: Yes, it is, and they run the party he is aligned with, but you can't say he didn't see it coming. Just look at No Kings, run by an outfit "Indivisible" which is and has been funded by the oligarchs behind the lurch to bolshevism of the Democratic Party.; 10/22/25, 9:13 AM
Howard said...: Don't confuse the very wealthy tools of the oligarchs with oligarchs. The Centibillionaires that control our money and our phones are the real oligarchs and they're currently battling for supremacy via AI, Cryptocurrency and Quantum Computing.

I now agree with Achilles, Bernie Sanders sold out in 2016 after being gelded by Debbiecakes Washerwomen Scheiße; 10/22/25, 9:13 AM
narciso said...: He was part of the looting party; 10/22/25, 9:14 AM
The Mouse that Roared said...: Oligarchy is great! It's just that Real Oligarchy hasn't been tried yet.; 10/22/25, 9:15 AM
Howard said...: Like nuclear fusion, the oligarchy is right around the corner. The thing is since we're traveling in a Fibonacci Helix no matter how far away it is, that statement is always correct; 10/22/25, 9:17 AM
narciso said...: https://notthebee.com/article/tennessee-democrat-stunned-that-policing-memphis-has-reduced-crime-bad-behavior; 10/22/25, 9:19 AM
Jaq said...: One of the main principles of bolshevism was that nationalities were retrograde impediments to the arrival of the communist utopia on Earth, so they did everything they could to wipe them out, this included the Russian nationality. So unfettered immigration is part of the blending, and they have the Australian model, where a country that elected John Howard has now been dragged irretrievably to the left by immigration.

As of 2024, approximately 31.5% of Australia's population, or about 8.6 million people, were born overseas, indicating a significant portion of recent immigrants. This percentage reflects the highest share of foreign-born residents in Australia since 1892. - DDG AI Overview; 10/22/25, 9:22 AM
n.n said...: Oligarchy, democracy, corporations, community, family.. when does it stop?; 10/22/25, 9:22 AM
Bushman of the Kohlrabi said...: Capitalism been very, very good to Bernie; 10/22/25, 9:23 AM
Jaq said...: I think the moment for Bernie Sanders was in the 2016 primaries, when they cleared the field for Hillary, and he refused to drop out for her, so they simply left Warren in for one more primary in order to split Sander's vote, and ensure Hillary the nomination. It worked. Who made that decision? Well, it wasn't the voters.; 10/22/25, 9:24 AM
Jaq said...: Warren also sold out at the same time. Though you wouldn't get an argument from me if you said she planned to sell out the whole time.; 10/22/25, 9:26 AM
narciso said...: She was the architect for much of the grift tarp arra obamacare; 10/22/25, 9:28 AM
William said...: Although it's not as good as perpetual youth, perpetual old age is certainly better than death. He looks more focused and vital than Joe Biden, but apparently he relies on muscle memory to negotiate the maze of life. Bernie Sanders, AOC, Mamdani. It reminds of the troika of Stalin, Zinoviev, and Kamenev. I don't think Sanders is the Stalin of the trio. Well, maybe it's more like the troika of Trotsky, Frida, and Diego Rivera.; 10/22/25, 9:32 AM
Jaq said...: This new oligarchy that runs the Democrats would paint Hubert H Humphrey as "right wing."; 10/22/25, 9:32 AM
MadisonMan said...: If you find something that works, keep doing it.; 10/22/25, 9:32 AM
narciso said...: The rationsle for the latter which ironically now its more expensive for a medical procedure than it was before; 10/22/25, 9:33 AM
Quayle said...: So you can presume that fighting the oligarchy would mean Bernie absolutely wanted a primary election to select their candidate for president, and was flatly opposed to Harris‘s candidacy.

You can presume that, but you’d be wrong.; 10/22/25, 9:44 AM
Spiros said...: Open borders adversely impact wages and dramatically drive down labor force participation, especially among "poorly educated" working class men. Closing the borders is the ONLY thing we can do to "fight the oligarchy." Even Bernie said so (at least for the first 50 years of his political life).; 10/22/25, 9:53 AM
Jaq said...: The thing that eliminating borders and erasing nationalities does is to commoditize workers.; 10/22/25, 10:01 AM
GatorNavy said...: Isn’t insanity doing or saying the same thing over and over and then expecting different results?
Sorry but I could never take this aged grifter millionaire with a grudge against billionaires seriously; 10/22/25, 10:07 AM
G. Poulin said...: Leftists never learn from history, and never will learn anything from it. The learning gene was bred out of them a long time ago. But they can still fantasize like crazy.; 10/22/25, 10:14 AM
Inga said...: Bernie is right.; 10/22/25, 10:31 AM
Butkus51 said...: He's been protesting this country since the 60's, but dadgum he loves this great country.; 10/22/25, 10:31 AM
Humperdink said...: oligarchy /ŏl′ĭ-gär″kē, ō′lĭ-/
noun: Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.

AKA the Deep State. What Trump has been fighting since 2015. Trump is the anti-garch.; 10/22/25, 10:33 AM
rehajm said...: On behalf of the sane people of Vermont, I'm sorry America.

...six generations of Vermonters in my family. My parents thought Bernie was a kook in Burlington BITD. They left VT. The remaining relatives are lefties and are mad how bad Church St is now yet never make the correlation to their preferred politics...; 10/22/25, 10:35 AM
Humperdink said...: Inga: Bernie is right.

The most laughable statement I’ve read today. It is no mystery why no one takes you seriously.; 10/22/25, 10:36 AM
Temujin said...: One thinks we would have arrived already.
This is taking longer than global warming.; 10/22/25, 10:40 AM
Leland said...: The best way to fight the oligarchy is to first never become communist in the first place.; 10/22/25, 10:44 AM
Clyde said...: I'll say this for Bernie: He's consistent. Consistently wrong, but consistent.; 10/22/25, 10:48 AM
Inga said...: “Inga: Bernie is right.

The most laughable statement I’ve read today. It is no mystery why no one takes you seriously.“

“wild chicken said...
A stopped clock, etc.

10/22/25, 8:12 AM”; 10/22/25, 10:58 AM
Tomcc said...: Enjoy it!? How can I enjoy anything in this oligarchic hellhole? You mock me, sir!; 10/22/25, 11:01 AM
FullMoon said...: Oligarchy moving slower than Palisades fire rebuilding.
Are govt. permits and inspections required?; 10/22/25, 11:10 AM
FullMoon said...: Give him credit for remaining consistent. Better than Obama and Clinton who were against gay marriage and illegal immigration before they were for it.; 10/22/25, 11:12 AM
Achilles said...: Howard said...
Don't confuse the very wealthy tools of the oligarchs with oligarchs. The Centibillionaires that control our money and our phones are the real oligarchs and they're currently battling for supremacy via AI, Cryptocurrency and Quantum Computing.

There will always be a Pareto distribution. The socialist Pareto distribution is the same shape as the capitalist Pareto distribution.

The magic is in the y-axis. Retard socialists get all huffy about the x-axis but there is nothing to do about that.

I now agree with Achilles, Bernie Sanders sold out in 2016 after being gelded by Debbiecakes Washerwomen Scheiße

This couldn’t be more obvious.

Mamdani is also a socialist who lived in a mansion all his life. AOC is a spoiled little rich girl.

Socialism requires capitalism to parasitically feed from.; 10/22/25, 11:18 AM
Yinzer said...: As expected, your commenters (except Inga) see Sanders for the fraud that he is.; 10/22/25, 11:23 AM
Achilles said...: Inga said...
Bernie is right.

About what retard?

Use words.

Bernie has about as much understanding of market complexity as you do.

If you gave Inga and Bernie a coffee stand that had good coffee, a competent manager and employees, and solid monthly revenue they would run it into the ground in months.

They have no idea what Trump even did to make money. They couldn’t begin to explain how or what Trump did managing the development of even one of his small properties.

They are stupid people just like all socialists. We need Mamdani to do his shockingly stupid “City Owned Grocery Stores” idea so the idiots of New York can appreciate the difference between the small army of entrepreneurs who run those businesses now.

Those are the Oligarchs these retards rails against. Those entrepreneurs are infinitely more accomplished, generous, and decent people than these greedy lazy shitheads whining about the oligarchy.; 10/22/25, 11:27 AM
Inga said...: “As expected, your commenters (except Inga) see Sanders for the fraud that he is.”

Wild Chicken too, don’t forget her @ 8:12 AM. And she’s one of yours.; 10/22/25, 11:27 AM
narciso said...: We had govt stores in cuba then we had to go to the black market in order to buy food; 10/22/25, 11:34 AM
narciso said...: They want the return of the ruinous inflation that kirshner brought to argentina; 10/22/25, 11:39 AM
Beasts of England said...: ’Those entrepreneurs are infinitely more accomplished, generous, and decent people than these greedy lazy shitheads whining about the oligarchy.’

The entrepreneur class creates the wealth they want to confiscate and redistribute for votes and power. Socialism is amoral.; 10/22/25, 11:44 AM
Maynard said...: I once thought it possible that Igna was of almost normal intelligence, but the more she posts, the dumber she seems.

Bernie is probably the biggest and most obvious bullshitter in American politics. People who follow him are suckers and not deserving of any respect among people of normal or better intelligence.; 10/22/25, 11:44 AM
Bryant said...: Bernie's Paradox of Oligarchy - The closer you get to becoming an oligarchy the more rapidly you approach it but you can never seem to actually reach it. Close relative to Zeno's paradox of motion.; 10/22/25, 11:45 AM
Beasts of England said...: ’We had govt stores in cuba then we had to go to the black market in order to buy food’

But it was a worker’s paradise, narc. How dare you!!; 10/22/25, 11:45 AM
narciso said...: The castro brothers like che were the sons of landowners nephews of admirals much the financial times lead editor the son of ambassadors and admirals; 10/22/25, 11:52 AM
Inga said...: Maynard is a sexual deviant and a drunk who used to post under DFrancisco. He’s stalked me here in past years with comments about vibrators and other sexually themed things. He only comments in threads I’ve made comments in.; 10/22/25, 11:55 AM
narciso said...: Progs destroy everything they touch,; 10/22/25, 12:01 PM
donald said...: On the best day of Bernie Sander’s life, that glorious day that he was the best person he will ever be and contributed the most to humanity, Sanders was nothing more that a dirty, smelly, grubby, exceedingly dull minded Marxist Leninist. A disgusting piece of garbage and corruptocrat.; 10/22/25, 12:06 PM
Inga said...: “People who follow him are suckers and not deserving of any respect among people of normal or better intelligence.”

I recall when Meade was quite a fan of Bernie.; 10/22/25, 12:10 PM
tcrosse said...: Capitalism is dog eat dog. Socialism is the other way around.; 10/22/25, 12:13 PM
Big Mike said...: Bernie is probably the biggest and most obvious bullshitter in American politics. People who follow him are suckers and not deserving of any respect among people of normal or better intelligence.

That story about Bernie being asked to leave a Vermont commune because he shirked his chores? That’s absolutely true. He’s keen for communism — provided he gets to be in the Nomenklatura.

At any rate the modern Democrat party could not exist without oligarchs like Tom Streyer, George Soros and son, Reid Hoffman, etc., pumping them up financially (and dictating their policies).; 10/22/25, 12:13 PM
Disparity of Cult said...: By golly, Ollie! Oh wait, that's Minnesota not Vermont.; 10/22/25, 12:17 PM
Inga said...: Francisco D, not D Francisco, look him up.; 10/22/25, 12:17 PM
narciso said...: https://t.co/7MRHsmGMGx; 10/22/25, 12:19 PM
FullMoon said...: "Jaq said...
One of the main principles of bolshevism was that nationalities were retrograde impediments to the arrival of the communist utopia on Earth, so they did everything they could to wipe them out, this included the Russian nationality. So unfettered immigration is part of the blending, and they have the Australian model, where a country that elected John Howard has now been dragged irretrievably to the left by immigration.

As of 2024, approximately 31.5% of Australia's population, or about 8.6 million people, were born overseas, indicating a significant portion of recent immigrants. This percentage reflects the highest share of foreign-born residents in Australia since 1892. - DDG AI Overview"

( Little House on the Prairie)
It was incorporated in 1879. Walnut Grove gained more than 250 residents between 2001 and 2006. The residents are Hmong. This has increased the population to nearly 900, and Hmong now comprise 42 percent of the students in the Westbrook-Walnut Grove School District.; 10/22/25, 12:24 PM
Rocco said...: There is a missing comma in the book title. Bernie is exhorting his side to “Fight, Oligarchy”; 10/22/25, 12:29 PM
MadTownGuy said...: Bernie looks like a Muppet. Wasn't he one of the guys in the balcony? Could have been in the Great Muppet Caper, too.; 10/22/25, 12:30 PM
Disparity of Cult said...: Hmong history is required public school curriculum in Wisconsin.; 10/22/25, 12:30 PM
narciso said...: Waldorf or Statler; 10/22/25, 12:33 PM
Big Mike said...: I think I’d rather buy Sen. John Kennedy’s How to Test Negative for Stupid.; 10/22/25, 12:37 PM
Achilles said...: Rocco said...
There is a missing comma in the book title. Bernie is exhorting his side to “Fight, Oligarchy”

Exactly.

There are people who want him to be successful in his efforts. They are the oligarchs who fund him.

Bernie rails against billionaires, but all of his attacks are against millionaires.

Bernie is destroying the competition of the billionaires who gave him millions of dollars, a private jet, and all those houses.

Bernie is a tool. His supporters are even dumber than he is.

Bernie Sanders cannot be rich unless he takes money from other people. Bernie Sanders does not have the intelligence, drive, and strength of character to build or make anything other people want. Thus he plays the role of socialist leader.; 10/22/25, 12:49 PM
Yancey Ward said...: LOL! Francisco D is not Maynard, Dingabat. It is almost like you have no ability at all read with anything other than the most basic level of understanding. I don't know what happened to Francisco D but his comments are nothing at all like those of Maynard- Francisco vanished sometime around 2020/21. I assumed that he likely died given what he claimed his age was but I was never able to confirm it.; 10/22/25, 12:51 PM
Kakistocracy said...: It is much easier to speculate on the future and impact of technology. Technology nearly always moves in one direction, forward. It builds on itself, and progress is generally objective.

Politics and governance moves forwards, backwards and side-ways. Or, more typically, we don't even agree on which direction it is moving.; 10/22/25, 12:54 PM
Yancey Ward said...: The Videos of Dorian Gray.; 10/22/25, 12:56 PM
Inga said...: “Francisco D is not Maynard.”

Oh YES he most certainly is. I have proof.; 10/22/25, 12:57 PM
Joe Bar said...: "Oligarchy is a form of government in which power rests with a small number of people."

Same as it ever was.; 10/22/25, 12:58 PM
Joe Bar said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 10/22/25, 12:59 PM
Joe Bar said...: I prefer oligarchs who don't fly around on private jets telling me to fight them.; 10/22/25, 1:00 PM
Inga said...: “I don't know what happened to Francisco D but his comments are nothing at all like those of Maynard- Francisco vanished sometime around 2020/21. I assumed that he likely died given what he claimed his age was but I was never able to confirm it.”

Francisco D (Maynard) is about the same age I am in his early 70’s and still very much alive and posting on Althouse. I won’t say more because I don’t believe in doxxing anyone. But he should know I know who he is/was both as Francisco D and as Maynard.; 10/22/25, 1:03 PM
Jaq said...: I think that Bernie was honestly promoting something he believe in, until, as has been said by many upthread, 2016, when he clearly changed. But of course understanding this requires some intelligence, and the signal of these comments simply bounce off the Dunning Kruger thermocline due to the density encountered at the boundary.; 10/22/25, 1:05 PM
boatbuilder said...: I give him credit for not changing a bit in either message or appearance. Preserved in amber. Impervious.; 10/22/25, 1:11 PM
narciso said...: One is an apologist to terrorists and criminals like jeremy corbyn in the uk; 10/22/25, 1:12 PM
Inga said...: “I think that Bernie was honestly promoting something he believe in, until, as has been said by many upthread, 2016, when he clearly changed.”

“I give him credit for not changing a bit in either message or appearance. Preserved in amber. Impervious.”

It’s fun reading such different takes on Bernie by conservatives.; 10/22/25, 1:14 PM
boatbuilder said...: It's the same message (see the video). The belief has changed. Reading comprehension is a thing.

Also, believe it or not, Inga, all conservatives do not think the same.; 10/22/25, 1:24 PM
3john2 said...: Look for it this week in the Fiction section of your bookstore. Next week, you can find it in the Remainders section.; 10/22/25, 1:24 PM
narciso said...: When youre on the side that spent 1.502 billion dollars and lost; 10/22/25, 1:37 PM
mindnumbrobot said...: Bernie's schtick has made him a very wealthy man. There are obviously plenty of people gullible enough to buy into it--even after all these years--so I don't blame him for milking it for all it's worth.; 10/22/25, 1:38 PM
Yancey Ward said...: "I have proof"

Sure you do, Inga- everyone believes you.; 10/22/25, 1:40 PM
Inga said...: “Sure you do, Inga- everyone believes you.”

That’s not my concern, it’s a message to Maynard. Now go be a good little Yancey and suckle your mama’s old titty some more.; 10/22/25, 1:44 PM
KellyM said...: As another native Vermonter, I'm sorry too. He's been a plague for 40+ years.; 10/22/25, 1:46 PM
wild chicken said...: He wasn't wrong though. It is still happening and getting worse. A fool and his money are soon parted. Many such fools out here.; 10/22/25, 1:49 PM
Inga said...: “He wasn't wrong though. It is still happening and getting worse.”

Indeed.; 10/22/25, 1:53 PM
narciso said...: That maple syrup is poisonous; 10/22/25, 1:58 PM
Rusty said...: Jaq @ 1:05

So, like Marxism? Or as the kids like to say Social Democracy.
See. It has "Democracy" in the name. That makes it totally unlike Marxism.; 10/22/25, 2:14 PM
J Scott said...: Bernie, just retire already. 30 some years at the national level of politics. His brain was set in it's ways back in the 80s.; 10/22/25, 2:16 PM
Hassayamper said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 10/22/25, 2:17 PM
narciso said...: Hes a rather lowly apparatchik like corbyn; 10/22/25, 2:21 PM
Hassayamper said...: Does Bernie ever give to charity? I doubt it.

Committed socialists not only give nothing to charity, they sometimes advocate eliminating tax deductions for it or even making it illegal. It undermines peoples' dependence upon the enormous all-permeating government monster that replaces the Divine in their reckoning, eroding support for confiscatory taxes and governmental aggrandizement, and allowing wealthy people to deflect blame for their success.; 10/22/25, 2:21 PM
Beasts of England said...: ’It’s fun reading such different takes on Bernie by conservatives.’

Inga, in a single sentence, refutes her own theory that Trump voters are in a cult.; 10/22/25, 2:27 PM
Inga said...: “Inga, in a single sentence, refutes her own theory that Trump voters are in a cult.”

I’m always happy to see some break away, I think eventually most will.; 10/22/25, 2:34 PM
Beasts of England said...: ’I’m always happy to see some break away…’

Have either or both of those commenters broken away from Trump?; 10/22/25, 2:44 PM
Tina Trent said...: Commies always have the nicest houses. Sanders has three and is worth millions. Screw him and anyone who falls for his hypocrisy. And his wife's perfidy, criminal misuse of funds, and redusal to abide by reality-based solutions destroyed an entire university, depriving many, many people from and in the town and college of jobs, credentials, health insurance, and pensions. I'm surprised nobody strung those two up.; 10/22/25, 2:56 PM
Jim at said...: It appears someone is very bored today and decided to bore everybody else.; 10/22/25, 3:31 PM
Old and slow said...: We could do much worse... Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, and Palmer Lucky. Yeah, sign me up!; 10/22/25, 3:47 PM
Jaq said...: Yeah, Bernie was a commie, but up until 2016, he was honestly a commie, now he is just one more piece of the uniparty, shepherding along his own followers to support it. I am not defending Bernie's old POV, I am just saying that up until then, he seemed sincere in his beliefs.; 10/22/25, 4:31 PM
Paul said...: He said he fights Oligarchies... but being a millionaire with three houses don't count.; 10/22/25, 4:32 PM
john mosby said...: Disparity of Cult: “ Hmong history is required public school curriculum in Wisconsin.”

Not so bad. Probably the only required anti-Communist course in the country!

Who am I kidding: I am sure the lefty teachers portray them as Ewok-like victims of the Yanks, tricked into fighting other Asians then abandoned. CC, JSM; 10/22/25, 4:44 PM
Big Mike said...: Checked the Barnes & Noble near the wife’s doctor’s office but they’re out of Senator Kennedy’s book. I bought Butler, by Salena Zito, with its insider view of the 2024 Trump campaign. Enjoyable reading for me, but the right kind of Democrat could learn a lot.; 10/22/25, 5:26 PM
Achilles said...: wild chicken said...

He wasn't wrong though. It is still happening and getting worse. A fool and his money are soon parted. Many such fools out here.

He is absolutely wrong about what is happening. He knows he is wrong and he is being dishonest.

He is pretending that at some point in history that wealth was evenly distributed or that it is even possible for wealth to be evenly distributed.

It is not possible. The Pareto Distribution is absolutely undefeated and there is no system ever created that will break the Pareto Distribution. The only thing that remains from attempts to try are mass graves.

He is pretending that there is some way that he is going to redistribute oligarch money to the people.

All he is actually doing is taking money from one group of oligarchs and giving it to a smaller group of oligarchs. Socialists like him have only ever replaced oligarchs who earned their wealth through some sort of work with oligarchs who use the government to take wealth for themselves.

It is pathetic that people even give this the time of day. Bernie is even telling you that he is too important to not fly a private jet.; 10/22/25, 5:33 PM
Kevin said...: Bernie is the boy who cried "Oligarchy!"; 10/22/25, 5:33 PM
Kakistocracy said...: Let's see: 33 years of neoliberalism sponsored by Democrats and unprecedented wealth creation among the superrich fostered by Democrats and now we're warned about oligarchy. Bernie sounds the boy accused of murdering his parents and asking for mercy because he's an orphan!; 10/22/25, 6:59 PM
Hassayamper said...: Socialists like him have only ever replaced oligarchs who earned their wealth through some sort of work with oligarchs who use the government to take wealth for themselves.

No greater political truth has ever been spoken. All of Hayek, Mises, Friedman and Rand can be boiled down to this single sentence. And if all you know about economics is Hayek, Mises, Friedman, and Rand, you already possess more true and useful knowledge than any Ivy League PhD economist.; 10/22/25, 7:12 PM
RCOCEAN II said...: Hilarious. But I admire Bernie. What a con man! Give the populists and Bernie bros some rhetoric and they're happy. C'mon you want to fight "the system" give Bernie some $$. Meanwhile Bernie is 100 percent in favor of Genocide in gaza, helping billionaires, and letting 100 million immigrants into the USA to lower wages, bust unions, and damage the enviroment. But hey, Bernie needs a new mansion.; 10/22/25, 8:21 PM
RCOCEAN II said...: I always love all the millionaires and billionaries who post at Althouse. At least I assume they're rich. Because if they're not - they're just plain stupid.; 10/22/25, 8:23 PM
Big Mike said...: @Achilles, so there’s someone else commenting here who knows about Pareto distributions. Cool; 10/22/25, 10:37 PM
Big Mike said...: @Jaq, sorry, friend, but you’re reading Bernie all wrong. Go read We Are As Gods by Kate Daloz (use the Althouse Amazon portal). In her book about setting up and running a commune in 1970s Vermont they take in a young Bernie Sanders, who has to be asked to leave because he was shirking his fair share of the chores.

Conclusion: Sanders has always been a fraud

PS: The other two books I mentioned upthread are also available using the Althouse Amazon portal.; 10/22/25, 10:47 PM
Achilles said...: Big Mike said...

@Achilles, so there’s someone else commenting here who knows about Pareto distributions. Cool

50% = square root of N
50% = N - (square root of N)

For non math nerds out there that means if you give 10,000 people $10,000 each within a certain time frame 100 of those people will end up with $50,000,000 and the other 9900 will have $50,000,000.

10 of those 100 will have $25,000,000 and the other 90 rich people will have $25,000,000.

Of course the "average person" would still have $10,000 while the "mean person" is at ~$5050.50.(a little higher)

This is a law of nature. I applies to the mass of celestial objects like black holes and stars. It applies to basket ball players scoring points. It applies to city populations.

There really should be a high school class about it.; 10/22/25, 11:48 PM
Big Mike said...: Oops, now I have to put on my mathematician’s hat. Pareto is a family of distributions based on a parameter typically written as the Greek letter theta. Depending on the value of theta one can get Zipf’s Law, which I won’t try to describe as it is pretty well explained in Wikipedia. Another value for theta yields the 80-20 rule. I did quite well in stochastic modeling for computer performance modeling with the version of Pareto that produces the 80-20 rule.

Zipf’s Law is often used to model economics because, empirically, it is often the case that the second-wealthiest person in a set of people has approximately half the wealth of the first, the third-wealthiest has approximately i/3 the wealth of the wealthiest, etc. it’s an empirical rule so it doesn’t always match reality 100%, but I understand that on the whole it does a decent job.; 10/23/25, 4:44 AM
Jersey Fled said...: Add this to the list of Bernie Books that I have never read and never will. As I tend to read books that I enjoy or learn something from.; 10/23/25, 10:14 AM

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