Since ol’ Bernie has thrown his ushanka hat into the ring...

...lets look at some of his greatest hits.

Served as a presidential elector in the Trotskyist Socialist Workers Party in 1980. At the time, the party’s platform called for abolishing the U.S. military budget and proclaimed “solidarity” with revolutionary Iran. (This was in the middle of the Iranian hostage crisis.)

Sanders took his 1985 vacation trip to Nicaragua, where he joined a Sandinista rally with a crowd chanting, “Here, there, everywhere/ The Yankee will die.”

Sanders wrote an essay called “The Revolution Is Life Versus Death.”

Sanders mocks taboos on child nudity.

Sanders celebrates girls who defy their mothers and have sex with their boyfriends: “The revolution comes … when a girl pushes aside all that her mother has ‘taught’ her and accepts her boyfriends love.”

Sanders was one of 14 congressmen to vote against the law establishing the Amber Alert system.

Sanders was one of 15 congressmen to vote against an amendment criminalizing computer-generated child pornography.

Sanders opposes (did) public schools and praises parents who believe that it is “better for their children not to go to school at all than for them to attend a normal type of establishment.”

Sanders feels that sexual repression causes cancer.

Sanders opposes the concept of private charity.

Sanders supports the public takeover of the television industry.

Jane Sanders, who has been accused of trying to defraud the Catholic Church on a land deal she undertook as president of Burlington College. (After being forced out of that job, she received a $200,000 golden parachute.)

Over many years of political development Sanders came to be associated with the youth section of the Socialist Party; the Trotskyist Socialist Workers’ Party; the anti-war Vermont Liberty Union Party, and the left-wing People’s Party.
The Trotskyist party pressed for the abolition of capitalism and the peaceful establishment of socialism.

As a student at the University of Chicago, Sanders was involved in the Young People’s Socialist League, or ‘Yipsel’ and picketed President Lyndon B. Johnson aide Sargent Shriver when he visited campus in Sanders’ senior year.

In the 1970s, Sanders became involved with the Liberty Union, an anti-war political party in Vermont. In 1971, Sanders’ platform involved the legalization of all drugs, while in the following year he wrote in an op-ed that Congress should “institute public ownership, with worker control, of the major means of production.” Several years later, in 1976, Sanders told the Bennington Banner that a “sane society” required that “capital has to be controlled by the people.”

Sanders backed Benjamin Spock as a presidential candidate over the Democratic candidate, George McGovern. Spock was the candidate for the People’s Party, a now-defunct political party than ran in two presidential elections. Spock called for a maximum income of $55,000 and a minimum annual income of $6,500 for a family of four.

The list of jackassery goes on and on.
Let’s all hope the DNC pisses him off again and that he leaves the party to be an independent...and the Sanderistas all go with him.