What a Burger Can Tell You

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National Review/The Corner:

Jay Nordlinger

November 28, 2015

 

A lovely piece was written by David Feith for the Wall Street Journal — lovely and true. It’s entitled “A Roy Rogers Thanksgiving Lesson,” and it quotes Bernie Sanders, the Vermont socialist who’s running for the Democratic presidential nomination.

 

Americans, said Sanders, “don’t necessarily need a choice of 23 underarm spray deodorants or of 18 different pairs of sneakers when children are hungry in this country.”

 

That is so Ann Arbor. I can’t tell you how Ann Arbor that is. I heard that sort of thing a million times when I was growing up in that fair city.

 

Feith writes,

 

 

My grandfather marveled at the Roy Rogers restaurant by our home in Maryland. Each hamburger there was fresh and inexpensive, yet individually wrapped to stay warm, clean and ready to eat. Customers expected no less. But my grandfather came from the Soviet Union. On first visiting America in the 1980s, he saw Roy Rogers’s humble burger as a sign of awesome bounty.

 

 

Later in his piece, Feith talks of Boris Yeltsin:

 

(Snip)

 

Growing up, I think, means outgrowing Ann Arbor. And Vermont. Did Bernie Sanders admire Honecker’s Germany and Ceausescu’s Romania more than he did, say, Reagan’s America? I bet he did. A lot of Americans did. I knew a fair amount.

 

Bernie honeymooned in the Soviet Union. New York mayor Bill de Blasio honeymooned in the Castros’ Cuba. Britain’s Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, took a romantic trip with his then-lover, Diane Abbott, to East Germany. The two Labourites motorbiked through Honeckerland.

 

Why do people in free countries vote for such people? Ah, that’s too big a subject for a lil’ blogpost like this …

 

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Why? Stupidity comes to mind.