A partial background on Bernie Sanders, the Socialist

...and this is why I won't vote for him....

1980s: According to an Accuray in Media report, Sanders "collaborated with Soviet and East German 'peace committees'" whose aim was "to stop President Reagan’s deployment of nuclear missiles in Europe.” Indeed, he “openly joined the Soviets’ 'nuclear freeze' campaign to undercut Reagan’s military build-up.”

1985: Sanders traveled to Managua, Nicaragua to celebrate the sixth anniversary of the rise to power of Daniel Ortega and his Marxist-Leninist Sandinista government.  During an interview, Sanders also stated that he "was impressed" with Nicaragua’s Foreign Minister Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann, a Catholic priest whom Pope John Paul II had barred from celebrating Mass because Brockmann had defied a church rule forbidding priests from holding government jobs. Moreover, Sanders characterized Daniel Ortega as “an impressive guy.” 

 1990: Sanders was a leading member of Jesse Jackson's National Rainbow Coalition, and he ran successfully for Congress as a socialist. The following year, Sanders founded the Congressional Progressive CAucus. 

1993: After the first al-Qaeda attack on the World Trade Center—Sanders introduced legislation to cut the U.S. intelligence budget, sight unseen.

2007: Senator Sanders and Rep. Maurice Hinchey together introduced the Media Ownership Reform Act, which was designed to tightly restrict the number of radio stations that any firm could own and resurrect the “Fairness Doctrine” that would greatly diminish the influence of conservative talk radio (considered censorship). 

2007: Sanders and Senator Barbara Boxer proposed the Global Warming Pollution Reduction Act, which, according to an MIT study, would have imposed on U.S. taxpayers a yearly financial burden of more than $4,500 per family, purportedly to check climate change.

2011: Sanders was the first U.S. Senator to support the anti-capitalist Occupay Wall Street movement, lauding its activists for focusing a “spotlight” on the need for “real Wall Street reform.” 

2013: Sanders said that “global warming is a far more serious problem than al Qaeda.” In March, Sanders and Senator Tom Harkin together introduced a bill to tax Wall Street speculators. “Both the economic crisis and the deficit crisis are a direct result of the greed, recklessness, and illegal behavior on Wall Street,” said Sanders.

September 2015: Sanders's presidential campaign received the support of the former Weather Underground terrorist Bill Ayers.

In a September 14, 2015 campaign appearance at Liberty University, Sanders was asked: "If you were elected president, what would you do to bring healing and resolution to the issue of racism in our country?" His reply made it clear that he viewed racism as a trait found chiefly in white people.

Sanders is also a strong supporter of the Apollo Alliance, a coalition of environmentalists and big labor that wants the federal government to take over America's energy industry.