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Youths’ infatuation with Bernie Sanders is naive, dangerous

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., arrives to a primary night rally in Essex Junction, Vt., Tuesday, March 1, 2016, on Super Tuesday.
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., arrives to a primary night rally in Essex Junction, Vt., Tuesday, March 1, 2016, on Super Tuesday. AP

Exuberant college students demonstrate an uncommon, dangerous naivety that permeates our youth of today: an infatuation with Bernie Sanders.

Bernie is peddling poison — communism to be succinct. To the mature among us, this is as obvious as a roach on a wedding cake at the reception.

Young folks would be well served to research communism and its short, dismal history. Bernie may be a kind old wretch, however, it is his ideals that will lead to a dictatorship down the road. communism is so adverse in reality that it takes a military to keep it in place. Bernie is a disease. Would you knowingly ship Ebola into the U.S.?

Having said this, I don't think Bernie has the chance of a snowball in the Death Valley. There are just too many Americans who will be casting a vote. Too many who are Bernie’s age, like me.

Mike Morgan, Los Osos

This story was originally published March 1, 2016 at 9:15 PM with the headline "Youths’ infatuation with Bernie Sanders is naive, dangerous."

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