The Left’s war on the future of mankind has been understood for a while, but Bernie Sanders said the quiet part out loud:

‘We need to focus on Earth’: Bernie Sanders responds to Elon Musk’s space plans with call for progressive tax

“We are in a moment in American history where two guys” – Musk and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos – “own more wealth than the bottom 40 per cent of people in this country,” Mr Sanders said.

“That level of greed and inequality is not only immoral,” he added. “It is unsustainable.”

Mr Musk responded by saying that he is “accumulating resources to help make life multiplanetary [and] extend the light of consciousness to the stars.”

Mr Sanders then circled back on the Space X founder on Sunday: “Space travel is an exciting idea, but right now we need to focus on Earth and create a progressive tax system so that children don’t go hungry, people are not homeless and all Americans have healthcare. The level of inequality in America is obscene and a threat to our democracy.”

One of these men wants a better future for mankind. The other wants stagnation and squalor from now until the sun dies.

I am accumulating resources to help make life multiplanetary & extend the light of consciousness to the stars

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 21, 2021

Sanders and his ilk and their supporters would, in a sensible world, be laughed right out of public life as the morons they are. And that’s the generous view. There’s the saying “don’t attribute to malice what can be explained with incompetence,” and there’s a lot of validity to that. But malice *does* exist, and it is more and more difficult to explain away the far lefts’ damaging policies and beliefs as being purely the result of being naive idiots. More and more the explanation that many of them are legitimately crazy or – witness a certain Representative from California – bedding the enemy. What’s Sanders story? He was buddy-buddy with the Soviets back in the day. He was a fellow traveler with their policies.  While the Soviets are properly in the dustbin of history, sadly their hatred of the United States and capitalism survives. Those who screech the loudest about “fascism” should be looked at with skepticism for their acceptance of and often support of socialism. If western civilization survives and leaves the Earth, it will look back on socialism and socialists as cancerous burdens gratefully left behind.