While I don't personally intend to vote for Bernie Sanders, I feel obligated to say Rand Paul has gone off the deep end.
Rand son of Ron spoke to South Carolina radio host Vince Coakley and compared Sanders to socialist dictators of the past.
via RightWingWatch
“It amazes me and it actually kind of scares me,” Paul said. “I’ve been spending more time going after Bernie and socialism because I don’t want America to succumb to the notion that there’s anything good about socialism. I think it’s not an accident of history that most of the times when socialism has been tried that attendant with that has been mass genocide of people or any of those who object to it. Stalin killed tens of millions of people. Mao killed tens of millions of people. Pol Pot killed tens of millions of people. When you have a command economy, when everything is dictated from one authority, that’s socialism, but it doesn’t come easily to those who resist it.”
I don't find Sanders to be any more threatening than a toy poodle, but I suppose a man who thinks real liberty is having the privilege to define your own privileges would be terrified of a socialist government.
Not that a would-be Sanders administration would resemble anything even remotely close to the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin. Are you fucking serious, Rand?