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Cousin
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Cousin asked in Politics & GovernmentElections · 2 years ago

What did Bernie Sanders mean by "Military Industrial Complex" in the June 27th, 2019 Democratic Debates?

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  • ?
    Lv 7
    2 years ago
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    It is a term coined by republican POTUS Eisenhower in his farewell speech. https://youtu.be/8y06NSBBRtY

  • 2 years ago

    Bernie doesn't actually know,he just uses that term for anything he doesn't like or understand.

  • Jeff D
    Lv 7
    2 years ago

    It's a term from the 50s and 60s that liberals have been clinging to ever since to explain how the evil capitalists control the world. It's like the Bilderberg Group conspiracy.

  • Anonymous
    2 years ago

    The munitions or arms manufacturers as well as other corporate entities who profit from both sides of a war, even playing both sides against each other. They are not patriotic. The Holocaust Museum, either in Washington, DC or St Petersburg, Florida has or used to have the actual IBM machine on display used to sort the sorting cards to determine the victims of the Holocaust.

  • Anonymous
    2 years ago

    just a dem 'buzz word' .................................

  • humpty
    Lv 7
    2 years ago

    That was the phrase Dwight Eisenhower used when he warned us about them in his farewell speech. I suppose the conservative trolls will claim he hated the military as well.

    Morons.

    This phrase is used to identify the businesses and individuals who promote conflict because it makes them money. Given Eisenhower's unequalled experience it is hard to argue they do not exist.

  • Anonymous
    2 years ago

    He was referring to the country's military establishment and the industries producing arms or other military materials.

  • 2 years ago

    Same thing everybody else does when they talk about the military industrial complex.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    2 years ago

    He meant he hates the military. Most libs do.

  • Cousin
    Lv 6
    2 years ago

    Bernie Sanders comes across as "just crazy".

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