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Win Ben Stein's Rubles

Actor, game show host, and right-wing nut job known to put people on speed asleep after talking for 2 minutes - Ben Stein - is at his wacky ways yet again. When speaking on the Fox Business channel, Stein said the following:

"We have a society in which there are an awful lot of people who have no idea that Stalin, Hitler, Mao Tse-Tung all came to power promising the same kinds of things that Ms. Ocasio-Cortez is promising. And it led to mass murder, it led to dictatorship, it led to genocide. These promises are old promises and they invariably lead to bad things."

He added:

"It's not about ordering people around, putting them in concentration camps. What do you do if a person is a richer or poorer person? What do you do? Do you take him away? Do you shoot him? Well, that's what the communists tried, it didn't work very well for them."

Really? Stein really wants to go there? He really wants to compare a democratic socialist to Hitler when he is an avid supporter of Donald Trump?

So Hitler wanted to give everyone an equal opportunity at voting? He wanted everyone to be healthy? He wanted to help improve the livelihoods of those in the lower- and middle-classes? He wanted everyone to be seen as equals in the eyes of the law? Yeah, that sounds EXACTLY like Hitler, doesn't it? On the flip-side, Ms. Ocasio-Cortez got elected on the promise she'd imprison and kill 6 million members of a particular religion, right? Uh-huh...

In the real world, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is about as close to Adolf Hitler in their world views as China and Wyoming are in terms of population. If Stein wants to talk about dictator-like tendencies, he should look no further than the man he currently worships - President Donald Trump. Here's a guy who continually tries to shut out the media and regularly attempts to discredit them. On an almost daily basis, he showcases that he feels he's above the law. The man thinks he has the power to do anything. He's banned people from entering the U.S. based upon their religion. But yeah, let's compare the 29-year-old Congresswoman from the Bronx to a dictator all the while the president continues behaving like one. Ben Stein proves yet again that denial isn't just a river in Egypt - that and he's likely currently being paid in rubles. On that note, perhaps he should start a new show, entitled, Win Ben Stein's Rubles.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/ben-stein-ocasio-cortez_us_5c480aabe4b083c46d63b0ce

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