Some people powerfulness await at Bernie Sanders together with intend he's a pacifist Left-winger -- together with a kindly erstwhile man, who was badly shafted past times the Democratic establishment. But the numbers state quite a dissimilar story, the numbers inwards this representative beingness the large total of donations paid out to the Jewish senator from Vermont past times the USA arms industry.
Data collected past times Open Secrets, an arrangement dedicated to keeping tabs on the USA political elites, found that, inwards the yr 2016, Sanders was the biggest recipient of "war whore" large bucks from the military machine industrial complex, getting a whopping $348,171.
This was fifty-fifty ahead of other meliorate known state of war hawks similar Ted Cruz, "Mad Dog" McCain, together with Chuck Schumer, all to a greater extent than obvious shills for the USA getting involved inwards pointless wars overseas.
Obviously, the arms manufacture appreciates the "moral value" of a human being similar Sanders, together with luckily for them Sanders is inwards the marketplace to sell, every bit nosotros all know the USA scheme plant strictly on the "pay to play" principle.
Below is the total list of the xx overstep senators to have dirty, blood-soaked coin from the merchants of death:
