| sc94597 said:
He is against the federal reserve bank, but continues to dillute/contest efforts that would actually audit it. Those are two things on the top of my head with regard to Bernie Sanders.
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I don't think Sanders has ever come out against the Fed in concept like Ron/Rand Paul. He has argued for auditing them and introduced the bill to audit the fed in the Senate but accepted an amendment which would allow audits during financial crisis only and not of the Feds Monetary policy actions. Which was the right thing to do if you believe in a central bank because the attempt to audit Fed monetary policy is really just an attempt to politicize the institution to death. Both the Pauls openly call for an end to the Federal Reserve system as a whole, Sanders has only called for reform. He supported a more moderate reform effort in the end (which was probably because of how blatantly the Pauls want to use the audit process to "End the Fed"). Sanders has made it clear he disagrees with certain Fed policies (namely how the bailout and QE were handled), but not with the institution itself. There is nothing hypocritical about this.
