That video ' s top comment says something else If this clip is from the interview I saw a few months ago , the full context is he ' s talking about Nicaragua post political revolution . The country was under corrupt rule where the leaders stole the nation ' s wealth and left the people to starve . There was an uprising , and the new government was trying to rebuild the nation , and feed it ' s people . American journalists were trying to depict the country as incapable of governing themselves , and pointed to bread lines as their reasoning . Bernie was saying that the bread line was an improvement over the mass starvation that other regions were still going through due to the corrupt oligarchy power structure . Next time post context and not just 10 second soundbite like an idiot .