What’s crazy and I feel very shortsighted of the Democrats is that they aren’t doing this more often. There is a large population that will/would respond to this type of politicking from the “opposition”. They would generate tons of energy for more protests and put more pressure on the republicans to oppose shit.
instead we get:
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) has garnered scorn for meeting with Silicon Valley executives to “mend fences” with the powerful tech sector—where numerous CEOs have signaled support for Trump during his second term.
Ken Martin, the newly elected chair of the Democratic National Committee, said last month that the party should continue to take money from “good billionaires.”
Democrats are the controlled opposition. It’s why they would never give Sanders a fair shake. He would upset them “good billionaires” because going further right is preferable than a single step left for the wealthy.
The fact that it still has to be Bernie doing this is nothing short of a failure on the part of the American people.
He’s one of precious few in office who have any credibility on the issue.
I mean yes, and that’s what I’m calling a failure on the part of the American people.
Or a success on the part of the two party hegemony.
The DNC could have let him win instead of cheating him out of the primary in 2016, we should have had a green new deal by now.
a singular politician. he’s going to die on the job, in the middle of an impassioned speech on behalf of the working class. indefatigable. not even Lincoln or Kennedy had a fraction of the perseverance and consistency this man has demonstrated. a true public servant.
Eh, I don’t know. Lincoln was well aware that he was walking into a massively complex situation with nothing short of the future of the country 100% on the line. He knew he was doing it at great personal risk, and I am sure on some level he knew it could (and ultimately, would) cost him his life.
Lincoln’s life was cut short so ultimately we never got to see what the next phase of his life would look like, but he persevered in the face of the greatest struggle this nation has ever faced.
Trump and friends may well create as dangerous of a scenario as the civil war, especially if Thiel, Vance, and the other tech authoritarians achieve their goal of radically overhauling if not outright destroying the country.
Three words:
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- Signed, a very hopeful Canadian.
In an ideal world, but haven’t we learned that she’s too female and probably not white enough for America? *I don’t agree, but I’m being pragmatic
In an ideal world, but haven’t we learned that she’s too female and probably not white enough for America?
The entire point behind “Kamala lost because she’s a woman of color, not because she wouldn’t differ from her unpopular predecessor except to move to his right” is to shut out AOC in particular. The party is willing to hold back all women in order to stifle one person, and it’s gross.
Also signed a slightly hopeful American
Or Dems could run a serious candidate this time. That would be a refreshing change.
No… Voters need to vote left. Voting left in primaries will yield better candidates.
If only Democrats would run fair primaries. Or primaries at all.
This is the man that should be the U.S. president. Not the fucking fascist rapist felon who’s all cozied up to Russian Putin scum.
I’ve felt that Bernie should be president since 2015, but he never stood a chance in the US. You have a 0% chance of being elected president in this country once the label of “socialist” has been applied to you.
They called Obama a socialist.
True. People need to learn what socialist actually means. Much of Europe is socialist.
You say that but articles like this don’t fit that narrative. There are Republican voters who like Bernie and they have been showing up to his rallies for years. I know several Trump voters who have said they would have voted for Sanders if they got the chance. The idea that progressives don’t appeal to conservatives is neoliberal propaganda. Progressives hit on alot of the same problems as conservative politicians they just have different solutions (and a lot less bullshit). Neoliberalism just pretends that the status quo is fine. Despite the name conservatives are largely unhappy with the status quo. That’s how we got Trump.
Brother, who the hell says they’re a fan of Sanders and then willingly votes for Trump other than chaos agents or racist who want to bury social issues?
More than you think. Trump is a fascist piece of shit but he’s not wrong when he says the system is rigged and drastic change is needed. Replace Trump’s Nazi rhetoric and egoism with workable ideas and genuine empathy and in simplistic terms you have Sanders.
Yeah, a not-insignificant portion of Trump’s voters are people who have been shafted by the system and are desperate for change, any change. Two out of three times, Trump was the candidate offering change. That he’s destroying stuff is, to them, secondary at best because they think their lives can’t get much worse anyway.
There are Republican voters who like Bernie and they have been showing up to his rallies for years.
Then Bernie should have run for the Republican nomination. He tried running for the Democrat nomination twice, and he lost twice.
You can be flippant about the nature of first past the post voting systems if you like but it’s not a useful contribution to the discussion. If you want to be POTUS you run as an R or a D and Bernie is not an R. That does not mean there are not R voters who like his policies.
He’s not a D either, he’s an SD
Which is much closer to D than R
Yes
The DNC rigged it against him. He should have ran independent. The DNC is corrupt af.
The DNC rigged it against him
Yep.
He should have ran independent.
Nope. Wouldn’t have worked.
The DNC is corrupt af.
Yep.
Just imagine if he had been elected president in 2016 like he should’ve been
Watched it live. Glad there are still come politicians fighting back.
And he’s always been fighting back. Dudes been an activist for what, the last 50 years or so?
What exactly has he done to “fight” back?
Here he is getting arrested at a civil rights protest in the 60s for starters.
I don’t understand what you mean. His entire activism history is on his Wikipedia page. He’s been fighting the good fight and influencing people in lower politics long before he became a senator.
He did a lot in the 60s as a university student during the Civil Rights Movement, a time when a lot of white people weren’t stepping up, and they really needed to.
“He became the chairman of the university chapter of the Congress for Racial Equality (CORE) and merged the group with SNCC — the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee. Bernie literally helped lead the first known sit-in in at the University of Chicago, where 33 students camped outside of the President’s office — protesting segregating housing on campus.”
This is from this article: https://medium.com/@ShaunKing/you-dont-really-know-who-bernie-sanders-was-in-the-1960s-79628016125f
Feel free to read more if you like. He did a lot of protesting against police brutality at the time as well.
Just because somebody hasn’t fixed every issue doesn’t mean they aren’t fighting the good fight. Bernie is clearly a man who has always had his heart in the right place and knows that the good fight requires more than just him, but that doesn’t mean he’s ever gonna stop.
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Get your families to go to this.
I haven’t had any luck so I’m hijacking this comment to ask: does anyone know where we can find dates for his speaking tour? I want to bring my family to hear him but I don’t know when he’ll be in our neck of the woods.
They maybe advertising the dates on social media like bluesky and x? I’m on neither but probably a good place to look.
I’d love to get a few videos from his speeches to share with people to hopefully build more energy around this.
This is a good question. I honestly don’t see any announcements anywhere about next stops. Maybe they’re not advertising it…for obvious reasons.
I got my mittens and knitted hat still…
I still have my official shirt from 2016
Hell yeah. One of the few good ones.
