The fact that it still has to be Bernie doing this is nothing short of a failure on the part of the American people.
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.
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- Signed, a very hopeful Canadian.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
🤡🤡🤡
I got my mittens and knitted hat still…
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.
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.
Hell yeah. One of the few good ones.
