politics @lemmy.world Mee @reddthat.com 1d ago

Bernie Sanders draws 10,000 supporters to Warren for a ‘Fight Oligarchy’ rally.

www.newsfromthestates.com Just a moment...

More than 10,000 people turned out for a rally with U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt), in Warren as part of his national “Fighting Oligarchy” tour.

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When is Harris' anti-oligarchy rally? Obama's? LOL, Pelosi's? Why the fuck does this one guy who should be retiring on a beach somewhere have to keep dragging the entire Democratic party? I love Bernie, but it's beyond pathetic that after all these years it's still his job.
- Because none of those other people want to. The only reason they even allow Bernie to do as much as he does is to placate progressive liberals, if they didn't folks might start figuring out that reform doesn't work.
- In all fairness, Harris’s political ambitions are over. She lost to Trump, she should probably just stay out of politics now.
  
  She's saying she might run for Cali governor...
- They're protecting their capital.
- Never. They are the oligarchy.
- When is yours? Why is the “dragging” mentioned by you while others are doing more than you?
  
  Any of the people they mentioned would have massively more influence than a random Lemmy poster.
It's interesting to watch this, and while Bernie is slightly left to my values, how come this octogenarian gets it and the rest of the party doesn't? I'm just amazed that some democrats interpret this as "let's align with MAGA" a little more, instead of calling those "right wing radicalists". The future of Dems is to be the anti-oligarchy party. While I understand how risky this may be as unlimited dark money pouring in can tilt things, but people still have the power if they unite.
- If Bernie fucking Sanders is too far left for you then you're definitely part of the problem
  
  Agreed, Sanders only has the working class at heart throughout his career. Is he perfect? Of course not. If you are working class and you think Bernie is bad…. You really need to reconsider who you are and where you stand.
  
  While too far left could mean this, the op just said "slightly left". Of course, if what you meant is that Bernie Sanders is barely left enough, that anyone to the right of him is the problem, then nvm.
  
  Here we have somebody being polite and engaging in politics@lemmy.world. I come to this community because I wish to talk to people who are more right-wing than me. Let's not shoo them away please.
  
  yawn.
  
  Edit: if you go on calling people "part of the problem" for considering Bernie slightly to their left in a post that praises him, then you are actually part of the problem and you don't even realize it.
- It's interesting to watch this, and while Bernie is slightly left to my values, how come this octogenarian gets it and the rest of the party doesn't?
  
  Which party? The Democrats? He's not part of them since they crushed him and his followers in 2016, preferring to back H.Clinton to a stunning loss against Trump.
  
  They don't get it because they are also a party more interested in supporting oligarchs than the working person. They still think that Trump beat them through disinformation, when it was really that they lost because their track record since Carter has been to back big business over the needs of the common people. Clinton and Obama should have been ripping up Regan's / Bush's legacy, but they just tweaked it. All Trump did was speak to that, even though he had no intention of doing anything about it.
- No fucking way anti-oligarchy is the future of the party. The Dems are going to run the same tired playbook of courting the center and hoping the Republicans shit the bed. They are already saying this loudly and often.
  
  No fucking way anti-oligarchy is the future of the party.
  
  We'll see. It would be quite tragicomical after they just got punished for moving towards the center like the second humiliating time around. At least Bernie's showing the path.
- How in the fuck is Bernie too far left for you? America is way too far fucking right wing, that's insane
  
  America is way too far fucking right wing, that’s insane
  
  It generally is, especially from the European perspective but not entirely. If we put aside present republican posturing, the USA is very immigration-friendly right and left whereas in Europe the right wing is extremely against any kind of immigration.
  
  How in the fuck is Bernie too far left for you?
  
  You guys are way too inclined to think in extremes. Slight = difference between democratic socialist vs. social democrat.
- One third of Americans voted for Donald Trump. One third of Americans did not vote.
  
  Two thirds of Americans a) think that Kamala Harris, forget Bernie Sanders, was too conservative, or b) do not give a fuck.
  
  The idea that there is this massive left wing sentiment that will bubble to the surface if the Democrats annouce their Five Year Plan simply isn't something born out by the numbers.
  
  affordable education and universal healthcare would be popular drawing forces.
Warren, MICHIGAN. I would like to encourage anyone who posts local news to put clarifying geographical data in the title ... I've spent so many minutes of my life clicking thru to some local TV station's story and looking ... looking ... looking for any sort of clue where the hell they are.
- Thank you!! I didn't have to go through the spelunking exercise because of your comment!!
10,000 showed up to fight oligarchy—guess billionaires finally pushed us into revolution mode.

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Based Shawn fein
Proper barnstorming.
- But they’re dems! What about the GeNoCiDe!
  
  Unlike most of the Democratic Party, Bernie does not support the ongoing genocide in Palestine.
  
  Sanders isn't a democrat.
  
  I get that you like mocking anyone who isn't on board with genocide like you are.
This is the way.
This reminds me of something I read from a British left-wing journalist the other day (source). She suggested that perhaps the left should focus less on identity politics, and more on wealth and class:

By making a virtue of marginalisation, breaking ourselves down into ever smaller and mutually hostile groupings, we make it impossible to build a mass movement capable of taking on extreme concentrations of wealth and power

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