Sanders Takes Oligarchy Fight to Appalachia With Standing-Room-Only Crowd in West Virginia
Join Bernie Sanders on his Fighting Oligarchy Tour as he rallies against the billionaire class's control and Republican cuts to healthcare and social programs. #FightingOligarchy
West Virginia is hard on MAGA. Either this is every Dem in the state or MAGA is finally waking up.
I lived in MAGA country near WV in 2016. Folks there knew I wasn’t a red hat but when they found out I was a Bernie Bro they told me how they respected him for his consistency in hating the wealthy.
They hate billionaires, too. Hell, I almost got a bunch of rednecks to agree with socialism just by avoiding scary words.
They want the same things, they just haven’t been presented with it. I am convinced that if Bernie was the nominee he’d have carried West Virginia.
I tell this to everyone at every opportunity:
If Bernie was the DNC nominee in 2016 he would have beat Trump according to literally every single general poll:
https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/president/general/2016/trump-vs-sanders
He had a ten point+ lead against Trump compared to Hillary. Hillary just polled better in the DNC primary. Funny then how the DNC made their constituents care more about who could win their primaries than who could win the actual presidential election.
That heavily favored Bernie winning against anyone.
The Bernie-Trump pipeline is a thing. MAGA is fueled by social and economic uncertainty, and unlike the Dem establishment Bernie actually offers solutions to those things. The problem is that solutions from the left are incessantly shut down by the establishment (with little resistance from progressive leaders) while "solutions" from the right are embraced by it (and when they aren't, the right actually fights to change that), so undereducated people in red states see two realistic choices, one that has solutions for their troubles and one that doesn't. My point being that plenty of Republican voters only vote red because the blue side offers them exactly nothing, not because they want an all-white ethnostate. Theoretically that group has no reason to hate Bernie.
Seven hospitals are expected to shut down in the state as a result of the law's Medicaid cuts, and 84,000 West Virginians will lose Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits, according to estimates.
If this doesn't do it what will?
I expect that Fox News isn't going to be talking about that, so probably one factor is going to be to what degree that fact actually reaches voters.
Why would Democrats do this to WV?!
Anything to downplay people being excited about progressives.
Unfortunately it's kinda hard to get too excited at this point for a lot of us.
Live in a state where the state overwhelmingly votes for things like keeping abortion legal, requiring paid sick leave, removal of gerrymandering, or even getting rid of fucking puppy mills, but then also overwhelmingly votes for the party who keeps overturning the bills passed by voters over and over and over again and you stop believing that people will actually wake the fuck up and instead continue to vote for that big R next to the name like idiots.
On the latest leg of his Fighting Oligarchy Tour, U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders headed to West Virginia for rallies on Friday and Saturday where he continued to speak out against the billionaire class's control over the political system and the Republican Party's cuts to healthcare, food assistance, and other social programs for millions of Americans—and prove that his message resonates with working people even in solidly red districts.
”Whoever said West Virginia was a conservative state?" Sanders (I-Vt.) asked a roaring, standing-room-only crowd at the Capitol Theater in Wheeling. "Somebody got it wrong."
"Sometimes I am attacked by my opponents for being far-left, fringe, out of touch with where America is," said Sanders. "Actually, much of what I talk about is exactly where America is... You are living in the wealthiest country in the history of the world, and if we had good policy and the courage to take on the billionaire class, there is no reason that every kid in this country could not get an excellent higher education, regardless of his or her income. That is not a radical idea."
☝️ 100% this. Democrats, you want a candidate that will win? Stop focusing so much on what your donors want you to do, and start focusing on what your country needs you to do.
The flight of ‘moderate Republican’ donor base from the GOP to the Dems over the last ~8 years has truly metastasised into a cancer.
They saw Sanders and expected fried chicken. we don't read good in the South.
If West Virginia wasn’t an internetless husk hollowed out by every extractive industry known to man, they’d be very offended by your comment.
That got a real lol from me
If he brought fried chicken, he would have won voters for life!
colonel sanders, has been promoted to brigadier general sanders.
BuT hE's A sOcIaLiSt!
Sanders would have beat Drumpf the first time and the second time but the Dems are so bought out by billionaires and lobbyists that they are just as savage as the GOP!
Bernie for President 2028! 💜
hence why you think they are both are a uniparty, they both collude together. and why trump has faced very little resistance form the DNC, whenever he cut taxes or is campaigning, in secret they want him to win, so they can keep thier tax cuts they benefit under trump.
All of the people left and immediately continued voting for Republicans. The end.
Or they voted for Jim Justice/Babydog.
one of vances strongholds.
