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Stephen Blake's avatar

Bernie is right. Our democracy must restore a balance between capital and labor or it will fall to oligarchy and fascism.

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frautografie's avatar

I am so overwhelmed by Bernie Sanders' infinite empathy for the human condition, unselfish commitment to justice for all, energy, and lack of ego. I am impressed that AOC is by his side in the fight and bringing her youthfulness to the battle. GO, FIGHT, WIN!!! Teach us how to help!

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Mary Gabriel's avatar

FINALLY!! REAL LEADERSHIP!!!!

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Martha Ture's avatar

See a companion piece here: https://marthature.substack.com/p/what-are-we-doing-how-long-will-it

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Natasha Young's avatar

If we can get all of these group of people, from each city to go to Washington with Bernie and AOC,

We can have a Revolution and I'll be joining!

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TheGlassyView's avatar

Great to see more of this sentiment coming out. I recently wrote a substack on this: “AOC: Joan of Arc , or Sharecropper for the DNC” (including Bernie of course) , to highlight certainly the obvious class schism, but also how badly we need a new or totally rebuilt opposition party. This genie needs some big help getting stuffed back in the bottle.

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Ellen Berman's avatar

Trump is an Inhumane despicable dictator

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Barbie Butterworth's avatar

Power to the People!!

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Lynn's avatar

And the crowds were gigantic for Harris. And yet TFG won. He couldn’t fill a stadium, folks were leaving halfway through and yet he won.

What am I missing? Voter suppression? Gerrymandering? Cheating? He closed regional offices, no door knockers,

no paid volunteers and he won.

Clearly crowd size isn’t indicative of voters preferences.

What the hell happened?

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Dina's avatar

I've been wondering that since September. And it doesn't help that trump was thanking Elon while in the same breath talking about the "vote counting machines" in swing states, or turning to Mike Johnson and saying they had a "little secret." I'm not into conspiracies and certainly don't want to sound like those trumphumpers who screamed about how the election was "stolen" from him in 2020—but I say there was some fuckery afoot.

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Lynn's avatar

And by just enough as to not trigger a recount. In all 7 swing states?

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Dina's avatar

Weird, huh?

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Greg M. Schwartz's avatar

Great article, the political revolution is lit once again~~~~

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Walt Svirsky's avatar

What Bernie and AOC are doing is the only logical way forward. Why 95% of our elected officials can’t see that is very troubling.

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Nancy Viano's avatar

Bernie and AOC are heroes for doing this anti oligarchy tour. They are fighting back against the Trump regime with passion and intelligence, raising spirits and helping to connect those of us in the resistance with each other with every rally they hold. The number of people attending their rallies is so impressive! It definitely gives me hope when I see such visually stunning proof that many, many, many Americans are absolutely NOT ok with the relentless, nightmarish, brutal attacks on our government and way of life by Trump and Musk, aided by their colluding billionaire buddies and every spineless Republican enabler in Congress. I'm SO proud of Bernie and AOC. They are the best kind of leaders -- uncompromising, serious-minded, articulate, humane, and genuine. Bernie has been talking about America's severe income and wealth inequality for his whole career and has always been on the side of the people, for real -- not just for show like a certain autocratic reality star we all unfortunately have to see and hear every fcking day. AOC has also been spot-on on progressive issues for her whole, admittedly much shorter career. Both have working class roots and a heart for working class and middle class people. They are rising to the occasion in this urgent fight to protect our nation's democratic institutions against attacks on them by Trump/Musk/etc. for their own corrupt private financial gain. Bernie and AOC are showing everyone that they will not back down. That's what we need ALL Democratic politicians to do. And that's what we need to do ourselves! Thank you, Bernie and AOC, for everything you're doing.

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Suzette's avatar

Now is the time to remember Dylan Thomas's poem "Do Not Go Gentle into that good night"

2nd verse;

Good men the last wave by, crying how bright

Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay

Rage, Rage against the dying of the light

3rd verse

Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight.

and learn to late, they grieved it on its way,

Do not go gentle into that good night.

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CathrynC's avatar

They seem to be the only ones showing us how to fight back, along with Indivisible. Our legislators don't even respond to us!

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Richard Bertoldo's avatar

No, these are the previledges of a psychopathic President with a long untreated case of chronic syphillis that most Emperors, Kings and Dictators get before they die or in many cases assassinated by another psychopathic wanna bee with syphillis.

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Delia Wozniak's avatar

We need ten more Bernie’s and twenty more AOC’s!

Come on, Democrats! Pick up those pitchforks!

Time to defend the 🇺🇸!

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