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Thousands in Midwestern GOP Districts Attend Sanders' First Stops on Tour to Fight Oligarchy | "It's like there's only one person who is actually able to sidestep the demoralization and frustration"

www.commondreams.org Thousands in Midwestern GOP Districts Attend Sanders' First Stops on Tour to Fight Oligarchy | Common Dreams

Senator Bernie Sanders is on a mission to fight oligarchy and empower the people. With a powerful message against Trumpism and billionaire influence, he's rallying Americans to stand up for democracy. #FightOligarchy

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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.
- Three words:
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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.

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?
  
  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.

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?

I got my mittens and knitted hat still....
- I still have my official shirt from 2016

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.

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