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Bumbles

(419 posts)
Mon Mar 24, 2025, 05:24 AM Mar 2025

Bernie Sanders Is Tapping Into a Deep Vein of Anger in America

In her commentary in the NYTimes Megan Stack shows how Bernie and AOC have tapped into the fears of many from very different backgrounds.

"They gathered early in North Las Vegas, waiting under the hot sun in a snaking line in the middle of a workday for their chance to see Bernie.

With stucco houses and apartment blocks interrupted by strip malls and trash-strewn vacant lots, this is not the Vegas you see in glamorous movies. It was, however, the setting for what Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont called the biggest crowd he had ever drawn here. Nevada was the first Southwestern stop for Mr. Sanders who, along with Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, had set out on what the pair dubbed the “Fighting Oligarchy” tour.

Packing venues all over the country — in Nebraska, Iowa, Arizona and Colorado — Mr. Sanders appears more popular than ever. His core message hasn’t changed in decades, but it’s hitting harder now. In hours of interviews with all kinds of people at the Nevada rally on Thursday, two unbroken trends emerged: Everyone I met was having money problems. And all of them were frightened, some for the first time, that the country they’d always counted on was sliding away because of President Trump."


There should be no paywall as this is "gifted" from the NYTimes.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/opinion/bernie-sanders-rallies-anger.html?unlocked_article_code=1.6U4.IiPb.scB4j9rMYIEN&smid=url-share

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Bernie Sanders Is Tapping Into a Deep Vein of Anger in America (Original Post) Bumbles Mar 2025 OP
Post removed Post removed Mar 2025 #1
In this case, drill baby, drill! GreenWave Mar 2025 #2
"They gathered early in North Las Vegas...for their chance to see Bernie." J_William_Ryan Mar 2025 #3
Or, they did vote Harris, and their vote got flipped to Trump. Meadowoak Mar 2025 #4
This...all day long airmid Mar 2025 #5
There are more than just Democrats there... MiHale Mar 2025 #7
Agreed Chi67 Mar 2025 #12
I hope so alarimer Mar 2025 #13
I heard they did vote for Harris. Emile Mar 2025 #9
I don't think the article asked them about that. It would have been hard to ask that many people. Nanjeanne Mar 2025 #11
Blame the people Mysterian Mar 2025 #15
Oh my God, give it up already! intheflow Mar 2025 #17
i think most of the dissatisfaction w the party is that we didnt fight hard enough. mopinko Mar 2025 #6
People follow passion especially in times of crisis bronxiteforever Mar 2025 #8
Those willing to act must be as determined, creative, and courageous as possible. Magoo48 Mar 2025 #10
Post removed Post removed Mar 2025 #14
Ugh, your pizza is in the oven. Emile Mar 2025 #16
Bernie and AOC supported Joe Biden for 4 years and busted ass for Kamala. usonian Mar 2025 #18

Response to Bumbles (Original post)

J_William_Ryan

(3,338 posts)
3. "They gathered early in North Las Vegas...for their chance to see Bernie."
Mon Mar 24, 2025, 05:35 AM
Mar 2025

Did they go out to vote for Vice President Harris; had they done so in large enough numbers last November, they wouldn’t need to see Bernie.

If they stayed home or voted for Trump – as the election result in Nevada would indicate – then they have only themselves to blame and have no right to be angry.

Meadowoak

(6,605 posts)
4. Or, they did vote Harris, and their vote got flipped to Trump.
Mon Mar 24, 2025, 05:53 AM
Mar 2025

Elon Musk stole this election for Trump.

MiHale

(12,618 posts)
7. There are more than just Democrats there...
Mon Mar 24, 2025, 06:59 AM
Mar 2025

Bernie’s message is mostly trying to be non-partisan. I’m sure that there were people there that voted republican, some didn’t vote this time, others maybe never voted but are still affected by the government.

No matter who they are or how they voted they have every reason to be angered it’s our own bias that tries to void that right. They got taken and they know it…makes people even more angry. It’s up to us now to gather that anger and distill it into a worthwhile movement. Bernie is trying to do that.

 

alarimer

(17,146 posts)
13. I hope so
Mon Mar 24, 2025, 07:39 AM
Mar 2025

I was worried a bit that they were just preaching to the choir.

I also hope that this reaches non-voters and that they turn out as a result.

Every candidate should channel this energy.

Nanjeanne

(6,506 posts)
11. I don't think the article asked them about that. It would have been hard to ask that many people.
Mon Mar 24, 2025, 07:13 AM
Mar 2025

I’ve watched about 5 of them and Ive never seen any speaker chastise or scold anyone in the audience for past votes. What I’ve seen them all do is- and do very very well - is excite and encourage and inspire them all to stay involved and to vote out the Republicans not representing them and support the Democrats who are fighting for them.

Mysterian

(6,170 posts)
15. Blame the people
Mon Mar 24, 2025, 08:15 AM
Mar 2025

Brilliant strategy for improving the Democratic party's chances to motivate the 90 million non-voters to vote Democratic.

Stay bitter!

intheflow

(29,986 posts)
17. Oh my God, give it up already!
Mon Mar 24, 2025, 09:05 AM
Mar 2025

Bernie didn't cause Hillary's loss, a stunning combination of tone-deafness from the DNC and Comey-Trump rat-fucking the election. Bernie has stood with the Democrats and excelled past most of them in term of both empathy and action. Isn'tt here a DU rule about not fighting over the last election? How about you stop fighting an election we lost almost a decade ago now?

mopinko

(73,307 posts)
6. i think most of the dissatisfaction w the party is that we didnt fight hard enough.
Mon Mar 24, 2025, 06:53 AM
Mar 2025

we played too nice. ppl stopped trusting us.

bronxiteforever

(11,080 posts)
8. People follow passion especially in times of crisis
Mon Mar 24, 2025, 07:04 AM
Mar 2025

We are in a time of crisis. We need passion to get above the Trump daily manure spreader. The best liberal leaders of today are those able to accomplish that fact.

Understand that the present Trumplicans rejected Mitt Romney as too liberal. The GOP no longer exists. It is a party inhabited by Greene, Jordan, Johnson and Vance. The “third way” is a cul-de-sac. We need to embrace FDR like solutions. The middle of the road is where we will die. Clarity and opposition is the only way out.

Magoo48

(6,688 posts)
10. Those willing to act must be as determined, creative, and courageous as possible.
Mon Mar 24, 2025, 07:09 AM
Mar 2025

The rest of us must be willing to support those taking action in every way we possibly can.

Response to Bumbles (Original post)

usonian

(23,517 posts)
18. Bernie and AOC supported Joe Biden for 4 years and busted ass for Kamala.
Mon Mar 24, 2025, 09:42 PM
Mar 2025

And you know who did you know what.




Looking to the past fscks your future. AND MINE.

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