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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBernie 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 hasnt changed in decades, but its 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 theyd 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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GreenWave
(12,316 posts)J_William_Ryan
(3,338 posts)Did they go out to vote for Vice President Harris; had they done so in large enough numbers last November, they wouldnt 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)Elon Musk stole this election for Trump.
airmid
(526 posts)MiHale
(12,618 posts)Bernies message is mostly trying to be non-partisan. Im sure that there were people there that voted republican, some didnt 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 its our own bias that tries to void that right. They got taken and they know it
makes people even more angry. Its up to us now to gather that anger and distill it into a worthwhile movement. Bernie is trying to do that.
This is how it gets done.
alarimer
(17,146 posts)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.
Emile
(40,579 posts)Nanjeanne
(6,506 posts)Ive watched about 5 of them and Ive never seen any speaker chastise or scold anyone in the audience for past votes. What Ive 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)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)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)we played too nice. ppl stopped trusting us.
bronxiteforever
(11,080 posts)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)The rest of us must be willing to support those taking action in every way we possibly can.
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Emile
(40,579 posts)usonian
(23,517 posts)And you know who did you know what.

Looking to the past fscks your future. AND MINE.