Bernie Sanders launches high-profile offensive against ‘the oligarchy’
Bernie Sanders launches high-profile offensive against ‘the oligarchy’
Summary
Sen. Bernie Sanders is touring Iowa and Nebraska to rally against “the oligarchy,” aiming to energize progressives rather than launch a 2028 presidential bid.
At 83, he seeks to shape the Democratic Party’s future, arguing it lost in 2024 by neglecting working-class voters.
He hopes to influence budget battles and the 2026 midterms, targeting GOP lawmakers in battleground districts.
With Democrats lacking clear leadership, Sanders’ prominence and focus on economic inequality could define the party’s direction in the Trump-Musk era.
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Bernie 2016
Bernie 2020
Bernie 2024Fuck the Democrats
Bernie told me to vote for the Democrat every time he lost the primary to them, I did what Bernie told me.
Exactly. Read any of his books. He understands that the only way a progressive party will ever gain power in this country is by running as Democrats and exerting progressive political capital to reform the Democratic party.
Bernie knows that the most staple progressive issues are wildly popular with the American people, and he knows probably better than anyone alive in this country today that progressives are up against on oligarchy with unlimited control over the media and unlimited financial and human resources to fight progressive agendas, and get he still fights. Why? See point two: progressive policy is wildly popular in the United States and we outnumber the billionaires.
There's no reason we can't fix that by implementing rank choice voting. It works great in several places in the US.
Yes, the lesser genocide choice. Sometimes the game is too obvious.
It must be exhausting have your head lodged up your ass all the time.
do you have an argument somewhere?
Not with you. That's pointless.
That would be a waste of effort on someone like you.
How sad is this? Do you need an alt account or is it really two of you together not able tostring an argument together and only offer lame attempts at insults? Is Reddit down?
Debbie Wasserman Schultz is a corrupt criminal who should be in jail.
What? Fuck the Democrats but not this one in particular?
Democrats as in the DNC party, who in their corporate interests refuses to promote and push for candidates that have fought for the people.
Also Bernie is an independent who works closely with democrats, because unfortunately we're essentially stuck with a two party system.
That corporate wing of the party, the clintonites, etc, are losing power.
The writing on the wall can't be any more clear than it is right now.
In 2016, 2020, and 2024, they could still argue that people wanted a more middle ground. That ship is sailed.
Bernie might as well be in the party and endorsed their prefered corporate ghouls. Genocide Joe TWICE (changing his choice from horrible Hillary). He is there to play his role (like AOC and others of the cringe squad) and will always tow the party line in a vote. He will go against it when it's sure to lose. Pure virtue signalling. He will talk the talk, never walk the walk. Imagine that, a politician lying!
we’re essentially stuck with a two party system.
Sure if you keep voting for them.
What walk do you want him to walk? What do you want him to do differently? Specifically.
What do you do to walk that walk? Specifically.
VOTING is walking the walk, very simple. What do I want him to do differently? Specifically?
maybe not be a warmonger. VOTED in favor of almost every US invasion in the following nations: Afghanistan, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Syria, Yemen, Yugoslavia,2, Bosnia, Haiti, Congo, Liberia, Sudan, and Ukraine. Even parroting the regime narrative that drones 'are sellective' and 'take out the people they should' while 90% they killed are innocent people. Be a "I am 100% pro-Israel" genocide supporter. VOTES in favour of the US aid to the Zionist settler-colony every time. VOTED in favor of a resolution that “reaffirms the Jerusalem Embassy Act of 1995 . During the 2014 assault on Gaza, blatantly biased Senate resolutions S. Res 498 and S. Res 526 that fully condoned the Israeli assault and characterized it as “self-defense” were passed by unanimous consent. Although Sanders did not co-sponsor either resolution, he failed to register any formal objection (a resolution passes by unanimous consent if no objection is raised; as such, no vote is taken). To be clear, this is not the first time Sanders failed to speak up in Congress against Israel’s brutal assault of Gaza. In 2012, Sanders failed to register any objection against biased Senate resolution S. Res 599 that couched Israel’s bombing of Gaza as “self-defense” and that passed by unanimous consent; according to Human Rights organization B’Tselem, 167 Palestinians were killed, including at least 87 civilians (vs. 4 Israeli civilians). In 2009, biased Senate resolution S. Res 10 backed Israel’s assault on Gaza and yet again justified it as Israel’s “right to defend itself” without garnering any objection from Sanders (it passed by unanimous consent); according to B’Tselem, 1387 Palestinians were killed, including at least 773 civilians (vs. 3 Israeli civilians). In 2006, Sanders actually supported the brutal Israeli assault on Gaza and Lebanon during the war that killed 1191 Lebanese civilians per Amnesty International (vs. 43 Israeli civilians killed) when he VOTED Yea to House resolution H. Res 921.
He can speech, object, condemn or whatever he does. It's empty words.
What do you do to walk that walk? Specifically. Don't divert and make it about me.
Oh, good. You're braindead and I can just not even finish reading that. Once I got to the 3rd blatantly false lie, I stopped caring.
Once I got to the 3rd blatantly false lie.
Care to back up your slanderous claim?
No
Bernie is not a democrat