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2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumBernie Sanders: “We are the campaign to defeat Donald Trump.”
Sanders Takes Case to California
By Rick Sterling
May 20, 2016
Vallejo is geographically close but economically far from more affluent San Francisco Bay Area cities to the south. In 2008, the city of Vallejo filed for bankruptcy. On Wednesday, the Bernie Sanders campaign came to Vallejo.
The audience of 8,000 to 10,000 was mostly young, students or working class and ethnically diverse. Many had only learned Sanders was coming via Facebook that day or the day before. I chatted with people patiently waiting as the line slowly advanced.
Sanders spoke of the need to Stand up and fight back. With unity of black, brown, gay, straight, male, female . There is nothing we cannot accomplish. We are going to the convention to win the nomination. It did not sound like a conciliation or lets make up speech to the Democratic Party establishment. Sanders said his message to the Democratic Convention is We are the campaign to defeat Donald Trump.
Six months ago I was skeptical of Bernie Sanders campaign. Not anymore. He has been tremendously successful in showing the world there are huge numbers of Americans, especially youth, who want major changes in society and government policy. He has raised the consciousness of millions, sharply contrasting Wall Streets wealth at the expense of working people.
His campaign has been based around the needs of working people versus a corrupt Establishment which the Democratic Party is part of. Sanders has highlighted the class nature of our economic system and media. He has focused a bright light on Wall Street and Hillary Clintons complicity. These lessons are not going to be forgotten or easily retracted.
For those on the Left who disparage Sanders, I say take another look. Listen to his words and more importantly talk with his crowds of supporters. They are the future and we should be working with them. Not preaching dogmatically, but listening. The thousands in Vallejo shouting Bernie! Bernie! seem to be doing so because they want the bold and radical change previously dismissed by pundits.
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https://consortiumnews.com/2016/05/20/sanders-takes-case-to-california/
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Bernie Sanders: “We are the campaign to defeat Donald Trump.” (Original Post)
imagine2015
May 2016
OP
That same machine failed to defeat Obama who they called a "black power communist from Kenya".
imagine2015
May 2016
#4
SFnomad
(3,473 posts)1. That is until the right wing scorched earth smear machine gets hold of him
Then BS would be seen in a corner in a fetal position, sucking his thumb and whining about how unfair tRump is being to him.
RobertEarl
(13,685 posts)3. Some in H camp display a scorched earth campaign
I see them as ultimately becoming Trump supporters because they act the same.
imagine2015
(2,054 posts)4. That same machine failed to defeat Obama who they called a "black power communist from Kenya".
Bernie is a street fighter from Brooklyn who will destroy Trump.
Trump went to private schools and would have had the crap beaten out of him if he had tried his bullying in Brooklyn school yards.
That's how we handled bullys where I went to school.
We educated them.
2banon
(7,321 posts)2. Is there anyone on the Left disparaging Sander's campaign?
The only people decrying his campaign are "moderate-centrists" right wingers, as far as I've seen.