US Vermont senator’s tour with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has been drawing record-breaking crowds since February

US Vermont senator’s tour with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortes has been drawing record-breaking crowds since February

The Vermont senator Bernie Sanders drew a record-breaking crowd at his rally in Los Angeles on Saturday, which included musical acts from Joan Baez and Neil Young, who encouraged the crowd to “take America back”.

Sanders’s Fighting Oligarchy: Where We Go from Here tour has been drawing massive crowds. Aided by the progressive New York representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the team set the record in Tempe, Arizona, for biggest-ever political rally in that state three weeks ago. In Denver, Colorado, more than 34,000 people showed up – a career-high crowd for the 83-year-old Sanders. Saturday in Los Angeles saw another record: at least 36,000 people packed a downtown park.

  • EmpireInDecay@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1155·
    6 days ago

    Protesting a byproduct of a corrupt system and not the system itself is defending the status quo that created trump

    • usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml
      391·
      6 days ago

      They aren’t just protesting Trump here? I mean the tour itself is called “Fighting Oligarchy” which is about a system

      • EmpireInDecay@lemmy.mlEnglish
        34·
        6 days ago

        Tankie is to liberals what woke is to Republicans. That’s why we call you BlueMAGA

    • zbyte64@awful.systems
      102·
      6 days ago

      You know what’s crazy? I volunteered for the 50501 protest and the Brown Berets showed up to protect those liberals you despise so much. Those Marxists are busy practicing solidarity while you are here shitting on them.

      • EmpireInDecay@lemmy.mlEnglish
        23·
        6 days ago

        Imagine someone so clueless to include liberal and Marxist in the same conversation as if they are the same thing

        • zbyte64@awful.systems
          52·
          6 days ago

          I don’t have to imagine when you’re providing the example. Are you CIA or a Trotskyist without a group? I really am impressed.

          • EmpireInDecay@lemmy.mlEnglish
            21·
            6 days ago

            Liberals deserve to be shit on, they are nothing but enforcers of oppressive government.

            • zbyte64@awful.systems
              12·
              6 days ago

              For we each of us deserve everything, every luxury that was ever piled in the tombs of the dead kings, and we each of us deserve nothing, not a mouthful of bread in hunger. Have we not eaten while another starved? Will you punish us for that? Will you reward us for the virtue of starving while others ate? No man earns punishment, no man earns reward. Free your mind of the idea of deserving, the idea of earning, and you will begin to be able to think.

              • Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed

              But please continue to justify your counter-revolutionary actions by dressing yourself in revolutionary aesthetics.

    • eldavi@lemmy.mlEnglish
      320·
      6 days ago

      A status quo the he’s helping to maintain right in front of our eyes and to great applause

      • HarkMahlberg@kbin.earth
        433·
        6 days ago

        I do. He thinks Biden and Harris are somehow Holocaust deniers. https://lemmy.ml/comment/17501122

        Who said anything about not trying anything? Do you target companies that helped fund P2025 politicians and support those that gave money to holocaust deniers like Biden/Harris.

        I wouldn’t trust anything he says.