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.
Right time. Wrong guy.
What does this even mean?
Not the person you responded to but, Bernie is great and we really need this kind of stuff right now. Unfortunately, he’s 83 years old. We could really use some new blood on the left.
I think that’s the point of this tour. He isn’t running for president. He’s trying to build a support base for a real alternative.
That’s presumably AOC but it’s still too early.
The democratic party is dead. Go green.
The Democratic party, as it stands, is dead and the Greens are stillborn.
There’s nothing but hopes and prayers to support the idea that the Greens will ever get anywhere in the US. They have neither a policy platform nor any individuals who inspire broad support.
It is absolutely possible to take over parties from within though. We’ve seen it happen twice with the Republicans. They tried, and failed, to keep the Tea Party from taking over. Then they tried, and failed, to keep Trump from taking over.
History suggests we have a better chance getting AOC to take over and clean house with the Democrats than we do waiting for the Greens to make any headway.
Do note that the only reason the GOP was taken over was because they allowed themselves to be taken over. They run competitive primaries and take their results seriously even if it’ll result in the current party leadership losing power. The DNC is the exact opposite on that front, so just because it worked in the GOP doesn’t mean it’ll work in the DNC.
Maybe. “Allowed” suggested that they wanted or welcomed it.
A bunch of formerly powerful people in the Republican party are now much less powerful. Many of them have been sidelined in the Republican party and replaced. Several prominent former Republicans have effectively switched to the Democrats.
The Republicans and Democrats have differences in how they structure their organizations but neither one wants to intentionally allow outsiders to take over.
Jill Stein is a grifter
The Green Party is tiny and has tinier primaries. It doesn’t have to be Stein.
And owned by Putin.
Bernie is trying to pull attention away from the Green Party - Jill Stein and Kshama Sawant - who has already been doing this for months with Workers Strike Back and the Fight the Rich and their two parties conference.
Bernie is the lullaby singer. He is there to take the power away from the people.
Remember that the candidate in 2020 who got the largest amount of grassroot small donations - aka the person everyday people donated to the most - promptly folded when he was told that Biden would be the nominee.
Bernie is not our friend and democrats are not going to win another election again. The time to go green is here.
And then promptly gave those mailing lists to the DNC.
Not with Butch word salad Ware. while Stein is relatively good compared to the corporate D/R ghouls it’s far from what it should be. You should all vote socialist.
Good point, to maintain our clear winning strategy, we need an old centrist. How about Schumer or Pelosi, right? Electing Pelosi would be good for the stock market, and her appointees (whoever donors want) could just run the place, just like Biden’s did.
And the 83 year old deceiver of his supporters is the person you want to throw you energy behind?
Crazy shit bro.
They will never get it.
I’m commenting but also experimenting wether the /s is needed. I see I have +4 -1 with no /s right now with no /s. I think I’ll just watch to see how it unfolds.
Remember, this is for posterity, so be honest
edit: ok by not using a /s on your obvious snark, you will lose ~ 25% of readers.