Posted on 08/10/2015 9:46:09 AM PDT by aimhigh
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders' insurgent campaign for president received a big boost Sunday when as many as 28,000 showed up for a high-decibel rally at the Moda Center.
The crowd packed the basketball arena – with a capacity of up to 19,000 -- as thousands more couldn't get inside and listened in on loudspeakers. A Moda Center official, Michael Lewellen, estimated the crowd at the free event totaled 28,000.
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Why are people attracted to socialism?
Something for nothing.
Ya know, both Right and Left better realize that this is a snowball picking up a huge head of steam rolling down a hill.
Not something for nothing.
They want free stuff at the expense of others.
Margaret Thatcher most accurately explained the problem of socialism, you eventually run out of other people’s money.
Gee, and here I thought Bernie was an “independent”
So shouldn’t he be running on a third party ticket?
Anyone who uses the term “social justice” is probably a budding fascist if not one already. Social Justice just means stealing other people’s property to use for personal purposes or to give to other thieves.
This appeals to Sanders'followers, the young people who have been indoctrinated by commie teachers to expect the gubmint to provide their every need.
Try asking any of them how this free stuff will be paid for and by whom, and you'll get a blank stare.
It's sad. We have young people graduating from colleges and universities — more so than in my younger days or in my parents’ days — but they are all dumb as rocks.
28,000 Commies in a room together..demanding social justice and income inequality..Okie Dokie..put your money where your mouth is, open up your wallets and empty them right now..come on people hurry up empty those wallets..oh wait almost forgot, with Commies they want to give away OTHER people’s money, silly me
Agreed.
I have Democrat friends in Portland who are convinced Hillary is going to win.
This much support for Sanders should scare both sides of the fence.
I suspect VJ is backing Sanders and thus, the Communist Left.
Something for nothing.......Translation: stealing from ME!
That’s what happens when these kids are being sent off to be taught at liberal universities, they sit there, day after day, hour after hour, being taught by Communists that Communism is awesome, it turns their brains into cottage cheese
Portland is made for Sanders.
Thats his people precisely, more than anywhere else.
Yeah! Let’s all turn out for socialism!
If Sanders even gets close to winning, It will demonstrate Obama was not a “hope and change” aberration, but simply a large stumble down the slope on what will be many falls in the eventual Venezuela-ization of the USA.
This is Oregon.
We really can’t expect anything else.....
Feel the Bern...
I will bet you Russia was like this prior to the Bolshevik Revolution...and Germany before National Socialism. The minions are going to get what they want eventually. However, after the first wave of heads roll, it will consume them next...
If it’s Jeb vs Bernie, I’m going Bernie.
28,000 People can’t be wrong, especially in Portland.
At least he believes in the Second Amendment and Closed Borders, but don’t tell that to his Supporters.
Who better to put the final nail in the Coffin than an Old White Socialist with a Rape Fetish? LOL
Sanders 2016, because we can’t dig up Stalin!
Sanders 2016, because he can finally make Socialism work!
He had similar crowds in WA and they expect the same in Los Angeles today. I guess San Francisco wasn’t in question.
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