Posted on 03/09/2020 10:23:08 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Standing in front of the library of the University of Michigan on Sunday, Bernie Sanders could be excused if he paused a moment to reflect on the estimated ten thousands of cheering supporters.
It was 60 years ago at the University of Chicago that Sanders began what he later described as "the major period of intellectual ferment in my life".
Sanders joined the Young People's Socialist League and other organisations and organised his first protest. He could only marshal a force of 32 students to occupy the administration building, but he ultimately prevailed. Sanders spent much of his life fighting for big ideas with small crowds.
Now, he has not just the numbers but the movement that he always dreamt of. Indeed, he is the movement. While some might not want socialism, everyone in this crowd desperately wants Sanders.
Watching from the edge of the massive crowd was one person who knew all too well what Sanders may have been thinking as he stood before this university crowd. Alan Haber smiled while holding fliers for Earth Day, wearing a tiny pin that simply read "SDS."
The initials stood for The Students for a Democratic Society, a radical student organisation from the 1960s. Sanders was the national secretary for the SDS while Hader was its first president. Although others grew more moderate or conservative with age, Sanders and Hader continued to organise and agitate and wait for the crowd that might eventually form.
Those crowds got smaller and smaller for decades. Now the crowd was finally here and waiting for the first major presidential candidate in our lifetimes to call himself an unabashed socialist.
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boldness
A heart? A brain? Courage?
The bern has no curb appeal without bringing on musicians and entertainers to entice a crowd.
The bern is astroturf at it’s finest!
Bernie: “I can’t believe I’m losing to this guy!”
Was it the 60 Minutes interview? Biden hasn’t done anything to get this surge.
“A heart? A brain? Courage?”
Ruby slippers?
More evil. Less senility.
Go dems...
I think the Muzzies can be legally deported, but the best we can do with AOC is ship her to Puerto Rico.
The Star Of Lenin/Order of Lenin ?
“What Bernie Sanders has that Joe Biden hasn’t”
a brain ...
which reminds me, how come we haven’t yet seen a wizard of oz cartoon with Jo Bidn’s face on Scarecrow lamenting, “If I only had a brain”?
Jo gets his brains from the wizard, and then says, “Hey, wait, this isn’t Kansas anymore is it?”
Wizard then says, “No, Jo, it’s Ohio”
...
Whoah, Jonathan Turley must want back in the “in” crowd.
Active brain cells?
A lake house bought for him by Hillary?
Important safety tip: never hand the car keys to Ayanna Pressley, she wouldn’t know what to do with them...she’s never driven a car.
A Dacha?
A Hammer.
And a Sickle.
That's some diverse crowd. /s
1 In 10 Bernie Sanders Supporters Ended Up Voting For Trump : NPR
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