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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I was really hoping that either Bernie would win the nomination or at least to witness a brokered convention. Now, I just find myself hoping that the Bernie supporters get angry with the democrat establishment and stay home in November.
So much mindlessness in that picture.
The left has perfected “education” to produce this.
That's taking 'damning with faint praise' to a whole nuther level!
Stents?
If I remember correctly, the SDS was a domestic terrorist organization.
Well played sir!
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