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Viewpoint: What Bernie Sanders has that Joe Biden hasn’t
BBC News ^ | March 9, 2018 | by Jonathan Turley

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Editorial; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Illinois; US: Michigan; US: Vermont; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: bbcfakenews; bernie; berniesanders; communism; crazybernie; election2020; fakenews; illinois; jonathanturley; liberalagenda; michigan; socialism; unitedkingdom; vermont
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

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.


21 posted on 03/09/2020 11:45:58 AM PDT by Preachin' (I stand with many voters who will never vote for a pro abortion candidate.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

So much mindlessness in that picture.

The left has perfected “education” to produce this.


22 posted on 03/09/2020 12:06:57 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
After Biden's two brain surgeries, Sanders quite literally has more brains.

That's taking 'damning with faint praise' to a whole nuther level!

23 posted on 03/09/2020 12:20:36 PM PDT by null and void (By the pricking of my lungs, Something wicked this way comes ...)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Stents?


24 posted on 03/09/2020 12:42:07 PM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

If I remember correctly, the SDS was a domestic terrorist organization.


25 posted on 03/09/2020 1:15:21 PM PDT by traderrob6
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“What’s he got, that I ain’t got?”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTtetyHaHwI


26 posted on 03/09/2020 1:16:57 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: faucetman

Well played sir!


27 posted on 03/09/2020 1:17:51 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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