>>>>The reception he's gotten in the four or five weeks since he announced his candidacy has persuaded him that maybe the country's disgust with politics as usual has created an opening for somebody like him, >>>>>>>.

And "DISGUST WITH POLITICS AS USUAL" is the operative phrase.

Clinton barely got more folks at her NYC launch than Bernie did at his Burlington one, then he edged her by about the same percentage at his first official Iowa event vs hers, now he gets 'nearly 1000' at his first official New Hampshire one, while the reporters covering her first one are reporting that she has a 'smaller' number at her NH one than she did even in Iowa. I'd love to see him start strong and win both Iowa and New Hampshire right out of the block.

'fringe' candidate that's a pretty decent showing. Way better than even his supporters expected.

Bernie has the alley cats. Imagine, $8,000,000 raised already, only three weeks in. And I'm proud to say that $10.00 of that is from me. I can't really afford to give more at this time, but I will as time goes on. See, I'm one of the alley cats. I'm gonna keep on fighting the good fight. And will keep on and on and on...

of the month - at least most of them - and then I will give him more and look to see what other progressives are in need of money.

I know I do not have that kind of money but I can find some way to fit it in. Even if it comes out of the food money. I can afford to lose some weight.

Don't go without food just to donate money to any politician. Food is more important. And I am an alley cat too. We have to fight harder.

did not have the money.

I'm proud to say that $50.00 of that 8 million, plus $10.00 a month is from me.

talent in that department, maybe someone with artistic talent could do something with it. I want to credit rocco above and whoever else were responsible, I believe in this thread.

I just thought it was hilarious and so perfect for the situation.

like that and on the back a couple of obviously overfed spoiled kitty cats and I'll leave the rest to someone with talent! Lol!

Maybe start a thread asking for ideas here ....

That's a good idea, I will do it also ....

But to be fair, I heard a guy say it at a Bernie q and a session here in Davenport, IA. I do not know the guy's name but if he reads DU, maybe he can chime in.

let us know when you need us Bernie

When (or if) they start attacking Bernie we'll know that the tide is turning.

needs Fox when you have people like that or members of the DNC calling him 'crazy'. But they should pay attention to the fact that it is THEY who lost credibility, Bernie only kept on climbing after those feeble attempts to try to undermine him.

Sen. Bernie Sanders than 20 years in the Congress. Any regard for him is gone, same for DNCer calling him crazy.

The audience reaction to Bernie walking onstage sent a shiver down my back.

Fat cats, Fear the Bern.

And there are many more alley cats than there are fat cats, so guess who is gonna win?!

Our country back to its original obvious intention?

If only a fraction of the 63% of people that don't vote do this time it could be a game changer.

And only Sanders so far has addressed the concerns they have that would make them want to vote.

So fighting them is no longer necessary...but what Sanders is donin will work...he is taking it to the people.

And that is not unprecedented at all...Truman did it and won when the media had him as a loser.
He embarked on his whistle stop tour...hopped on a train and stopped at every station in small town america and gave his speech from the back of a train.
Give em hell Harry meme came from that.

Perhaps laziness could be the reason but I can only hope they are not the majority....

I hope I'm wrong but people for the most part are so easily manipulated...

And to avoid the embarrassment of admitting they believed a lie.
But truth can win if we don't try to rub their noses in it.

Will find their existence mirrors 3rd world conditioning.....

credibility at this point, especially among young voters who don't use it, that their audience is shrinking by the day. Consider the fact that one Twitter supporter can reach thousands of people with one tweet, which is happening right now. Then multiply that by thousands on that one site alone.

And if you want to gain followers, just follow Bernie supporters there and retweet facts about him and see what happens. I have gained 200 new followers in just two weeks simply by forwarding factual posts about Bernie Sanders.

If someone who hardly ever tweeted but used their account for news mostly, like me, can gain that big a following in just a couple of weeks, imagine the following HE is getting, and he is.

Bernie is better off without the Old Media whose biases are so obvious, whereas the New Media is the PEOPLE free to do their own reporting, WITH FACTS, not just biased opinions.

We don't get change because we pretend change is impossible, and vote for the status-quo.

We were a slave-owning country where the only people who could vote were landowning males, and massive racial discrimination to restrict even that to mostly WASPs.

Change is not only possible, but it has happened many times in our past. To get change, we have to stop pretending there is no other way.

I believe change is possible, your right history proves such but are we willing to pay the cost of that which history proves is perhaps the only way to ensure change...

have lost confidence in the electoral system and just dropped out. Then he told the people that 'this is what they want you to do'. But, he said, 'this is not true, if MILLIONS of people stand up against the Corporate system we CAN begin to make the changes that are necessary' and he said not to allow anyone to tell us that it is not possible.

As Rocco said above, and I like this analogy, so kudos to whoever thought it up, we are the 'alley cats, they are the fat cats and there are more of us than there are of them'.

But we haven't stepped up to do what needs to be done, we all fell for the 'lesser evil' argument, until now. Now we have an opportunity to start the turnaround that is necessary before it is too late.

So, it's up to us in the end. I know I am taking this once-in-lifetime opportunity.

whose record we could see going back decades, who has shown the judgement to use his/her votes to back up that judgement, on the Patriot Act, eg, and the Iraq War and the foresight to see the consequences of those votes should they be the wrong votes. Who was FOR Gay Marriage and again voted accordingly back when a majority hadn't even begun to evolve on the issue.

That for me, makes him the best choice for this country at this time.

Just a small correction btw, many of us did know what Bernie knew and voted appropriately against at a time when that was almost a certain political career killer.

I can think of only a handful of others who had the courage at that time to do so.

Barbara Lee also comes to mind, and she certainly suffered consequences for HER courage.

In the end we did not have the choice of people like these two great politicians.

So are we to blame? Who KNEW they were right?

I can't really say, but I know that right now we have a chance to vote for one of them as we wanted to do back then. Without fear that 'he cannot win' so 'vote for the certain WINNER'. What we know now is that 'winning' from the pov of the people, is a whole different from the pov of those currently in power and we are saying 'enough is enough'.

Your concern trolling is useless here.

yankees

I'll give you credit for doing it more politely than your compatriots, but that's what you were doing nonetheless.

Unreal world but I have been truthful.... I like them both..

And a poorly played one

here and do nothing.






BTW I will vote for Hillary if she is the nominee.

Wow, after all of the loss of rights, dignity, security, etc..of the last 40 years, it IS possible to hope for a return to sanity and people first. We have a long race to support but "we can do it."

Whoot Whoot.

I can't stop smiling as tears of joy and hope run down my face.
Lots of hard work ahead. We are going to see a President Sanders.
Good night fellow Bernie's, sweet dreams.