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brewens

(13,592 posts)
Tue Apr 19, 2016, 10:40 PM Apr 2016

Ever been in a football game where you were getting your ass kicked? I mean especially if you

personally taking a pounding as well as your team behind? You don't quit.

Bernie has every reason to push it past the impossible point. As long as he draws the crowds and as long as he keeps gaining in popularity, I'm in. It's not just him, it all of us that can still win. I really mean that in the clear message of something has to change! The people calling the shots are out of their minds if they keep it up. The people that are pissed this time are not going to get any happier unless it does, and we have learned a lot this time.

Even right to the last day, something could happen. "That's a nice campaign you got going there Hillary! It'd be a SHAME if sumpthin' was to happen to it!" LOL I'll keep the small donations coming as long as Bernie is willing to stay out there!

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Ever been in a football game where you were getting your ass kicked? I mean especially if you (Original Post) brewens Apr 2016 OP
this doesn't make me falter one bit. nt retrowire Apr 2016 #1
People and powers that be are mistaken if they think.... Triana Apr 2016 #2
Maybe it never went away. We had the Tea Party Movement (I mean just the brewens Apr 2016 #3
Beyond This Election Sandersdemocrat2020 Apr 2016 #4
 

Triana

(22,666 posts)
2. People and powers that be are mistaken if they think....
Tue Apr 19, 2016, 10:55 PM
Apr 2016

...this movement is going away. It isn't.

brewens

(13,592 posts)
3. Maybe it never went away. We had the Tea Party Movement (I mean just the
Tue Apr 19, 2016, 11:06 PM
Apr 2016

first few days really) then Occupy Wall Street. Occupy actually did well better then the original Tea Party. At first they were actually all fired up about the TARP bailouts and it could have ended up with a march on Wall Street. The RW bosses didn't waste any time co-opting the movement. Then they kind of turned it into that years, republican extreme brand. Occupy actually stayed louder and raised more hell than those first Tea party guys.

Combine Bernie's followers with quite a few of Trump's voters if the right guy comes along next time.

4. Beyond This Election
Tue Apr 19, 2016, 11:08 PM
Apr 2016

I think that Bernie should take his Campaign as far as it can go. Win or Lose. Because the Movement that he has started, the Political Revolution that he has started, can go on beyond his Candidacy and this Election. We need a Progressive Movement in and around the Democratic Party and Bernie has started that. It is already a Victory, and can continue on and go further.

We need an Alliance of Sanders Democrats and Independents that pushes forward Bernie's Philosophies, Policies and Values. Just as the Republicans have their Tea Party, we have our Sanders Progressives. We need to field and elect as many Sanders Democrats and Independents as possible, inside and outside the Democratic Party.

Many of tomorrow's elected officials are supporters of Bernie's today. Bernie's campaign should be a call to action for all of us. We need to continue to organize to run Sanders Progressives as candidates at the Local, State, and Federal levels. This Movement is beyond one person.

We need to take control of the Congress and mobilize locally in every State across the Nation. Even if Bernie does not get the Nomination, his Candidacy can be the start of a new Progressive Movement in America. With Sanders still in the Senate, he can lead a National Progressive Movement across America to elect Sanders Progressives, and change our Nation for the better.

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