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Bernie Sanders Draws His Biggest Crowd Yet In Progressive Stronghold
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/07/01/bernie-sanders-madison_n_7709966.html
Reporters at the event tweeted photos of the enormous crowd:
Sanders calls for a political revolution in Madison.
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TheNutcracker
(2,104 posts)HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)MuseRider
(34,109 posts)That feed on YouTube was awesome. Not perfect but awesome. It can be done without Wall Street or Corporate money.
This is just the kind of thing that can get "out of hand" really quickly and it is, it IS.
He is getting better as he goes and he was good to start with. He is slowly beginning to add certain social issues in the mix as people have been wanting to hear.
I live in Kansas, it is dismal here, just horrible and frightening. If I seem a bit ecstatic it is because here is a guy who says everything I have wanted to hear and against the backdrop of my very scary state it is like a cool drink on a very hot day. Well that and the wine I have been celebrating with
Ed Suspicious
(8,879 posts)Keep your chin up. Things just might be getting a little better.
Admiral Loinpresser
(3,859 posts)AnotherDreamWeaver
(2,850 posts)delrem
(9,688 posts)And because of that she won't gain any new support, and she has a high enough unfavorability that at least half of her support is the very weakest - because people didn't know where else to turn. Cruz? Paul? Trump? ....
Nevertheless, I think Hillary is so far and hard to the right on matters of economics and war that the R's could quite easily finance a candidate who'll run slightly to her left, rebuking her, so she loses a large chunk of even *that* support (you don't think the Koch Bros. would do this? The Koch Bros. who claim to be "socially liberal"?)
In contrast, Bernie Sanders started as a relative unknown. The MSM doesn't cover politicians with ideas like his - regardless of his solid support among the voters who DO know him. So now the US is finding out. His support will steadily strengthen, along an accelerating curve at least for a few months, while Hillary's support will be leached away.
At the same time that Bernie's supporters are being increasingly energized by these numbers, Hillary's supporters will be increasingly dejected. There'll be a time in the near future where the support will equal out, then Bernie will surpass Hillary. At least that's the way I predict, that's my instinct on what I'm seeing and hearing - unless something unforeseen occurs. I agree with those Bernie supporters who caution not to rub it in - to not react to provocations, and to not provoke. Because it's a distraction on the way to victory. Hillary's hard core supporters at DU won't change their minds, not for any reason, any argument. They've all been around for a long time and their minds are set. I say let them lose in peace.
sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)and they know it.
We don't need the MSM. I love this group who have created Bernie's own channel on Utube.
Yesterday it had few views, but we all promoted it as much as possible as they had asked and now it has comments, hundreds of views as compared to 39 yesterday.
I tweeted them to ask a tech question I had. They tweeted right back and explained to me they had expected tech problems but quickly adjusted, though I missed that.
They are passionate about this election.
Bernie doesn't need the MSM. Same thing happened with OWS, media was set to ignore them hoping it would die out. OWS anticipated that and brought their own media.
Old media realized they had lost the power to kill a movement by ignoring, tried to catch up, but ended up trying to diminish the movement. THAT didn't work either because the protesters were way, way ahead of them. So all they could do was watch OWS spread from one city, which was all they had intended all over the country and even to Europe, Asian Australia.
NOW that movement is ready to support a candidate they can finally trust. And they are using their organizing and Social Media skills to help Bernie.
Old media is a dinosaur, same old talking heads, same old empty rhetoric and political 'experts' so tired, and jaded.
The New Media is where the action is.
Bernie TV operators stated they will never be corporate controlled and intend to build this media into something bigger.
Bernie really has started a political movement and the same powers that tried to crush OWS will try to do so to this movement. So it will need to be so big they simply lose control.
delrem
(9,688 posts)As you know, I'm a Canadian. BC.
And my whole heart is with you guys in this, and I think you're doing it right.
Take GIANT strides - don't talk about taking a nibble here, while compromising there.
You're so right! Create and build, don't set back on your ass hoping that Citibank and etc will buy you a solution.
Refuse to accept their narrow parameter of thought, their narrow range of choice about what is "possible".
And keep building the infrastructure.