politics @lemmy.world PacMan @sh.itjust.works 4mo ago

Bernie Sanders, AOC rally crowd of 30,000 in Denver’s Civic Center

www.denverpost.com Bernie Sanders, AOC rally crowd of 30,000 in Denver’s Civic Center

Senator Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez spoke to a crowd of 30,000 at civic center park in Denver Friday evening about President Donald Trump and billionaires

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- That’s pretty cool. Nothing is gonna happen.
  
  Edit: Being told a protest won’t change anything disrupts the brain’s balance of dopamine, serotonin, cortisol, and oxytocin, triggering feelings of frustration, disconnection, and powerlessness.
  
  To those downvoting blakenong, have a read of this.
  
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/15_February_2003_anti-war_protests
  
  The day was described by social movement researchers as "the largest protest event in human history".[1]
  
  I don't want to burst the feeling of optimism, but unless there's consequences, a general strike, riots, whatever, I don't know, something, nothing will happen.
  
  If everyone goes back to their day job after standing out in the cold for a day or two and then pats themselves on the back saying "yeah, we showed them", then nothing changes.
  
  Protest is dead. The powers that be don't care if there's a million people shouting and screaming. Unless they suffer consequences, nothing will change.
  
  You don’t turn 30k heads and be like meh, not only people are fed up people are finally realizing they fucked up. It’s ok to turn around unlike you.
  
  Stfu grok
  
  Sometimes we need to move beyond reductive outcomes based thinking and put some energy into how we get there. This is, at the very least, how we start.
Is Bernie passing the torch to AOC?
- Hopefully. He hasn't done much in the way of creating his successor this far, and he's gonna have to retire soon.
Is this the beginning of a 2028 campaign?
- I do think Bernie is setting her up for that kind of run, since she will be old enough to be president. Could see her and Mayor Pete running a ticket together
  
  Yikes, centrist Pete who helped prevent Bernie in 2020.
  
  Would much rather see Jon Stewart as her VP. What a duo.
  
  Also, Tim Walz would be a fantastic option, both as President and as VP.
  
  It would be the mother of all ironies if the Trump government removed term limits, only for AOC/Stewart/Walz/Kulinski to come out winning and pull an FDR, turning the US into a socialdemocratic paradise.
  
  Alas, I don't expect there to be any more elections.
As I said before: this is the way. I'm glad they finally seem to understand it. The other day someone published that Sanders went somewhere and told a lot of working class people that Trump is messing with them. I'm sure they don't need an octogenarian politician, a US Senator, to tell them they are being fucked by whom. Sanders and AOC need to build a discourse that goes beyond that. They need to go there and tell the people how to get out of this. They need a plan, they need to share it and let the people be a part of it.
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