Over 30,000 turn out for Bernie Sanders, AOC rally in Denver amid push for progressive change
Over 30,000 turn out for Bernie Sanders, AOC rally in Denver amid push for progressive change
An estimated 34,000 people gathered Friday at Civic Center Park in Denver to hear Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York push a number of progressive policies.
Summary
Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez drew 34,000 people to a rally in Denver and 11,000 in Greeley as part of their "Fighting Oligarchy Tour."
They advocated progressive policies and condemned billionaire influence in politics, with Sanders urging resistance to "Trumpism" and oligarchy.
Attendees expressed frustration over economic inequality and corporate influence.
Critics, including Republican Reps. Gabe Evans and Lauren Boebert, dismissed their message as extreme and anti-energy.
Sanders and AOC pledged continued efforts to advance progressive change nationwide.
I’ve said it yesterday, and I’ll say it again:
This is nice and all, but talk is (now very) cheap. I’ll believe the USA stands the slightest chance of surviving this coup if it is met with actions.
And there’s only one action you can take: Form a new party!!! Don’t call it Labor or Labour. Don’t call it Green. Don’t call it progressive. Don’t call it socialist or liberal. Just give it a name that people understand and don’t have preexisting bias against. The “Party For The People”, “Ninety-Nine Percent”, or whatever.
Take on BOTH the democrats and GOP, and constantly and endlessly keep dominating the conversation that they are bought by special interest and you are representing the people.
Become popular overnight. Keep hammering home it is not about skin colour, race or country of origin, but about the billionaires that aren’t happy with paying no tax and having billions. Make it about the 99%.
And it won’t be easy, you need 2 Justices on the Supreme Court to Magically drop dead in your first term, and you need have supermajority in both houses for at least 4 years so you can overturn Roe v Wade and most importantly Citizens United. Don’t just overturn but make amendments to the constitution so this can never be up to 7 muppets with life long appointments.
It is the only way you’ll get your country back without excessive violence. The two status quo parties are hollowed out from the inside. And both are infiltrated by foreign interests.
Media/social media are owned and controlled by the oligarchs in the US. Getting a message through that firewall in today's America is exceedingly challenging, albeit not impossible. They all pander to their special interests rather than report news. The more fringe ones like The Intercept tend to be a bit too fringe, which damages credibility on a wide scale.
It would have to be a new movement with a new media broadcast platform, hosted somewhere secure and hardened. Probably not in the US, with routing contingency to get around the US government attempting to block them. Not new tech, just something that isn't owned by oligarchs or have a tainted reputation.
Would have to be organic/word of mouth at first. Really hard to get traction that way these days. Again, not impossible. Just challenging.
It's do or die. People don't realize that. I think a lot of people are passively submissive to just letting things die. Everyone is burnt out.
I'd love to see this happen and I hope we can see it through to completion.
Something anyone can do this week to take a step in the correct direction is to go and get a library card. It'll help one the greatest foundations of democracy, community, and public knowledge in our country, and it'll help connect you with a source of knowledge and a community with whom you can jointly build a coalition.
Nationwide, over 99% of the legislative offices (state and federal) are held be either a Democratic or Republican. Only the two major parties have nationwide ballot access. Only three minor parties have ballot access in more than 10. A third party won't be viable nationally until we have ranked choice voting everywhere. They won't even be viable at the state level without it in that state. Not all states have direct ballot initiatives. That will only happen through ballot initiatives or the major party in control of the state adopting it. Only 26 states have ballot initiatives.
Put that effort into ballot initiatives in the states that have them, and into the Democratic primaries nationwide, until we have ranked choice. Then we can have more than two parties.
Good luck dear US friends. I honestly hope this movement becomes big and survives the first wave of media‘s shit show to undermine the reputation. And I hope you survive the next wave when your troops stand against your own population. It can work out as revolutions in Eastern Europe has shown in past years.
This is one of those comments where I didn't realize how badly I needed to read it until I did. This kind of support from the countries our dictator is actively alienating is extremely beneficial for morale. Thanks!
I choose to see this as a positive.
"They want to know if the people of America are going to stand up to Trumpism, oligarchy," Sanders said to a cheering crowd.
fuck y'all
been nowhere for decades and country been needing a revolution but just now decide to do something acting like MLK
where was this "energy" a decade ago or two or at any time? Trump is just the latest spokesperson and not the only time we faced shit like this
if another rally is held most likely be in a blue state and odds are these two are just opportunistically cashing out like last time
You have a point if you're talking about Dems as a whole, but both Sanders and AOC have been pushing to stand up since the beginning. They are definitely not on the list of people sitting by the sidelines and letting it happen.
I don't want to be too much of an infighter, but look at Bernie's immigration stance over the years. He isn't sobbing too much about the undocumented getting deported because he claims they take from documented Americans. It makes it hard to believe him knowing how he has looked directly into the eyes of innocent humans and still chooses to treat them as drains of documented american society.
These people want three things:
- for the democratic party to continue existing
- for different democrats to be elected and for us to be the ones in Washington to change it from the inside as democrats
- for your votes and donation dollars to go to the Democratic Party because they need to win those elections
Their plan: in two or more years, replace many old liberal, Republican-lite dems with young progressives. This will allow them to push more progressive policies. The problem is they had 8 years, nearly a decade, to do that or else we get fascism and failed and now want to believe in their two year plan to start the change of fascism to a progressive democracy.
I hope fascism is willing to wait for democracy to do its thing as much as these two are betting on it with their strategy, but there are democrats out there taking on AIPAC money and stomping out progressives because they aren't getting the donations going to the Democratic Party fundraisers because they don't take corporate donations. There has to be more from the party "of the people" than this.
I hope you start following AOC's social media from now on if you still think she lacks the energy or whatever. She and Ms. Crockett have been killing it for a long while now.
They don't represent raw genuine humanity they represent the adulterated GMO manipulated version of a human being.
I see Bernie as a positive compared to America now, I've voted for him or written him in multiple times. But he is the system. A lot of people don't want the system we've known. The system that taught these people is faulty so everything it creates is faulted. We want to get past that fault that creates what is in America today. That fault is deeper then Bernie. Bernie's foundation is built on the same foundation that the fault is located.
In a strategic way... One wouldn't want to support Bernie because now at this point in time they know it would just be another bandaid fix covering up and hiding that fault in the foundation of American society. People don't want bandaid fixes anymore. We are closer to a point that the ultimate sacrifice, going to war, a civil war, makes more sense if the goal is to fix the faulted base that America's lifestyle and culture is built on.
Imagine if Elon used AI to run the policing and teaching in America. That's the new method. It's just the digital way to continue what America already does today. The old manual method was starting charities, creating businesses, lobbying and social manipulation. It's all the same shit. Both are fucked.
People want humanity that America's foundation does not live for and was not built for. So authentic people aren't flocking to talking heads of the tradition political system and media.
I seem to remember lots of pro-Bernie energy in 2016. Voting for Bernie would have been much more satisfying than voting for Clinton, at least for me and many of the people I personally know.
The same day they spoke at a rally in Greeley which is a red city and the crowd was 10,000 out of a city population of 100,000
They have support in both red and blue counties and cities.
“You say you want a revolution. . .”
I am sorry, but that is embarrassing, 30k people is average sized rally in my 10M people country.
Then by your reckoning, they're doing pretty well. Colorado has a population of 6 million.
It needs to be in the streets but it's hard to be the first to do it. And where I love I'm not even sure who, what, or where to protest.
Colorado has a 5.9 million person population spread across 104,185 square miles (269,837km^2) of mountains and plains.
TIL Colorado is approximately Finland
And how large (geographically) is your country?