The two progressive lawmakers have addressed massive crowds in solidly red states including Idaho and Utah in recent days, as party of the national Fighting Oligarchy Tour.

A survey taken by Harvard’s Center for American Political Studies and Harris between April 9-10 found that 72% of Democratic voters supported politicians like Sanders (I-Vt.) and Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), “who are calling on Democrats to adopt a more aggressive stance towards Trump and his administration and ‘fight harder’,” rather than leaders who are willing to “compromise” with President Donald Trump.

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    it’s all about trump and nothing to do with ending the oligarchical regime that enables the genocide.

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      Bernie Sanders has been fighting oligarchy since before Trump and is Jewish and pro-Palestine.

      Unfortunately MAGA runs every branch of the US government right now, so it’s impossible to do anything without taking on MAGA first.

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        Been a Bernie bro since the 2016 election and haven’t ever stopped. He’s a treasure like Dolly Parton.

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          Bernie is there to allow you to vent out your anger and usher you back in line with the corporate democrats.

          This is serving far right conspiracy theory.

          Dems are straight up too incompetent to use populist rhetoric. Like, if manipulating people was going to be the plan, fucking skip Bernie all together and just have Kamala do the populist speeches instead of Bernie. Or if Bernie was the inside puppet all along, why wouldn’t you just make Bernie the candidate.

          I think Bernie is a genuine person (which the Dems mostly hate) who has done more to spread class consciousness and solidarity against billionaires than anyone in the current millennium, certainly more than you, hundreds of times over.

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              Bernie can’t be the nominee because if he were to win and subsequently fail and not deliver - exactly what the democrats want and would ensure - they could not march him out to smother the anger again in the next election cycle.

              For what purpose, because when they do this they lose anyway.

              Your reasoning is just, “they can’t risk losing after they win, so they’re just going to lose in the first place instead”. “Democrats can’t risk losing their losing strategy”. Your reasoning is nonsensical.

              Did you not realize that she actually doesn’t answer question but talks gobbledygook around them?

              Kamala is very articulate and laid out some very specific details of plans. She pivoted to “politically correct” when it came to culturally contentious topics like trans rights, which I don’t love, but at least Walz stood on business on trans rights.

              To say Kamala spoke “gobbledygook” is objectively false, right wing propoganda.

              You verbatim speak like a right wing troll hyped up on low effort propoganda spreading horizontal hostility.

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              Dems are too incompetent to…

              Ah, there we go, right out the gate: the enemy is both strong and weak. The hallmark of paranoid imagination and conspiracism (hence why it’s also a component of fascism).

              Bernie has been consistent in working for harm reduction alongside preaching good policy. There’s a reason they call him the amendment king: he can walk and chew gum, if you can believe it.

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                  “Context” says the guy bringing out-of-context (yet objectively correct) Bernie quotes, meant to paint him as some establishment shill. Especially now as he’s doing tours around the country to get people to rally against the fascist oligarchs and pass on the progressive mantle to someone younger, instead of I dunno staying home with his family because he’s old and should rest and enjoy his old years — it’s not like he’s running for president. He owes nothing to no one, he gains nothing from this, but he did it anyway because he saw that this is the best shot progressives will get to take hold of the Democratic Party, now that it’s weak and confused. And it’s working.

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        Fighting oligarchy? What fuck-knuckle is doing their messaging?

        “Guillotine Party.”

        You’re welcome.

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        Yup. Trump may be king, but his crown has the puppet strings of Thiel and company attached. There is no point in getting rid of Trump, if he is replaced with a more capable Pinocchio.