Bernie Sanders
Related: About this forumAre you PROUD to be standing on the right side of history tonight??
Standing for traditional Democratic values.
Standing against warmongering.
Standing against rapacious Wall Street greed.
Standing for a living wage for all workers.
Standing for integrity and truth in politics.
Standing for reform of campaign finance -- dumping Citizens United.
..........and so much more
Are you PROUD?????
I am so proud to be a real, true DEMOCRAT.
retrowire
(10,345 posts)grasswire
(50,130 posts)...and forever grateful to Bernie for having the courage and the vision to start a political revolution.
The people, united, cannot be divided.
retrowire
(10,345 posts)to inspire me to get involved in the first place.
like Eugene Debs is his socialist political hero, Bernie is mine.
flor-de-jasmim
(2,125 posts)TDale313
(7,820 posts)cantbeserious
(13,039 posts)eom
JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)CaliforniaPeggy
(149,627 posts)Snarkoleptic
(5,997 posts)Jarqui
(10,126 posts)I'm honored to stand with you and fight for everything you've listed. They are things that are desperately needed (I'd add single payer to stop those folks who don't have it from dying).
I protested the Vietnam war and streaked against "I have nothing to hide" Nixon. It's been a long fight but I feel fortunate to still be swinging and to do so for such a great human being as Bernie.
grasswire
(50,130 posts)WOW
You ought to make that into an OP. I'll bet that many young people would be inspired by that.
ErisDiscordia
(443 posts)That was one of the more incomprehensible fashions of the 70's.
Jarqui
(10,126 posts)It did get more media attention than most though.
Not sure there's much to say about it. It was a just a fairly impromptu thing at college. It came together within minutes - maybe an hour. I just got back from classes to the dorm, ate and then minutes later I'm running around naked. It was fairly dark at that point.
Since it was college, most of us didn't feel like standing around in the cold like George Costanza after a shower with the ladies we hoped to hit on - so we ran. There might have been three girls - nearly all guys. My best friend was so keen to go but had a broken ankle. He went anyway trying to hobble on his walking cast. Suddenly, he's way behind and then standing there alone surrounded by a couple of thousand - mostly girls - stark naked. That was kind of funny.
The guy who was wearing a Nixon mask standing in the back of a truck or on a car got his photo in the paper with the letter J covering his dick. That was also amusing. It got us the publicity we wanted. But we weren't the leaders - a lot of colleges had done it before us.
We hated Nixon (and Johnson to some extent) for Vietnam, lying, Kent State - so many reasons. So we were delighted to see Nixon go down. He was a lying scumbag his whole political career -way before he got elected. Hillary's giving him a run for his money in terms of a lengthy political career with a lot of lying.
Docreed2003
(16,862 posts)This is a great story! Thanks for sharing!
Jarqui
(10,126 posts)Bernie announced his candidacy at the end of April.
At that time in Iowa, he had 6.6% support to Hillary at 60.8%
For months, nobody gave him a chance. The mainstream media almost completely ignored him.
Here we are on the eve of the Iowa primary ... and he's got a respectable shot (not a favorite) to win it If he gets a good turn out, he will win it.
Win or lose on Monday, Bernie and the rest of you should be very proud of that. It's been something to witness.
JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)Standing for clean government. Yes.
Standing up for the environment. Yes.
Feel the Bern! Yes.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)The kind that stands in solidarity with the working stiff.
SoapBox
(18,791 posts)Me...I'm one of those types!
Unknown Beatle
(2,672 posts)Let's get it done and send a message to the oligarchs that we mean business. No more writing laws that only benefit the wealthy fat cats.
Dream ticket: Bernie Sanders President / Elizabeth Warren Vice President
hopemountain
(3,919 posts)signed back in just to join in the toast to bernie and and all of his supporters -
he stand for all of the things my heart and mind agree upon and it is so affirming to have him as a candidate to stand for the working class - the people who built this country and who are getting ready to reclaim our democracy and rebuild a future for generations to come.
vercetti2021
(10,156 posts)I was always stand on the side of progress. Bernie will win, too much enthusiasm and polls don't mean jack especially with MOE.
Live and Learn
(12,769 posts)senz
(11,945 posts)davidpdx
(22,000 posts)K & R
in_cog_ni_to
(41,600 posts)I see this as a fight between the rich and poor, the people with power against those with no power and evil against good. Oligarchs against WE THE PEOPLE.
We're going to win! 99% > 1%!
PEACE
LOVE
BERNIE
ypsfonos
(144 posts)even got to thank him personally for running..
roody
(10,849 posts)hedda_foil
(16,375 posts)tokenlib
(4,186 posts)And we should all be proud that he chose to stand up for us. But it is up to all of us, to stand together now.