The 83-year-old progressive icon took the stage ahead of indie pop artist Clairo’s performance to deliver a fiery speech, where he raged against President Donald Trump, corporate greed and the billionaire class.
A couple things:
1). I lowkey expect Coachella to have a pretty good % pretentious rich folk (Trust Fund Babies) who this ain’t gonna resonate with from an old white dude.
2). I kinda would have expected AOC instead of Bernie to maybe connect with the younger folk better? But the article says she’s trying to reach Neil Young fans? Why aren’t these roles reversed?
Spot-on re: 1. When I saw that I thought, “why fucking bother with these people?” Don’t Coachella/Burning Man/SXSW demographics comprise primarily techbros and other guillotine fodder nowadays?
Could someone be willing to explain why this particular politician deserves to be praised as some kind of hero?
Because he recognizes the dangerous situation we’re in and articulates a positive vision for the future, and the changes needed to get there.
Do you have any ressources explaining his plan to fight back against the oligarchs overtaking the country?
It took me a long time to find this… https://berniesanders.com/
I understand he’s currently touring and fundraising.
Thing is, I have yet to hear anything concrete about how to fight back?
Taxing the wealthy, Medicare for all, free public college, and critiquing the oligarchs are all great political buzzwords, but billionaires are currently deporting individuals as well as dismantling the government.
I’m wise enough not to blindly trust politicians. The day he truly fights back, I’ll support him. For now, it looks like sanewashing and virtue signaling.
Did you forget to switch accounts?
Dang. Don’t over exert yourself. That looked like a hard find. Remember to stretch, get some water and use proper posture when using the Internet for this long!
He is OG. This is him getting arrested at a civil rights demonstration in 1963
I respect this wholeheartedly, but it was 60 years ago.
Is it truly the guy who can take on the trump empire? I’m yet to be convinced.
Because he is someone that has kept his values since day zero, and while his peers kept getting richer through
kickbackslobbying, he did what he preached.Interesting.
Do you think this time he will be able to achieve anything meaningful? Does he has some kind of plan?
From an outside perspective, it appears to be sanewashing (as he is suggesting political discourse and protests are enough to fight back against the fascistic maga movement when it’s clearly not)
You’re so confident and cite no references nor even allude to your opinions having anything of substance under them.
Troll.
I’m actually in awe of how textbook FUD this is.
Usually people are able to cloak it to make it more difficult to recognize it for what it is. No attempt made here.
Just being like “HMM I DON’T THINK SO”
I guess we will see.
I also wish to know this.
Go listen to the man speak as well as looking at his voting history going back decades as well as his stance on things. Quite well documented.
Can you pinpoint one meaningful achievement he accomplished during his long career, aside from backtracking on his support for military intervention around the world when it was politically convenient to do so?
Members of Congress don’t typically have monumental achievements you can point to. Bernie’s primary job is working in committee, meaning he wrangles the other senators into actually getting work done.
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/bernard_sanders/400357
And of course he represents his constituents when he votes on bills.
Let me rephrase. What meaningful change or difference was made thanks to his advocacy and work throughout his years as a politician to make him suitable at 83 to become the face of resistance against fascism and hailed as a hero?
Regarding the bills and stances he took on previous US military interventions, it’s hard for me to see how he could be against the current status quo. I recognize he’s a progressive in the US political landscape but is this politicians truly the face that can take on MAGA and the oligarchs? Does he truly have what it takes?
“Play ‘Green New Deal’!!!”
Does anyone know how the crowd reacted? I mean except the mentioned boing (also like 10 out of several k were boing or more like 50%?)?
i seem to have put myself right in the cross fire between a troll and others, so allow me to defend myself: I have no idea about US politics, and only started to, well, get more informed in it after the most recent election.
I see that there is a Bernie Sanders website linked in the comments, but I was just wanted to hear from you guys why Bernie Sanders is so well regarded.
He had very consistently been on the side of improving life for people. He’s thinks that people deserve to eat and to have a place to live and to receive medical care. He thinks that the government should generally allow people to do what they want if it’s not hurting others.
He had rarely deviated from that and to my knowledge has never deviated from that for Americans.
Sanders is a rare voice for progressive, prosocial reform in the US. His policy positions resonate with many of us who feel that government should support ordinary people at least as much as the obscenely wealthy.
But beyond that, he’s genuine and his messaging has been consistent for decades. You can literally find images of him being arrested fighting for social justice in the 60’s.
Also he’s sharp and nearly every time he makes a point he drops the facts to support it.
He has been in politics for over 50 years, always with the same popular platform that advocate for the working class especially free healthcare and a livable wage. He does not take money from big corporations and has the highest approval rating of anyone in Congress.
He may be the last honest politician left in the US.
In a very long career, he has never stopped advocating for the working folks of all races, creeds, and colors.
That’s pretty much it.
The moderators removed my previous comment so here is a video instead.
Go, go Bernie! He is old enough to deserve to yell at clouds all day, but he chooses to keep fighting. Do we even deserve politicians this good?
We deserve them, but the democrats don’t.
I mean… we do deserve politicians that good. And he’s one of a single-digit handful that exist in the US, and that fact is kind of fucking tragic.
Ahh so we deserve even more like this? Yeah, I am starting to feel entitled to being represented by my government and I plan to be a straight-up jerk about it until I get that.
My mission statement is That if you don’t feel represented, run for election yourself
uh…
I have called numerous politicians of our feckless opposition to scream a copious plethora of obscure and innovative profanity at them while expressing how deeply they have in the past, and are now continuing to - in the face of a fucking fascist takeover that they enabled - fuck me and my generation over.
Don’t forget to breathe. They’d prefer you did.
There are so many who feel just as optimistically outraged, fellow citizen. I’m talking dozens, here!
If they don’t go to him, then he goes to them.
Even more surprising: he took the stage not to speak, but to play bitchin’ dueling guitar solos with Tom Morello for an hour.
Plot twist, Morello just kept time while Bernie lit both up.
