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Has anyone ever been to a political candidate rally? What was it like? (lemmy.world)

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I've been invited to attend a Tim Walz rally tonight, and I have no idea what to expect. Share your stories and get me pumped up to see our next VP!

Update: Everybody was right, lots of standing and clapping, but what I really didn't expect was the sense of family I felt with all these strangers around me. We'd bump into each other, and laugh it off, one guy was telling me about how his son was thinking about going to the college that I work at (I was still wearing my shirt from work), and we all just knew that we were working together to make great things happen. I'll probably skip the next one, but it was a great experience. I'm glad I went, and would recommend going to one if you have a chance, and a candidate you believe in.

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[-] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

In 2008 I saw Michelle Obama speak in the 18th and Vine jazz district in Kansas City.

It was electric. She wore red and looked like a million bucks, and the speech was amazing. At the time we all honestly believed the Obamas would be elected with a historic mandate to make real, lasting change.

I remember it fondly, because the Obamas are the same people who caused me to lose faith in our Federal Government. All we got from the first black president was more war, more expensive health care, and one dead terrorist, and he had the power to do so much more.

[-] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Yeah. I feel that. I wouldn't trade Obama in for anyone else during that time, but I would have liked to have seen more progress instead of just "not letting it get any worse". I wonder if he or his cabinet were nervous of rocking the boat too much as the first black president, and enraging the conservatives even more. That's just me pondering and not really based on anything concrete.

[-] azimir@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 months ago

My feeling was that President Obama kept compromising. It seemed that he was trying to get people moving together and he went too far into the appeasement side of things with the alt right racist arm. It was also the real power growth cycle for Fox News and early online podcast/streamers. They are fast on the backs of the racist counter swell... And we got the fallout over the last decade now.

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