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Sanders is one of the most popular politicians in the US, and his political analysis and messaging remain as relevant and compelling as ever. But while his Tour to Fight Oligarchy is inspiring and important, the broad left badly needs a political vision that goes beyond Sanders.

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[-] thisphuckinguy@lemmy.world 1 points 57 minutes ago

A new party is needed. Be done with the garbage that we currently have

[-] BigBenis@lemmy.world 32 points 6 hours ago

Centrists need to stop telling leftists what to do and what is good for them or they're going to keep on losing elections.

[-] AntelopeRoom@lemm.ee 15 points 7 hours ago

This article is not what we need right now.

[-] splonglo@lemmy.world 37 points 9 hours ago

Bernie is the left's most effective advocate in the US and we need more of him.

[-] PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk 11 points 5 hours ago
[-] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 5 points 1 hour ago

Yeah, but also I think a Godzilla sized Bernie Sanders could do a lot of good.

[-] Wilco@lemm.ee 32 points 9 hours ago

No, the left needs to study Bernie and take notes. Then elect politicians exactly like him.

[-] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 27 points 11 hours ago

this is basically saying, we are currently at -10, Sanders is at +3 and we need to jump to +10 right away. Not gonna happen unless through civil war.

[-] Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 4 hours ago

Republicans were at -3 pre 2016 and they've ratcheting up to -10 pretty quickly. If you have a good charismatic leader that the base falls for you can drag the rest of the party along to the edges of the Overton window pretty quickly.

[-] Lemmist@lemm.ee 2 points 10 hours ago

So what are you waiting for? Take a rifle and don't come back until "it's over over there"

[-] Ledericas@lemm.ee 21 points 16 hours ago

there wont be anyone like sanders or aoc,, and all other imitation dems turn out to be shills for the gop.

[-] ksigley@lemm.ee 8 points 12 hours ago

i.e. Fetterman.

[-] g0ndii@feddit.org 6 points 12 hours ago

there isn't, but there can be

[-] Beetschnapps@lemmy.world 15 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

Sanders works with democrats while voters paint democrats as evil. If you love Bernie then ask yourself why does he keep such company? Vilifying the dem party ain’t helping and your Bernie recognized that a long time ago. What are you accomplishing ?

Something needs to change either people pull their head out of their ass and cut this shit out, or they get better at shit and stop it. But wtf

[-] Dragonstaff@leminal.space 4 points 5 hours ago

One of Bernie's biggest flaws is that he's working with the Democrats.

[-] kittenzrulz123 8 points 16 hours ago

The left needs to be rid of centrists like Bernie/AOC and bring in actual leftists. Not just progressives but communists, socialists, syndicalists, anarchists, revolutionary trade unionists, the class conscious workers who will lead the revolution. Compromise with the Capitalists is useless as they have no morals, they will always claw back everything they have compromised (Trump is proof of this). Furthermore working in the Capitalists liberal democracy is the best way to get absolutely nothing done and to fall to fascism.

WORKING PEOPLES OF THE WORLD UNITE

Your politicans will not save you nor will running one more electoral campaign, we need to build class consciousness and strengthen unions to prepare for revolution (it is not a if question but a when question)

[-] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 72 points 1 day ago

I believe the left needs to start listening to Sanders. This man is a genuine champion. He, for decades, has been shunned by his colleagues, and yet he has never wavered in continuing to fight for all of us. I wish I had a fraction of the courage this man has.

[-] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 13 points 1 day ago

Bernie has many good ideas, but listening more to him won't get you anywhere. I'll just copy paste another comment I wrote about this:

Just voting for progressive candidates won't fix things. I don't know if there was any point where that was enough to fix things, but if there was it definitely isn't now. Therefore, Bernie—who did not, does not and will not recommend any method of resistance beyond simply voting—is incapable of leading a progressive movement. Bernie and politicians like him need an independent progressive movement behind them to win elections; if you put them in charge of the movement they'll sit around doing nothing for most of the year.

The US progressive movement needs real leadership willing to take action (and occasionally get their hands dirty) and it needs it fast.

[-] singletona@lemmy.world 130 points 1 day ago

No.

The Left needs to get rid of fucking Schumer.

Let Bernie retire, because the man was there for the signing of the declaration (pretty sure his signature is just below Adams's.)

Let the man retire. Get rido f the Quaislings that seem content to be ineffectual opposition.

Do stuff other than beg the base for money and give people somethign they can be involved in. Start looking at community efforts. Build ties at the base's own level so the base SEES the Democratic party Doing stuff locally that HELPS them.

[-] SnotFlickerman 35 points 1 day ago

I mean, that's basically what the article is saying, too. Just a lot more detailed, with a lot more research and evidence to support their assertion.

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[-] NotLemming@lemm.ee 37 points 23 hours ago

Sanders is the american Jeremy corbyn and if it looks as though he might get near to power, the establishment will take him out, smear him and try to remove him from politics and the democratic party, just as they did corbyn.

They used the excuse of antisemitism in the labour party, which was total lies, he's the most stalwart anti-racist in UK politics and has been for decades. His record speaks for itself. He's still barred from the labour party now.

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[-] TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 62 points 1 day ago

we can't get more than what sanders wants if we can't even get what sanders wants

[-] redhat421@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago

Surprisingly, It's sometimes easier to do big things.

For example: Do social security instead of tinkering around the edges of the existing retirement system.

[-] cybersin@lemm.ee 1 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

So, would you then say "we can't get more than what Kamala wants if we can't even get what Kamala wants"?

No.

[-] TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 hours ago

besides the genocide, Id agree with that yes

[-] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 11 points 16 hours ago

Yep, article is well meaning but dumb.

Idealism is great, but politics requires pragmatism. Which is why people like AOC and Bernie (who are well left of Kamala politically) still told voters to vote for Kamala in the election - she was the only way to avoid Trump, she was the pragmatic choice.

But apparently we'll be discussing why it's a dumb idea to be a protest voter in a very close election for the next four years non-stop.

[-] LovingHippieCat@lemmy.world 20 points 23 hours ago

Bernie should be running "here's how to run for office in your area" drives on his oligarchy tour. The only way progressives will kick out corporate democrats is by the common person running more. Bernie should be pushing more people to run instead of just getting up on a stage in front of people and being a politician. He's not a good organizer. Great talker. Horrible at getting people out to vote. Dude couldn't even get enough people out to vote in the Democrat primary in 2016 to defeat Clinton. She beat him by a larger voting margin than Trump won by last year.

[-] PenguinMage@lemmy.world 7 points 20 hours ago

Oh no, every fuckin person In line to vote with me just said they were voting for Clinton because they were told he couldn't win. Everyone agreed with him yet I couldn't convince the 20 people in line that if we all voted for him it could all work. The dnc did him wrong, the media coverage wasn't great (never is take that as it is), and people thought Clinton was a shoe-in. I dont disagree with your statement for teaching people how to run, but don't disregard how the dnc didn't want him there at all.

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[-] pjwestin@lemmy.world 16 points 23 hours ago

I agree with a lot of this article, but it doesn't really acknowledge the reality of the Democratic leadership's obstruction. The party is, generously, a slightly left-of-center organization that prioritizes stifling their own left wing over defeating their far-right opponents. They've successfully held off two of Bernie's presidential runs, redistricted Bowman out of his seat, and Pelosi has spent so much time and effort undermining the squad (and AOC personally) that it borders on pathological.

I agree with a lot of the criticisms of Bernie in this article, and beyond that, he's just too old to be in the Senate, much less the standard bearer for the entire left, but the Democrats have spent decades making sure there's no viable alternative. We need to move past Bernie, but we need to build an actual progressive movement that can get past Democratic obstruction to do that, and for now, Bernie is still the de facto leader of that movement.

[-] kittenzrulz123 6 points 16 hours ago

They're center right at best, they dont advocate for workers solidarity and actively distract workers from unity. They demand compromise with capitalists yet give the workers nothing. They are only left wing in social policy, on economics and governance they are fascism lite.

[-] pjwestin@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago

Well, there's a reason I said, "generously," slightly left-of-center. It also depends on the Democrat. There's enough of them that care about labor to get the PRO Act through the house, but not the Senate. I don't think it would be unfair to call someone like Gary Peters center-left, given his strong pro-union track record, but someone like Schumer or Pelosi, who are squarely on the side of Wall Street and big tech respectively, are just conservatives masquerading as left-leaning centrists.

[-] kittenzrulz123 2 points 8 hours ago

Imo being left wing should at the absolute bare minimum require supporting the abolition of private property and ownership. Unions are fundamentally a compromise between labor and capital, therefore supporting unions is more centrist. An example of a left wing position would be supporting revolutionary workers syndicates.

[-] pjwestin@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

I mean, fair enough, but there's no point in America history where abolishing private ownership wouldn't be considered far-left. I understand that compared to international standards or across the broader spectrum of political theory, the American left has never been particularly left-wing. When I say the Democrats are slightly center-left or center-right, I'm comparing them to themselves 30 to 40 years ago. Since 1980, they've slowly compromised their principles to the point where they can't be considered, "left," by any modern political metric.

[-] kittenzrulz123 2 points 4 hours ago

If you asked a Appalachian coal miner in 1921 they would say that the abolition of private property is the absolute basic nessesity for any leftist movement

[-] pjwestin@lemmy.world 1 points 46 minutes ago

...OK, that still would have a far-left opinion in American politics. It's not like the country was divided between socialists and communists back then. Hell, it took the Great Depression just to get the moderate socialist reforms of the New Deal passed, and even then, its opponents thought it was communism.

Like, I don't know what to tell you. I understand your point; you think anything that doesn’t involve the abolition of private property isn't left-wing. But even pre-Cold War, even pre-McCarthyism, even during the Coal Wars, that position would be the far-left of American politics. I'm not trying to be a dick here, but when I, or the author of the article, or most Americans, are talking about, "the left," we're definitely not working from your definition.

[-] Xanza@lemm.ee 28 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Fuuuuck you. I've been hearing more and more from Democrats saying you better get the fuck on our boat, like this is some kind of cult and not a political party I'm tangentially associated with.

The best part about this country is no one gets to tell me a goddamn thing. You don't get to tell me "forget Bernie!" because fuck you, I'm an American and I'll hold out hope for as long as that fucker is alive, especially so when we live in a time when we're electing people well into their 80s to political power--and he's still within that strike zone.

Don't like it? Then let's talk about maximum age for service and term limits. But until we do, literally shit into your hands and eat it.

[-] lakemalcom10@lemm.ee 20 points 1 day ago

Read the article, you agree with it

[-] rock_hand@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago

We need more like sanders. Fuck the democrats. I want independents and I want all those who aren’t on board with the Democrat party to recognize it’s time for a change. Especially now in this time of rebuilding while conservatives are in power.

[-] tonytins@pawb.social 12 points 1 day ago

Yes, and no. Yes, we do need to move beyond him and seek out fresh, new voices. No, because we still need him to provide his own opinions while he is still here. We can have both.

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