Bernie: No one is going to save us - we need to rise up together

[Donkees]

Corporate greed and class warfare are crushing working people. No one is going to save us – we need to rise up together

Jan 4, 2022

Excerpts:

As we begin the year 2022, in these unprecedented times, I know it’s easy to give in to despair.

We are facing a raging pandemic with seemingly no end in sight. We are rapidly moving toward oligarchy and while income and wealth inequality grows, millions struggle to obtain the basic necessities of life. We have a dysfunctional healthcare system with more than 84 million uninsured or underinsured and nearly one out of four unable to afford prescription drugs. Climate change is ravaging the planet and systemic racism and other forms of bigotry continue to eat away at the fabric of our society. We have a corrupt political system in which corporate money buys elections and a mainstream media that largely ignores the pain that ordinary people experience.

And, in the midst of all this, Republicans across the country are working overtime trying to undermine democracy by making it harder for people of color, young people and those who oppose them to vote in our next elections.

In other words, the challenges we face are enormous and it is easy to understand why many may fall into depression and cynicism. This is a state of mind, however, that we must resist – not only for ourselves but for our kids and future generations. The stakes are just too high. Despair is not an option. We must stand up and fight back.

The greatest weapon our opponents have is not just their unlimited wealth and power. It is their ability to create a culture that makes us feel weak and hopeless and diminishes the strength of human solidarity.

And here is our new year’s resolution. Like the thousands of workers who stood up and fought courageously in 2021, we will do the same. No one individual is going to save us. We must rise up together.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jan/04/bernie-sanders-labor-strikes

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

1. Bernie nails it again... as usual.

[brooklynite]

2. Let me know when he has the rising organized.

[Magoo48]

5. If We The People, grassroots America, can't find the courage and organizational skills to rise up

on our own and fight for Democracy, perhaps we deserve what we get.

[leftstreet]

6. If he mobilized his supporters to strike, DU would implode

He's in an impossible situation

Politicians with massive followings are NOT encouraged to mobilize them to do anything other than vote

[BradAllison]

8. When are going to realize your days of "power broking" are done, buddy?

This isn't about Bernie, it's now about the old days of DC politics are fucking over.

Republicans found the cheat code to pesky "government" and "democracy" and were more than happy to use it first shot they got. Sorry, they were never your buddies.

Keep pretending whatever you overheard at The Monocle from some mid-level Senator's press secretary is going to mean jack shit next year.

[brooklynite]

9. My goal is to elect as many Democrats as possible. Do you object?

Or do you imagine that a protest March or a fantasy general strike is going to change things? So far, all I see Bernie doing is posting tweets to his supporters. Wouldn’t it be more productive to use one’s leadership skills to convince your opponents?

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

7. Of course Bernie is right... he's been right his entire political career!!

[ananda]

4. So true.

It's rightwing manufactured divisiveness that's
leading us to so much difficulty.

[Donkees]

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