The Greatest Political UPSET In History

[Segami]

I find it gratifying to see the awakening that is taking place before our eyes. An American Spring, finally. Actually, I think the awakening has been going on for some time, building, growing, spreading. What we are witnessing is the coming to fruition of the common will, something the 1% thought they were done with forever. I'm so glad to see them proven wrong. And I'm so glad we have such a staunch proponent of the people to lead us in these complicated times.

We have been pitted against each other: by race, by class, by left and right. We have forgotten how powerful we are when we stand together. The time has come for us all to stand against the 1% and their ruthless exploitation of the rest of us. It's time to take control of this country from the billionaire class and give it back to the people. It's time to restore democracy in America. It's time to share the wealth, educate our young, guarantee health care to all as a right, reexamine our priorities and get serious about the future. We're all in this together.

“I am who I am and I believe what I believe, and what my spirituality is all about is that we're all in this together.”

Bernie Sanders

~snip~

I think a confluence of many factors has ushered in an era of the ascendancy of the 99%. The American people matter now like they never mattered before. We have come into our own. And not just in America but around the Internet lovin’ world. Democracy is no longer vaporware. We made this with our own hands (and internet connections).

This is a very interesting moment on multiple layers, and everything is at stake.

The once ridiculed Bernie Sanders campaign has roared into an honest-to-god Internet-based political revolution. We are witnessing history. Things will never be the same. The question now is can we act boldly enough, can we rise up and back Bernie passionately enough, to get serious enough about all the right things?

Yes we can.

Just watch us.

Thanks to everyone for doing your part to change our nation and our world for the love of us all.


http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/01/12/1468802/-The-greatest-political-upset-in-history

[cantbeserious]

1. When We Stand Together - No Citizen Need Settle For The Lesser Of Two Corporate Evils - Go Bernie Go

eom

[rhett o rick]

35. When Sen Sanders wins, our work is just beginning. He won't be able to do it alone.

We have to elect progressives to help him.

[cantbeserious]

41. Agreed

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[Zorra]

63. +1 nt

[MrMickeysMom]

2. Segami..,

Thank you, too.

[Segami]

4. Thanks MrMickeysMom....

thank you....

[azmom]

3. #UnidosConBernie

[Betty Karlson]

56. Is that the Spanish battle cry for Sanders' campaign?

It sounds very inclusive!

[cannabis_flower]

73. It is..

It translates to "together with Bernie" or United with Bernie"

[in_cog_ni_to]

5. K&R! n/t

[stillwaiting]

6. We must. Or it's another decade down the drain and we will be MUCH weaker collectively then. nt

[tblue37]

28. Considering the age of several SCOTUS members, it would be more like 40 years down the drain. nt

[senz]

7. Beautiful and true. Also, high time. BUT

this is when we have to double down our efforts. And be on the lookout for a serious reaction from tptb.

Power obtained by sociopaths is not relinquished easily and painlessly. They will fight back. Let's be ready.

[randome]

8. An American Spring that takes place on the Internet?

I will have no problem supporting Sanders if he wins the Primary but co-opting a very real, on-the-street movement in the Middle East is...bleh.
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[passiveporcupine]

15. I'm pretty sure this is not only happening on the internet

But, the internet is part of what spurred and coordinated the Arab spring, and it is spurring and coordinating the American Spring.

Yes, I think it's our turn now...

[reformist2]

25. I've seen more evidence of support for Bernie in the real world than any other candidate...

Republican or Democrat.

[rhett o rick]

36. I think you are grossly underestimating the drive by the People to get rid of the corruption

in Wash DC brought to us by the Establishment. The same Establishment that HRC supports.

[Duckfan]

55. WE should all feel bleased in some way that in our lifetime....

...that we may be witness to a modern day FDR.

[artislife]

51. How about Occupy?

I think there is a direct link there.

This isn't just the internet....there have been house events, public events where real people put on shoes and met other liked minded people.


Also, think there is a link between Occupy and the Arab Spring, but it involves the little guys against TPTB.

[randome]

71. Occupy is gone. Take a look at the Occupy forum here and you'll see what I mean.

Months between posts. It's a ghost town. If the Internet is the vehicle for change, then the state of the Occupy forum on DU should show what happens with lack of organization and leadership.
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[artislife]

72. If I used your logic, then I would be scared to be the last Latina in America.

*how many post in the Race & Ethnicity group: Latinos


Occupy merged into issues.

We went into the housing crisis, environmental groups, racial equality, unions, gun reform, GMO labeling etc.

Do you think $15 an hour Seattle wasn't an off shoot of Occupy?

Occupy left the Democratic Party when we realized that the way to make any change was not from the party. It was by being fully engaged in our choice issues.

[Dretownblues]

53. You have to understand

That movements are now starting and gaining traction because of the internet. Look at Obama in 08, the Arab spring, now Bernie. Bernie has not been on MSM enough to get expose that he has over the internet. What his campaign did was build a massive online presence and continue to add new(and younger) supporters. This is the future, movements will start and grow on the internet, most Americans don't care for TV news anymore.

[randome]

70. I have no doubt about the usefulness of the Internet in effecting change.

But there needs to be more than this. And I don't see Americans angry beyond the confines of their individual forums.
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[Hissyspit]

61. You do realize how important the Internet was to the Arab Spring??

Twitter, Facebook. Mubarak shutting the Internet down one day and then being forced to put it back up.



Egypt




Tunisia

[randome]

69. And it was backed by full-on marches and visible protests.

In America, it seems to be more of a desktop 'spring'. It's not enough to talk to like-minded, anonymous individuals. So long as there is no cohesiveness, no organization, nothing will really change.
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[uponit7771]

9. ... will either be when the voting gets to less homogenized states and the lack of relationship...

... Sanders has outside of VT and IA like states shows up in exit polls

Or

... when the voting gets to less homogenized states and that relationship doesn't matter relative to a candidate that does relate and bothered to develop an imperfect relationship...

That will be an upheaval in the political world all over.

We'll see

[Number23]

33. This is what I don't get either. The open mouthed screaming over NEW HAMPSHIRE

No one has EVER once doubted that Sanders could or would win New Hampshire and Vermont. Those have been consistently viewed as Sanders territory. Iowa has been a bit shakier but many felt he'd still do well there because of the demographics.

Right now Hillary is leading Iowa and Sanders is doing the same in New Hampshire. I don't get what all of the "political upset" and hollering is about. When he whups butt in South Carolina or NY or GA or CA, then the hollering will make sense.

[uponit7771]

38. If he loses outside of the IA or NH it'll be everyone's fault but his though. It'll be space aliens

... from planet aosdifn that colluded with the whales and the DNC to sink him.

I don't know were they get this crap

[Number23]

58. "I don't know were they get this crap"

As the poorly spelled, incoherent rage that constantly spills from their fingers attests, they don't seem to know either.

[Scootaloo]

40. "becuase of the demographics"

I love this argument.

You know, that your white, overtly christian, corn-fed, racially-clueless candidate who gushes about blowing things up in the middle east can't carry a state that you argue is too full of white, overtly christian, corn-fed racially-clueless people who like when things blow up in the middle east to "count," ought to tell you something about that candidate of yours.

Especially when the candidate they're favoring over her is a socialist Jew from Brooklyn.

[sonofspy777]

49. ZING! The winnah! nt

[Number23]

57. As usual, I have no idea what you're talking about and for some reason, can't muster up the energy

to even pretend to be interested.

[cascadiance]

10. Will this scene captured by this photo take a back seat to what happens in 2016?

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Hoping so!

[AzDar]

11. You Say You Want A Revolution? Well, You Know...We're All GOING To Change The World!

A Bernaissance in 2016!!

[passiveporcupine]

16. Love that song!

[kjackson227]

20. #feelthebern!!!! eom

[closeupready]

12. This surge has really made my day. It really has!

K&R

[SmittynMo]

13. Bada Boom

And the political revolution has begun!!!!

Trump will be toast.

[gordyfl]

14. The Status Quo is Built Into Our Political System

Very good video.

"When a majority of citizens disagrees with economic elites and/or with organised interests, they generally lose. Moreover, because of the strong status quo bias built into the US political system, even when fairly large majorities of Americans favour policy change, they generally do not get it."

http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-echochambers-27074746

Bernie's our best hope.

[libdem4life]

17. You know, he says the same thing, time after time after time. And it never gets old. It's

a mantra. He is a humble man. He will govern wisely and this will, and I've never missed a one, be the second vote in my decades of voting that I've made with good conscience. The first one lost. I urgently hope this one does not.

[Bohunk68]

18. Aye! I hear that!

Was at an advisory committee meeting for the county OFA last week and made a remark to a lady about Bernie, she turned and told me she had just changed her registration from I to D, just so she could vote for Bernie. She is a retired nurse. Said she loved my bumper sticker for Bernie. This, in a redneck county.

[JDPriestly]

19. Great video! Great post. Thank you.

[Duval]

21. BIG K&R!!

[mountain grammy]

22. An American spring..love the sound of that!

[Uncle Joe]

23. That's a most profound, Daily Kos diary in regards to the Internet's growing influence and

democratization of our nation.

Thanks for the thread, Segami.

[OldRedneck]

24. From the front lines.

My daughter is a 40-plus single lady, a high-powered DC attorney. In 2008 she raised over $200,000 for Obama. In 2012 she raised over $400,000.

Hillary's campaign approached her a year ago about raising for them and she signed up.

She's about to stop trying to raise money for Hillary, because:

1. No one will donate. She has reached out several times to the folks who helped her with Obama and every one of them is sitting on the fence, undecided about where to put their $$; or, lukewarm about Hillary. Either way, they are sitting on their checkbooks. And I'm not talking about $25 donors here -- these are heavy hitters who write and collect BIG checks.

2. The Hillary people with whom she deals are, in her words: "Supercilious, unapproachable assholes, all with a sense of their own importance and entitlement -- they turn people off, don't answer email, don't return phone calls, and think their shit doesn't stink."

If she gives up the Hillary fund raising, she's going to Bernie. Says she will make her decision by end of January.

[Plucketeer]

32. Why til the end of January?

To help Bernie seal the deal for the nomination, she needs to start yesterday. Sounds like she's holding out for Hillary in spite of the ass holes she's having to beg from.

[nenagh]

62. Very interesting comment...

thank you...

[virgogal]

26. 1948 Truman-Dewey was IMHO.

[WillyT]

27. HUGE K & R !!! - THANK YOU !!!

[Still In Wisconsin]

29. Hopefully the political demise of Madam Weathervane will mean

the end of the Third Way. If that comes to pass, Hill the Shill will have actually done something positive for this country after all!

[Enthusiast]

30. K&R! Way to go, Segami! Now that's what I'm talkin' about!

The political right, with the help of right leaning Democratic Party allies, have been trying to promote the philosophy of Ayn Rand for several decades now.

Well it didn't work!

Millions upon millions of Americans can see through their bullshit. These Americans are ready for REAL CHANGE.

Taking benefits like heat subsidies and food stamps away from the needy doesn't make them more resilient and harder working. It just makes them cold and hungry.

[Fast Walker 52]

31. now I'm tearing up *sniff*

[Ino]

34. The greatest political upset, based on...

honesty, speaking from the heart, integrity, compassion, consistency.

[rhett o rick]

37. We must not rest on our laurels. The fight is just beginning. The Oligarchy has unlimited funding

and are more than willing to spend it to derail this Populist Movement. If you think we have seen dirty tricks (PP endorsement), I have a feeling there is more to come.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

39. A little history lesson from my parents.

My folks said they stood in line with their friends to vote in 1948. They were saying "We know that Harry Truman won't win, but we're voting for him anyway!"

[LWolf]

42. K & R

[tom_kelly]

43. I remember feeling this way in 2008 about BHA

and have been disappointed. I'm really hoping he's able to push a LOT through!

[Paka]

44. K&R

Everything is at stake, but if we work together we can make him President. The first step in turning things around.

[book_worm]

45. I'll agree with you if he is actually nominated.

[kenfrequed]

46. We must stand

And we must not sit down. Not this time. When we nominate Bernie or even if f we do not we have to keep fighting for every principle he stands for.

[Live and Learn]

47. K&R nt

[sonofspy777]

48. Yes yes yes!

WE can do it!

Just watch our jets!

[myohmy2]

50. And to think...

Bernie's accomplished all this without using blue smoke and mirrors.

[Left Coast2020]

52. Went to A Bernie meeting tonight with national rep's from his campaign HQ

It was 2 guys and 2 girls from HQ stopping in to update local campaigns. One dude said Bernie is leading in one poll by 5 in Iowa and the other tied.

He said its coming down to how phone calls we can make. I'll be phone banking tomorrow night. Now I am really pumped up!! 5 point up in Iowa?

Come on Iowa!!!!!!!

[leftcoastmountains]

54. Nice video, nice sentiment.

[Cassiopeia]

59. To repeat the words that had so much meaning 8 years ago

Yes we can.

Bernie has always fought for change, Hillary has always fought for wealth and power.

The choice is pretty simple.

[Helen Borg]

60. Let's make sure

It does not get stolen now...

[chervilant]

64. We HAVE to have each others' backs!!!

Witnessing this groundswell of support for Bernie tells me that not only are we, the vast Hoi Polloi, embracing Bernie's historic and vital message, we are REJECTING the status quo represented by HRC, DWS, the DNC, and the shrinking group of HRC supporters who still don't understand the revolution.

[humbled_opinion]

65. Powerful

and yes we must all commit for the long haul the oligarchs will not go quietly....

[ChiciB1]

66. This Hurts My Heart, But It's Just

simply beautiful. I we could find OUR WAY BACK to a time when AMERICA was the country I grew up in. This says it all and I can add nothing more than I BELIEVE this is what's needed in the worst way!

PLEASE AMERICA, WAKE UP!!!!!

[Kip Humphrey]

67. What to world wants, what America needs: An American Spring... I love me some Bernaise sauce!

great post! Brought the tears it did.

[SoapBox]

68. K & R!

[jtuck004]

74. "An American Spring, finally." < Be careful what you wish for...

...Arab Winter
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Arab Winter[1][2][3][4][5] is a term for the rise of authoritarianism and religious extremism,[6] evolving in the aftermath of the Arab Spring protests in Arab League countries. The concept was first used by The Washington Post in December 2011.[7] According to scholars of the University of Warsaw, the Arab Spring fully devolved into Arab Winter four years since its onset.[8] The Arab Winter is characterized by the emergence of multiple regional civil wars, mounting regional instability,[9] economic and demographic decline of Arab countries,[10] and ethno-religious sectarian strife.[11] According to a study by the American University of Beirut, as of summer 2014 the Arab Winter resulted in nearly a quarter of a million deaths and millions of refugees.[12]...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_Winter - some informative references.

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