US Vermont senator’s tour with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortes has been drawing record-breaking crowds since February

The Vermont senator Bernie Sanders drew a record-breaking crowd at his rally in Los Angeles on Saturday, which included musical acts from Joan Baez and Neil Young, who encouraged the crowd to “take America back”.

Sanders’s Fighting Oligarchy: Where We Go from Here tour has been drawing massive crowds. Aided by the progressive New York representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the team set the record in Tempe, Arizona, for biggest-ever political rally in that state three weeks ago. In Denver, Colorado, more than 34,000 people showed up – a career-high crowd for the 83-year-old Sanders. Saturday in Los Angeles saw another record: at least 36,000 people packed a downtown park.

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    You know what’s crazy? I volunteered for the 50501 protest and the Brown Berets showed up to protect those liberals you despise so much. Those Marxists are busy practicing solidarity in the streets while you are here shitting on them.

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      Imagine someone so clueless to include liberal and Marxist in the same conversation as if they are the same thing

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        I don’t have to imagine when you’re providing the example. Are you CIA or a Trotskyist without a group? I really am impressed.

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          6 days ago

          Liberals deserve to be shit on, they are nothing but enforcers of oppressive government.

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            For we each of us deserve everything, every luxury that was ever piled in the tombs of the dead kings, and we each of us deserve nothing, not a mouthful of bread in hunger. Have we not eaten while another starved? Will you punish us for that? Will you reward us for the virtue of starving while others ate? No man earns punishment, no man earns reward. Free your mind of the idea of deserving, the idea of earning, and you will begin to be able to think.

            • Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed

            But please continue to justify your counter-revolutionary actions by dressing yourself in revolutionary aesthetics.