Bernie SNAPS At His Own Supporters
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This YouTube video analyzes Bernie Sanders’s “Fight the Oligarchy” tour, highlighting his criticisms of the wealthy and powerful influencing politics. Key points include:

  • The Tour’s Purpose: Sanders is targeting districts Biden won in 2020 but Democrats lost in 2024, aiming to regain support within the Democratic party.
  • Sanders’s Rhetoric: He strongly criticizes billionaire influence and calls for a working-class agenda, drawing large crowds at his rallies.
  • AOC’s Involvement: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is joining Sanders on the tour.
  • Criticism of Sanders: The video criticizes Sanders for not explicitly condemning the Democratic party’s ties to the oligarchy, given his past endorsements of figures like Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, and Kamala Harris, who have accepted contributions from wealthy donors.
  • The Gaza Conflict: The video discusses Sanders’s reluctance to label the situation in Gaza a genocide, despite acknowledging the horrific events. The YouTuber argues this demonstrates Sanders’s tendency to avoid strong stances on controversial issues.
  • The Incident with Supporters: The video’s main focus is on a recent incident where Sanders abruptly dismissed his own supporters who politely inquired about the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil. The YouTuber interprets this as evidence of Sanders’s true nature and his unwillingness to take strong action against injustices, even when directly confronted by his own supporters. The video includes footage of the encounter and the subsequent arrest of Khalil, highlighting the alleged lack of resistance during the arrest.
  • Conclusion: The YouTuber concludes that Sanders’s actions demonstrate a pattern of avoiding strong stances and ultimately serving to maintain the status quo rather than enacting significant change. The video suggests Sanders is more focused on maintaining the Democratic party’s power base than on truly challenging the oligarchy.

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  • bane_killgrind@slrpnk.netEnglish
    2·
    1 day ago

    Fake leftist sowing division, using a purity test to frustrate real solidarity

    You are projecting hard, a pretender, a fake, frivolous, and impotent.

    • jimmydoreisalefty@lemmy.worldOP
      2·
      1 day ago

      Fake leftist

      I think you are confused.

      We are to the left of Bernie; you are to his right.

      purity test

      “People that volunteered and helped him in 2016 and 2020 have sadly learned the extent of his ‘radical’ policies and how far he is willing to fight.”

      We have experiences about how far he is willing to fight the status quo and to truly address working-class struggles; the video points this out in a simple-to-understand manner with receipts.

      Again, if you understand this, you would know that we are to the left of Bernie Sanders; it is not that hard to figure out.

      Again:

      P.S. Being an apologist and celebrity-worshipping does not help push the causes of the working class; it only hinders them and helps keep the status quo.

      You reminded me of this song:

      [Song] Phil Ochs - Love Me I’m A Liberal [04:39 | Country, Satire, Politics, Folk | https://youtu.be/0nFvhhCulaw][1]

      “Love Me, I’m A Liberal,” is a criticism of liberals, as liberals often superficially support things such as civil rights to appear compassionate, but actually reject any action that would upset the status quo. This song is Phil Ochs’ demonstration of his hatred of the liberals, who he views as hypocritical.

      In the final verse, the liberal narrator of the song establishes he used to be a socialist, but has now “grown older and wiser”, and rejected more radical left-wing politics in favor of liberalism. Liberalism is a political disposition which is opposed to, and not synonymous with, Leftism (socialism, communism, etc). The idea that liberalism is synonymous with Leftism is a recent phenomenon more or less specific to mainstream US politics since the widespread suppression of the radical Left in the 70s and 80s (as well as the spread of the global “neoliberal consensus” since the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the German Democratic Republic, and the capitalist reforms of China under Deng Xiaoping).

      Essentially, the song is a critique of liberalism from a leftist perspective, using the satirized view point of a 60’s American liberal.

      Jello Biafra and Mojo Nixon did a 90’s-themed updated version that can be found here.

      It’s also worth noting that the tune of this song incorporates parts of the melody for the traditional song ‘Rosin the Bow.’ You can hear it very clearly in the first three lines of every verse.[2]

      1. [1] https://lemmy.world/post/26807539 ↩︎

      2. [2] https://genius.com/Phil-ochs-love-me-im-a-liberal-lyrics#about ↩︎

      • bane_killgrind@slrpnk.netEnglish
        4·
        1 day ago

        Nah. Your use of “real leftists” shows that you would rather gatekeep, “no true Scotsman”, argue and criticize instead of create positive change.

        Go post more clickbait that gets zero or negative engagement. I’ll go focus on actionable things, and support leftists that take action.

        • jimmydoreisalefty@lemmy.worldOP
          2·
          1 day ago

          It seems to me that you are the one trying to preach to the choir.

          I did not use “real leftists”; you did.

          Teaching and informing people is required so as to be revolutionaries instead of reformists.

          I’ll go focus on actionable things, and support leftists that take action.

          A quick search into what Sabby Sabs and I advocate (and try to inform people of doing) would absolve you of that notion.

          On my user profile:

          Mantra: “We should focus our actions, time, and resources on Direct Action, Mutual Aid, and Community Outreach… No War but Class War!”

          Sabby has a Mutual Aid chapter in Boston.[1].

          1. [1] (https://lemmy.world/post/23788382 ↩︎

            • jimmydoreisalefty@lemmy.worldOP
              2·
              1 day ago

              Well, there is a difference between liberals and leftists.

              Again, this is the difference between revolutionaries and reformists.

              In the final verse, the liberal narrator of the song establishes he used to be a socialist, but has now “grown older and wiser”, and rejected more radical left-wing politics in favor of liberalism. Liberalism is a political disposition which is opposed to, and not synonymous with, Leftism (socialism, communism, etc). The idea that liberalism is synonymous with Leftism is a recent phenomenon more or less specific to mainstream US politics since the widespread suppression of the radical Left in the 70s and 80s (as well as the spread of the global “neoliberal consensus” since the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the German Democratic Republic, and the capitalist reforms of China under Deng Xiaoping).[1]

              1. [1] https://lemmy.world/post/26807539 ↩︎

              • bane_killgrind@slrpnk.netEnglish
                1·
                1 day ago

                Liberals are leftists. Your use of a song as a prop for criticism confirms my feelings that you are frivolous.

                • jimmydoreisalefty@lemmy.worldOP
                  2·
                  1 day ago

                  Liberals and leftists are not the same.

                  Liberals are what Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. warned us about.

                  The White liberal is the worst enemy to America and the worst enemy to the Black man. Let me first explain what I mean by this White liberal. In America there’s no such thing as Democrats and Republicans anymore. That’s antiquated. In America you have liberals and conservatives. This is what the American political structure boils down to among Whites. The only people who are still living in the past and thinks in terms of “I’m a Democrat” or “I’m a Republican” is the American Negro. He’s the one who runs around bragging about party affiliation and he’s the one who sticks to the Democrat or sticks to the Republican, but White people in America are divided into two groups, liberals and Republicans…or rather, liberals and conservatives. And when you find White people vote in the political picture, they’re not divided in terms of Democrats and Republicans, they’re divided consistently as conservatives and as liberal. The Democrats who are conservative vote with Republicans who are conservative. Democrats who are liberals vote with Republicans who are liberals. You find this in Washington, DC. Now the White liberals aren’t White people who are for independence, who are liberal, who are moral, who are ethical in their thinking, they are just a faction of White people who are jockeying for power the same as the White conservatives are a faction of White people who are jockeying for power. Now they are fighting each other for booty, for power, for prestige and the one who is the football in the game is the Negro. Twenty million Black people in this country are a political football, a political pawn an economic football, an economic pawn, a social football, a social pawn… – Malcolm X

                  I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: “I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action”; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a “more convenient season.” Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection. – Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from the Birmingham Jail

                  • bane_killgrind@slrpnk.netEnglish
                    2·
                    1 day ago

                    I didn’t say they are the same. Not all leftists are liberals.

                    You keep saying exclusionary things you need to think about.