Among the Brooklyn Bernie Bros

[Devil Child]

Bernie Sanders kicked off his 2020 presidential campaign on Saturday with a speech at Brooklyn College in New York City. It was a homecoming: Bernie was born in Brooklyn to working-class immigrant parents, and he began his undergraduate study at Brooklyn College before moving to Chicago.

The crowd of about thirteen thousand was mostly young and working class. Roughly half of the attendees were people of color, and roughly half were women.

Bernie’s speech hit the usual notes about economic inequality, social justice, and the need for unity across lines of difference. But there were some unique additions, including an interlude about the working-class values of fairness, compassion, and solidarity that his Brooklyn upbringing instilled in him.

He contrasted this upbringing to Donald Trump’s: Trump was handed a $200,000 a year allowance, even as a child, while Bernie was given 25 cents a week. As a young man Trump built a fortune on housing discrimination, while Bernie protested it. Trump became famous for going on television and telling workers, “You’re fired,” while Bernie grew up in a house and community where he understood the extreme and unfair power that employers have over their employees’ lives.

https://jacobinmag.com/2019/03/bernie-sanders-brooklyn-rally-medicare-for-all

Interesting read including several interviews with attendees of Sen. Sander's recent Brooklyn rally with women and persons of color who are supporting his run.

[OilemFirchen]

1. Fascinating!

Never mind the undocumented assertions. It's from the notoriously unbiased Jacobin!

[lapucelle]

2. Jacobin...

[Cha]

3. omg! jacobin.. lol hard pass.

[Devil Child]

4. It is fascinating

I see this as more evidence that progressive economic policies have broad appeal and will help carry Democrats to victory in 2020.

[OilemFirchen]

5. Of course you do.

Along with the other eleven Jacobin readers.

[WeekiWater]

6. Hard to take the word of someone who is still campaigning against Clinton and enables Trump.

Questionable source.

Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein on her campaign and building an alternative to the two corporate parties.

That is the headline of one of the Bro's articles.

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

[Buzz cook]

7. Every Democratic cadidatae has that same contrast with Trump

Not one of them was given a building as a third birthday present. Not one of them was bailed out by their father to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars, and so on.
Many of the Democratic candidates had more difficult up brings than Senator Sanders. Many have just as good a record on issues that are important to Democratic voters as Senator Sanders does.

Bernie, imho, needs to clearly articulate policy differences between his positions and those of other Democratic contenders. It is not enough to state he isn't Trump, no one else is either. It's not enough to say the world should be one way and not another, he has to demonstrate how he will achieve those goals.

[comradebillyboy]

8. I have difficulty taking anything in Jacobin Magazine seriously.

[honest.abe]

9. Desperately trying to convince us Bernie doesn't have a problem with non-white voters.

If he didn't have a problem, they wouldn't need to write articles like this.

[MaryMagdaline]

10. I think Bernie's personalization of his life story works

It resonates with me and I was a strong Hillary supporter.

[brooklynite]

11. Roughly half the people were NOT people of color, as somone who was there for four hours

MAYBE 20-25%.