Video: 🌅 Sunrise Movement Endorses Bernie Sanders for President

[Donkees]

Jan 9, 2020

"Thanks to the Sunrise Movement's tireless effort to avert climate catastrophe, we as a country are finally recognizing the pivotal moment we are in and the need to act boldly, quickly. I am honored to receive their endorsement and look forward to working together to launch the Green New Deal and build a more just and equitable future." –Sen. Bernie Sanders

Sunrise is a movement to stop climate change and create millions of good jobs in the process. Learn more at www.sunrisemovement.org.

[Uncle Joe]

1. An outstanding

endorsement and production!

Thanks for the thread Donkees.

[MineralMan]

2. Three posts already about this. It must be huge news, I guess.

When an organization with 10,000 members nationwide endorses someone, I'm surprised there aren't a dozen posts about it here. Really. I mean...

[Cuthbert Allgood]

4. This is a pretty significant youth activist group.

And their impact goes well beyond their members. Young voters know who these people are.

[MineralMan]

5. Is it? First I've heard of it.

The challenge is to get those college student voters to actually go to the polls and vote. That's a challenge that has so far not been met with much success.

I hope everyone in that age group votes in 2020. We'll see the turnout numbers after the election and see whether they beat the historical low turnout rates, dating back to the 1960s.

I hope their turnout rate exceeds 25% in 2020. We'll see.

[still_one]

6. This is a PAC that rudely occupied Feinstein's office, falsely accusing of being anti-environment.

They also did similar actions against Pelosi.

Funny that they predominately attack Democrats, and seem to leave republicans out of the equation

From my perspective, this endorsement does not help Sanders outside his base, and instead alienates those outside his base against him, and toward other Democratic nominees

[MineralMan]

7. Hmm...sounds familiar, now that you mention it.

Not much impact, really. I do hope they'll all vote in the general election this November, though, for the Democratic nominee. Yes, I do.

[still_one]

8. Of course, but I wouldn't bet on it unless Sanders is the nominee

[MineralMan]

9. Well, it's difficult to vote when you're in college.

I mean, do you register in your home town, or in your university town? Where will you be on November 3, and do you have exams that day, or maybe a party?

If your voter registration is in your home town, you have to go to all the trouble to get an absentee ballot, maybe requiring you to send a snail mail request for it by the deadline. Where would you even buy a stamp? If you're registered where you live at school, you have to figure out where your polling place is, and it could be somewhere you've never been, you know.

Yes, it's easier just not to bother to vote. And it doesn't really matter, because other people will go and vote, and your vote doesn't really count for much anyhow. Besides, why can't you vote from your phone on Instagram? Sheesh!

[still_one]

10. That is what absentee ballots are for

[MineralMan]

11. Yeah. I covered that in my post.

You have to apply for one of those, you know. By mail, maybe. How would you do that? It's too hard...

[still_one]

13. Not in California where I am from, but I agree with you, many in that demographic don't have the

motivation. Perhaps that will be different this time

[SidDithers]

3. That's the group that attacked Diane Feinstein with selectively edited video last year, right?...

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211854688


Sid

[LanternWaste]

12. I don;t think that multiple posts in regards to the same endorsement...

actually does anything to increase the influence of that endorsement.





(I get it... his polling and performance has been so anemic lately that even a minor, inconsequential endorsement should be shouted from the mountaintops with as much righteousness as possible, just call it "vetting&quot