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Not Me, Us
Bernie may have suspended his campaign, but the fight goes on and the world needs us more than ever
There has never been a movement quite like the Bernie Sanders campaign. The campaign of Henry A. Wallace in 1948 is somewhat similar, especially considering that Wallace, just like Bernie, had to contend with a corrupt bureaucracy which did everything in its power to crush his progressive movement. However, where campaigns like Wallace’s third-party bid for the Presidency garnered just over two percent of the national vote, the Sanders campaign has consistently managed to come in at half of the vote for the whole five years that he has made attempts at the office. Moreover, where previous progressive campaigns often failed miserably in their attempts to push progressive ideals into the zeitgeist, into the common dialogue, Bernie Sanders has utterly transformed American politics as a whole — pushing even his most ardently neo-liberal Democratic colleagues into public admissions of support for such “wild-eyed” concepts as public healthcare and tuition-free college.
Bernie Sanders has transformed our country, and the beacon of his progressive campaign has been a source of light to the world over, catching smoldering resistance to corporate agenda alight in even the darkest parts of the globe. He has been right to lead his campaign with…
