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Sanders Takes Oligarchy Fight to Appalachia With Standing-Room-Only Crowd in West Virginia
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West Virginia is like 1920s-1930s Kansas, far more liberal than most give them credit for, and they are suffering, screaming for someone to listen to them, speak to them, speak for them.
And fuck y'all judging us in the South! (Meh, WV is "South" in spirit.) Go watch some actual journalism. Watch someone go out and interview us without judgement, no gotcha headlines, no leading questions, no bias. Santenello's interviews have left in tears more than once.
https://www.youtube.com/@PeterSantenello
One time he catches some kids jumping off a creek bridge, rolls up to interview. The fat boy that wanted to be an historian had me in tears. Gods that kid knew his shit, so smart, and so little opportunity.
Santenello rolls all over America, captures our stories. Withhold your fucking judgement until you've met us.
Anyway, take an hour and watch Bernie's talk. You might note, he isn't speaking to a liberal stronghold, he's speaking to Nowwhere, WV. It's worth your time. It's a lesson on how we win.
EDIT: Better video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFoGSwkra24
Not to hijack your point, but this would require liberals to actually do things for the working class, so they'll just pretend everyone outside the blue wall hates democracy instead.
The point really is that Bernie isn't a liberal and is talking to everyone. Liberals are created by the Democratic party talking points and incapable of changing the party platform. Liberals just receive and act passively.
I was more addressing the part about how people like to dismiss the South as hopeless racists, and trying to explain that using the fact any other interpretation would require liberals to confront their own failures and hypocrisies. On the other hand while Bernie has his problems, he doesn't beat around the bush and directly addresses people's problem, so his words resonate everywhere.
YOU get it! So goddamned sick of social media beating my ass for living in the South. The racism is nowhere near what it's made out to be, seen worse up North. The conservative governance is fucking appalling though.
+1 for Peter's videos. I went down such a YouTube hole with that guy for a while. I'm from the PNW, so about as far from the south as you can get, and it's really fascinating to listen to such candid conversations with people.
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