{"id":34351,"date":"2025-04-14T13:09:54","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T17:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/?p=34351"},"modified":"2025-12-10T22:25:30","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T03:25:30","slug":"bernie-sanders-aoc-fight-the-oligarchs-largest-rally-we-ever-had-by-greggwmorris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hunterword.com\/index.php\/bernie-sanders-aoc-fight-the-oligarchs-largest-rally-we-ever-had-by-greggwmorris\/","title":{"rendered":"Bernie Sanders &#038; AOC &#8211; Fight the Oligarchs: &#8220;&#8230; Largest Rally We Ever Had&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/61aaIYMN1mA?si=IdmFxZFW5qiDaDAE&amp;start=349\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><span style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><span style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><br \/>\n&#8220;When I took the stage in Los Angeles yesterday (Saturday April 12, 2025) and looked out at the crowd, I could see people a half-mile away. Thirty-six thousand (36,000) people attended \u2014 it is the largest rally we have ever had.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-34363\" src=\"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/AOC-oligarchy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"http:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/AOC-oligarchy.jpg 720w, http:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/AOC-oligarchy-560x747.jpg 560w, http:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/AOC-oligarchy-260x347.jpg 260w, http:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/AOC-oligarchy-160x213.jpg 160w, http:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/AOC-oligarchy-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/p>\n<hr align=\"center\" noshade=\"noshade\" size=\"1\" width=\"60%\" \/>\n<hr align=\"center\" noshade=\"noshade\" size=\"1\" width=\"60%\" \/>\n<p><em>And when I see the record crowds like the ones we had yesterday, or the ones in Colorado, Arizona, Nevada, Nebraska, Iowa, Wisconsin and Michigan, I believe it may just be possible that this country is on the brink of the political revolution we have been talking about for a long time.<\/em><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-34359\" src=\"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/486079112_29720755734178335_1047218011685800718_n-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>These people are not showing up because I am running for something. There is no presidential campaign happening.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>These are people attending in huge numbers who are not just saying NO to oligarchy, but they are saying YES to raising the minimum wage, YES to expanding Social Security, YES to guaranteeing health care as a human right, YES, to cutting the cost of prescription drugs, YES to paid family and medical leave, YES to equal pay for equal work, YES to more affordable housing, YES to making childcare and higher education affordable to all, YES to taking on the existential threat of climate change.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>And most importantly they are saying YES to a government and an economy that works for all of us and not just the billionaire class and the Oligarchs.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Later today, we will be in Salt Lake City, Utah. Tomorrow we go to Boise, Idaho before returning to California on Tuesday for two rallies in districts held by Republicans and ending this leg of the tour in Missoula, Montana on Wednesday.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>We will be streaming each rally on <a href=\"https:\/\/act.berniesanders.com\/go\/54451?t=4&amp;akid=10210%2E11076294%2EtB0k6l\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>YouTube<\/strong><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/act.berniesanders.com\/go\/54452?t=5&amp;akid=10210%2E11076294%2EtB0k6l\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Twitter<\/strong><\/a>, and I hope you will tune in to watch and share the links with your friends.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr align=\"center\" noshade=\"noshade\" size=\"1\" width=\"60%\" \/>\n<hr align=\"center\" noshade=\"noshade\" size=\"1\" width=\"60%\" \/>\n<hr align=\"center\" noshade=\"noshade\" size=\"1\" width=\"60%\" \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7155\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7155\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-7155\" src=\"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/gwm-700x700-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"http:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/gwm-700x700-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/gwm-700x700-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/gwm-700x700-560x560.jpg 560w, http:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/gwm-700x700-260x260.jpg 260w, http:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/gwm-700x700-160x160.jpg 160w, http:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/gwm-700x700.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-7155\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em><strong>the WORD<\/strong><\/em> Editor Gregg W. Morris<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff &#8220;When I took the stage in Los Angeles yesterday (Saturday April 12, 2025) and looked out at the crowd, I could see people a half-mile away. Thirty-six thousand (36,000) people attended \u2014 it is the largest rally we have&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/hunterword.com\/index.php\/bernie-sanders-aoc-fight-the-oligarchs-largest-rally-we-ever-had-by-greggwmorris\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":34357,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2269,2176,15,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2269","category-journalism-media","category-news-commentary-opinion-fit-to-print","category-opinions","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hunterword.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hunterword.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hunterword.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hunterword.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hunterword.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34351"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/hunterword.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34374,"href":"http:\/\/hunterword.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34351\/revisions\/34374"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hunterword.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hunterword.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hunterword.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hunterword.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}