A Conversation with Senator Bernie Sanders | 2024: Where Do We Go From Here?

Join us for a conversation with Bernie Sanders, senior U.S. Senator from Vermont and former United States Democratic Presidential candidate. This conversation will be moderated by Alison King, award-winning journalist and Spring 2024 IOP Resident Fellow, with a special introduction by Bill de Blasio, former Mayor of New York City.

[@ReneeKadlubek-gt9qm]

Thank you all

[@really-shouldnt-be-here]

often times, election is not about voting for the best candidate; it is rather about voting against the worst candidate.

[@ReneeKadlubek-gt9qm]

Health elections amd neutralizing issues with ppl who qremt always known for moving forward outside of past political beefs

[@ReneeKadlubek-gt9qm]

Hole in the bucket dear liza and shell be coming around the mountain

[@ReneeKadlubek-gt9qm]

If im worse off than i was four years ago thats embarrassing for those in charge.

[@BrokenneckYgor]

Ernie da Bernie ain’t talkin fer me

[@lorenherrigstad8576]

A very reasoned discussion that has changed my mind as a center-left moderate, and is very timely. While I find myself torn between Israel and innocent Gazans (which I distinguish from Hamas), Sanders convinced me that despite not doing as much in even-handed support for innocent Gazans and Palestinians as I would want to see, that Biden must be reelected nonetheless. As he says, "Short-term, Trump has gotta be defeated. Long-term, a strong grassroots movement which moves this country in a progressive direction."

[@craig4053]

Way to make it seem like you're not a total leftist.

[@lorenherrigstad8576]

@@craig4053, I have never been a total leftist, always a center-left moderate for as long as I can remember. There is more to the political spectrum than simply left or right. I even subscribe to the Horseshoe or Donut Theory in Political Science which suggests that the far left and far right may in fact be closer to each other than they are to political centrists like me. It all comes from studying parliamentary democracies that typically seat far more than just two political parties - typically 8 to 14. I find those far more representative of their nations' diverse electorates than America's two-party system is.

[@darrenivak4536]

We love you Bernie,❤ very informative I appreciate it, how can we get rid of dumpy, where is it just in dementia

[@chef1088]

Biden is the one with dementia.

[@SunisaSeeson]

❤❤❤love kis

[@craig4053]

Smell ya later Bernie!

[@ReneeKadlubek-gt9qm]

Was i assaulted bc others thought that was an acceptable way to advocate against any particular person or cause? Muxed in woth progressive advocacy and what was normalized woth me for a decade

[@ReneeKadlubek-gt9qm]

My life was severely disrupted so sorry if my commentsvare upsetting

[@ReneeKadlubek-gt9qm]

Have we figured out who wanted to debilitate me? Thats a lot of lies and im pretty healthy.

[@ReneeKadlubek-gt9qm]

Is there a program where someone like me travels around the country to meet ppl who also want a revolution of sorts? One that doesn't collapse?

[@ReneeKadlubek-gt9qm]

I don't require much but an identity and agency are things I require. Privacy and seeing things that interest me.

[@ReneeKadlubek-gt9qm]

Remrmber 💚 wity coldplay? I believe in causes but yhey need to be separated from the ends justify the sometimes hypocritical means approach the men i was around adopted while trying to take what wasnt theirs

[@ReneeKadlubek-gt9qm]

Was i assaulted bc others thought that was an acceptable way to advocate against any particular person or cause? Muxed in woth progressive advocacy and what was normalized woth me for a decade

[@ReneeKadlubek-gt9qm]

Who said smthg about me being bernies wife in 2016? Not great

[@sojournerhouse]

I am against Medicare for all. I am for the free market place for Insurance and Obama care. This has worked for Americans because it is based on personal income. Medicare is for the Seniors and it is expensive. This move to privatize Medicare will hurt the Seniors and drive the cost even higher for them when their income is lower and their need for health care is increased.

[@craig4053]

How many poor people can actually meet the $12,000 yearly deductible? Exactly. They can't and don't. So they are worse off now than before.

[@ReneeKadlubek-gt9qm]

Nobody should be firced to vote for anyone and thats what i was stuck in fir a decade which is why biden was a relief

[@ReneeKadlubek-gt9qm]

For me. Forcing ppl to vote or only be exposed to one side is the opposite of what I stand for and love JFK Jr forum for hearing and showing that

[@craig4053]

Drinking and scrolling huh?

[@ReneeKadlubek-gt9qm]

Bedridden for a decade

[@ReneeKadlubek-gt9qm]

I am a woman who earned five degrees and my brain was wasted bc of some specific men who relied heavily on me being bedridden while aiming at political candidates without me knowing how significant I was

[@charlesdavidson9752]

interesting listening to the senator. i was disappointed. he sounded like a left wing politician with emphasis on politician. i.e., he didn't answer a number of questions which he didn't want to. i have supported him and i was wrongfully assuming he was always transparent.