We Won’t Forget What the Bernie Sanders Campaigns Accomplished
As Bernie Sanders listened to tired and dejected working people across the country, he said he wanted them to “feel less alone.” We are indeed not alone. United behind a common program, with full knowledge of our friends and enemies, we must keep forging on.
Bernie Sanders speaks at a Phoenix, Arizona, rally on March 5. Gage Skidmore / Flickr
I grew up in India in the seventies and eighties in the shadow of Cold War, and then in a world where America reigned supreme. The United States was synonymous with capitalism, and thus, for us on the Left, it was the source of an indefensible system that privileges profits over people.
When I came to the United States in the mid-nineties, it was what I largely expected — a country where a massive concentration of wealth at the top along with a thriving middle class had normalized large pockets of destitution and disenfranchisement. It had a population mostly apathetic to a political system run by two parties beholden to their corporate funders.
What was somewhat surprising to me, coming from a country with an organized left, was how much in disarray and how marginalized the Left was in the United States.
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