John, Camille and Alina are in the audience of Denver. If you think of most democrats, you are just angry. “We need a lot more people like Bernie Sanders who are now really active. He has done it all his life,” says Alina. “The democratic senators would have to be called every day to make it clear to them what they build for a crap,” says Camille. “You just don’t do what you should do, namely to fight for us,” says John. He would not have expected that many people come. “Something is happening here.
At this point it is difficult to assess what will happen. But from Nebraska, Michigan, Wisconsin via Nevada, Iowa, Colorado to Arizona, thousands of Americans suddenly flock to Bernie Sanders. Senator from the state of Vermont, who has been insulted as a communist and socialist for decades, currently benefits from three properties: he always remained loyal to his beliefs. With Donald Trump and Elon Musk, his billionaire fright gift is in a double version in the White House. And at 83, Bernie Sanders becomes active than anyone else.
In the past few days, however, he has got young and female reinforcements. The well-known youth hope of the left, democratic spectrum, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez from the state of New York is now at his side. The politician, known in the USA as an AOC, comes from the most poor conditions in the Bronx and made it from a simple waitress to the House of Representatives. For a long time, she also not only fights against the Republicans, but also against large parts of her own party.
In Denver she is on stage and speaks of “this movement”. This is no longer about party drawings or ideological purity tests, says Ocasio-Cortez. “It’s about class solidarity.” The only 35-year-old congress member brings her convincing personal history. “I don’t believe in health care, employee rights and human dignity because I am an extremist,” she says. Because it is regularly referred to by conservative media. “I believe in these things because I was a waitress,” she says.
As a child, she cleaned the houses of wealthy people with her mother, and she lost her father at the age of 18 because of a lung cancer. “I had to watch how my mother opened the hospital bills a few days after his death,” says Ocasio-Cortez. Donald Trump and the right would try to give working people the feeling that one was only one step away from being accepted into the club of the rich and maybe one day to be millionaires. “Are there a millionaire here?” She asks in the crowd and answers herself: “No, of course not.”
