Sanders challenged us to inhabit a radical human solidarity, for the people who don’t even get a say. That solidarity will outlast the end of his campaign
Photo: GC Images/2019 Bauzen On a cold Caucus Night in Des Moines, Iowa, this past February, I watched a gaggle of high-schoolers stage a small protest. They were desperate to make voters care about climate change, because they weren’t old enough to vote themselves, even though the election was happening in their own cafeteria. All they could do was march among the tables, holding their banner. “What do we want? A Green New Deal,” they chanted, awkwardly. “When do we want it? Now.
While covering the primaries, I met a lot of people who couldn’t vote for Bernie Sanders, but who were asking those who could to do it for them: countless teenagers who pounded Diet Coke while knocking on doors; felons; undocumented immigrants. I met a lot of people who could vote, too, who told me their primary motivation in backing Sanders was protecting the very vulnerable: the homeless, the sick, people still in prison, the extremely poor.
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