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'''Bernard Sanders''' is an Independent US senator from the state of Vermont and two-time failed presidential candidate who endorsed and campaigned for pro-establishment candidates Hillary Clinton<ref>https://www.newyorker.com/news/amy-davidson/bernie-sanderss-hard-fight-for-hillary-clinton</ref> and Joe Biden<ref>https://www.c-span.org/video/?476591-1/senator-bernie-sanders-campaigns-joe-biden-hampshire</ref>. Bernie Sanders was promoted by the [[Democratic Socialists of America]]<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/mar/21/democratic-socialists-of-america-bernie-sanders-2020</ref> which has pro-imperialist views<ref>https://www.dsausa.org/democratic-left/no-to-chinese-authoritarianism-no-to-yellow-peril/</ref>.

Bernie has a history of supporting US imperialism, including the backing of the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia<ref>https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/06/23/bernie-sanders-foreign-policy-doctrine-227193/</ref>, calling Venezuela's socialist president Maduro a "vicious tyrant"<ref>https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bernie-sanders-distances-himself-from-venezuela-president-nicolas-maduro-when-pressed-on-socialism-at-debate/</ref>, supporting the US-proxy state of Ukraine over the anti-imperialist state of Russia<ref>https://www.sanders.senate.gov/press-releases/news-sanders-statement-on-russian-invasion-of-ukraine/</ref>, and rejecting to call for a long-term ceasefire in the ongoing Gaza genocide by Israel<ref>https://www.thenation.com/article/world/bernie-sanders-gaza-cease-fire-israel-palestine/</ref>.

Bernie has a history of supporting US [[imperialism]], including the backing of the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia<ref>https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/06/23/bernie-sanders-foreign-policy-doctrine-227193/</ref>, calling Venezuela's socialist president Maduro a "vicious tyrant"<ref>https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bernie-sanders-distances-himself-from-venezuela-president-nicolas-maduro-when-pressed-on-socialism-at-debate/</ref>, supporting the US-proxy state of Ukraine over the anti-imperialist state of Russia<ref>https://www.sanders.senate.gov/press-releases/news-sanders-statement-on-russian-invasion-of-ukraine/</ref>, and rejecting to call for a long-term ceasefire in the ongoing Gaza genocide by Israel<ref>https://www.thenation.com/article/world/bernie-sanders-gaza-cease-fire-israel-palestine/</ref>.

The Infrared collective has made statements in which it believed Bernie's movement had potential to become a working class populist movement, but these efforts were thwarted by both liberal activists within his campaign and the democratic establishment who favored pro-establishment candidates.

====2016 Presidential Run ====

====2016 Presidential Run====

Bernie's movement started when he ran for president in the 2016 election as a [[Democratic Party|Democrat]]. He called himself a "Democratic socialist" of the Scandinavian model and his campaign slogan was to create a "political revolution".

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In a debate titled "Tankie Defeats Destiny"<ref>https://youtu.be/HB55g2kunNU?si=QAxQltO1IB6p2UGC&t=60</ref> with the streamer Destiny on February 23, 2021, Haz Al-Din suggested the Democratic party "rigged" the election against Bernie and that the mainstream media was changing peoples views against him in a "rat-fuckery way". One piece of evidence he provided was the Wikileaks emails showing Hillary Clinton was given the questions prior to a CNN debate against Bernie, among other biased actions by the DNC. Later in the debate, Haz suggests that after the election large swaths of his working class supporters joined the "[[MAGA]]" movement started by the Republican candidate [[Donald Trump]], which went on to defeat Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election.

====2020 Presidential Run====

==== 2020 Presidential Run====

In 2020, he ran for president again to win the Democratic Party nomination, this time, the main candidate favored by the establishment was former vice-president Joe Biden.

Due to Bernie's Democratic Socialist views and endorsement from Democratic ~~Socialist~~ of America, the organization gained thousands of followers during and after his 2016 campaign. Because of it's roots in western-establishment social democracy, this ideology mostly only appealed to college-educated gentrifiers in urban areas, who are completely detached from the sensibilities of the working class. This demographic of urban institutionalized activists composed the majority of the people who ran his 2020 campaign, along with backing from [[The Squad]] such as AOC. Due to this situation, his campaign ended up pandering to woke social and identity political issues instead of focusing on class issues, which alienated the working class who propelled his 2016 campaign.

Due to Bernie's Democratic Socialist views and endorsement from Democratic Socialists of America, the organization gained thousands of followers during and after his 2016 campaign. Because of it's roots in western-establishment [[social democracy]], this ideology mostly only appealed to college-educated gentrifiers in urban areas, who are completely detached from the sensibilities of the working class. This demographic of urban institutionalized activists composed the majority of the people who ran his 2020 campaign, along with backing from [[The Squad]] such as AOC. Due to this situation, his campaign ended up pandering to woke social and identity political issues instead of focusing on class issues, which alienated the working class who propelled his 2016 campaign.

In February 2019, the Infrared collective published a blog titled "ADOS and Bernie Sanders"<ref>https://biglefthook.home.blog/2019/02/28/ados-and-bernie-sanders/</ref>, in which it outlined how the ADOS (American descendants of slavery) movement, which was ''"up in arms over what they perceive to be Sanders’ reluctance in fully supporting reparations"'' could actually appeal to the white working class who had voted for Bernie in 2016. In it, Infrared states:

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 '''Bernard Sanders''' is an Independent US senator from the state of Vermont and two-time failed presidential candidate who endorsed and campaigned for pro-establishment candidates Hillary Clinton<ref>https://www.newyorker.com/news/amy-davidson/bernie-sanderss-hard-fight-for-hillary-clinton</ref> and Joe Biden<ref>https://www.c-span.org/video/?476591-1/senator-bernie-sanders-campaigns-joe-biden-hampshire</ref>. Bernie Sanders was promoted by the [[Democratic Socialists of America]]<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/mar/21/democratic-socialists-of-america-bernie-sanders-2020</ref> which has pro-imperialist views<ref>https://www.dsausa.org/democratic-left/no-to-chinese-authoritarianism-no-to-yellow-peril/</ref>.
-Bernie has a history of supporting US imperialism, including the backing of the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia<ref>https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/06/23/bernie-sanders-foreign-policy-doctrine-227193/</ref>, calling Venezuela's socialist president Maduro a "vicious tyrant"<ref>https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bernie-sanders-distances-himself-from-venezuela-president-nicolas-maduro-when-pressed-on-socialism-at-debate/</ref>, supporting the US-proxy state of Ukraine over the anti-imperialist state of Russia<ref>https://www.sanders.senate.gov/press-releases/news-sanders-statement-on-russian-invasion-of-ukraine/</ref>, and rejecting to call for a long-term ceasefire in the ongoing Gaza genocide by Israel<ref>https://www.thenation.com/article/world/bernie-sanders-gaza-cease-fire-israel-palestine/</ref>.
+Bernie has a history of supporting US [[imperialism]], including the backing of the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia<ref>https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/06/23/bernie-sanders-foreign-policy-doctrine-227193/</ref>, calling Venezuela's socialist president Maduro a "vicious tyrant"<ref>https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bernie-sanders-distances-himself-from-venezuela-president-nicolas-maduro-when-pressed-on-socialism-at-debate/</ref>, supporting the US-proxy state of Ukraine over the anti-imperialist state of Russia<ref>https://www.sanders.senate.gov/press-releases/news-sanders-statement-on-russian-invasion-of-ukraine/</ref>, and rejecting to call for a long-term ceasefire in the ongoing Gaza genocide by Israel<ref>https://www.thenation.com/article/world/bernie-sanders-gaza-cease-fire-israel-palestine/</ref>.
 The Infrared collective has made statements in which it believed Bernie's movement had potential to become a working class populist movement, but these efforts were thwarted by both liberal activists within his campaign and the democratic establishment who favored pro-establishment candidates.
-====2016 Presidential Run ====
+====2016 Presidential Run====
 Bernie's movement started when he ran for president in the 2016 election as a [[Democratic Party|Democrat]]. He called himself a "Democratic socialist" of the Scandinavian model and his campaign slogan was to create a "political revolution".
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 In a debate titled "Tankie Defeats Destiny"<ref>https://youtu.be/HB55g2kunNU?si=QAxQltO1IB6p2UGC&t=60</ref> with the streamer Destiny on February 23, 2021, Haz Al-Din suggested the Democratic party "rigged" the election against Bernie and that the mainstream media was changing peoples views against him in a "rat-fuckery way". One piece of evidence he provided was the Wikileaks emails showing Hillary Clinton was given the questions prior to a CNN debate against Bernie, among other biased actions by the DNC. Later in the debate, Haz suggests that after the election large swaths of his working class supporters joined the "[[MAGA]]" movement started by the Republican candidate [[Donald Trump]], which went on to defeat Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election.
-====2020 Presidential Run====
+==== 2020 Presidential Run====
 In 2020, he ran for president again to win the Democratic Party nomination, this time, the main candidate favored by the establishment was former vice-president Joe Biden.
-Due to Bernie's Democratic Socialist views and endorsement from Democratic Socialist of America, the organization gained thousands of followers during and after his 2016 campaign. Because of it's roots in western-establishment social democracy, this ideology mostly only appealed to college-educated gentrifiers in urban areas, who are completely detached from the sensibilities of the working class. This demographic of urban institutionalized activists composed the majority of the people who ran his 2020 campaign, along with backing from [[The Squad]] such as AOC. Due to this situation, his campaign ended up pandering to woke social and identity political issues instead of focusing on class issues, which alienated the working class who propelled his 2016 campaign.
+Due to Bernie's Democratic Socialist views and endorsement from Democratic Socialists of America, the organization gained thousands of followers during and after his 2016 campaign. Because of it's roots in western-establishment [[social democracy]], this ideology mostly only appealed to college-educated gentrifiers in urban areas, who are completely detached from the sensibilities of the working class. This demographic of urban institutionalized activists composed the majority of the people who ran his 2020 campaign, along with backing from [[The Squad]] such as AOC. Due to this situation, his campaign ended up pandering to woke social and identity political issues instead of focusing on class issues, which alienated the working class who propelled his 2016 campaign.
 In February 2019, the Infrared collective published a blog titled "ADOS and Bernie Sanders"<ref>https://biglefthook.home.blog/2019/02/28/ados-and-bernie-sanders/</ref>, in which it outlined how the ADOS (American descendants of slavery) movement, which was ''"up in arms over what they perceive to be Sanders’ reluctance in fully supporting reparations"'' could actually appeal to the white working class who had voted for Bernie in 2016. In it, Infrared states: