Bernie Sanders may be slowly coming to grips with his loss, but his followers are still knee-deep in angry Facebook rants and DNC protest planning.
This week, Occupy DNC, which you might remember was busy organizing a street performance of Les Miserables in an effort to get DNC super-delegates to switch allegiances (not realizing that the musical’s depicted revolution ends in horrific defeat), is snapping up campgrounds in and around Philadelphia for “Camp Bernie.”
The camp (or camps – there are two and organizers are in the process of nailing down a third) will feature “tent cities” like the ones in New York’s Zucotti Park during Occupy Wall Street but with the added excitement that comes with backing an eccentric septuagenarian with a polyester pants fetish and a tenuous grasp on economics.
But willing, able candidate or no, the organizers, according to the event’s Facebook page, are expecting quite the show. “This is approaching Woodstock, but with better communications,” one would-be protester declared. Another attendee hopefully renamed the event “BERNSTOCK.”
There are detractors, of course. At least one possible attendee tried to point out that challenging Hillary Clinton’s nomination could deliver the election to Trump. Others questioned the intelligence of leaving the planning phase exposed to search by the DNC. But like their candidate, they’re mostly just excited to have something to do. Grab your sleeping bags, everyone!
