Bernie Sanders Interviews Mall Punks (1988) [FULL]
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Bernie, the best president we never had.
💯👍
What a stark contrast to the insane rhetoric of the right today, not so many years later. The very folks that would judge these intelligent and apparently well read young people… Man they make me proud.
Move to Venezuala dumbass
F**k the Democrats for that, dude
@@wendywhite4929 it's always a testament to the state of society when politicians win by rhetoric and populism rather than by politics and debate. It shows how stupid and desperate some people are, that they'd rather vote for someone who is a blatant yesman than a person to can argue logically and explain their reasoning.
Literally populism should be illegal.
Bernie Sanders has been 80 years old for the last 40 years....
A true man of the people
he’s Larry David!
@@Tony_Soprano2 larry david wishes!
@@gayanime8981 I doubt well-liked, multimillionaire Larry David wishes he was anyone else.
@@mitchellclark4320 what about jeff goldblum?
@@mitchellclark4320 or keanu reeves
Bring back mall punk
I still don't know what punk is. Lol
holy shit nice to see you here andrew
Oh hey Andrew!
Bring back the mall, purryodt;)
Andrew what a surprise, was researching for an assignment and was just using your video about punk, afterwards finding this video
Remember, Bernie was the _mayor_ of the town when he did this. He went to the mall, he found a couple of weird looking teenagers, and he interviewed them. He didn't make fun of them, he didn't cut them off. He asked them serious questions, and when they gave him shaky, nervous answers, he just asked them to explain further. He treated them with respect.
Exactly. People like him because he listens.
Seriously, most older people would probably be condescending and rude.
why we need him in the White House instead of the sleepy hair sniffer and fat orange clown
Nobody cares
@@Xfinitygrows given the amount of likes my comment got, it would seem you're wrong. But thanks for your opinion, doofus.
These kids are so intelligent, you could tell Bernie was genuinely interested in hearing their views on society too. America please treasure this man he's one of a kind!
This was maybe true years ago but bernie voted in support ofIsr@el. You don't treasure someone complicit in such mass destruction
yeah more intelligent than your liberals and miles ahead of conservatives, but could do with a little reading on marx lenin and mao. they probably are marxists by now i wonder what they are doing nowadays
I wonder how they’re doing nowadays, considering they’re probably in their 60s or at least late 50s.
The girl showed some intelligence, but I think they were keenly aware on an emotional and implicit psychological level of the threats around them as they negotiated adolescence. It takes guts to make that stand, not having the big picture of how this all came to be and a thesis on how it needs to change could be forgiven, I suppose. I feel like Bernie could have gone through a punk phase.
@@ScaleScarborough-jq8zx as far as politicians go he is kinda punk lol he is what trump pretends to be
wow a us politician going out into the public and gathering insight from his constituents. this is pretty much unheard of nowadays.
It was unheard of back then too. Bernie is on another level
He was still mayor at this time. He wouldn't even get away with it today.
They're technically not necessarily his constituents depending on their age, but still interesting.
Yeah RFK is the only one doing it
Come on, Trump is also good at listening to his constituents! He did a Mar-a-Lago "interview" with his "constituents" from the oil industry, and listened to them asking to scrap policies for EVs and wind energy (in exchange for 1 billion 💵).
Look at how open-minded Bernie is, though. Damn.
I know. Bernie REACHES OUT to people to see their opinions.
Open minded? Bernie? Not these days he isn't
@@mastrtonberry2 I beg to differ
@@mastrtonberry2open minded doesn’t mean you believe in all ideas, it means you’re willing to hear ideas that challenge you, and truly consider them. Try and make them work.
We’ve been trying to make hyper capitalism work for a long time and it’s not working.
@@JokerDoom Well I don't know what hyper-capitalism is but regular capitalism is working out okay. It's elevated society as a whole to a point which socialism could never reach. There are real world examples, current and historic, that demonstrate this. Generally speaking, this isn't an opinion.
"I just want to live the way I want to live." As an old trans lady, this hits me right in the feelz. I hope those two young people grew up living free and beautiful lives. 💜
Im a younger trans girl and this hit me in the feels too 😭💞
@@JeniOnly don't worry sweet girl, We the People are electing President Harris, and the rapist freak trump is going to prison. We're not going back! 🙂🫂
In case you cannot see it on your YT sidebar, people from the YT channel "Town Meeting TV" managed to find both of them four years ago. The name of the video is "Bernie Sanders Mall Punks React to Interview from 1988".
Cheers! 🙂❤
Wats a "Trans Lady" ???
Please keep this harmful rhetoric in the forums where it belongs. Imagine stealing wholesome quotes and twisting it to mean embracing mental illness.
Bernie is PUNK ROCK
exactly. he just knows how to blend in and push the punk rock agenda from the inside.
@@user-xz1wy4to4opunk was created by a bunch of posers.
Inside his heart, he wants 2 rock a mohawk and black lipstick@@user-xz1wy4to4o
Bernie is BRAT
bernie is HARDCORE
Everyone in this clip was so ahead of their time. Hope these two awesome mall punks are doing well now! Much love to Bernie always. 🤍
You must be 12 years old. They are recited cliches that were lingering since the 60s. They don’t have an original bone in their bodies. They are conforming to non-conformity. They are copy-and-paste punk airheads.
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ahead of their time? they're parroting rhetoric from the 60s, and people in the 60s were parroting rhetoric from the 1910s, who were building on from the 1870s.
@@jal-kx6tm It is true that rhetoric can be inspired from previous generations, but in this case said rhetoric is countercultural. It was mostly uncommon for alternative individuals to be accepted as the “status quo” in the 60’s/70’s/80’s/90’s as their perspectives and outward appearances challenged societal norms instead of adhering to them. Bernie was and is also anti-capitalist and largely socialist, which was shunned by most Americans until more recently. Media, world events, the economy, and politics all contribute to such fluctuations in societal attitudes.
@@floofff your first sentence contradicts itself. marxism was probably the most countercultural movement we've seen in the modern world. everything in this clip stems from that.
"alternate" individuals are alternate because they're against the status quo, even today. i think you might be surprised at how little traction socialism has gained in this country over the past couple election cycles despite the narrative.
before bernie, there were a ton of such "alternate" politicians. no generation is unique, i guarantee you can read stuff from the 1800s and you will find perspectives that hew very close to everything you've said here.
“To heck with society! To heck with law and orde-well, not it’s not so much law and order…”
This is the most wholesome thing I’ve seen this month.
You're against "law and order" until you exit the mall to find broken glass where your car was. (Nobody at that point is like "YES! ANARCHY!!!") It's great to see the ideas budding... would love to see if they went anywhere with it, or if they conformed.
@@johnferet8178Believing the political ideology of anarchism is synonymous with pure chaos is such a typically shallow and reductive take. The girl herself said "well not law and order"
@@johnferet8178The person you're responding to also thinks it's wholesome that the girl supposed herself and obviously believes in law and order.
@@AkerfeldtTveitan-yi4xm They obviously were smart kids back then who were figuring things out. They were able to draw a clear divide between Marxism and Soviet Communism, which an amazing few in the USA have ever been able (or willing) to do. They were young and idealistic, and as so many of us have done were clinging to a few popular phrases. I hope they continued to grow and are still doing great things.
I love you Bernie, I wish you had won the presidency.
The corrupt DNC stole it from him.
Indeed, he certainly would be a whole lot more legible than Biden is now
I'm glad he didn't. Democratic Socialism is like Communism -- it's good on paper but when put to action, it leads to suppression of freedoms. I'd rather have too much freedom than too little a degree of it.
me too, I was just slightly too young to vote :[
Keep in mind that it was because of his two runs that you hear so many Democrats sounding like Bernie. That never would have been 8-10 years ago. When i heard Biden speak at a rally a few months back I was sitting there thinking "this sounds like a Bernie rally from 2016"
This is why bernie is a good politician
Yes! I agree and I think Bernie should’ve been president
Mike volunteered for Bernie's campaign. There's a UA-cam video of him being interviewed recently.
What is his last name so I can search?
Would love to know his last name or how to find it
@@DemocratSocialistRob @thethrowawaythatstayed7055 he says his full name at the beginning of the interview
Nice!!
@@wilgeman6784 I tried listening to it a few times, dunno why but the last name seems a bit garbled
Friggin' Bernie, man.. Always poised to be the unrecognized GOAT! 😭 He deserved to be president and we deserved to have him as pres 💔
2016 was stolen, from Bernie
Watching this 6 days after you commented and I'm in tears. I'm still hurt we elected his nega inverse shadow twin DJT instead.
Thanks to Bernie, Hillary lost to Trump. We know the rest of the story.
Would've been a whole lot cooler if we were in the second term of President Bernie Sanders right now.
YES
We would be Cuba 2.0
@@BellicV 🤡
@@BellicV Someone loves wealth inequality
@@koalabrownie someone loves communism
Even though I'm not in this video and it's nearly 40 years old, the way Bernie says "alright, talk about that..." makes me want to just spill every thought I've ever had.
Youth is idealism unfettered by experience. I think Bernie knows this. Thus his tolerance and warmth. I hope he holds Harris' feet to the fire, if need be, on the corporate landlord issue. 💙
There's nothing idealistic about being skeptical and critical of society's large hegemonic structures and dismissing its stiff conventions as restrictive. The word you're looking for is rebellion and that's indeed typical of youth but Bernie proves you don't need to be young to embody it.
TO HECK WITH SOCIETY!!!!
I agree 👍
Its a tough slogan but what she really meant was the conservative capitalist society.
Society on its own is not bad. We shouldn't abandon the society we have now, but rather try to change and optimize our society in a positive hopeful way. I don't think giving up what we have until now, is a good option. Let's build on it.
I love that she said "to heck" instead of "to hell". It says so much about them, about the time, about the place. I bet a sociology student could write a whole thesis about this interview.
@@julioverne579 no, she didn't. Stop putting words in people's mouth. Especially since only in capitalist countries they're allowed to be dressed like that without being sent to Gulag.
I think these guys had pretty interesting opinions. I can imagine that it was very refreshing for them to be able to speak their minds. And I get why they might not be entirely well-spoken about their opinions since they never get sound them, but it was still interesting to hear what they think.
That a very kind way of phrasing it. I know a lot of people who would hear this and conclude that they have vague political thoughts and don't know anything about the world. But you're right, they probably never got the opportunity to voice these trains of thought in a calm, understanding environment.
I definitely think they had solid views. They just did not know how to articulate them.
This is exactly how I would sound if somebody asked me these questions in a mall 😅
I think it also might be because they’re teenagers. Can you believe these people are probably in their 50s or 60s right now?
Exactly, who in the world can precisely articulate their view on society when asked on the spot? I wish I could! Reminds me of those miss Universe women getting asked to create peace in the middle east within 30 seconds...
its a rarity to see a politician be consistent in way that isn't a detriment towards society
That was punk fucking rock, Mr. Sanders.
Thoughtful young people having high level conversations with the mayor about real issues. Loved it.
Its tough when you are put on the spot like that with a mic, unprepared. But I think a lot of people probably had prejudice about punks at the time and Bernie gave them a chance to express themselves and actually be heard. And I think they made some very valid points and show what the reaction is about.
I think punks historically have had a much better understanding of the world than the "average Joe"...
👏🏼👏🏼💯👏🏼💙 Every voter in America needs to see this!! If only these young voices could have been heard on mainstream media & acted on, just imagine!! Thank you, Bernie!! 💙👏🏼💯🙏🏼🌊💙
Especially in the US, it's increasingly rare that people will engage in conversation with people who will challenge their viewpoints or even their appearance. Bernie doesn't judge, he asks: hey, you look different from the rest here, why is that? If you ask an honest question, you get an honest answer!
MY GRANDPA AND RIGHTFUL PRESIDENT
from what ive seen so far walz seems like a pretty good "young" bernie
The punk kid or Bernie? 😉
Proud to say I voted for him in 2016
I am looking for the comments here from Michelle & Mike saying "That was me!" with their take on the interview & a life update.
Ah The 80s. You know Michelle & Mike were listening to some life-changing music.
Hit the description. Got three videos with them.
@@Tester-sh1mn oh my god, thx!
The way he earnestly asks how these kids feel and gives them time and space to explain themselves is so refreshing to see from a politician.
He's interviewing himself trough the voices of others with out him even knowing. He's heard the actual cries of his people and until this day, still echo inside his heart. Damn Bernie.
The girl spoke a lot of reason
she sounded like she had no clue why she was looking like that.
@@morbidmanmusicI’d say she struggled for words on how to say what she really means and feels… but in the end got a point across..
She actually made an excellent point about endless wars!
Bernie's the man. Watching his demeanor with these kids is awesome. And the kids were awesome too. Given a chance to have a good conversation everybody participated. It's been nearly 25 years . . . Where are you two kids now? What's going on in your lives? How are you today? I'd love to know.
It such a shame he never became president
The pinned comment on the video is a follow up with the two in 2020.
1988 "nearly 25 years"? guess education hasn't improved much since their community college days...
It is really something to watch the arc of this interview. They started with their guard up, almost assuming they were being challenged. Then as Bernie continued asking constructive questions, they started having more honest and thought out answers. Clearly, they were teens and didn’t have a lot of perspective behind their answers, but they meant well and were relatively conscientious people. I liked this.
This is why Bernie Sanders has ALWAYS been the GOAT
"I just want to live the way I want to live"
Feel the Burn even back in 88.
Hes been a politician for decades
Since the 60s
As a former mall punk class of 1990, I approve of this message.
Bernie2020. Love this guy
Bernie 2024 now
@Cradled People have been sayin that for years
@Cradled he will be alright, but he doesn't wanna run
@Cradled Turner 2020?
MAGA 2024 Ofcourse. 80s were MAGA DAYS BABY. Everybody loves the 80s
Bernie has always been super progressive. He's a fantastic person, and I dearly wish we had him in office the last eight years.
I'd love to know where these punks are now.
Theu just reacted to this on the same channep
Tired of millennials and liberal shit. Today liberals are anything but the real ones.
@@basitk12 lol, what are you even talking about?
@@mynamehappy johnnys angry at the world lmao
@@basitk12 punk is super leftist though, it's anti-capitalist and anarchist, like it's a cliche. It's also really anti-Christian
3:57 this guy casually walking by smoking a cig in the mall - 1988 feels.
And she pulled one out too
The banning of smoking in spaces like this is a welcome progress though.
@@AkerfeldtTveitan-yi4xm 💯
A true man of the people
Should have been president.
Too bad America wasn't ready for Bernie! He'd make and excellent president. He can talk and LISTEN to everyone, punks or Oxford University students and professors (where he got standing ovations!).. I'd be curious if those two kids follow in their lifes with this worldview. Bernie is always and everywhere a total pleasure to meet/see!
She is absolutely right! Her views align right with Bernie Sanders, and today’s LGBT views. She is amazing! 😭
LG Sucks
This is my favorite video of all time.
These kids are adorable, and Bernie is freaking awesome!
Thank you very much for your forthright views.
Thanks for bringing in these youths voices. We can give them some credit for inspiring others to also be more authentic, as we can see is showing up today!
I love Bernie so so so so so much. I went to his rally in brooklyn a few years back and i was surrounded by some of the most amazing and interesting people in this country
Based Bernard and the Punk constituents
This is beautiful.
I'd love to see where these 2 ended up these days
Theres a video of them reacting to this
Love these mall punks ! Look how smart they were even at 18 with their opinions !!! They were tracked down and here is their interview with their reaction to their video from 30+ years back: ua-cam.com/video/fq97NjNww4w/v-deo.html
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They're working in Bernie's campaign! Well worked at least
@@emilrogengellschwaner3555 Where?
Mall Punk was short lived, but MAN was it a hell of a scene to be a part of. Miss all you guys!!
Agree, but it's hard to be a walking contradiction and expect longevity.
These two are very highly educated, I'm impressed.
These people felt so strongly about being FREE. In '88 I was born, and i remember many years pre-Internet that diversity was incredible. People were so unique and confident. We've all been under attack for years now, and I feel that social networking and cell phones really kind of shook us up. We don't even know what to think anymore because we're being told 24/7 by everyone who to be
If you were born in 1998, then there wasn’t really any pre-Internet for you to remember since AOL made the Internet huge in 1992, when you were 4. People were exactly the same then as they are now as they were 100 years ago, including all those who back then talked about how everything was supposedly different and better when they were young as well. Back then, they blamed TV, and before that films, and before that radio, and on and on. Humans don’t fundamentally change, despite us always believing we do.
this is so sweet
This is amazing on so many levels
I love that when they get comfortable with saying how they feel since Bernie wasn't gonna judge them , they started preaching some awesome takes.
CYBERPUNK 1988
3:00 A true democratic Socialist. Those two youths, speak the mind of youth then, and today’s. I believe we need Democratic socialism. Socialism within a democratic framework with a little bit of capitalism more small businesses should be able to exist. And big businesses should work for the working people, not the CEOs and top 1/10th of 1%
150,000,000 people working for the interests of 6 dying CEOs is a clear waste of massive resources.
You can't contain capitalism cause the very nature of capitalism dictates all of the wealth and thus power will be transferred upwards. We need to get rid of it completely and build a better more free system
that sounds like social democracy to me which doesnt eliminate the core problems of capitalism. CEOs shouldnt exist in the first place
Bernie's the man.
“Maybe one day we will get invaded” this young woman is absolutely brilliant
This video shows that the passion of people, young or old, can change the world❤
Comrade Sanders
Bernie Sanders is such a sweetheart
You can tell these two never got to actually disclose their views to a wider audience and its awesome to hear from people such as this. They represented their generation perfectly.
Bernie will always be our hero
i love how after the interview they immediately return back the wall where he probably initially approached them for the interview. Mall Punks!!!!
This is why I love Bernie
Look how he askes the question very openly, without any suggestive behaviour, and just actively LISTENS to them. Love it.
Bernie was genuinely interested in their views and gave them them time to express them, instead of setting them up with loaded questions and steering them to express his own views
3:39
She is right, they should definitely separate Anarchism and Anomie if you don't want to scare off averages.
such an unfailingly kind man. he was the president we needed, but not the one we deserved
And to think this man of the people came so close to being and should have been President of the United States. And then we’d probably never had Agent Orange. Sad. And still Bernie keeps fighting for the little guy and gal.
That was the dems fault for not backing bernie , especially in the way they didnt.
When a politician speaks, and BOTH sides try to demonize them, read between the lines. Theyre most likely telling the truth
OMG bernie was an old man 30 some years ago!
@Bart Lee ok
Bernie has been an old king soul since age 0
These kids turned out to be bright way beyond my expectations! 😮 (I'm not from the US)
Not very articulate, but they stepped up and spoke out, and I agree with their opinions.😮😊
I feel like since Bernie let them keep talking they quickly ran out of the usual phraces and slogans they probably always use and actually started to reflect a bit before they spoke. It is important to encourage adolescent teenagers in that way if we truly want them to develop their own thoughts.
Anarchism is fairly complex and there's actually not a lot of strong representation to make a solid case for it or to make sense of it. Especially to dispel any fear that it would lead to actual chaos and anarchy.
For the most part politics themselves are already complicated so most people aren't going to spend that much time learning it without giving into their other personal interests and pursuits.
God I love this interview though. No bullying or immature aggressive or passive aggressive remarks. Just a solid respectful interview.❤
I think it's less about the strong representation and more about the fact that people are taught that the current system is perfect, and has no problems and that anyone who says otherwise are "sissy liberals" and "commies".
Because there are amazing representatives out there, for example Andrewism who often creates videos relating to anarchy, or topics surrounding it.
This is what a president should be. Not a self serving orange demagogue, and not an egocentric arrogant bureaucrat
Amazing interview. I love how he held the space for them, really held the space for them to speak.
Kinda reminds me of Molly in Breakfast Club.
I really hope that these two people still retain some of that punk ethic.
They do! ua-cam.com/video/fq97NjNww4w/v-deo.html
That man is the most human and best politician the US ever had period
Love how respectful Sanders is to these two.
Funny how most kids, these included, aren’t very good at articulating their ideas and get dismissed because of it.
I don’t believe their mindset was revolutionary, but I think their hearts are in the right place: personal freedom, transparent government, and an open-minded/inclusive society. Sounds good to me. ❤
My God! These kids are so smart!
Definitely smarter than my classmates now😅 I would love to be a teenager during this era
There is so much truth about invading other countries. Little do they know what ends up happening in a decade
I'm an anarchist, except for modern plumbing. I like that I can poop in my house and it disappears.
Anarchy doesn't mean no modern plumbing 💀
No unjust heirarchy is what anarchists want, perfectly compatible with modern plumbing, infact we could help facilitate modern plumbing to more folks without the heirarchs currently stopping us.
@@chrisrubin6445 sounds like a lot of rules. I don't like rules.
@@SJoiseyKid have fun shitting on the floor then I guess, lol
@@SJoiseyKid Anarchists aren't super into rules either - we'd rather people just came to agreement rather than being told what to do by someone who does not and cannot understand the minutiae of the lives they're dictating to.
Her smoking in the mall speaks volumes to how much has changed just in terms of public health in 30-40 years.
I love Bernie, then and now.
Today I learned that mall punks were just rebranded hippies.
"Are you saying to the mayor to heck with Law and order?"
I love these two so much ❤
This man would have made a truly excellent president
He should have been president
I do believe his purpose was to be the guiding light for the Democratic Party.
They know.
I like the way they dress those people live their lives without disturbing others and I love to know more about them
This man has always been a role model.
How old is Bernie Sanders still look as old as he does today?
Lmao that's what I sayed before
I think he's in his 40s in that year
He’s 46/47 here but looks 60