When a Bernie Sanders supporter bellowed “Feel the Bern!” through a megaphone in Chattanooga’s Renaissance Park on Saturday, a crowd of hundreds roared back and rattled their campaign signs in feverish excitement.
Teachers, musicians, welders and college students swarmed en masse to the rally ready to cheer and stomp in support of the democratic Socialist who has captured the hearts of voters with his relentless message of social and economic equality.
“We are part of a movement,” Anna Grabowski shouted to raucous applause.
Since the Vermont senator announced his candidacy for president almost a year ago in May 2015, his campaign has lauded that “movement” as a grassroots campaign.
For voters like Grabowski, Sanders’ platform has inspired them to not only vote for him, but to run for office themselves.