Sanders literally founded a third party. The Vermont Progressive Party. Which currently has six members in the Vermont State House and Senate, and is, as it happens, not controlled by oligarchs.

Sanders literally did what this meme condemns him for not doing.

I don’t agree with all his positions, but Christ. Do better, OP.

Build a party… the US has quite a few systems designed to make it impossible to build a party.

Take over a party and shift it’s goals… that we’ve seen at least partially with the tea party, though admitted it was a pretty small shift, and in the wrong direction.

why on earth is bernie the focus, over half of congress is shit republicans that explicitly are pushing nothing but horrible things. I’d say that 10% of democrats are outright undercover republicans (fetterman, Senima, formerly manchin), over half of the remaining democrats are corporatists at best (IE the pelosi, schumer etc…).

Bernie is clearly miles ahead of at least 95% of congress. The fact that he can’t start a political party by himself is, far from surprising. That’s a bit like asking, Asking bernie to start a political party, when in short all he is is one of the best congressmen we have, is a bit like asking a really good pastry baker “why haven’t you started a great multinational chain of Sushi restraunts”.