KALAMAZOO, Mich. — "I feel like I just need hope," Zoe Reyes said from the lobby of Western Michigan University's Miller Auditorium, "because I feel like I'm feeling really down, not knowing what to do."

And Saturday, Reyes came looking for hope in the area she’s called home for a long time. Her search came amidst what she feels is something deeply wrong in her country.

"We've been at an oligarchal state for a very long time, because all of the power that we've had for a very long time when it comes to money and when it comes to wealth have been in the hands of the billionaires of the 1%," Reyes said.

And she wasn't alone, it seemed. Such was the case for many who came to the latest stop on U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders's (I-Vermont) "Fighting Oligarchy Tour," held at Miller.

Many, like

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