Bernie Sanders

The people have come to have faith in his views on American politics. He stands strong without the millions of dollars all the other wealthy candidates have. Bernie Sanders has many of America’s support that volunteer to help his views be known in 47 states when he has no staff members to pay for. Sanders already impacted many people who believe this revolution will change America for the better of all people. The greatest weapon in America is not wealth and power. The greatest weapon is the vote by the people. (“The Gospel” 34)

Personally I believe that politics have continued to become more of a play, filled with actors and scripted lines, instead of actual people dealing with legitimate issues. Instead of focusing on the various dilemmas happening within our society, politicians often times, appeal to general, unnecessary topics. The term, ‘why fix something when it’s not broken’ is often used, but what happens when what is broken, is so demolished that it goes unnoticed? The growth and development of society has also pushed people into a corner where certain topics are barely touched upon because we have this instilled fear of offending someone or various people. At a certain point in time, we have to put aside the feelings of others in order to better the country

The government of the United States is bought and sold like stocks. Billionaires and corporations have poured an incomprehensible amount of money into thousands of political campaigns. According to opensecrets.org, the average cost to win a senate race is now $11,474,362. For the 2016 presidential race alone the Koch brothers plan on spending $889 million. It is nearly impossible to win an election without the support of billionaires and corporations. The impact that money has on elections has spiraled of control. A political revolution to fix the power the wealthy have in politics is already happening. Senator Bernie Sanders is the one leading this revolution. Even without the revolutionary policies, Sanders would set in place to end the American Oligarchy his campaign is still important. Sanders leading by example and showing the country that it is possible to run a campaign without support from the elite. Sanders campaign has raised $75 million so far with an average donation of only $25. If

Bernie Sanders ran for political office in the town of Burlington, Vermont in 1981 and was elected mayor. He created many projects to improve the town in ways of housing, taxation, child care, women’s rights, and youth programs. In this same context, he created the Burlington Community Land Trust, an award winning project. He has also shown that he is no stranger to competing with those who have money on their side. In 2006 Bernie Sanders became a candidate for Vermont’s seat in the senate, running against the richest man in the state. To the voters of Vermont, upbringing, education, and political awareness mattered more than wealth. Despite the odds, Sanders won the seat, proving that money is irrelevant in a truly democratic race.

This election is about ending the grotesque level of income and wealth inequality in America today” (Sanders, 2016, para. 30). Bernie raises the concern to the audience that many Americans are in poverty. The audience is filled with fear for American because many of them could not get a job and it is very hard for them to pay for their bills. Furthermore, Bernie Sanders feels trust worth to the audience because he tries to connect to them by using words like we and to show he is a politician of the people. He is trying to serve the interests of the people that just got out of college and find it very hard to get a job in America in the current job market. Moreover, Bernie Sanders raise awareness of anger within the crowd with how 1% controls most of country’s wealth, “It is not moral, it is not acceptable, and it is not sustainable that the top 1/10th of 1 percent now owns almost as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent.

Bernie Sanders is a son of an immigrant and has realized that the vast majority of Americans at one point stemmed from immigration. It is the fundamental belief that the U.S. has a better opportunity for all people. His proactive plan includes a path to citizenship for eleven million undocumented Americans, a future policy to uphold our country’s beliefs, and to balance trade agreements Thousands of people immigrated through Angel Island, “ 22 million immigrants entered the country through Ellis Island and the Port of New York,” (“How Many Immigrants”) and eleven million undocumented people from the U.S.’s southern border have entered the country illegally. Sanders stands for equality for all Americans, not only the ones with papers. This candidate stands for an America that takes pride in caring for thy neighbor and being a haven for the oppressed. Bernie Sanders stands with us, not against us.

Bernie Sanders has a thick political background, making him the most eligible candidate for the 2016 presidential election. In January of 1962, when Sanders was just twenty years old, he lead a multi week sit-in to oppose segregation as an officer of the Congress of Racial Equality (Bernie’s Story). Barely a year later in 1963, he took an overnight bus full of fellow advocates to hear Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous speech “I Have A Dream” firsthand (Bernie’s Story). Throughout the next ten years, Bernie ran for three statewide races including two U.S Senate seats and a place in Government. Defeating a six-term “local machine mayor,” Sanders ran independently

One controversial issue with the senator’s policies is how his bills are going to be passed. If Bernie Sanders were elected, his bills would not make it through the Republican majority congress that is in the United States today. The only option that he is left with is to campaign for a democratic congress; however, “Sanders should be out campaigning for progressive candidates for House and Senate across the country in Democratic primaries, and would need to campaign hard this fall to defeat dozens of Republican incumbents across the country” (Caffrey). In the words of Matt Caffrey, “he hasn’t done any of that.”

Bernard “Bernie” Sander was born on September 8, 1941 in Brooklyn, New York to Eli and Dorothy Sanders. Bernie’s father immigrated to the United States from Poland at the age of seventeen without much currency or a formal education. Bernie’s mother Dorothy graduated high school in New York City. Bernie and his brother Larry grew up in a compact apartment in Brooklyn, New York. In January 1962, Bernie, a Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) officer, lead students in a multi week sit in to oppose segregation in off campus housing owned by the University of Chicago. In August 1963, Bernie was an organizer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Bernie took an overnight bus with other fellow activists for his first ever trip to Washington,

Bernie Sanders is an independent United States Senator from the state of Vermont. When he ran for president in 2016 he switched parties and became a democrat. Although he didn't win the nomination for president, he gained a lot of support among young college students. One of the ways that Bernie gained support from the progressive youth movement was his grassroots message.

As an American being able to elect and be a part of the selecting in the upcoming presidential election is an important, not only for oneself but for the whole nation. A Democratic Party runner, a senator from Vermont, named Bernie Sanders is a known one. In my opinion, I believe Bernie Sanders is an important well qualified candidate in the millennial generation. It’s also important that the citizen of the United States should know. Bernie is a lifelong advocate of the middle working class.

“Today, we live in the richest country in the history of the world, but that means little because much of the wealth is controlled by a tiny handful of individuals.” Since the early 80’s the middle class has become poorer, and the one percent has gotten richer. There are many of Americans working long gruesome hours for little pay. But if Bernie is elected

On May 26th, 2015 Bernie Sanders announced his candidacy for presidency. Bernie stands for the underdog, the beaten down, and the abused. Bernie Sanders has been the Junior Senator from Vermont since 2007. He is an Independent that caucuses with the Democrats. In his run for presidency Bernie asked questions that others would not. He spoke on issues other candidates would not tackle. He did not just expand upon the Democratic agenda, he wrote an entirely new agenda, an agenda for the

To start off, I’ll begin by saying my candidate, Bernie Sanders, strongly believes that most of the money in our country is held by millionaires and billionaires. He is even quoted as saying in an article by ontheissues.org, “It is immoral and wrong that the top 1/10th of 1% in this country own almost 90 percent almost as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent. That is wrong, today, in a rigged economy, that 57% of all new income is going to the top 1%.” Bernie’s views on the economy were mainly formed from the amount of inequality between the rich and everyone else. As it seems Mr. Sanders will continue running in the election, we might be able to see some of his plans for the economy come to fruition.

His focuses are the real issues that face America, and he has spent his whole life devoted to them. He is not bought by big money, and he is not afraid to stand up to the corporate powers that silently rule this country. He calls for getting money out of politics, and legislating education and health care to be rights of all Americans. His main fight is the one for lessening income inequality. There are videos of Bernie fighting against inequality twenty years ago, and the problem has only gotten larger. He is not the prettiest man running (hello Chris Christie), but he is the crazy disheveled Grandpa that this country needs to put it back on the right track. It seems to many that Hilary already has the nomination in hand, and because of that people some don’t view Bernie as a serious candidate. That apathy is dangerous to the nation. When liberals go out and vote, liberals win. There is a sense of enthusiasm behind Bernie that Hilary just does not have. Enthusiasm wins elections, and it’s hard for any in-tune forward thinker to not be enthusiastic about the prospect of President Bernie