Term Paper There are currently two Democrats and three Republicans running in our 2016 presidential election. This includes Hilary Clinton and Bernie sanders as our Democrats and Ted Cruz, John Kasich, and Donald Trump as our Republicans. As previous elections, all the candidates have very specific views that oppose the other candidate’s views. This election is especially unique due to the increase in young adult’s active participation in the race. I believe that this increase is due to candidate Bernie Sanders who has shown a great appeal to young adults, including myself. He has not only shown great appeal to young adults but also white working-class voters. He has not gained much momentum with minority voters and older Americans and that has been a really big flaw with his candidacy. Sanders does have some strengths as well as weaknesses for his general election. In this analysis, I will break down Sanders’ strengths and weaknesses. Bernie Sanders is an American Democrat socialist who is currently the junior United States Senator of Vermont. Before being elected to the U.S. Senate in 2006, he served as a congressman for sixteen years. He has shown to favor social democratic parties similar to those in Europe. He likes to voice on many issues such as corporate welfare, global warming, income inequality, parental leave, universal healthcare, racial injustice, and LGBT rights. In order to understand Bernie Sander’s strengths and weaknesses, we have to make sense of his
John Nicholas interviewed Bernie Sanders for the Nation, a journal on politics, about his views on a few issues being addressed by the candidates (12-6). During the civil-rights movement, Sanders was a supporter of Martin Luther King Jr’s vision. A non-white person has the right to freedom, like any other person. To this present day, inequality and discrimination are a real issue. Police brutality against African-Americans is not new in this country. However, his main concern is that people know about inequality toward blacks, but does not know that the unemployment rate for the African-American youth is at fifty percent. (Nicholas 14) A percentage that high on unemployment rate is an economic problem for the country. Racism continues to exist in America. Racial equality is a vital issue to
A vote for Bernie Sanders is a vote for free education, reasonably paying jobs, and universal healthcare. [I need to add another sentence right here]. There are many reasons why Bernie Sanders is the best candidate for president based on his policies on college, jobs, and healthcare.
Bernie Sanders has been involved in politics for much of his lifetime. In the year of 1981, he was elected to be the mayor of Burlington, Vermont, and was reelected in the next three consecutive elections. Sanders became a United States senator in 2006. He has served 16 years in the House of Representatives, making him the longest-serving independent member
Senator Sanders plans to give each citizens access to universal healthcare so no citizen will be denied health and medicine. Throughout his political career he voted yes and no on bills going through Senate and he voted each time on bills that expanded healthcare or made it more affordable. He plans on taxing the rich at higher rates, same taxes from resolving the income inequality, and set forth a system of taxing through the stock system that will create billions over the course of a year (). These new taxes would benefit the middle and lower class because they would finally be able to receive healthcare that many of the poor have had to previously live without. New taxes sound like a bad thing, but in Bernie’s plans it would only affect corporations and the top 10%. These new taxes wouldn’t affect the average taxpayer in anyway resulting in more money out of your paychecks, but would affect them by giving them and every citizen free healthcare despite any poor financial
Bernie Sanders is a senator, politician, and political activist. He has held several different political offices including Mayor of Burlington, Vermont, and a Member of the U.S. House of Representatives. Economically, Sanders describes himself as a democratic socialist. Throughout his political career, Sanders has considered himself an independent, but during the 2016 presidential election, he ran as a democratic candidate. According to several polls, Bernie Sanders was considered the most popular senator in 2015 and 2016. Even after losing the 2016 presidential election, he encouraged his supporters to continue the "political revolution" that his campaign started in the country.
Politics is a very important thing that runs one of the greatest countries, which is the U.S.A. In this year 's Presidential Election the main candidates are Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump, and Hilary Clinton. Bernie Sanders is the best choice for America. Bernie Sanders was born in 1941 in Brooklyn, New York. He graduated in the University of Chicago. Bernie believed in Civil Rights and was part of CORE(Congress of Racial Equality). He participated in the March on Washington. Bernie became the mayor of Burlington, Virginia in 1981 and served for four terms until 1989. In 1990 he made it to the U.S. House of Representatives until 2007. In 2015 he announced he would run for Democratic presidential nomination. He now competes against the Republican Donald Trump. He is a better candidate because he believes in racial justice, combating climate change, and a fair immigration policy.
Bernie Sanders is socialist but is written down as a independent which is a big turnoff for most people. When people think of socialist they think of Lenin, Castro, and Stalin who were not the most pleasant of people. Sanders totally different then all of them though. First off he’s Jewish and these people don't seem Jewish. Second off he has not killed anybody like the people listed. And third is he has modern and past democratic views. He is a supporter of gay marriage and abortion which is modern democratic views. He wants the minimum wage raised which has been an ongoing fight for many years with republicans and democrats fighting over it. One more thing he's done is trying to reach out to our younger generation who is voting for the first time. In a New York Times article entitled “The Socialist Senator”, he visited South Burlington High School where he answer some question to some 6o kids. This is what you want in a president, who speaks at schools and answer question for them. In another New York Times Article, he states, “Doctors have told me about patients who died because they put off their medical visits until it was too late”(Sanders, 3). This proves a point that he does not want people to die. Now we can disagree that Sanders should or should not be president but what we can most definitely agree on is we don't want people to
Bernie Sanders, a Democratic candidate in the Presidential election, announced his campaign in his hometown of Burlington, Vermont. It was a very unusual setting: though it was a rally, it was seen more as a festival, with free Ben & Jerry’s ice cream and performances by the local Vermont-based band, Mango Jam. In his 35-minute speech given at the rally, Sander’s focused on campaigning without the help of billionaires and Super PACs, going against what most of his opponents were doing. He launched his campaign with the hope of creating a “political revolution to transform [this] country economically, politically, socially and environmentally” (Sanders). In explaining his ideals on how he would bring about this political revolution, Bernie Sanders
This paper will specifically deal with the conservative media's treatment of Bernie Sanders, and the ways in which conservative media outlets misrepresent and mischaracterize him. Specifically, I will examine these issues by unpacking the
Bernie Sanders has proven himself a champion of the middle class since his humble beginnings in 1981 as mayor of Burlington, Vermont. Once he became active in office as a member of the Senate in November 2006, Senator Sanders began breaking grounds to help provide “affordable housing, progressive taxation, environmental protection, child care,” and women’s equality. Now that he has officially began his campaign in the 2016 presidential race, Senator Sanders is discussing his ideologies that he believes will help the American people overcome many commonly-encountered obstacles.
Sanders is slowly leading the polls while Hillary Clinton’s lead of an average of 10 is decreasing causing Bernie to slowly creep ahead. His economic plan consists of fighting the increase in wealth inequality by increasing taxes of the wealthy, breaking up companies that are “too big to fail”, and vetoing the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Bernie’s environmental plan is to back renewable energy and turn away from the use of fossil fuels. He also believes in letting nuclear factories cover their own disaster costs and repealing the Price-Anderson Act, taxpayers paying for major nuclear accidents. Bernie also calls for transparency in campaign finances and banning U.S. companies controlled by foreign interest from lobbing, also called the DISCLOSE Act. Bernie also opposes single ownership of media outlets, letting the news operate on a grander scheme and with less bias in it. Bernie’s political view of warfare is a conservative one, he strongly believe in political attempts at peace and only believes in the use of the military as a final option. Opposing military action against ISIS he believes the US should support the defending nations but not directly attacking ISIS. Condemning the actions of the Paris attacks he warns against “Islamophobia” saying racism of this sort will just further the
Bernie Sanders is a U.S senator from Vermont. He is running for president of the United States of America for the Democratic Party. He came to test appeal with African Americans. So I was very interesting to see if he could appeal most of my fellow students. To tell the truth I believe that he did really win over the votes of most of my fellow students. Unlike most students I wasn’t really won over. He talk bout how he wanted to change minimum wage to $15. That’s great that he wasn’t to rise it so high. I want to know how was he going to rise it that high? What going to be the cause of him rising the minimum wage so high. But everyone shout with praised because the think more money makes everything better. I sat in my sit thinking what going
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.
The preceding year's election can be unanimously considered one of the most controversial by most sources. While many candidates were considered, the final four contenders could easily be classified as jackass, an extreme far right republican, a feminist, and a socialist. Ultimately, the jackass won the elections, plunging the United States into a thousand years of darkness. After the nuclear fire subsides, and the non-existent middle class comes to it’s senses they will need a new leader to redeem our broken nation. The socialist in particular, could possibly be the United States’ chance for redemption. Bernie Sanders’ progressive policies could, potentially, save the declining middle class. Bernie has shown countless times throughout his
It is that time of year again! The time when people run for president, we have good, bad, crazy, all kinds of people that run from each party. 2016 is going into the year when we have a change, and who is going to be that change? Bernie Sanders. Because of Bernie Sander’s take on issues on: free college, income, equality, legal use of Marijuana, along with many others, he is more likely to appeal to the younger generation. He is the most popular candidates as of now, and if he is president, America will change for the better.