Senator Bernie Sanders is running for President on a very simple message: enough is enough. Find out more about his stance on the issues here, donate to his campaign here, and look for him in the six recently-announced Democratic primary debates this fall.
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I feel like it should also be said that (as far as I’ve been able to tell) Bernie Sanders has been consistent on these issues for the entire time I’ve been aware of him as a politician. So, a good decade and change, at least.
This isn’t just the convenient bandwagon of the moment to jump on, the guy actually means it.
Make these 2 things clear to everyone you know: 1) We MUST vote in primaries. If we do not vote in primaries corporatists, oil, and lobbyists win. You will be told by the under-educated that “A vote for bernie is a vote for the Republicans” – this is because they don’t understand the difference between the primary elections, and the actual elections.
The primary decides whether our *THIRD PARTY CANDIDATE* Bernie GETS to replace one of the 2 “parties”, with a man who is against the 2 party system. – That’s the most important part.
Second – Make sure that everyone you know understand this: The youth decide this election. – For the first time in history, there are MORE PEOPLE interested in a 3rd party person breaking the system, than are interested in supporting either of the two parties. 45% of american voters want a win from a third party. Which means that 1) They are within a 3% margin of a totally smashing defeat of the 2-party system, and the establishment’s ACTUAL plan to defeat it is: Hope that nobody notices. All the adults are trained into their stupidity.
When Barack Obama ran he almost doubled young voter turnout. We need just HALF of that to happen again, and for the 3rd-party believers to be united. United. From Anarchists to Libertarians, we need them all to agree to start out, by breaking the system.
THAT’S the primary. – If he gets the votes on the floor, and they REFUSE to give him the nomination? Then we’re at war. Period. We are no longer ruled by consent.
THEN, after he has the nomination, he will have a campaign team. A good one. We want to know who they are and then call them and ask them what they want and then do what they say. To the finish line. That’s about it.
Spread the info, guys. Bernie Sanders COULD actually change America. We need him. Please don’t take a lackadaisical approach to info spreading for the next year – get as many people on board as you have the time to convince!
Since the person I’m reblogging this from asked in their tags, I’m going to add on a bit (in addition to the bolding I added to the above).
PLEASE READ THIS, AS THE ABOVE CONTAINS MISINFORMATION:
Bernie Sanders will be running as a Democrat, despite being Independent at the moment. It says so on his campaign site. He is NOT a third party candidate.
IF YOU WANT TO VOTE FOR HIM, YOU MUST BE A DECLARED DEMOCRAT IN CERTAIN STATES. This is called a closed primary. A semi-closed primary is one in which only unaffiliated voters can choose which primary to vote in. An open primary allows you to vote in one of the party’s primaries despite whatever affiliation you do or do not have. The type of primary varies by state. Make sure you are declared if your state holds closed primaries.
To vote for Bernie Sanders, you have to choose to vote in the DEMOCRATIC PARTY’S primaries.
How to declare party affiliation: some states let you declare party on-site at the polling place. Others might require you register in advance. You will be able to find this information through your town hall’s voter registration office. I believe there will be a form involved, so try searching [state name] Political Party Affiliation Declaration Form.
Voting for your representatives in Congress during the general elections on Election Day, 2016 (AKA during the presidential election), matters.
A president cannot actually get that much done if the House and Senate are against him. If there is enough of a divide, legislators can prevent change that people expect from the president. This is a basic rule of how bills do and do not pass in American government. Look it up. I’m sure there are websites that explain the Legislative Branch (plus its relationship with the Executive Branch) nice and clear.
VOTE FOR A PROGRESSIVE CONGRESS. Do basic research and know who the candidates are. Many sites summarize them for you. I’m fairly certain that the League of Women Voters has local chapters in charge of informative pamphlets on candidates. This leads me to…
Even when there isn’t a presidential/general election, you should vote. ALWAYS vote.
State-level and local government also matter for many people. Furthermore, there may be important referenda. A referendum is a policy put up for popular vote. It can decide essential things, like who qualifies for absentee ballots in your state, and so on. You can look up what the year’s issues are online, I’m positive.
“I’m not running against Hillary Clinton,” he said. “She’s a candidate, I’m a candidate, and I suspect that there will be other candidates. The people in this country will make their choice.” His socialist platform is “one that resonates” with the American people, and he believes he can effectively appeal to them no matter who his opponent is, or how large her war chest is. But, as he’s said, he’s engaged in “a real struggle against the billionaire class.”
Twice now, actually, because not only is Senator Sanders not afraid of the word, he openly embraces it. Earlier this month, he freely admitted that he wanted to make America “more Scandinavian” — by which he meant, a democratic country with a socialist backbone when it comes to healthcare, education, and retirement. “If you see the transfer of 99 percent of the wealth to the top one-tenth of the one percent,” he’s said, “you’ve got to transfer that back.”
“The major issue of our time is whether the United States of America retains its democratic foundation or whether we devolve into an oligarchic form of society where a handful of billionaires are able to control our political process by spending hundreds of millions of dollars to elect candidates who represent their interests,” he said last September. The best way to do that, he said, is to overturn Citizens United, because “freedom of speech does not mean the freedom to buy the United States government.”
He has proposed what would, in essence, be a “Wall Street sales tax,” and his opposition to the Trans-Pacific Partnership is based on the fact that only “[m]ultinational corporations that have outsourced millions of good-paying American jobs to China, Mexico, Vietnam, India and other low-wage countries think this is a great deal.” Whereas “every union in this country…opposes this agreement that will wipe out jobs and depress wages.”
Senator Sanders’ top five campaign contributors since 2009 are all unions, and 69 percent of the money he receives from political action committees comes from union PACs. “I’m not going to use a super PAC,” he’s said, and the facts bear him out. He has one, but it hasn’t raised any money for his presidential bid to date.
From elementary to middle, through high school and into community college or a university, Sanders believes that education should cost the student nothing. It’s not merely a personal investment, he believes, it’s a public good — and as such should be funded by the public. “These are not utopian ideas,” he’s said. “They are not radical ideas. They are fairly commonsensical ideas that can happen when you have a government that is directed by the people themselves and not by wealthy powerful corporate interests.”
Bernie Sanders is being REALLY smart about his campaigning.
If you look at who’s funding his campaign, versus who’s funding Hillary Clinton’s, he gets most of the actual workers (labor unions, education unions, etc), while she’s mostly supported by big money (banks, huge companies, etc). Bernie doesn’t have the cash to out advertise or buy votes or really compete with her economically, he has to be backed by the average person if he wants to get somewhere.
And the people that agree with him the most are millenials, and the millenials are the ones who don’t vote as much, so what does he do? He promotes and starts bills to cut the cost of college and university, and lower the interest of student loans.
He’s raising the minimum wage, and funding education. He’s getting the interest and the favor of those who would have otherwise not voted. If he gets our votes, he gets a HUGE leg up in the election.
He really does believe in the things he’s doing, and would probably have tried to do them anyways, but he’s definitely timing these things VERY thoughtfully.
isnt it funny how the word “islam” itself is a derivative of the arabic word for “peace” and yet associated most closely with violence by ignorant people everywhere
Because enough people commit terrorist attacks in the name of Islam.
I’m not saying that Islam is in fact a violent religion. Because it’s not. I’ve done my research. If anything, it’s far more peaceful than Christianity, at least in its history. But the people who are afraid of Islam are not without reason.
lol i like when islamaphobes try to hide their hatred behind “facts” and “logic”
actually ur more likely to be killed by a toddler than a muslim extremist in the US. In 2013 there were 3 americans killed in the Boston marathon bombing and 5 by toddlers.
since 9/11 there have been 37 american deaths linked to islam and more than 190,000 americans murdered for other reasons. Meanwhile, at least 39 muslims have been murdered by left wing extremists.
94% of all terrorist attacks in america are carried out by nonmuslims. in fact theyre the second smallest terrorist group (only after communists). The second largest is extreme left wing groups 🙂
there are over 1.7 billion muslims in the world. less that 1% are “radical”
its not that “enough people commit terrorist attacks in the name of Islam” its that western media would like you to think that they do
towards person 2 posts above: If you want to argue that ‘People who are afraid of Islam are not without reason’, while also admitting Christianity is more violent, then is it ok to say that there’s more of a reason to be afraid of Christians than Islams? Can we regard Christian hate crimes as terrorism too in this case? Because thats exactly what you are doing, you are attributing a persons religion to their actions. You cant do that to just one group and not another. But even in the post above, they attribute the terrorism to ‘left wing extremists’.
In response to the misinformation in this post, I have graded the positions of major candidates according to how well they match up to progressive positions on issues. Sources for each candidate’s stances, further commentary and explanations are under the read more.
I hate to be snippy, but there are 170 links to sources in this post and there is at least one source link per claim in this post, many with multiple sources. So you are being annoying. I spent hours and hours on this post.
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