This post is to talk about some of the reasons I will be voting for Bernie Sanders to get the Democratic nomination to go against the GOP. Bernie Sanders is essentially in a 2 way race with Hilary Clinton. Needless to say, he had to come from the back this entire race. Hillary not only is a huge name recognition, but Bernie is also more unknown than most. This is probably because he hasn’t actually been an elected Democrat but an Independent. I admire his history of standing as Independent and not aligning himself with the 2 party system we currently live in. It allowed him to feel no pressure by a party to do what he believed, and what the people of his districts wanted. This has given him a large number of years working for the normal people, and allowing himself to think outside the “establishment.”
I prefer Bernie over Hilary for a few reasons I will lay out. First of all, I believe he is different enough from the establishment now, to really make a change for the better. I applaud many of the accomplishments that Obama has done and will continue to recognize that he turned around a country that was draining wealth. He was able to do that with NO help from congress, since the Republicans decided their “job” was to deny anything Obama wanted to do, and instead of actually working at all, they just ignored ANYTHING from the left. The hilarious nature of claiming Government gives out too much money is a joke when you consider how much these politicians stole from the American people to refuse to work with anyone. But I digress. I do not claim though that Obama has not made mistakes. I believe some of his policies in the Middle East have caused issues. I do NOT like the drone bombing system.
(Side note: The GOP candidates always say they hate Obama’s plan, but in reality, they will do the exact same thing, bomb from afar… Please wake up people! They are just lying to you and people just accept it as fact that their “plan” is “better”, when it is the same thing.)
I believe the bombing of areas have cause ISIS and other terrorist groups to grow within the area. Why you ask? If you look at the Countless innocent lives lost in the Middle East you would see why people hate America. The real deal is that less than 100 innocent Americans have died over the last 5 years to their terrorism. We have killed THOUSANDS of innocent men, women and children. We call them “collateral damage” and I do not accept that. This is a major problem and the GOP will surely increase that number, especially if you believe in Ted Cruz or Donald Trump who both have shown a significant interest in killing any and all people in these areas. Trump had a quote that he wants to kill any known Terrorist’s families. I mean he said EVERYONE in the family. Women and children all included. This FEEDS ISIS. They hate us because we care nothing about them. These same men want to refuse Refugees who are being killed by ISIS every day. Instead of giving them an out of the terror, they say we should send them back where the choice is to die, or join them. I wonder if they might join more??? Bernie is someone I trust to try to bring the Middle East countries together to fight ISIS, because in the end Hilary has said she will continue with the current plan. That is not how I feel we should approach this problem. That is one for Bernie.
I also support Bernie because a HUGE topic I have covered in a number of posts. Money in politics has destroyed ANY sense of a Democracy in the US government. The politicians are paid by corporations to then turn around and give them what they want. Bernie does not allow corporations to donate to his cause. Which I suppose no one would because in the end, Bernie wants to tax them and not allow them to buy our Congress. We need free and fair elections that actually allow anyone to be a politician and not be given bribes from people/corporations to influence policy. The people in our Government are supposed to work for us, the normal people. Hilary would not make the change to remove money from politics. She herself is the recipient of Millions of dollars for her campaign. This is a HUGE reason I am voting for Bernie.
I also believe in another big difference between the candidates. Hilary has received Millions of dollars in both contributions, and for “speech fees” from the Wall Street banks. Her husband ended the Glass-Steagall back in the 90’s. Why? Because he was given lots of money to do so. For those of you who are unaware of what Glass-Steagall is I have given a description below.
(Side note: The GOP candidates always say they hate Obama’s plan, but in reality, they will do the exact same thing, bomb from afar… Please wake up people! They are just lying to you and people just accept it as fact that their “plan” is “better”, when it is the same thing.)
I believe the bombing of areas have cause ISIS and other terrorist groups to grow within the area. Why you ask? If you look at the Countless innocent lives lost in the Middle East you would see why people hate America. The real deal is that less than 100 innocent Americans have died over the last 5 years to their terrorism. We have killed THOUSANDS of innocent men, women and children. We call them “collateral damage” and I do not accept that. This is a major problem and the GOP will surely increase that number, especially if you believe in Ted Cruz or Donald Trump who both have shown a significant interest in killing any and all people in these areas. Trump had a quote that he wants to kill any known Terrorist’s families. I mean he said EVERYONE in the family. Women and children all included. This FEEDS ISIS. They hate us because we care nothing about them. These same men want to refuse Refugees who are being killed by ISIS every day. Instead of giving them an out of the terror, they say we should send them back where the choice is to die, or join them. I wonder if they might join more??? Bernie is someone I trust to try to bring the Middle East countries together to fight ISIS, because in the end Hilary has said she will continue with the current plan. That is not how I feel we should approach this problem. That is one for Bernie.
I also support Bernie because a HUGE topic I have covered in a number of posts. Money in politics has destroyed ANY sense of a Democracy in the US government. The politicians are paid by corporations to then turn around and give them what they want. Bernie does not allow corporations to donate to his cause. Which I suppose no one would because in the end, Bernie wants to tax them and not allow them to buy our Congress. We need free and fair elections that actually allow anyone to be a politician and not be given bribes from people/corporations to influence policy. The people in our Government are supposed to work for us, the normal people. Hilary would not make the change to remove money from politics. She herself is the recipient of Millions of dollars for her campaign. This is a HUGE reason I am voting for Bernie.
I also believe in another big difference between the candidates. Hilary has received Millions of dollars in both contributions, and for “speech fees” from the Wall Street banks. Her husband ended the Glass-Steagall back in the 90’s. Why? Because he was given lots of money to do so. For those of you who are unaware of what Glass-Steagall is I have given a description below.
In the depths of the Great Depression, a widespread view was that the nation’s ills stemmed from these two types of banking having become intertwined. Problems on Wall Street rippled through the financial system to cause ordinary depositors to lose money and ordinary bank lending to dry up. The government’s response was the Banking Act of 1933, commonly known as the Glass-Steagall Act (for the bill’s sponsors, Senator Carter Glass of Virginia and Representative Henry Steagall of Alabama), which required that commercial banking and securities activities be separated, not to take place within the same financial institution. (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/15/upshot/what-is-glass-steagall-the-82-year-old-banking-law-that-stirred-the-debate.html?_r=0) |
To put it in simpler terms. It existed because Wall Street banks started to use the money from accounts at their Bank to “gamble” on Wall Street. So they took Americans money and tried to make even more money, risking losing the people’s money that was not really their money. So the question is, do you want a Bank to use your money to gamble on Wall Street and make more money that you have no claims to??? I thought not. It is a MAJOR issue as we saw with our most current economic collapse. They gambled too much and started to lose money that they didn’t actually have. Bernie wants to put this Act back into place to prevent this issue.
I will end in saying I will vote for whichever Democratic representative is the candidate. They are both very strong on the other topics I stand for. Women’s reproductive rights. Climate change. Gun control. Taxing the wealthy their share. Trying to fight Racism. And many more issues. They Left-wing is something I stand with because I want progress. Going backwards gets us nowhere, and just gives the rich more control over the rest of us. I want Big changes. I hope you will join me on March 1st caucus here in Minnesota and show that Bernie is the candidate we want for the future of the United States of America.
I will end in saying I will vote for whichever Democratic representative is the candidate. They are both very strong on the other topics I stand for. Women’s reproductive rights. Climate change. Gun control. Taxing the wealthy their share. Trying to fight Racism. And many more issues. They Left-wing is something I stand with because I want progress. Going backwards gets us nowhere, and just gives the rich more control over the rest of us. I want Big changes. I hope you will join me on March 1st caucus here in Minnesota and show that Bernie is the candidate we want for the future of the United States of America.
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