I’ve been involved in Democratic politics virtually all my adult life. I started by volunteering for Eugene McCarthy in 1968, when I was 17. My political heroes throughout my life have been JFK, Gene McCarthy, RFK, George McGovern, Paul Wellstone, Russ Feingold, Ted Kennedy, President Obama and Bernie Sanders. (I’m sure I missed a few.) Our generation made a huge positive difference in the ‘60’s and ‘70’s in ending the war in Viet Nam and helping with the Voting Rights Act. Do you remember the hope and change we felt when we listened to Bobby Kennedy? Do you remember the anguish we felt in 1968 when MLK and RFK were killed?
We’ve made progress along the way in many areas, but there are still so many important issues to be addressed: income inequality, climate change, endless wars, racial inequality. It seems the list is endless. For those of us in our generation, this might be the last chance we have to make a long lasting, positive change for the U.S. and the entire world. We fought against the establishment then and we need to fight against it now. We need to support Bernie Sanders to start the process of long lasting dramatic change.
Electing Bernie will not be the end of the process. It will be the beginning. As we change the narrative in this country, we will elect like minded officials to carry on his legacy. We will make lasting change and turn the Democratic Party away from the corporate party it has become, into a party that speaks for those who have no voice. We need to speak for the 29 million people who have no health insurance, we need to speak for the homeless, we need to speak for the incarcerated, we need to speak for those who have no voice because they cannot afford to make campaign contributions. We need to look at moral issues and not just financial issues. We need to put people before profits. We need to elect Bernie Sanders!
Do you remember when we were young and everything seemed possible? Well it still is. Do you remember the excitement of hope and change in 2008? Now we are being told that there is no hope and change is too hard. Just go with the status quo. That’s not what our generation is about. It is about hope and change. Nothing is too hard! Let’s finish what we started!
Please consider voting for Bernie Sanders and remember what Ted Kennedy said at Bobby’s funeral “Some men see things as they are and say why. I dream things that never were and say why not.
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