I ordered two tee shirts, 3 bumper stickers, and a button from the Bernie store and they arrived today. They were in the mail box as we drove to a local place to eat. I put the button on. In the restaurant on of the waiters asked about the button. He had not heard of Bernie. When I told him he got very excited and said he would definitely check him out. From what he said about his beliefs I think we got a Bernie voter today.
This may not seem too exciting but you have to understand the context. I'll explain below.
I live in the second smallest county in Virginia. We do not have even one stoplight. We are part of the 1st Congressional District which is heavily gerrymandered to give the Republican Congressman a lifetime job. (More like welfare than a job). The guy in there now has a "PhD" in ecology which he must have obtained at WalMart. He supported the shrub over 90% of the time and has only become worse with time.
The local library does not carry our book and I was threatened with having the police kick me out of a local art gallery when I tried to get them to consider having a few flyers for the book for folks to pick up. I was there picking up my paintings because they would no longer display them. I don't know if it has anything to do with the fact that the book's cover is one of my paintings. It is if there are evil spirits involved or something. Strange people indeed!
The Tea Party has Large wooden signs at the few prominent cross roads in the county on which they post their lame slogans. The latest tells us that "liberalism" is the cause of all that is wrong with America. I actually agree in a way which is why I am so happy about Bernie. I have never been a liberal and hold strong beliefs as a Charter Member of the DSA Democratic Socialists of America
We have an active Democratic Committee which when it works very hard (it always does) gets about a third of the vote in the county. Sometimes we do even better. For health and other reasons I stopped going to meetings a while back and see them all too infrequently.
We help sponsor the annual Crab Steam in the Fall and contribute a little of our very scarce resources now and then.
So this unexpected contact today was a nice surprise. We are out and about often enough so that I'll be wearing the tee shirts most of the time. Let's hope we can get more folk interested.
LINK TO THE BERNIE STORE
Sun Jun 28, 2015 at 6:35 PM PT: Added a link to the Bernie Store at the end
Sun Jun 28, 2015 at 7:44 PM PT: WOW! Bernie's stuff made the rec list! Thanks all....let's get him elected.