#sanders16

[uhmanduhryde]

Don't be a baby, #vote!!! #election2016 #sanders16 #clinton2016 #trump16 Your choice, but vote.

[zeppelindazedfordays]

The Political Revolution

I can remember from the young days of Elementary School being a lot more interested in what we were learning especially in history. One person in particular that I was fascinated with was Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his march for civil rights. I had grown up in a house with my grandpa who is the most progressive person I know, my grandmother who isn’t too far behind and my mother, the apple that doesn’t fall far from the tree. Growing up, I surprisingly never witnessed things like racism and pure hate or if I did I never knew it. I was shocked to learn that at one point in history in the nation that I grew up being told was the greatest of them all it took someone like MLK and something like the civil rights movement to allow humans to be treated as such. I’ve always found people coming together in large numbers to fight for the common good to be powerful and inspiring. I can even remember wishing I were alive then, not to see those awful times but to be a part of the movements that changed them. Years later on November 8th, 2008 I remember thinking I was finally alive to see a profound, moving moment in history as our first African American President Barack Obama was elected and progressive change was happening. Tears of joy filled my eyes and my heart swelled with pride as my grandma came into my room to wake me up and tell me history had been made. Little did I know, this is where we would be just 7, almost 8 short years later. Amazing things have happened since then sure, like the legalization of gay marriage on June 26, 2015 but so many steps in the wrong direction have been made too. Here we are in 2016 where I feel racism is more rampant than in my entire life time and intolerance for immigrants, Muslims, refugees and people of the LGBT community is spreading like wildfire. We have seen terrifying possible leaders like Donald Trump who has blatantly spoke against these groups come to popularity and some of the people that follow him all the more scary. In my own state of Indiana we have seen things like the Religious Freedom Restoration Act which despite GOP argument essentially allows legal discrimination of gays and the HB 1337 law that puts ridiculous restrictions on a woman’s right to make her own decisions about her health and life. In the light of all of this bad, the one driving force of good against these social issues was one presidential candidate, Bernie Sanders. Bernie is certainly not the only good person in the world and there are lots of good people who don’t support him he just the force that united and awoke many. Sanders says that the reason we have policies going in the opposite direction of progress is because politicians who vote on them are being legally bribed to do so by outside sources. The reason that a candidate like Donald Trump can come to be so popular is because people are so sick of bought politicians who run on one platform and then get into office and vote for another to appease the pockets their hands are in, that they will accept anything that isn’t a puppet politician. People have spent years voting only to have the lobbyists pay for their vote instead. Bernie Sanders is seen as radical for believing that democracy, the very foundation on which this nation was built, should be restored. Every day I question whether people are ignorant or just do not care because I cannot understand how people are not on their feet in the streets angry that they have no say in what goes on in their lives, their children’s lives. Bernie is radical for believing that one person should equal one vote and exercising your right to vote shouldn’t be an obstacle course on its own, what does that say about the system we are running? Bernie Sanders is seen as radical because a large portion of his followers are millennials according to some were selfish, impressionable and ignorant. Wrong. Not only do we research more than many realize but we don’t sit idle with that information we pound pavement and we enact change. People doubt our capability and doubt the value of our opinion but what these very naysayers have failed to realize is that this movement goes far beyond Bernie Sanders and his millennial followers. Bernie Sanders has ignited a spark in people of all ages and reminded them that every election does not have to be picking the less of two evils. This spark has awoken Americans and put a fire in them to stand up and take our nation, our democracy back. What those very people also failed to realize is yes, were Millenials and because of that we are the next generation of voters, the next generation of politicians and journalists, congressmen and women and eventual Presidents. Bernie Sanders has showed us what a real, genuine candidate is supposed to look like. Bernie has showed us that money does not have to be and should not be in politics. Bernie has showed us that through grassroots movement and coming together we can do great things and we will never forget it. I realize now that I am not the only person my age driven to produce positive change and leave the world around me a better place than when I started and I am probably not the only kid pushed toward activism by people like MLK and now Bernie. We are the movement and we are not alone in it. People of all ages 20s, 30s, 80s and all in between have been inspired to take back the nation that we all love so much and bring back a government of the people, by the people and for the people. Bernie has brought these issues to our attention and given us hope in a system that has only ever made us feel defeated. Bernie has awoken millions and you are crazy if you think we will ever sleep again! Regardless of whether Bernie Sanders is the next President our movement is now and the revolution is coming. We may not be marching with Martin Luther King but we are marching for the movement of our time, writing the history books our great grandchildren will read. One day we will look down into the eyes of our grandchildren and tell them with pride that we fought along Bernie Sanders and long after him to make a world better for them. We are the political revolution and we have only just begun.. #StillSanders #PoliticalRevolution #BernieSanders

[sensiblegoblin]

Original artwork by victorianavocado

If anybody wants to use this concept and clean it up/redo it, I shan't be offended, it's a very sloppy doodle.

[parishable]

Okay, she wasn't dominating the conversation. Stop saying that.

[parishable]

On the subject of Black Lives Matter, did anyone else notice that Anderson Cooper asked Hillary a completely different question, than he did everyone else?

[parishable]

Sanders clearly wiped the floor with Clinton . Not only was he eloquent, but he was the only straight shooter when answering questions. He stayed true to what he’s been saying, and he didn’t flip flop like she did. It pisses me off that they are licking Hillary’s ass right now, and low blowing Sanders.

[parishable]

Hillary Clinton is still a warmongering bitch

[parishable]

Sanders is bringing it home!