Profiles in Courage
Justin Kanski
Rahway High School
Mr. John Odin
Acts of Political Courage
Political courage means taking a position in order to safeguard a certain principle thought to be of a particular interest to the person or a group of people. Acts of political courage are therefore the actions that political leaders take to safeguard the interests and the rights of those they stand for either at local, state and the national level regardless of the risks associated with such actions. Political classes have various personal interests they wish to safeguard at all costs hence those taking actions that in one way or the other seem to threaten such interests, put their lives in danger or even jeopardize their …show more content…
Bernie Sanders who was born in 8th September 1941 is a junior American politician holding a senatorial seat of Vermont since 2007 and has the longest serving history in the US congress chambers and a former mayor of Burlington. In his political history Sanders has taken many positions on several political issues some of which had potential negative impacts on his political career. In his support for Franklin D. Roosevelt's proposal for the second bill of rights he took a bold step and identified a "democratic socialism" in his reaction to the ever widening gap between the rich and the poor sections of the American society. In his explanation of the democratic socialism, Sanders argues that democratic socialism means creating an inclusive economy system that caters for the interests of all Americans and not just for the wealthy section of the society (Bennis,1989). For national interest he calls for the reform of the entire political system which in his view is grossly unsuitable and in many aspects full of corruption recognizing the basic services such as the medical, education and security services for all, environmental protection and the creation of the vibrant democracy based on the universal suffrage of one man one vote. On this move of creating a democratic socialism, Sanders …show more content…
The aim of these reforms is to reduce the impacts of these big financial institutions on the economy in the event of uncertainties such as the global financial crisis as witnessed in 2007-2008. He believed that no individual financial firm should be too big that its collapse would send the world into economic quagmire. As the elected representative from Vermont, Sanders was opposed to the Gramm–Leach–Bliley Act that was signed into law by in 1999 by Bill Clinton that repealed the provision of Glass–Steagall Act that barred any financial firm from acting as both commercial bank and the securities organization as it limited the freedom of enterprise by those operating in the financial market (Woodward,
Justin Kanski
Rahway High School
Mr. John Odin
Acts of Political Courage
Political courage means taking a position in order to safeguard a certain principle thought to be of a particular interest to the person or a group of people. Acts of political courage are therefore the actions that political leaders take to safeguard the interests and the rights of those they stand for either at local, state and the national level regardless of the risks associated with such actions. Political classes have various personal interests they wish to safeguard at all costs hence those taking actions that in one way or the other seem to threaten such interests, put their lives in danger or even jeopardize their …show more content…
Bernie Sanders who was born in 8th September 1941 is a junior American politician holding a senatorial seat of Vermont since 2007 and has the longest serving history in the US congress chambers and a former mayor of Burlington. In his political history Sanders has taken many positions on several political issues some of which had potential negative impacts on his political career. In his support for Franklin D. Roosevelt's proposal for the second bill of rights he took a bold step and identified a "democratic socialism" in his reaction to the ever widening gap between the rich and the poor sections of the American society. In his explanation of the democratic socialism, Sanders argues that democratic socialism means creating an inclusive economy system that caters for the interests of all Americans and not just for the wealthy section of the society (Bennis,1989). For national interest he calls for the reform of the entire political system which in his view is grossly unsuitable and in many aspects full of corruption recognizing the basic services such as the medical, education and security services for all, environmental protection and the creation of the vibrant democracy based on the universal suffrage of one man one vote. On this move of creating a democratic socialism, Sanders …show more content…
The aim of these reforms is to reduce the impacts of these big financial institutions on the economy in the event of uncertainties such as the global financial crisis as witnessed in 2007-2008. He believed that no individual financial firm should be too big that its collapse would send the world into economic quagmire. As the elected representative from Vermont, Sanders was opposed to the Gramm–Leach–Bliley Act that was signed into law by in 1999 by Bill Clinton that repealed the provision of Glass–Steagall Act that barred any financial firm from acting as both commercial bank and the securities organization as it limited the freedom of enterprise by those operating in the financial market (Woodward,