Bernie Sanders

world, but all of them are based in the belief that the people has the power. The U.S currently uses a representative democracy, and in the current year will conduct an election with the most probably candidates to win it, being Hilary Clinton and Bernie Sanders for the the Democratic Party and Donald Trump for the Republican Party. First, let’s clarify how a representative democracy…

While in U.S. Congress, Senator Sanders has maintained a consistent record of progressivism and loyalty to the people. Sanders has voted against the debacle which was the Iraq War, against bailing out the Wall Street banks, against the Patriot Act and its reauthorization, against offshore drilling, and has supported gay marriage since the 1970s (Vote Smart). After all, he was an activist during the Civil Rights Movement, and was even arrested for protesting racial segregation in Chicago in 1962…

formal indication of a choice between two or more candidates or courses of action, expressed typically through a ballot or a show of hands or by voice. Since I am not an American citizen so, if I could vote then, I would vote The Democratic Party(Bernie Sanders). There are huge differences between the two major parties. I do not support the Republican Party because this party does not give freedom as much as Democratic Party do. Also, Republican Party is full of racism. Since, America is a…

classes while taxing the top 1 percent of the US earners an additional $78,000 per person (Frank, Robert). On the other hand, Sanders took a very individualistic approach with his tax plan that cuts the US economy up into more than seven classes of wealth, each having a larger increase than that of Clinton’s…

Many Americans do not think that wealth distribution in America is as bad as it really is. In a study done in 2005 by Michael Norton and Dan Ariely, they found that American people thought the top 20% of Americans owned roughly 57% of the nation’s wealth when in actuality the top 20% of Americans own roughly 85% of the nation’s wealth (Building a Better America). This leaves roughly 15% of the nation’s for the rest of Americans to fight over. Due to the very little wealth left for the rest of…

and onto the State Senate. Pataki ran for Governor in 1994 against Mario Cuomo and winning by three points. On May 28, 2015 Pataki announced his nomination for the President of the United States. Bernie Sanders, born in Brooklyn, New York, and elected as mayor of Burlington, Vermont from 1981 to 1989. Sanders served as a congressman for sixteen years before being elected to the U.S. Senate in 2006. He is the junior United States Senator from Vermont and on May 26, 2015 he announced that he would…

Hillary vs. Bernie Everywhere we look, the middle class is squeezed out of existence by employers who shrink benefits and pay, eliminate jobs, fear-pressure their staff to work illegally without overtime pay. The redistribution of income to the top 1% continues unabated. Student loans in the US are choking our future. Medical bankruptcies darken the days of those who most need some light. Some things are very wrong in this country, and these are mainly the same things that work well for our…

The antebellum period had many supporters that believed that slavery was uncivilized and wrong. This was a time period that struck an uproar in history because it spoke up against the wrong doings of slavery. One of the runaway slaves that contributed to this historical period was Fredrick Douglass. He ran away to the north in search of financial stability and freedom. Many people in the north; however, did not want to work alongside a black man. After hearing about the abolitionist movement,…

and Senator Bernie Sanders while not perfect, were as transparent as possible given their positions and considered to be honorable. They were among the favored candidates for their conspicuousness. Despite the basis of their political platforms, these gentlemen commanded respect from their peers and their constituents all due to their firm conviction to honesty. After all, they haven’t gone down in history as “Honest Abe” “I cannot tell a lie” George Washington, and Bernie Sanders as “cleanest…

quietly without much media coverage. Increased globalization will all but ensure a future world of a rich few and billions in poverty, highlighting the evil of capitalism preached in sociologist Karl Marx’s work. If the TPP passes and someone like Bernie Sanders or Donald Trump doesn’t repeal NAFTA the world will eventually see poverty at world record…