Bernie Sanders

question their liberal/progressive ‘bonafides’. Bernie Sanders, with his avowed socialist bent, has been espousing what most progressives would like to see and I for one applaud him for that. But in the end, we must face reality. This country is not going to elect Bernie Sanders with the list of what he has been saying no matter how many people flock to hear him say that. As it is right now, there is not much distance between him and HRC. Unlike Sanders, however, Hilary is a proven commodity.…

A real-life example of political party influence is in Orlando in 2016, when The Democratic Party called for marijuana to be downgraded in the Controlled Substances Act. The supporters of Bernie Sanders had an unexpected victory after the platform committee came up with an amendment that downgraded marijuana from schedule 1 of the Controlled Substances Act and argued that it was added to the act giving it the same classification as heroin. At…

In America, citizens have a unique privilege that people do not get in most other countries. Americans have the privilege to vote; however, most do not vote. People who run for office are called candidates and they get financial support from a multitude of different groups and by individual donors. This phenomenon is called campaign finance. From local to national offices, money fuels votes. From studying campaign finance briefly, I learned about court cases, types of groups, superpacs, FEC…

In a country where Democracy is prominent, those who vote can ensure that their voices will be heard. However, many Americans today are still unlikely to cast a ballot on election day. The voter turnout in the 2012 U.S. Presidential election (as seen in the graph) was the lowest it has been in the past decade, with only about fifty-four percent of the eligible voter population casting ballots. Some of the top reasons Americans gave for not voting was that they were uninterested, it’s…

According to Bernie Sanders in his article " Medicare for All: Leaving No One Behind, " Sanders states that millions of Americans today still don’t have insurance and millions more are underinsured and cannot pay for the high copayments and deductibles that the private health insurance companies charge. Sanders says that the United States spends more money on healthcare per person than any other advanced Nation…

is now a democrat. Webb was so annoying and unprofessional throughout the whole thing. It was probably better off if he didn’t actually joined the debate. He kept interrupting and kept asking for his time because the debate was mainly focused on Sanders and Clinton. It made him look bad and also when Cooper finally came around to asking Webb questions, he didn’t really know how to answer. It was so cringey seeing Webb attempt at answering these questions, when really it seems like he doesn’t…

supporting him could push Donald Trump to becoming an independent while taking several votes with him. Another reason is if Hilary Clinton become nominee then she will have a tough time trying to gain Bernie Sanders supporters because she is a supporter of breaking up banks. Many of Bernie Sanders supporters could go right to get what they want. Another important reason is immigration. Many people blame immigration for their reason of unemployment and these supporter will show up in the election…

Eliminating the Minimum Wage In the recent presidential race, the economy and state of impoverished are brought up very often, and mostly on the democratic side. Both Hilary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, the democratic nominees support combating poverty with policies designed to help those who are impoverished, including raising the federal minimum wage to give low skill jobs a higher income On the surface, a policy like this would ideally help out the little guys without sacrificing much else…

Citizens United is a political organization that aims in maintaining and restoring the ideals of the Founding Fathers. That is, they believe in containing a limited government, in which federal, state, and local governments do not rule their territories in an authoritarian way. The goal is to have a democracy in the United States that would continue to value and protect the views, beliefs, and voice of most American citizens. They represent many Americans by representing their voices. In the…

Political Ideology of Liberalism For centuries, different political ideologies have dominated the world in various regions with their own set of beliefs and values. Successes and failures were the deterring factors for an ideology to thrive or perish. Although numerous amount of political ideologies are being practiced in our contemporary society, however, there are only five fundamental roots of ideologies that laid the foundations: Liberalism, Communism, Socialism, Fascism, and Anarchism.…