July 3, 2015
By Sarah Lyall
...“The Revolution Is Life Versus Death,” (click here) in fact, was the title of an article he wrote for The Vermont Freeman, an alternative, authority-challenging newspaper published for a few years back then. The piece began with an apocalyptically alarmist account of the unbearable horror of having an office job in New York City, of being among “the mass of hot dazed humanity heading uptown for the 9-5,” sentenced to endless days of “moron work, monotonous work.”...
US Senator Sander's history and policy advocacy is very clear. He is a strong advocate for the Middle Class. He would be breathing down Scott Walker's neck because a Governor is suppose to worry about the people and not his next political office.
There is no doubt that besides the immediate health dangers of sand mining in Wisconsin there will be increased cancer levels in years to come.
Our parents, the current eighty year olds, were working for good wages because of unions. I know because my family is a union family.
I've said this before, too. My father was a union secretary, one of six officers that resigned to close a contract that would bring far better working conditions to the entire membership. The membership wanted to continue a 90 day wild cat strike because the officers would have to resign. But, the six officers stated they would be okay, but, the real promise of the new contract was that all the others in membership would be okay, too.
That is the legacy of people like Bernie Sanders. That child sitting in his lap was more important than his own life. That is America. That is the America we talk about and the promise this country brings to every child that it will have a better opportunities and a life of upward movement because of that promise.
That is Bernie Sanders.
When Bernie speaks it is from that gravity center of caring about others. If that is socialism, then I guess it is.
Senator Sanders is on the campaign trail because decades of promise has disappeared from the American Landscape. The words "Working Poor" is completely alien to Senator Sanders. Those words are an oxymoron. Those works are in complete contradiction of itself.
The deterioration of the Middle Class is in direct alignment with the disappearing unions. They are equally supportive of each other. "The Right to Work" legislation by ALEC is designed to end unions and end the burden of good wages on Wall Street.
The deterioration of the Middle Class is so profound that any job has risks to health that is only seen in the Third World. The USA is headed down the path of destruction. The USA will implode with citizens failing health and impoverishment. The Democrats are working very hard to pull the country out of the spiral it has been in economically. The growth is steady, not bubble and bust. The growth is sustainable so long as there is no outsourcing and people feel good about their future and their children's future. That is Bernie Sanders. He lives to uplift the USA back where it belongs, both internationally and domestically.
He really isn't an extremist. It only sounds that way in a political environment that has destroyed the American Dream as a duty to patriotism.
