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Why I Voted for Bernie
Mar. 1st, 2016 10:02 pmMy mom and I officially voted for Bernie yesterday, but I didn't get around to posting this.
Most of my explanation for why I voted for Obama in 2008 over Hillary still applies:
http://ericadawn16.livejournal.com/16504.html
"Hillary, who's broken promise after promise and lied to the American people. "
And this was 2008, this was before Benghazi and the emails and everything else.
Whereas Bernie...he thinks like me. He knows the US can do better especially for its citizens.
My mom ended up disappointed with Obama because he didn't do everything he promised. I knew better. I knew we weren't going to get everything. That's just not how it works anymore. It's weird, sometimes our conversations recently have reminded me of this exchange between Poe and Leia:
Poe: I keep thinking, this man, Ro-Kiintor, he's a senator. He's in the heart of the Republic, our Republic. And he was a traitor. And I'm wondering how many more are just like him, how many more are working for the First Order, how many more have sold us out.
Leia: Yet you still believe in the Republic, Poe.
Poe: Absolutely, yes. I remember how my parents spoke about life under the Empire, General. The fear, they said it was like a cloud everywhere you went, that it was so thick you could...you could breathe it. They used to say, until the Rebellion...they said you could see the hopelessness in the eyes of everyone you met.
Leia: That's the word, without hope.
Poe: Where did it go?
Leia: I don't know, but I know we have to find it again.
My mom still believes and I want to...I want us to find our hope again, but I don't think it's going to happen until the establishment realizes we're not going to play their game anymore. Until that happens...
Obama taught us we have to live to with compromise and if everything has to be a compromise, if we're going to meet in the middle in the middle of that ladder to get anything, I want that ladder to stretch to the International Space Station so maybe the middle will be at the Mimalayas or at least the Disney version whereas the top of Hillary's ladder looks about as tall as Chewbacca and she claims the expectations are low because they're "realistic" but how is she going to convince Rick Scott and the other Republican governors to expand Medicaid...and what does that do to really help the healthcare situation? The prices are still too high and people are still not getting the attention they deserve.
I have been wanting Donna Edwards or Elizabeth Warren as his running mate but Tulsi Gabbard! Wow! She gave up being Vice-Chair of the Democratic National Committee so she could campaign for Bernie! She'd be perfect.
"When I served in Iraq with a medical unit, one of my daily responsibilities was to go through a list of every injury and casualty in the theater of operations and make sure our troops were cared for. The names I saw every day were those of my brothers and sisters in uniform, those who carry the indelible wounds of war. Some of them never came home. All of them sacrificed for all of us.
I spoke with Sen. Bernie Sanders at length about his foreign policy vision. He understands the need for a foreign policy that robustly defends the safety and security of the American people. But he is committed to not wasting precious lives and money on interventionist wars of regime change. He appreciates that such counterproductive wars undermine our national security and economic prosperity.
As vice-chair of the Democratic National Committee, I have had to stay neutral in this contest. But I can no longer sit on the sidelines. The stakes are too high."
http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/29/opinions/why-im-endorsing-bernie-sanders-gabbard/
Ooh, mom just informed me Bernie had a similar, BETTER analogy:
"If you start your campaign and you run on a platform calling for a full loaf, at worst you're gonna get a half a loaf. If you start your campaign talking about the need for a half a loaf, you're gonna get crumbs. And the American people today do not want, do not need crumbs—they want the whole loaf."
I haven't decided what I'll do if the DNC gets its way and Hillary gets the nomination. Currently, my mom says she will write in Bernie anyway. In 2012, a fellow Obama canvasser gave me Hillary's autobiography and told me to pass it on to someone else once I read it. I've never read it but she gets the nomination, I'll read it and decide if I should give her another chance or it just confirms what I already thought. Jill Stein is a wonderful candidate also.
But I'm going to end on this story that I first heard in Tomorrowland and still resonates with me although I'm not always able to feed the right one:
ONE EVENING, AN ELDERLY
CHEROKEE BRAVE TOLD HIS
GRANDSON ABOUT A BATTLE THAT
GOES ON INSIDE PEOPLE.
HE SAID "MY SON, THE BATTLE IS
BETWEEN TWO 'WOLVES' INSIDE US ALL.
ONE IS EVIL. IT IS ANGER,
ENVY, JEALOUSY, SORROW,
REGRET, GREED, ARROGANCE,
SELF-PITY, GUILT, RESENTMENT,
INFERIORITY, LIES, FALSE PRIDE,
SUPERIORITY, AND EGO.
THE OTHER IS GOOD.
IT IS JOY, PEACE LOVE, HOPE SERENITY,
HUMILITY, KINDNESS, BENEVOLENCE,
EMPATHY, GENEROSITY,
TRUTH, COMPASSION AND FAITH."
THE GRANDSON THOUGH ABOUT
IT FOR A MINUTE AND THEN ASKED
HIS GRANDFATHER:
"WHICH WOLF WINS?..."
THE OLD CHEROKEE SIMPLY REPLIED,
"THE ONE THAT YOU FEED"
http://www.nanticokeindians.org/tale_of_two_wolves.cfm
Most of my explanation for why I voted for Obama in 2008 over Hillary still applies:
http://ericadawn16.livejournal.com/16504.html
"Hillary, who's broken promise after promise and lied to the American people. "
And this was 2008, this was before Benghazi and the emails and everything else.
Whereas Bernie...he thinks like me. He knows the US can do better especially for its citizens.
My mom ended up disappointed with Obama because he didn't do everything he promised. I knew better. I knew we weren't going to get everything. That's just not how it works anymore. It's weird, sometimes our conversations recently have reminded me of this exchange between Poe and Leia:
Poe: I keep thinking, this man, Ro-Kiintor, he's a senator. He's in the heart of the Republic, our Republic. And he was a traitor. And I'm wondering how many more are just like him, how many more are working for the First Order, how many more have sold us out.
Leia: Yet you still believe in the Republic, Poe.
Poe: Absolutely, yes. I remember how my parents spoke about life under the Empire, General. The fear, they said it was like a cloud everywhere you went, that it was so thick you could...you could breathe it. They used to say, until the Rebellion...they said you could see the hopelessness in the eyes of everyone you met.
Leia: That's the word, without hope.
Poe: Where did it go?
Leia: I don't know, but I know we have to find it again.
My mom still believes and I want to...I want us to find our hope again, but I don't think it's going to happen until the establishment realizes we're not going to play their game anymore. Until that happens...
Obama taught us we have to live to with compromise and if everything has to be a compromise, if we're going to meet in the middle in the middle of that ladder to get anything, I want that ladder to stretch to the International Space Station so maybe the middle will be at the Mimalayas or at least the Disney version whereas the top of Hillary's ladder looks about as tall as Chewbacca and she claims the expectations are low because they're "realistic" but how is she going to convince Rick Scott and the other Republican governors to expand Medicaid...and what does that do to really help the healthcare situation? The prices are still too high and people are still not getting the attention they deserve.
I have been wanting Donna Edwards or Elizabeth Warren as his running mate but Tulsi Gabbard! Wow! She gave up being Vice-Chair of the Democratic National Committee so she could campaign for Bernie! She'd be perfect.
"When I served in Iraq with a medical unit, one of my daily responsibilities was to go through a list of every injury and casualty in the theater of operations and make sure our troops were cared for. The names I saw every day were those of my brothers and sisters in uniform, those who carry the indelible wounds of war. Some of them never came home. All of them sacrificed for all of us.
I spoke with Sen. Bernie Sanders at length about his foreign policy vision. He understands the need for a foreign policy that robustly defends the safety and security of the American people. But he is committed to not wasting precious lives and money on interventionist wars of regime change. He appreciates that such counterproductive wars undermine our national security and economic prosperity.
As vice-chair of the Democratic National Committee, I have had to stay neutral in this contest. But I can no longer sit on the sidelines. The stakes are too high."
http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/29/opinions/why-im-endorsing-bernie-sanders-gabbard/
Ooh, mom just informed me Bernie had a similar, BETTER analogy:
"If you start your campaign and you run on a platform calling for a full loaf, at worst you're gonna get a half a loaf. If you start your campaign talking about the need for a half a loaf, you're gonna get crumbs. And the American people today do not want, do not need crumbs—they want the whole loaf."
I haven't decided what I'll do if the DNC gets its way and Hillary gets the nomination. Currently, my mom says she will write in Bernie anyway. In 2012, a fellow Obama canvasser gave me Hillary's autobiography and told me to pass it on to someone else once I read it. I've never read it but she gets the nomination, I'll read it and decide if I should give her another chance or it just confirms what I already thought. Jill Stein is a wonderful candidate also.
But I'm going to end on this story that I first heard in Tomorrowland and still resonates with me although I'm not always able to feed the right one:
ONE EVENING, AN ELDERLY
CHEROKEE BRAVE TOLD HIS
GRANDSON ABOUT A BATTLE THAT
GOES ON INSIDE PEOPLE.
HE SAID "MY SON, THE BATTLE IS
BETWEEN TWO 'WOLVES' INSIDE US ALL.
ONE IS EVIL. IT IS ANGER,
ENVY, JEALOUSY, SORROW,
REGRET, GREED, ARROGANCE,
SELF-PITY, GUILT, RESENTMENT,
INFERIORITY, LIES, FALSE PRIDE,
SUPERIORITY, AND EGO.
THE OTHER IS GOOD.
IT IS JOY, PEACE LOVE, HOPE SERENITY,
HUMILITY, KINDNESS, BENEVOLENCE,
EMPATHY, GENEROSITY,
TRUTH, COMPASSION AND FAITH."
THE GRANDSON THOUGH ABOUT
IT FOR A MINUTE AND THEN ASKED
HIS GRANDFATHER:
"WHICH WOLF WINS?..."
THE OLD CHEROKEE SIMPLY REPLIED,
"THE ONE THAT YOU FEED"
http://www.nanticokeindians.org/tale_of_two_wolves.cfm
