Well, how do you start such a long list? Perhaps with the fact that he actually cares about the people? Or maybe with the fact that he's not just saying things to get votes… Bernie has been saying and supporting the same things for thirty plus years. If he's lying, he's doing a tremendously good job at it.

Lots of people like to say that socialism doesn't work. Or that we can't afford single payer health care or free college tuition.

But we can- without paying extra taxes. 270 of the top U.S. economists back Bernie's economic plan.

Under Bernie's economic system, your taxes are not raised unless you make 250,000 dollars a year or more. And honestly, the ultra-rich have been given tax breaks for FAR too long. It's time they pay their fair share.

What about the for-profit hospitals/pharmaceutical companies? Do you realize that the U.S. pays more for medicines than any other first world country?

Bernie wants to help the middle class. Bernie wants to help you.

If you don't believe me, go to his website. There, he has documented how and where he is going to get all the money for this "free stuff."

I may not be old enough to vote for a president, but I am old enough to realize that I want my generation to inherit a livable country- not one destroyed by war, debt, or surrounded by a wall.

(Another thing, a lot of people seem to think it's ridiculous to pay for free college tuition, but it's totally okay to pay for a giant wall? What the fuck America?)

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."

-Martin Luther King Jr

Billionaires can't buy Bernie but they bought Hillary a long time ago. 

The millennial generation - our not-so-distant future leaders - overwhelmingly support this man above any other candidate. His anger is righteous, genuine, electrifying, particularly as it pertains to the corruption in Wall Street and DC. Hillary represents the past and establishment, Bernie represents the future and youth, despite how old the guy is. He clearly has a tremendous amount of intellect, heart, and courage. And all that business about the numbers not adding up or socialism being an ethically inferior political system? Check the math and the facts. They hold.

The United States and entire world need a leader who is truly one of the people, not of the elite or establishment. We need someone who will ignite a revolution and burn away all the environmental, economic, and political injustices of our time. We need the Bern.

Bernie Sanders, he’s my man

if he can’t do it, nobody can

no superman with bulging muscles

doesn’t have to leap tall buildings

but wears a cape

for truth, justice and America

flyaway hair but tidy mind

champion for middle class, working poor.

Shh! Listen! Knows what he’s talking about

doesn’t cave in to big guys raping country

independent but running on Democrat ticket

definitely no twin to Hilary Clinton

his own man fighting for brighter future

votes unashamedly pro-choice and pro-female

no pleating of his values under pressure

stands up to NRA, backs firearm reforms

scrutinize his Senate page

testimony to accomplishments

voting independently of red or blue

Doesn’t just look for lesser evil

strives for change, doesn’t back down

platter of diversity for left wing

fighting against corporate takeover

of the America we hold dear

doesn’t care if others disagree

will do what is right with integrity

background and grit to be leader

of our free world

Bernie Sanders, he’s your man!

As a 15 year old kid, I probably have the most to benefit from what Bernie believes in.

When I was 14, I was fed up with how my parents abused my brother and I. I was molested, and I ate less than once a day. I got emancipated, which in case you don't know means legally earning the same rights that someone of age has in most situations. With a couple of other legal actions, I took my brother with me.

Now this is relative to Bernie Sanders, because if the actions he wanted to take were taken a year ago, I wouldn't be complaining. The problem is that 14 year olds have a different minimum wage than adults. For the first three months of work, I was paid $3.50 an hour, and 14 year olds are only allowed a 23 hour work week. That's half of the rent of my apartment per month. I worked for six months so I knew I could afford food and rent. When I wasn't working or going to school, I was on the street playing keyboard or guitar for tips.

Now, I really wanted to be able to afford college for my brother and I, because I want to be a politician. I also want my brother to be able to do whatever he wants when he grows up. I'm a big believer in college education. Unfortunately, if anyone besides Bernie is elected, even if I get $80000 in scholarships, I won't be able to afford my own college education. Instead I would save up all my money to put my brother through college. And to all the people who wonder how I can afford a laptop, or a phone, I needed them for my job and for school. I had to sacrifice eating for these.

I don't want college tuition and minimum wage to be the only reasons I want Bernie Sanders to win. I'm bisexual, and one of my best friends is transgender. He's constantly abused by his mom because he's transgender, to the point where he's psychologically damaged. We live in a relatively accepting state, which is lucky. Something I really get worried about is all the other people who have come out. My plan is to help those people in the middle east and in east africa who can't come out. And since I'm not old enough to vote in the U.S., and people here typically won't be murdered for their sexual identity, I couldn't care less about this country. But to everyone who lives here and isn't insane enough to go somewhere where they will most likely be murdered, gay marriage shouldn't be where you stop. Gay marriage should be the point when you realize that people are doing something about discrimination and you could at least be supporting them.

As a side note about homophobia, most of the people against gay rights are conservative Christians. I don't understand why someone would be against gay rights if it prevents abortions and doesn't risk the life of the mother. When I found out about gay pride rallies, I figured most of them would be conservative Christians. I've heard a few reasons why I shouldn't be gay and why it's a disease, and the one that stuck with me was "gay people only want sexual pleasure while normal people reproduce." That would make a lot of sense if the world wasn't overpopulated right now, first off. If we forget about equality, gay rights all over the world would make world hunger and poverty much easier to deal with. Plus, straight couples have sex for pleasure too, only with them it's more dangerous because they could end up having a baby. Straight couples could create a child and ruin their own lives and take away their companion's legal freedom. Maybe the Bible was against homosexuality, but it was written in a time when reproduction was necessary from every couple that could reproduce so the species could continue. I get why bisexual people would be hated according to Christianity, because they're either meant for a guy or a girl and God wouldn't give us extra choices just to end up with a soulmate of one gender. And to that, I'd like to point out that people are supposed to learn from their previous relationships, because in Christianity "it's all part of God's plan." Maybe I'm supposed to learn from someone who's a girl and end up with a guy. And as far as the problem with transgender, the difference between being a man and a woman besides the parts is that a guy can have a child that's biologically his without carrying it for nine months, while a girl has the opportunity to spend nine months with the child. Being transgender isn't sexist, as long as the reason isn't because of societal treatment. As far as this relates to Bernie Sanders, he's someone who stands up for LGBT rights to not be murdered, so... If you could kindly support him so I can live, that'd be nice.

And as far as the supporters of Hillary Clinton go, I don't want to be offensive so I'll keep this point short. Hillary Clinton has changed positions on many issues. Bernie Sanders stood up for civil rights a long time ago while Hillary Clinton was the cause of discrimination at points. I'm all for giving someone a second chance, but Bernie Sanders lasted more than 30 years doing everything right and he's still on his first chance, while Hillary Clinton should be on her fifth or sixth chance by now. Sanders supported gay marriage and civil rights since he started being involved in politics, while Hillary Clinton only switched up after already doing damage to both gay and civil rights. And she may regret her decision on Iraq, but regretting it only means she has good morals. It doesn't mean she has good foresight. She wants to raise the minimum wage to $12 while Bernie wants $15. Maybe $15 is a dangerous number considering the recession and unemployment rates and national debt, but I would like to propose this idea for any future politicians to use: make a law that says any companies based in other countries that import to our country need to have 2.7% of their manufacturing (measured by employees) held in this country. Since the U.S.A. has a large middle class consumer group that other countries can't provide, denying U.S.A. customers would sacrifice a lot of money for most international businesses, which means companies would have to accept the deal. This solves national debt by fixing the import-export ratio, unemployment rates go down because of the number of jobs offered in the country, and gets the economy flowing to the point that most American businesses could afford $15 an hour wages for employees. As long as whoever uses this idea names it after me so I can be president when I grow up.

First and Foremost, I must reference the title of this article. A vote for Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is a promise, a pact, a commitment to a movement we are calling a Political Revolution. Bernie starts most of his speeches with this:

“Let me tell you something that no other candidate for president will tell you. And that is, no matter who is elected to be president, that person will not be able to address the enormous problems facing the working families of our country. They will not be able to succeed because the power of corporate America, the power of Wall Street, the power of campaign donors is so great that no president alone can stand up to them. That is the truth. People may be uncomfortable about hearing it, but that is the reality.”

The key part of that statement is "...no president alone can stand up to them." We, as a nation have to rise up and tell those in office that they work for us, not for corporations. The reversal of The Glass-Steagall Act and the passing of Citizens United has been extremely detrimental to our country's democracy. Giving the power to the extremely wealthy by allowing shady dealings in Washington D.C.

Our campaign finance system in this country is now corrupt. Purchased by millionaires and billionaires, like the Koch brothers. Bernie Sanders is the only candidate without a super PAC. He has a detailed tax plan laid out that would increase taxes only 2.2% for 98.5% of the American people, except for the 1.5% of Americans that make more than $250,000 a year. This small increase will pay for healthcare for all citizens in this county. A tax on wall street speculation would allow as to make public colleges and universities tuition free. The American people have been complacent and complicit for too long in the face of corporate greed. The United States of America is the richest country in the world. A fact that the average American is unaware of thanks to a massive redistribution of wealth in favor of the top one-tenth of one percent of people in this great nation.

Many on the "right" like to cite Welfare as a problem in this country. However, the largest recipients of Welfare in this country are big banks and multinational corporations. After the crash of 2008, the big banks needed to be bailed out to the tune of $4.6 trillion dollars having been paid out. With our help, Bernie Sanders will break up these banks that are "too big to fail."

A related issue concerns the working poor. The Federal minimum wage is $7.25, a starvation wage which Wal-Mart pays most of it's employees, in some cases new hires even receive state welfare paperwork with their employee packets. Should someone who works 40 hours a week struggle to feed their family? Right now, in this country you can have two parents working 40+ hours per week barely getting by, one emergency away from financial ruin. This affects White, Latino, and Black people across this nation though, undoubtedly the minorities are more hard hit.

Bernie has been on the front line of Human and Civil rights activities. He marched with Martin Luther King, Jr. and staged a sit-in to protest segregated housing at the University of Chicago. He was arrested during this protest. At the same time Hillary was working for the Goldwater campaign, which was pro-segregation. While the Clinton's were promoting DOMA (Defense of Marriage Act) in 1996, Sen. Bernie Sanders was one of the few legislators that opposed DOMA and voted "no" to discrimination against our LGBT brothers and sisters.

Bernie has a knack for seeing the big picture, the effects that passing or not passing a bill might have.  He uncannily predicted the outcome of the Iraq war and the destabilization that followed and, rightly, voted "no" to the War in Iraq when it was an extremely unpopular view.  He knows that war is a last resort, not the first option.

In most cases if you are going to be of voting age before the November Presidential election, you can participate in your states Primary (look up specific rules for your state). I beg you to become involved politically, don't be apathetic to what is going on in our nation. Research any candidate that interests you and get involved in your own Political Revolution.

Firstly because of his approaches on social issues that are sometimes underpowered over economic issues in America. Health and equality are just as important issues for him as money is for Trump wich is a lot.

Secondly, because he counts with the votes of people that are young and culturally informed and aren't racists, sexists and much more like some candidates (Donald Trump).

He doesn't count on bought votes and works for the ones he gets.

And lastly, because just look at his cute little old man face, he should win!

I'm not American, but am informed on the current politics and know that whoever wins the presidency is going to affect not just Americans but as well people in other countries because America is very influential in the world.

And Bernie Sanders is the right one for the job!

Bernie Sanders is the best

He can defeat all the rest

He will fight for equality

He wants to make tuition free

He'll fund PP and healthcare for all

He won't build a billion-dollar wall

He will combat climate change

And he'll raise the minimum wage

He has an immigration plan

And supports the deal with Iran

He'll get better veteran care

And everyone will have Medicare

He'll empower minorities

And he has priorities

He'll fix the gender pay gap

And fix Flint's water in the tap

The man will fight for the middle class

Let's hope he doesn't come in last

So vote now, join the journey

So tell your families, vote for Bernie!