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Showing Original Post only (View all)A Question I have for Bernie Sanders [View all]
Bernie talks a lot about voter excitement. Getting young people into the political process. Valid points.
But I want to ask him when he was a young person why did he not cast a vote until it was for himself?
Bernie turned 21 in 1961. He first ran for office in 1972. Between those dates the Civil Rights movement was on the ballot in 1964. John Kennedy started the process, then Lyndon Johnson made it the promise of his presidency. Barry Goldwater wanted to do away with it.
Why did he not vote in '64?
Excitement is magical for a party in the campaign, but if you need to be 'excited' by a candidate just to vote when the stakes are that high and it's no ordinary election, you must be in a state of privilege.
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
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Yeah, because being interested in social justice and African American issues is self centered.
Hassin Bin Sober
Sep 2019
#4
actually there is independent proof that he was involved in civil rights back in the early 60's
Celerity
Sep 2019
#17
re: "if you need to be 'excited' by a candidate just to vote...you must be in a state of privilege"
thesquanderer
Sep 2019
#3
LBJ had arguably the two most iconic ads in presidential campaign history
Otto Lidenbrock
Sep 2019
#5
We do not need another egoist in the presidency. Though Bernie is a strong fighter on behalf
emmaverybo
Sep 2019
#7
but he didn't walk into the voting booth at all until he ran and he wanted to vote for himself
JI7
Sep 2019
#21
Members of our military are deployed all over the world to defend Amercans' right to vote...
George II
Sep 2019
#36
I think my point on voting with the two posts I made in this thread is pretty clear no ?
JackFrost
Sep 2019
#40
maybe for the same reason he did nothing to help Vermont's democratic gov get single payer
JI7
Sep 2019
#20
Exactly. Bernie said that it was essentially a Vermont issue. Can you imagine that? nt
Blue_true
Sep 2019
#26
Senator Sander's behavior as Governor Shumlin struggled to get Single Payer in Vermont
Blue_true
Sep 2019
#38
He says that when he saw a JFK/Nixon debate, what JFK said about the Cuban revolution
betsuni
Sep 2019
#25
He did not know that liberalism was not communism? Kennedy was hawkish on communism,
emmaverybo
Sep 2019
#29
Yes, my centrist establishment Third Way corporatist status quo brains cannot deal
betsuni
Sep 2019
#33
A lot of people, both privileged and not privileged, become disenchanted with or
aikoaiko
Sep 2019
#39