You say you really like Bernie's ideas and values but you're not voting for him in the primary. He's too radical. He won't win in the general election. You said that four years ago and look at what we got.
If everyone shares your attitude that huge change is impossible then there will be no change.
Imagine if Abraham Lincoln had thought in "baby steps", and decided it would be politically impossible to eradicate slavery. Certainly, the resistance to abolition was as great as that to socialized medicine. What if he suggested a path to freedom, but permitted a salary of $.10 cents a day without board while the average laborer was paid $.90 per day. I wonder where we'd be now.
What if former Vice-President Hubert Humphrey had not heroically stood up at the 1948 Democratic convention and insisted civil rights be included in the Democrats' platform? I wonder where we'd be now.
It kind of makes you think, doesn't it Mom and Dad?
You taught me to be open and to challenge and question the status quo. I'm doing that. I've analyzed the political scene. I've listened to all the candidates. Whenever most of the Democrats speak, I agree with lots of their ideas.
They all want change but most think it needs to be slow to moderate... little steps. They say that's the only way to get buy-in from the majority. I just don't agree!
Like it or not, the Republicans have tasted blood and the only way they'll go back to soda or beer is if there's a groundswell and the people force them to.
Just like Bernie says, it has to come from the people. It's not his Presidential campaign, it's ours.
You didn't listen to me last time. The Democrats lost and now we have a conservative Supreme Court and over 150 lower-court judges many of whom aren't even qualified. Republicans swear allegiance to conservatism and Donald Trump. They actually stand by what they believe.
Oh, if only you had listened to me four years ago and supported Bernie. Things might have been so different.
When I sat you down in 2016, I told you we needed Bernie. You resisted and the Republicans and Russians saw to it that Donald Trump was elected. And they're working on it again!
Bernie's calling for a revolution!
When I watch him at the debates and town halls, I know he's speaking from his heart. What he says really resonates. Isn't that important?
Bernie knows it takes big dreams to create change. He knows it won't happen overnight or without a groundswell from the people. Just like Martin Luther King Jr. who didn't listen to his critics and dreamed big!
Bernie speaks to me and my generation! He admits he can't make all these changes alone. I said it earlier. It's about our revolution not simply his.
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