Why Bernie Sanders excites students and young voters.

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By Brent Budowsky, columnist, The Hill

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This {young people's interest in politics} is great news for America, and no presidential candidate has done more to inspire this outpouring of excitement from young people than the oldest presidential candidate, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.). In my recent piece for The Hill, I applauded Sanders's proposal for free public college education and how he intends to finance his program through a transaction tax on Wall Street trades.

Nothing would do more to empower the American economy and better realize the American Dream than giving every young person the opportunity for greater learning, knowledge and economic opportunity than a college education that does not impose financial hardship on the moms and dads, and sons and daughters, of the nation.

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Sanders excites students and young people not only because he brilliantly calls for a free public college education. He excites students and young people because he is a candidate of values, principles and ideas, which is what politics should be about. I call to your attention the wonderful website studentsforberniesanders.com, to follow the diversity of issues that these engaged young patriotic Americans believe in and work for.


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There will be Sanders students spreading the message and organizing for progress. There will be young people supporting Hillary Clinton, especially young women who dream of electing the first woman president. There will be young libertarians organizing for Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), who led the fight in the Senate for more privacy and less abusive surveillance under the Patriot Act, a cause Sanders shares. There will be young people supporting many candidates, engaging in exciting debates for the candidate of their choice, organizing to campaign for the candidate they believe in, spreading their competing messages and hopes and dreams that can turn any student with a keyboard and a dream into the equivalent of a nationally syndicated columnist through the wonders of social media.

http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/presidential-campaign/244826-why-bernie-sanders-excites-students-and-young-voters

I had a hard time choosing only four paragraphs. This guy is very enthusiastic about Bernie and has written about him for different publications. If you want to read a really feel good piece, I recommend you follow the link and read the entire article.

[LiberalElite]

1. I was with People for Bernie at NYC Pride March and

they were overwhelmingly college age or at most, 20's. (I'm an old Hippie.)

[merrily]

9. Great!

Hippies don't age, unless they turn conservative. That gets old fast.

[peacebird]

2. Awesome!

[Warpy]

3. He's the only one not talking a bunch of shite.

There, I condensed it into one sentence.

That's why he'll probably get my vote in the primary.

[daleanime]

4. That, and the fact that I agree with most of his positions....

[BrotherIvan]

8. That's why he should

Edited to add a clap for the correct use of shite.

[SoapBox]

5. Exciting.

With every minute (or tweet!), his word spreads.

[sabrina 1]

6. Thank you for posting this.

He really is getting young people very excited and they are working to get his name out there which will make it easier for him since he won't have enough money to get to every corner of the country. But they are in every place around the country and it's thrilling to see them organizing and telling others about him.

[merrily]

10. My pleasure, Sabrina 1

[rhett o rick]

7. People are looking for integrity and that is Sen Sanders. He doesn't do the bidding of the

billionaires.

[DemocraticWing]

11. I'm a proud Millennial for Bernie

I have a lot of friends starting to come around to him too. They liked Hillary at first, but Bernie is really catching on with his unwavering progressive positions on education, climate change, and social justice.

One problem Bernie has to overcome is that many young people feel it is way, way past time to have a woman President. Hillary is the best hope for that right now, and there's a twinge of regret that electing Bernie will prevent us from taking down that barrier for at least a few more years.

[libdem4life]

12. England had Margaret Thatcher...just sayin'