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galen  ·  3484 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Bernie Sanders For President

Yeah, absolutely. He's the first legitimate, truly populist candidate the Democratic Party has had in years. He's (along with Sherrod Brown) the biggest workers-rights advocate in the Senate (not to mention the longest-serving independent in Congressional history). He's never been beholden to corporate interests; check out this graphic:

He is an advocate of radical campaign finance reform.

He has been called a "climate change hawk" thanks to his aggressive pursuit of environmentalist policies.

He supports worker-friendly trade policies, single-payer health care, and two years of free tuition at state schools.

He wants to break up banks, force the Fed to be more transparent, raise taxess on the wealthy and lower them on the middle class.

He is, in short, an intensely (economically focused) progressive candidate. And I love him for it.