Look around.
Today in America, we have an economy with grotesque levels of income and wealth inequality, where the top 1% own more wealth than the bottom 93%, and 60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck struggling to afford the basic necessities of life. At the same time, Oligarchs are increasing their power by buying up media and making huge campaign contributions.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Robotics are being pushed by the wealthiest people in the world. Left unchecked, these technologies have the potential to be devastating to working families, our democracy, our mental well-being and even to the survival of the human race.
We are the only major country on earth not to guarantee health care to all people, our kids are graduating college with unsustainable levels of debt, the president has initiated a horrific and unconstitutional war in Iran, threatening war crimes on social media, and there is the small matter of the existential threat of climate change that may leave our planet uninhabitable for future generations.
It is not a great situation, to say the least.
In many ways the future of our country and the entire world is hanging in the balance – and the actions that we take now will determine what that future looks like.
So what can we do at a time when we must stand up to the Oligarchy, Trump, a right-wing extremist Republican Party and a Democratic establishment that is heavily influenced by corporate interests?
One thing we can all do today -- is support candidates all over this country who have the guts not only to stand up to Trumpism, but to take on the monied interests and fight for a working class that has been ignored for far too long.
I am supporting a number of candidates who will do just that, but they need our help if they are going to win in their Democratic primaries and in November. Let me introduce you to them.
Brian Poindexter is an ironworker from Ohio who has spent his life fighting for working people -- as a union organizer, a city council member, and a coach in his community. He started working at 15 and knows firsthand what it's like when the deck is stacked against you.
Claire Valdez is a union organizer from New York City who worked minimum-wage fast food jobs and understands firsthand how this economy fails working people. Claire has the guts to take on the oligarchy and fight for unions, Medicare for All, and affordable housing.
Randy Villegas is an educator and small business owner from a working class family in California who understands the struggles that so many millions of Americans are facing everyday. He is rejecting corporate PAC money because he understands the outsized influence that big corporations have on our political process and that we need to return the power to the people.
Sam Forstag is a smokejumper from Montana who jumps out of planes to fight fires, a union leader who’s been on the front lines of fighting attacks on public servants, and an advocate with years of policy experience fighting for public services and civil liberties in Montana.
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In this pivotal moment in American and world history, when the stakes are so high for our country and the entire planet, we should not underestimate the difficult challenges that we face. But that should not make us pessimistic.
If there was ever a time in American history when we need to come together and do more than we've ever done before, that time is now.
Not me.
Us.
That is the only way forward.
In solidarity,
Bernie Sanders
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