Bernie Sanders Persuasive Speech

Bernie Sanders was born in Brooklyn, New York on September 8, 1941. He attended James Madison High School, Brooklyn College, and the University of Chicago. In 1981, he was elected as mayor of Burlington, the state’s largest city, by a mere 10 votes. In 2006, he was elected to the U.S. Senate after 16 years as Vermont’s sole congressman in the House of Representatives. Bernie is now serving his second term in the U.S. Senate after winning re-election in 2012 with 71 percent of the vote. Bernie is the longest serving independent member of Congress in American history. If he becomes president of the United States, he will be the oldest elected president in U.S. history. Bernie will also be the first Jew to be elected president if he wins the election.

Bernie belongs to the democratic party. Although Bernie classifies himself as a democratic socialist. Bernie has been fighting for and with the people of America who share his views for over thirty years and he should be America’s next president.
One of the most well know things about Bernie is the fact that he wants free, universal education and free tuition at public colleges and universities. He would make preschool free for all young children, funding the plan by increasing taxes on the wealthy and some Wall Street transactions. He would use similar tax changes to fund his key higher education proposal: to make tuition free at public colleges and universities. His campaign estimates that will cost $70 billion a year. In the past, Sanders has proposed funding state governments so they could cut tuition at state colleges by 55 percent. But Bernie also has many other stances on the many other issues in and with our country. Bernie is considered to be a “climate change hawk,” he argues that shifting global temperatures are a significant threat and caused by human activity. He has sponsored a bill which would charge companies for their carbon emissions and use some of the money raised to boost renewable energy technology. Sanders voted for the Affordable Care Act, although he believes that the new healthcare law didn’t go far enough. Instead, he espouses “Medicare for all”, a single-payer system in which the federal and state governments would provide healthcare to all Americans. Sanders for the most part agrees with President Obama that most of the undocumented immigrants in the country now should be given a path to citizenship. He voted for the senate immigration bill in 2013, which would have increased border security and issued a provisional immigrant status to millions of undocumented residents once some significant security metrics had been met. Bernie would also like to divide large banks into smaller entities and charge a new fee for high-risk investment practices, including credit default swaps. In addition to that, he believes the Federal Reserve is an opaque organization which gives too much support to large corporations. Finally, he would ban financial industry executives from serving on the 12 regional boards of directors.
I would vote for Bernie sanders because I believe that he is America’s last hope in recovering from the horrible state we are currently in.

Bernie believes in the same things that I do. And has the same morals as I do as well. His values are what I would like our country’s values to be. He believes that men and women are equal. And that every person regardless of gender, race, sex, disability, disorder, religion, age or social status is equal and that everyone matters. He is pro-choice which is a very important thing to me. He is supportive of the LGBT+ community and its members, and has fully been supportive of it this entire time. Unlike his fellow candidates. Bernie recognizes that police brutality is a very real thing and has spoken up about the matter. He has also very clearly supported #blacklivesmatter and has spoken about the P.O.C that have been killed in police brutality and discrimination acts. He has spoken many times about how he feels towards the people and corporations in wall street and I agree with the statements that he has made. I believe that he accurately depicts the working class American. And I enjoy seeing the amount of effort he puts into every single thing that he does. He puts effort into every supporter that he meets and has been known to be a kind man. His views support a “livable wage” which is a minimum wage that the average household can actually survive on and afford the things that are necessities that many families cannot currently. The things he plans to do for our country and its people could potentially help everyone who is struggling to get back on their feet and live their lives once more and that is the kind of country I would love to live in and be an active citizen in. Another key thing about Bernie that I personally appreciate is that he does not let his religion affect his views nor what he plans to do. He does not use “god” as an excuse to hate homosexuals or shame people for abortions. One fact that I have to throw in

here is that in the 1960’s Bernie marched at Martin Luther King’s “I have a dream” speech with thousands of other activists. Whilst Hillary Clinton voted against the civil rights act.
In short I believe that Bernie sander should be the next president. I support his plans and share the same views, values, and morals as him. And I would like to see how he handles our country or our country’s issues. I feel that he has the past experience knowledge and knows what the people want and need and can take that information and make our country a better place.