Comments by "Virginia Lawler" (@virginialawler7725) on "Families Need Relief Now" video.

  1.  @jacquelinemarie1078  YOU need to PAY ATTENTION. And that means acquiring an education about Sen. Sanders' consistent decades as a warrior for civil, climate, economic, environmental, gender, racial and social justice...and for Peace. It's 12/28/20 now, and a welcome New Year is about to begin. No one is perfect, and Bernie is among the first to say that he isn't. An IL native, I first learned of him in '63, when he was an undergrad U. of Chicago activist, demonstrating against school segregation, etc. He has been consistent in his public service ever since--first as the re-elected Mayor of VT's largest city, then as the re-elected sole U.S. Representative from VT and now the state's re-elected junior Senator with 71% of the vote in 2012. He has been honored as Man of the Year by two of the nation's largest veterans associations (in different years). Awarded an honorary doctorate. Etc. As naysayers love to point out, Bernie in recent years became a millionaire. Of course, they do that without noting honestly that he earned his status, not like Trump. How? By writing a highly respected book about his insurgent 2016 presidential campaign (in which the relatively little known senator from a small northeastern state still earned more than 13,000,000 votes). "Our Revolution" ranked #3 on The NYT best-seller list and was also published in China, England, France, German, Serbia and South Korea. His message ressonated across the world...and still does. He then wrote another very successful book, "Where We Go from Here: Two Years in the Resistance," saying "despair is not an option, the goal has always been the same.....a vibrant democracy where the voices of all people are heard, and we must unite our country while repairing the damage Trump has done trying to divide us." Bernie's steady leadership includes w/ Medicare for All (as author of "the damned bill") and w/ his Fight for $15 minimum wage bill, w/ DACA immigrants, w/ the prevention of gun violence (especially its effects on children), w/ the people of Puerto Rico after the Maria devastation, as well as with our nurses, teachers, and so many other essential groups, and the persecuted and the poor of every color and every age. His work, as always, w/ all who would join him for a better America., even as he and our nation continue to confront and reject Trump w/ his earlier long list of debaucheies thru all his grifting en route to his final title, "the pathological liar and worst president in the modern history of our nation."
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