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Yes I Support Bernie Sanders, and Yes I’m Angry.
You should be, too.
If you watch virtually any cable news channel or read any legacy print media, then you are certainly aware that Bernie Sanders’ base has a reputation for being angry. Coming from these outlets, there’s a near constant barrage of tone policing, hostility, and resentful attitudes directed at my fellow Bernie supporters while at the same time they accuse us of just being angry and rude if we respond to it.
Frankly, I am angry, and you know what? I’ve come to embrace it.
There are between forty and fifty thousand people a year dying because they are uninsured or underinsured while we spend close to 800 billion dollars on the military and contracting as they ask us how we could possibly afford healthcare for all Americans in the richest nation on earth. Jeff Bezos just bought the most expensive property in the entire city of Los Angeles at a staggering 165 million dollars, a price that for him would be equivalent to someone who makes 60 thousand dollars a year spending 75 dollars on a house. Meanwhile his company Amazon didn’t pay a penny in taxes last year, and it was just a while ago when it was reported that they had paid to have an ambulance stationed outside of one of their warehouses for people suffering from heat exhaustion rather than pay for air conditioning.
