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<p><font size="+1">Yes, someone did make a 2:06 length YouTube video
of 90-year-old Dick Van Dyke introducing Bernie Sanders in
California. (Imagine if our health care system allowed all of
us to be as lucidly understandable as DVD at 90 years ...)</font></p>
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<p><font size="+1">Here's the link:
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<p><font size="+1">Ken</font></p>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 6/4/2016 6:17 PM, Kenneth Marcy
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On 6/4/2016 2:56 PM, Dan Carscallen wrote:<br>
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<div>Sure would be nice if folks (candidates included) would
tell me why I should vote for a particular person instead of
why I shouldn't vote for a particular candidate.</div>
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<div id="AppleMailSignature">Just sayin'<br>
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You should vote for Bernie Sanders, or those people who will
enable and implement Bernie Sanders' policies and ideas, so that
we can collectively gain more control over who actually makes the
laws under which we must live, and make those individuals more
accountable to the electorate. Campaign finance reform is the
first step, and beyond that electoral system and voting geography
selection and management reform should follow. (Yes, I really do
suspect that you know how to spell gerrymandering, but it's such
an old-fashioned, and fundamentally corrupt, word).<br>
Remember, 2020 is only four years away, and that means
another national census, and reapportionment and redistricting
follow. We need to be much better prepared for these
not-very-far-away exercises not only for their usual details, but
also for the structures within which they operate. Significant
structural reforms toward more voter awareness, education, and
understanding, and better structural electoral involvement can
take us away from purchased and produced elections and toward
participatory democracy.<br>
Your first voting preference should be for Bernie Sanders for
these reasons and many more. If Bernie Sanders does not achieve
the presidential nomination directly, then he must be selected as
the vice-presidential nominee. If he is not selected as the
vice-presidential nominee by the presidential nominee, then the
delegates on the convention floor should vote to remand to
themselves the power to select the vice-presidential nominee, and
then they should vote the vice-presidential nomination to Senator
Sanders.<br>
Your second voting preference should be to elect those
delegates to various positions of party authority to make these
preferences happen.<br>
The fact of the matter is that the Democratic Party, and the
American nation, need Senator Sanders' sound policy judgement
readily available for the next presidential administration.
Should it come to pass that the first female American president is
not able to complete her first term in office for whatever reason,
having a Vice-President Sanders is as good a backup president as
the electorate may expect, and perhaps better than it sometimes
deserves. So, we must all do what we are able to do to ensure
Senator Sanders is in one position or the other of the 2016
presidential ballot, and we should vote for that ticket to provide
public service of the best quality to all of us.<br>
Beyond the national executive offices, we should vote in
favor of those federal candidates most likely to support the
Sanders policy positions.<br>
At the Idaho state level, it would be nice for all of us if
we would vote for educated, competent, non-embarrassing candidates
who understand that we live together in a society that includes
human beings in various family combinations, as opposed to various
fantasy creatures from economic and political imaginations.<br>
Here's a thought. We might vote for state legislative
candidates who are willing to raise state legislative pay to
levels that allow a legislator to be employed full-time as a
legislator, instead of relying on semi-financially independent
people who have reached stages in their financial wealth
accumulations and career development (meaning semi-retired), and
many of whom can, and apparently do, ignore, disdain, and turn
unseeing eyes toward the voters who elect them. Were legislators
paid enough to allow more diverse candidates to run for those
offices, perhaps the nature of the legislature would then be able
to better reflect the population of the state it is supposed to
serve.<br>
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Ken<br>
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