I stand with Bernie!
By: Nick Nicholson
Tags: Politics, Bernie Sanders

Like most of you that take the time to read this, I’m an independent guy. I relish my independent lifestyle, the independence of my being. I go way out of my way to avoid groups of people, because I’m independent. Naturally, I’m an independent voter. I don’t caucus and rarely enjoy mingling. And for the past 10 presidential elections, this has served me just fine. I watch from the sidelines and place my vote in the 11th hour.

Problem is, for most of those elections I have despised everything about them. The process, the people, the groups. All smoke and mirrors, deception, lies. Most of the promises are never met. To his credit, Obama woke me up. So I’m paying more attention. In spite of his herculean efforts, never has the world been so fricked up. Never have our political processes been so fricked up. Yet amidst this darkness, the Fear and all its minions: greed, intimidation and deceit, there is light in Bernie Sanders. Truth, light and transparency. It’s really hard to miss. And most importantly, unlike our reliance on Obama to get somethings changed, Bernie says he can’t do it. Only we, the grass-roots movement rising up to put him in power, can do it. And thus, for the first time in my voting life, I’ve left the sidelines. I’m on the field. I stand with Bernie.

My friends are in, but idle.

And there in lies the problem. Sure, I’ll help, they say. But they gasp when I tell them that to do so, they must first register as a Democrat, because Colorado, and the location of my city of independence, require a Caucus in order to cast one’s vote for Bernie in order to avoid the DNC default of Hillary. And even more frightening is the fact that none of the Republicans of late can beat Bernie, but Hillary can. So we must get folks out to the March 1st Colorado caucuses in order to do so. And they only let registered Democrats into the Dem caucuses to vote. And while temporarily changing your status to Democrat from Independent is relatively effortless, it MUST BE DONE before the end of the 2015 year. Give or take 10 days from now, you will no longer be able to do so. And I know come mid February, everybody will be so fricking fed up with the cluster frick we call the political process, that they’ll all be aligned with Bernie’s messages. But for most of my friends, they won’t have made the 12/31/2015 deadline and thus, sadly, they won’t be able to help.

So I’m spending my Holidays getting the word out. Not what I’d rather be doing. But what I, for the first time in my politically-numb life, feel like I must.

So guys and gals, you’re like me and you despise having to play the political game in order to get a desired political outcome. It is what it is. So, repeat out loud the Bernie Independent Manifesto (below), then click the link at the bottom and sign your name to that Manifesto. Then click the other link, and with a few brief key stokes, you too will be (albeit temporarily) a Democrat.

Bernie Independent Manifesto

In front of God and Everybody, I hereby protest the outrageous requirement that I must surrender my otherwise God given right to an affiliation of my own choosing or the intentional lack thereof. This I must do, in order for me to affirm my Presidential Candidate preference in the Primary Election for Bernie Sanders, against the likes of Hillary Clinton. Yea, I must attach to the very broken system of corruption and buffoonery that I so despise and hence have so far avoided by not affiliating thusly. Yet, hovering far above this sea of political horse shit, there is Bernie. Thus I will willingly give up my political autonomy, by temporarily becoming a Democrat, for the expressed purposes of rallying to Bernie’s cause in the upcoming Primary Caucus election. I will participate in the system I so absolutely abhor, in hopes of achieving a change in this great nation, one that must eventually lead to the rectification of our political process. I do so publically, and I hereby fully intend and announce, that I will return to my original non-Democratic party status or other affiliation of choice, at the completion of said election.

Sign the Manifesto here: www.puentedeluz.com

Colorado, change your affiliation here: www.colorado.puentedeluz.com