30 Reasons Why I’m Voting for Bernie Sanders
By: Lauren Modery
Tags: Bernie Sanders, Politics, Hillary Clinton

1.) Bernie believes that black lives matter.

2.) Bernie was a civil rights activist and organizer in his youth and participated in the 1963 March on Washington.

3.) When asked about Islamphobia in America by a young Muslim woman, Bernie asked her to come down to the stage, hugged her and responded with “I will do everything I can to rid this country of the ugly stain of racism that has existed here for far too many years.”

4.) Bernie believes in police cameras and demilitarizing and diversifying police forces.

5.) Bernie and Killer Mike are buds.

6.) Bernie believes in restoring the Voting Rights Act.

7.) Bernie wants to make public universities tuition-free by imposing a Wall Street tax.

8.) Bernie released a folk album, and he sounds like if William Shatner grew up in Brooklyn instead of Canada.

9.) Bernie believes in automatically registering all Americans to vote once they turn the age of 18.

10.) Bernie wants a single-payer, universal health care system.

11.) Bernie “filibustered” for eight-and-half hours against Bush-era tax cuts, specifically the provisions that benefited high-income earners.

12.) In 2015, Bernie introduced a bill to raise the minimum wage from $7.25 to $15 an hour by 2020.

13.) Because he reminds us of Doc Brown, and we all love Doc Brown.

14.) Bernie wants to invest $1 trillion in fixing our crumbling roads, public transit and waste plantswhich will provide jobs to Americans, particularly veterans.

15.) Bernie wants to reverse NAFTA and bring jobs back to America.

16.) Bernie believes men and women should be paid equally and he wants to pass the Paycheck Fairness Act.

17.) Because he inspired this calendar:

18.) Bernie wants to expand funding to Planned Parenthood.

19.) Bernie believes that every employee should have 12 weeks of paid family and medical leave, two weeks of paid vacation and seven days of paid sick days.

20.) Bernie does not ask for money from billionaires or Wall Street. He even donated his check from notoriously douchey pharmaceutical CEO, Martin Shkreli, to an HIV clinic.

21.) He’s said “on fleek” before. (He’s also down with playing Bernie from Weekend at Bernie’s.)

22.) Because Bernie flies coach.

23.) Bernie wants to break up big banks and end the practice of paying out big bonuses to CEOs. He also wants to reenact Glass-Steagall, a 1933 act that separated risky trading from conventional banking.

24.) Bernie has been a supporter of gay rights for decades. He voted against “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” and is a co-sponsor of the “Equality Act,” which would expand the Cilvil Rights Act of 1964 to include LGBTQ individuals.

25.) Because Bernie says things like this:

26.) Bernie opposed the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

27.) Bernie was instrumental in pushing 2014 legislation that added billions of additional dollars to the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs. He also believes in supporting our veterans by offering them excellent health care and getting their benefits to them quickly.

28.) Bernie believes in the Iran Deal because:

29.) Bernie is serious about climate change and has a full plan on how he wants to combat it. This plan includes transitioning away from fossil fuels and investing in clean energy.

30.) Bernie believes in treating immigrants fairly and humanely, while creating a respectful system of legalization; he promises to use executive order if Congress prevents him from doing so.