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I am a Grammy nominated artist, poet, and songwriter.

Tonight I will be playing at the University of Iowa, Memorial Union Main Lounge to support



I have never endorsed a presidential candidate before. So why now? Why piss off My name is Mike Posner.I am a Grammy nominated artist, poet, and songwriter.Tonight I will be playing at the University of Iowa, Memorial Union Main Lounge to support @berniesanders for president.I have never endorsed a presidential candidate before. So why now? Why piss off



That is: I decided to walk across America.

I walked 2,851 miles, from the Atlantic Ocean to the a bunch of my followers by dipping endorsing a candidate lol?? The answer to those questions goes back to when I decided to abandon the script for the life I was supposed to live.That is: I decided to walk across America.I walked 2,851 miles, from the Atlantic Ocean to the

Pacific Ocean.

I started my walk in New Jersey and I crossed the Delaware that George Washington crossed.

I saw beautiful memorials for revolutionary war soldiers

I saw their graves.

I saw people stop their cars and offer me rides, food, and water.

I felt proud to be American.



I walked into Navajo Nation, a place everyone told me I needed to be careful in.

It turns out, I was greeted with more love by the Diné people than in any other place in America.

I was given I walked for months and months and eventually went up and over the Rocky Mountains.I walked into Navajo Nation, a place everyone told me I needed to be careful in.It turns out, I was greeted with more love by the Diné people than in any other place in America.I was given

arrowheads and eagle feathers and sweetgrass and prayed for incessantly.

I walked by a uranium mine that was placed on their land by the US government that has poisoned their water.

I met children whose bodies were riddled with cancer.

I felt ashamed to be American.

That is why

I’m supporting Bernie.

Because the health of our society cant be measured by GDP or how extravagantly our most wealthy live or who wins the super bowl.

It has to be measured by how the Diné people are doing, how the people on the southside of Chicago are doing, the people in

coal country in PA, or the east side of Detroit are doing.

I believe Senator Sanders has the vision, experience, and courage to make ALL of America better. For decades he has fought for workers and been on the side of the people. His is a vision of America that I’d like to live

in, one that I’d be proud of. Whatever candidate you support, I love you! I love Trump supporters, Warren supporters, Yang supporters, Biden supporters.......

We are all on the same team. Get out there, speak your truth. This is mine. KEEP GOING.

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