Senator Bernie Sanders’ confidently assured all naysayers prior to his Fox News-hosted town hall event, “Trust me, I know Fox News. I know who they are and I know what role they are playing. It’s important to distinguish ‘Fox News’ from ‘the people who watch’ Fox News. It’s important to talk to Trump supporters and explain that he has betrayed the working class of this country.”

Bernie did exactly what he set out to do. One of numerous examples was when Fox News host Brett Baier polled the audience about who would be willing to switch to Medicare-for-All. His attempt to trip up Bernie blew up in his face.

Baier asked: “ I want to ask the audience a question. If you could raise your hand here, a show of hands, how many people get their insurance from work, private insurance? Right now, how many get it from private insurance? Okay, now of those, how many are willing to transition to what the senator says, a government-run system?” His question was met with loud cheers and applause. He continued, “There’s 180 million people on private insurance — they would be lost to your system.”

Bernie answered, “That’s what the right-wing throws out, so let me answer that question.” Bernie goes on to explain that no one would be lost in his system. He says that millions of people, every single year, lose their health insurance because they get fired or quit their jobs. Many people also find they have a new policy that they didn’t choose either because they’ve changed jobs or their employers have switched insurance plans. He continued, “Every year, millions of workers wake up in the morning and their employer has changed the insurance that they have. So, what we’re talking about actually is stability — that when you have a Medicare for All, it is there now and it is there in the future.”

Bernie’s answer received loud cheers and applause and it suffices to say that he won over the hearts and minds of at least 2.5 million working-class Americans by talking with them.

Wayne Merritt, who has resided in Dover for the last 17 years, retired from the USAF/NHANG where he served as a Japanese Lingist in support of Human Resource Intelligence Operations and as an Airfield Management Specialist. He has worked the last 13 years as a civilian Airport Operations Specialist at Portsmouth International Airport where he is responsible for the supervision of the airport and performing inspections to ensure safety and compliance of the airfield. Wayne has a passion for Progressive politics and was deeply inspired by Bernie’s 2016 People-Powered Politcal Revolution. Having served his last five years of military service during the Bush/Cheney era, he vowed he would take full advantage of his First Amendment rights once he retired from the military and to start putting his pen to paper in hopes of helping to achieve Economic, Social and Environmental Justice for America.

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