Why Bernie?

Bernie is not our political savior. It is the movement behind him that will change this country: We are not electing a savior, we are electing a political opponent who we will hold accountable to meet our demands. Bernie Sanders knows he can’t change everything on his own. His campaign slogan, “Not Me, Us” is all about building a movement of millions to fight in the streets and at the ballot box to force the hands of legislators to listen. This is how change happens.



Our people believe in Bernie and his vision for building power with us. He has the most diverse, the youngest and the most working class base of any candidate. He has more donations from students, Walmart Workers, Amazon Workers and Teachers than anyone else - at an average of $18. The mainstream media is afraid of this. That’s why they’ve attempted to paint Bernie as some fringe candidate and his support base as comprised of only “white Bernie bros” and erase the millions of Black, brown and immigrant youth and women at the helm of his campaign.

Bernie has the most visionary agenda for our future: Bernie’s political agenda most aligns with our own. It includes:

Free college

100 percent elimination of all student debt and all healthcare debt

Medicare for All

Guaranteed jobs and housing for anyone who needs it

A moratorium on all deportations and reuniting of all families who have been separated

Re-shaping our current immigration system, dismantling ICE and creating a welcoming immigration system for refugees, including those displaced by climate change

Cutting the national prison population in half and ending mass incarceration by abolishing the death penalty, three strikes laws, and mandatory minimum sentences, as well as expanding the use of alternatives to detention

A “Prisoners Bill of Rights,” and a just transition for incarcerated individuals upon their release

Cutting our military budget (The US currently spends $700 billion/year)

No sanctions on Iran, no war with Iran or US intervention abroad

Withholding funding to Israel unless it changes its treatment of Palestinians

Bernie’s track record is consistent. Throughout his career, he has pushed visionary ideas long before they were politically popular:

Bernie has been an activist all his life. In 1963, a young Bernie Sanders was arrested after being chained to fellow activists (many of them Black women), while protesting segregation and despicable educational conditions for Black school children in Chicago. Sanders, like all U.S. politicians is flawed. He has not always taken stances we agree with, but no candidate has been more consistent over their lifetime in choosing unpopular political stances rooted in the needs of Black people, immigrants, LGBT communities and the working class.

Bernie has helped shift the national policy dial to the left: on mass incarceration, the environment, healthcare, war spending, housing, Israel/Palestine and US military aggression abroad.

Bernie is not offering band-aid solutions to the crises we are living in. He believes in a total transformation of our economic and political systems.

Many candidates cite “corporate corruption” as the source of the problems we are up against. This means they believe our issues aren’t so much systemic as a matter of a few bad apples. 3 billionaires own half of the wealth in this country. This is BECAUSE of capitalism itself because under capitalism, the needs of people and the planet are always secondary to the profit motive. Other candidates are offering BandAid solutions to problems that, without deep economic transformation, will only persist.

We all know this and people everywhere are demanding a total overhaul of our economic system. Bernie is the only candidate doing the same. Polls show that 55% of women under 55 say they would prefer a socialist country to a capitalist one, and 70% of millennials say they would vote for a socialist.The media’s erasure of young women, and people of color as core constituencies of the Bernie Sanders campaign reflects the establishment’s discomfort with acknowledging that the working-class is in fact multi-racial, and the growing consensus that capitalism cannot save us.