DEAR EDITOR:

Why would America not vote for Bernie Sanders, Democratic Socialist? He campaigns like he wants an intelligent, healthy and working society. He claims health is wealth. He’s for free college and Medicare for all.

Trump claims the majority of American workers can afford college and health care for their families. That’s why he want to get rid of Obamacare and has no health plan of his own. Concern is widespread among labor unions whose contracts include health benefits. “In 1954 union membership was 35.2 percent; in 2020, 10.2 percent.

Bernie’s for more trade unions and collective bargaining. He’s for raising the $7.25 minimum wage to a profitable wage and, according to a recent calculated survey on how the rich got richer and the poor poorer, the minimum wage should be over $20 per hour. With wind and solar power he wants clean air for our children and grandchildren, which would create millions of new good-paying jobs. He’s for affordable housing and rent for “homeless veterans and families.” He’s for keeping social benefits that “all Americans” are entitled to, to many to list, that Trump wants to get rid of.

This would be the Republicans’ definition of a revolution, not Bernie’s. He’s against corporate welfare that ranges in the “billions yearly.” In the 1980s, 40 years ago, Corporation America (otherwise known as the “establishment”) deserted America with all our good-paying manufacturing jobs to many Communist and Socialist countries for cheap wages, and our EPA regulations so they could pollute the rest of the planet. “It’s the money Stupid.” Now in 2020 they are still hiding billions of dollars of profits in Swiss banks and The Cayman Islands. How American are they? President Bush’s lies about WMD, Iraq, Middle East, 20 years, no-win war costing many young military and civilian lives and permanent mental and physical injuries at the current cost of over “7 trillion dollars.” Trump’s failed trade deal with China, cost “billions of tax dollars” paid to our farmers, and Bernie wants free college and health care for all. Can you imagine that?

Bernie said that this is not for his future, it’s for yours. Who in their right mind would not vote for Bernie?

Democrats, remember November.

DAVID P. GAIBIS SR.

Edinburg, Pa.