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I want to thank Bernie Sanders for his 30 years of service to better the lives of all Americans. I want to also thank him for his bravery to break from the Democratic Party when he realized it was compromising party principles. And it took much courage and tenacity for him to rejoin it and campaign for the voiceless in a spirited "political revolution" in his run for the presidency.

As Bernie has repeatedly informed us, two-thirds of all Americans want Medicare for all and the end of "insurance-care" making obscene profits from our misery. Two-thirds of Americans do not want jobs shipped overseas, or companies abusing cheap labor and cutting corners on worker safety and environmental protection.

Two-thirds of Americans no longer want NAFTA, CAFTA or the nontransparent TPP. They believe college education should be a right and not a privilege. They think we have a broken justice system that favors wealth while punishing drug users instead of seeking their medical treatment.

And two-thirds of Americans want to see Social Security expanded and not privatized, believe war should be a last resort and not the first, believe in immigration and a pathway to citizenship, and that police should not be militarized and shooting unarmed Americans on the streets where we live.

An overwhelming number of Americans are angry about double-standard taxing and havens for billionaires. They know climate change is real and want to see much greater investment in sustainable energy systems like solar, wind and geothermal.

They want the Citizens United decision overturned, fair and honest campaign financing and fairness in the election process itself. Americans know that for fair elections, money must not have the final say. And Americans want an end to the Federal Reserve and a breakup of the big banks.

Amid corporate propaganda, disguised as "media" or "journalism," real issues are rarely brought to the forefront. Because of Bernie, the American people finally got their voice back to openly discuss issues that most concern them.

I want to also thank Bernie for revealing the superdelegates scam and the purging and suppression of our votes, and for his demands of Debbie Wasserman Schultz, challenging her to make the Democratic primary system fair. As WikiLeaks verified, Bernie was right on all counts. Bernie — and poor and middle-class Americans — ended up the victims of a rigged Democratic Party, which had an agenda for one single outcome.

Thank you, Bernie, for being that one ray of sunlight breaking through the dense political fog with all its particulates, and enlightening Americans as to what we must do to pursue and ensure our brighter future.

Thank you for being our brave, new-age Paul Revere and riding across America to begin our political revolution. May we never forget to Feel the Bern!

Grant Marcus walked precincts, managed a Bernie Sanders office and helped with crowd control at Bernie events in Ventura and Santa Barbara counties. He is a founding member of Citizens for Integrity in Party Politics.