Vote for Bernie Sanders for president. Credit: Jaya Nicely

Vote for Bernie Sanders for president.

Vote for Bernie Sanders for president. Jaya Nicely

The Democratic field is more progressive than it’s ever been.

Both Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren are talking about replacing the private health insurance market with a public system that covers everyone, and no one is laughing them out of the room. Even Pete Buttigieg, the khaki-wearing homosexual soldier, and Joe Biden, a man who has been in politics so long he’s seen bell-bottoms come back twice, have put forth agendas to the left of anything that’s come before. Hell, one of the billionaires trying to buy the election is proposing a $5 trillion tax increase on the rich.

But there is only one candidate who can electrify the electorate enough to beat Donald Trump, and that’s Senator Bernard Sanders of Vermont.

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