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Evolution: Why another former Hillary Clinton supporter has come to feel the Bern

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***8. Believing and Trusting Bernie: I believe Bernie and I believe in what he wants to do, where he wants to take this country. I believe him when he says his plan is to physically go to the districts that elect the representatives who will fight his plans to change -- he will not just disappear into the White House. I believe he will fight to really make this country what it could be -- just.

I respect Hillary's accomplishments -- the Lilly Ledbetter Pay Equity Act, to fighting for kids when she was a young attorney, sticking up for Women's Rights, but NONE OF THESE present a conflict between the people -- the middle class and workers -- and the 1% (the unrestrained, unregulated excesses of pure capitalism that threaten to destroy our free-market economy by completing the disappearance of the working and middle classes). Hillary's record is a carefully stage-managed package of issues meant to be popular. Look, for example, at what Bernie and Elizabeth Warren have FOUGHT FOR -- what they've stood up for: US. None of HRC's positions do that. THERE WAS A MOMENT WHEN "THE LIGHT BULB CAME ON" AND I REALIZED I HAD TO SWITCH TO BERNIE.

In sum, I switched to Bernie because I am a progressive and I share his vision for America. He is one of us, not a subsidiary of any bank or corporation. If any of you have read this far, I hope and pray that you'll do likewise and, when you walk into that booth and it's just you and your conscience, you'll decide that doing the right thing is more important than having been right.

Who am I, by the way? In relevant part, a lifelong Democrat (although not sure I'll be one after NJ's primary) and, well, click here if interested. Back to Top
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