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A vote that matters

What matters to you? What matters for your family? For your children and their children?

What I care most passionately about are the environment and equality.

Humans have through action and inaction ruined our planet. We must act as stewards of the earth and protect it from further destruction. While the recent accords in Paris and the increasing availability of renewable energies are indeed heartening, emissions, fossil fuels, fracking and other poor decisions lead to irreparable ruin of our environment.

voteAnd while the earth deserves respect, so too do its citizens. Never was I more proud of Massachusetts than when it became the first state to legalize gay marriage. Never was I more proud to be an American than when the Supreme Court struck down bans on equality last year.

Yet there is so much work to be done and not by idle hands.

The candidate whose yard sign arrived in my mailbox last May – at the time a purchase of optimism, not pragmatism – supports increases in renewables, opposes off-shore drilling, opposes the keystone pipeline and opposes tax breaks for fossil fuels among other climate ideas.

The candidate has also publicly supported marriage equality since at least 2009, earlier than any of the other six candidates and publicly spoke against a homophobic colleague in 1995.

The candidate also made prescient judgments by opposing the war in Iraq and the regime change in Libya, recognizing when others did not that what happens after the war is of enormous consequence.

The candidate believes that health care and education are birth rights of all citizens.

The candidate is not beholden to the so-called political establishment or to the rigged political process itself, having not received any money from millionaires or billionaires, yet receives record crowds and donations from across the country. Can't be bought, owes no favors.

The candidate doesn't care in which direction the wind blows, doesn't care what the odds are and doesn't care that many casual observers think the race was over before it began.

The candidate scored highest of all candidates in a poll of “honest and trustworthy” and has never been embroiled in personal or political scandal. And the candidate is nice to animals.

The candidate polls higher than all opposition party candidates head-to-head, surely a positive for the general election.

The candidate intends to legalize marijuana.

The candidate inspires me ... motivating me to believe that the United States could actually be great again. It's not the best country in the world, but it could be. But only if you #feelthebern. Only if you cast your vote for Bernie Sanders.





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