How would your life improve if Bernie Sanders were elected?

[ALittleBirdie]

I could live close to my loved ones because Medicare for All, or Universal Healthcare, or whatever you want to call it, would make it possible. Currently it isn't in the realm of possibilities.

How would your life improve if Bernie Sanders were elected?

[snot]

1. I won't be surprised if he doesn't accomplish any of that.

But I'm dam' sure he'll do everything he can to slow/stop the looting of the 90%.

And he's already succeeded in at least shifting the conversation back into the realm of rationality, at least in certain respects.

[snot]

3. Riding with you on this,

if he actually got his policies through, there's no doubt my life would be more comfortable, less stressful.

For just one thing, we're on Obamacare, but the options were drastically slashed this year. My sig. other, who has serious, rare health problems, had to switch all previous doctors; and even though we live in a major city, our new insurance offers no in-network docs of the type I need within 50 mis. And we're paying for the best available in our area.

Insurers should be required to offer the same plans on the Obamacare Marketplace as they offer to big corporations or anyone else.

Also, if Bernie had his way, I'm pretty sure we'd see better funding of education, childcare, and the like, without the push toward privatization.

[ALittleBirdie]

7. Thanks for riding with this!

Reality follows what we dream of!

Bernie has great dreams for this country.

[Skink]

2. Well the last 30 years my entire working life have

Been for most of us a continual eroding of living standards so it is hard to say.

[peace13]

4. I would breathe a sigh of gratitude every morning that Hill was not in charge. And...

...do my best to pay it forward every day.

I just don't think I can take even one year of war mongering! I had the same dread when * was gifted a second term. So much death and destruction done in each of our names. It is nothing to cackle about. My entire forties were survived under * or the threat of him. And now if Hill pulls this off my sixties will suffer an equal fate. I have no idea how I could survive it.

[Capt.Rocky300]

5. Our life wouldn't change much......

we are pretty well set for our remaining years. But a lot of other folks lives would improve by the creation of better paying jobs, Medicare for all and a boost in Social Security and that is what we want to see. On second thought, I'd love smoother roads and safe bridges to cross.

Unlike Reagan's or Clinton's so called rising tide, Bernie's would actually raise all the boats that have been stuck in the mud for 35 years.

[LiberalElite]

22. Their rising tide helped the yachts

the rest of us got capsized.

[Capt.Rocky300]

29. Love the new gif.

[LiberalElite]

30. which one?

[Capt.Rocky300]

31. Bernie and The Donald.......

Is that the one with the eagle originally? Anyway, it's hilarious.

[LiberalElite]

32. Ah. I asked because

the NYC 4 Bernie one had disappeared. I asked Admin what happened and was told it didn't exist anymore. I managed to find it again so it's baaack. I cut n/pasted the Donald & Bernie one from another DUer's sig line.

[demosincebirth]

6. Nothing will change (no utopia) unless we change the do-nothing congress.

[LiberalElite]

23. There is hope - Democratic wave could be building

http://www.politicususa.com/2016/04/14/democratic-wave-building-13-house-seats-move-democratic-party.html

The Republican House majority could be washed out to sea as 13 more House are shifting towards the Democratic Party.

[demosincebirth]

39. Thirteen is just the first rug of a ten foot latter...I don't think it will happen, then Clinton or

Sanders (Potus) will be just like Obama. Their hands tied behind their backs by knuckle dragging crazies of the the republican party

[LiberalElite]

40. well I have to cling to

Some shred of hope so I can get up in the morning.

[Sandersdemocrat2020]

35. Excellent Point

It is not enough to get Bernie elected. We need a new Progressive Movement in America, and Bernie has started one. We need to nominate and elect Sanders Democrats and Independents to the Congress and to State and Local offices throughout America.

The millions of great Folks who are supporting Bernie are a great base for this new Political Revolution. Many of the People who are working for Bernie right now would make excellent candidates for Congress and State and Local offices. We need to encourage and support these people. We need other people to run and be candidates. This fight will not end with the Nomination and the Election. It will have just begun.

[Cassiopeia]

8. My life would improve because we would would begin the fight.

Would we get it all? No. Will we get most, probably not.

Will we actually try? You're damn right!

Every other option is more of the same at best, much more of the worse being far more likely.

[Peace Patriot]

9. Hope restored.

Very important to feel we're all in this together to create a decent society.

[Baobab]

14. People always have hope

This way to the showers

[prairierose]

10. There would be hope in the world again.....n/t

[DemocracyDirect]

11. I could sleep better at night...

Knowing that the person in the White House has the back of all my fellow citizens!

[SandersDem]

12. Okay, to be quite honest here

It would improve somewhat, but I am very fortunate.

Even though I lost a great deal of money during the Bush Depression, we hung in there and fought through that. His being elected would help assure that never happens again.

My taxes would likely go up a little, but for all of the RIGHT things.

Social Security could be expanded that would most definitely help, especially offsetting retirement losses.

Now, if you want to talk about my kids lives? Their lives would improve dramatically, especially if climate change gets taken as the serious threat that it is and Sander's can bring everybody together.

From a standpoint of personal freedom, like choice, being who they are, and social justice, that will impact my kids lives a great deal.

Lower college tuition, could also impact me almost immediately, because my son's scholarship could go toward's more of his living expenses.

Beyond all of that and how it would impact my life, and even my kids lives, is how Bernie's election would impact so many others around the world, in terms of life and death, that is even more significant to me.

[Baobab]

13. Several hundred thousand more dollars in your pocket over your lifetimes

savings on health insurance.

maybe an similarly large amount for drugs, the way prices are rising when they should be falling.

Extra years of life from better health care for the non-wealthy, especially nonwhite people and men.

Likely avoidance of wars and being on a path less likely to lead to them. For many people being able to own a home or have children, and marry depends on economic changes quite unlikely to happen with hillary, quite the opposite, barring Bernies changes jobs are going away so many will likely have to leave the US. Others will come, millions of low paid guest workers. They will et a lot of jobs especially in the rapidly privatizing former public sector, and in building infratructure which will then sit unused, nobody being abe to afford to buy into the communities built to replace the ones that became too expensive to heat because of lng export in TT~ I P

[PATRICK]

15. The Post Office

its workers and its customers would be protected from bad legislation, sellouts and outright harm by the President at the desk. The dirtiest bucks would stop there dead on arrival with no worry about "compromise", death by a thousand cuts, sneaky TPP sellouts to foreign corporations, "pragmatism", the Third Way DOA future without unions, without progress, without jobs, without anything really for the public. The same true of Social Security and Medicare as we know it. The brakes will be on against bad law, bad appointments and a shameful slide to doing the exact opposite of what we must to to survive(underline "survive" five billion times) as a free people.

[lostnfound]

16. Civic conscience assuaged and pure patriotism restored

Is probably be a bit poorer but I'm good with that 👍

[tk2kewl]

17. my anxiety over the future we will hand to my sons generation

will be reduced and my hopes will be buoyed

[redruddyred]

18. bernie is the only candidate who is for stregthening social security

were he to do so, i could stop worrying abt trying to impose myself on a labor force which clearly doesn't want me, and sit back chillout and focus on taking care of myself instead.

[Karma13612]

19. Since I'm in the low low end of the disappearing

middle class,

-I could start sleeping at night knowing my SS (due in 4 years) might actually be protected.

-With Medicare for all, I could risk moving jobs to one that doesn't cause me so much stress I am unhealthy.

-I could plan that my future might not involve living in some desert with poor air quality because the climate had become so bad it was uninhabitable.

- I could consider traveling abroad once again, without embarrassment that I live in a country willing to vote for a racist or a 1%-er.

- I could drive down the road and not worry that the upcoming bridge might collapse below my wheels because we finally got around to rebuilding the crumbling infrastructure.

[TBF]

20. Buried in student loans -

we are slowly digging ourselves out, but our kids are getting older and may choose to go to college themselves. My hope is a climate they can live in without graduating hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt.

[greymouse]

21. there would be less war

And I would know that we had a president who was a good man. That has to help in every area that he would have some authority over, like some environmental issues. Also, it would be the start of reforming our corrupt political system. I would know the President had the well being of people at heart; that would extend to jobs, healthcare, etc.

I would not have to see the Clintons' smirking, corrupt faces on the news. DWS would be history at the DNC.

The Democratic party would not have been dragged more to the right. It even might be more to the left.

[abelenkpe]

24. Bernie would stand up for regular folk if there

Was an economic downturn similar to 2008. Don't really trust anyone else to do that.

[sorechasm]

25. Nice that all responses reflect the potential for 'our' lives improving even though

the question was about 'your' life improvements.

I just want a sincere leader.

Even if I don't agree with him or her. Even if they accomplish little while in office, at least I can trust that they will say what they mean, and mean what they say.

I hate being lied to.

If Bernie can even accomplish a small fraction of his platform, it will work wonders for the outlook of America because we would all be in this together, and trust that our hard work is a meaningful part of the greater good.

[daleanime]

26. The would the chance for improvement.....

I don't see that with any other candidate.

[RazBerryBeret]

27. Healthcare / Elderly Care / Veteran Benefits

Having an elderly mom in assisted living, I worry about her future daily care.
I just watched my dad die from Liver Cancer, it made me aware of the craziness and waste of our present healthcare system Bernie in the WH would give me some hope.

With 2 teenage sons who are ready to go out into the world, I would like a better jobs market for them.
Being a working mom, I worry daily about my job, which I am dependent on for their future educations. I feel like I have a lot at stake, but I know there are others in similar/worse shape.

[astrophuss42]

28. Multitudes

. If I ever get the chance to travel abroad I won't have to defend my president and their foreign policy decisions
. More people will be able to afford my services making me more financially solvent, a likelihood is that my industry would expand instead of sputter
. I personally will have less worry about war
. My Healthcare is cheap but it doesn't do much so I hope for a better plan in the pipeline
. I feel like the environment would be in a much better position after we get rid of natural gas and coal
. I've put off having children partially because I have been too financially burdened trying to even stay in the middle class that I honestly don't have money for college for them, and obviously neither did my parents because I have a huge loan amount
. Better infrastructure making it easier to get around my city

[elias7]

33. Personally and financially, not so good,

But if it means someone in power views climate change as our most imminent threat, I'll take it. And if it means we are one step closer to universal health care, affordable college tuition, and leveling the playing field, how can one argue with that?

[jillan]

34. Medicare for all. I am a caregiver for someone that has chronic pain. There is nothing worse than

having to get a referral to a specialist to get down to the root of her pain - while she is in pain.

I wish I could pick up the phone, and just schedule the appointment without waiting.
It is so sad.

[Sandersdemocrat2020]

36. New Progressive Movement

How would my life improve? I would feel better and safer knowing that we are living in a society that allows Progressives like Bernie to win in our system. The political environment will have changed for the better.

I think that Bernie has started a new Progressive Movement. If he were President, I think that there would be a very large qualitative change in our Political Culture. He would push for his Policies and would be able to inspire other Candidates with similar Values to run for Congress and other Local and State offices. In the new political climate, Progressive Politicians and Policies would have a fighting chance and an Ally in the powerful pulpit of the U.S. Presidency.

I think that Bernie's candidacy has already shown that there is a young and vibrant Progressive demographic. Even if Bernie does not win, he may have created a new situation where other Progressives may be inspired to enter into politics. The establishment Politicians are on notice that their time is limited. A new, young Progressive Movement made of many Millennials might start to take over as the Old Guard begins to age out of power. Sanders Democrats and Independents might be able to join Bernie and change our Political World.

I think my life would improve knowing that real Progressivism is possible in America at the highest levels of power. If Bernie were able to achieve that high office, it may be the beginning of a new era in American Politics where real Social Justice is possible, and where we can get Policies in place that will help People, not the Rich and the Connected. Bernie will fight for that Social and Economic Justice with the Bully Pulpit of the Presidency. So, how would a Sanders Presidency help me? It would give me hope that there is a fighting chance to make our country a more Just and Democratic society.

[Sandersdemocrat2020]

37. Taking Back The Congress

Also, I think Bernie's policies would benefit me in many ways. Particularly if I could return to Grad School with lower expenses. It could change my life for the better. I would become a better and more productive citizen if I could get my Grad Degree.

I also think that I would feel better knowing that we have someone on the side of the People in the White House. The Political Culture would change in favor of Progressive minded citizens. A lot could be accomplished that would help many People, myself included.

That said, it is not enough to get Bernie elected. We need a new Progressive Movement in America, and Bernie has started one. We need to nominate and elect Sanders Democrats and Independents to the Congress and to State and Local offices throughout America. If we want Bernie's Policies to be enacted, we need to take back the Congress and change the Political Climate in favor of Progressives.

The millions of great Folks who are supporting Bernie are a great base for this new Political Revolution. Many of the People who are working for Bernie right now would make excellent candidates for Congress and State and Local offices. We need to encourage and support these people. We need other people to run and be candidates. This fight will not end with the Nomination and the Election. It will have just begun.

So, if Bernie were elected, it would change the script and prove that Politics that benefit the People is possible.

[JDPriestly]

38. We sould have a more honest, less corrupt government.

I don't think Bernie would allow the government to lie so much.

I think Bernie would let us know a lot more of the truth about our history than would any other candidate.bout

Bernie would cut spending, cut kickbacks to the crooks, appoint well qualified, honest people to his cabinet and other positions.

Just by electing Bernie we would prove to Congress that we are very, very serious about campaign finance reform.

We could insure the future of net neutrality, insure that our press is really free and not concentrated in the hands of very few people, break up the banks so that we have more heads and hearts bringing more diversity to the decision making in our economy.

Just basically, more honest government. That's what I would like.

Bernie knows how to manage money. One of the first committees he served on in Congress was Banking. He now serves on, among other committees, the budget committee.

Bernie know government and how to manage well. I could relax and sleep well at night knowing that my Social Security and all the rest of the government's money is in good, honest, intelligent hands.

Bernie would try to stay out of war. That would not only save money. It would save human lives.

Bernie would try to work toward a fairer economy for everyone.

[ridgenvalley]

41. I have three daughters who want to go to college.

Dad & I started saving when the first was born, and managed to help her get through 4 years debt free. But her sisters will not be able to get the same level of parental help. There is NO WAY their dad and I could've saved enough for 12 years of tuition for 3 kids and still been able to pay the monthly bills.
Free public college tuition--one of many reasons I support Bernie.