Kids for Bernie!!!
Kids for Bernie!!!
Just a quick, cute tale from the Bernie trail. While canvassing and door-knocking does win elections, it can at times feel like pushing an enormous rock up a very steep hill. On this beautiful Spring Sunday, however, my partner and I were in an East Village, NYC park flyering, talking to undecided voters, and handing out Bernie stickers to those who wanted them. This particular neighborhood is strong for Bernie (groundswell or bubble?) and many of the passersby were saying they’d definitely be coming out for Bernie on Primary Day. There were parents putting Bernie stickers on their babies’ strollers and in one case on an eager 5 year old’s Superman costume. Some people, of course, were Hillary supporters, as one man informed me while strolling by with his family. As they were walking away, his little daughter, maybe 9 or 10, came running back to take a sticker and tell us, in the most earnest and enthusiastic voice, that she was really for Bernie and would just keep working on her dad! I can’t say whether she envisioned the better future that would result from a president who champions the absolute priority of saving our planet from disastrous climate change and who speaks with every breath and action about a fairer society, or she was more simply resonating with the incredible energy, truth, and integrity radiating out of this movement. In any case, parents: sometimes the children really do know best!
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