2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumBernie Sanders Just Revealed His Last California Ad.
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http://www.mangofeed.com/bernie-sanders-new-cali-ad/Glad everyone likes it.
Chris is in Baltimore!
Powerful.
TYY
djean111
(14,255 posts)Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)The other one is still allied with the people sending pot smokers to prison.
winter is coming
(11,785 posts)zappaman
(20,605 posts)Luminous Animal
(27,310 posts)nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)That is a mini doc, and this is not a standard political add.
senz
(11,945 posts)Bernie cares about people like Chris. This is why he went into government service.
It is why he's running for president.
KeepItReal
(7,769 posts)YouDig
(2,280 posts)Alex4Martinez
(2,180 posts)Oh, please, let this man become our next president.
He transcends the banal, the mundane, the corrupt politics we've come to accept as "OK".
antigop
(12,778 posts)JudyM
(29,122 posts)a metaphor for how real these issues are to him and that he takes time to listen, and has, over the years. He's not more focused on serving corporate masters and how much can we market in a sound bite. That's his whole thing. He won't serve corporate masters. He's paying big money by the second to air this, and he is saying underneath: people's lives, people's suffering in our system is far far more important than the money.
I'm ferklempt, as my dad would say... Choked up with the emotional beauty of this powerful statement of an ad, which is about far more than, but represented beautifully by, Chris' story.
Thank you, Bernie. For showing how deeply you care. For modeling a leadership ethic that echoes in the heart as a resonance of our deeper humanity. For being more than a storefront-depth politician.
And anyone who wants to poke at this because I'm expressing my genuine emotion, well, you're just showing your cold, bloodless heart.
Last comment especially.
People sometimes claim to be the "adults in the room" when they shut off their emotions. Real adults think with both their hearts and minds.
Sixty eight people were shot in my city, Chicago, over Memorial Day weekend. Four or five of them died. I wonder why we "adults" in this city can't seem to change the ugly reality for the violent neighborhoods where most of it occurs. We "adults" report to our jobs to earn a small living for ourselves and a much better living for our "owners", do virtually nothing (and are asked to do virtually nothing) to address our city's most desparate sad problems, and are made to feel that these problems are beyond repair by a political system to which we are mere bystanders or manipulated props.
How to reconnect our hearts to our minds, within our economy and our government, is the challenge before us.
Skwmom
(12,685 posts)lmbradford
(517 posts)Such an amazing man. He inspired me and I already have a Master's Degree.
WOW JUST WOW!!!
morningfog
(18,115 posts)2banon
(7,321 posts)itsrobert
(14,157 posts)I'm not seeing it on the air in San Diego County. Did he not have the money to run it on TV?
elleng
(130,156 posts)Lizzie Poppet
(10,164 posts)pablo_marmol
(2,375 posts)Thank you, elleng
madokie
(51,076 posts)It sucks that so many in our black communities have been the scape goat for whatever ails us for so fucking long. Its time we stop this cycle of disparity and give these kids, men and women a real chance at the American Dream that many of us have taken for granted in our worlds.
We have to elect Bernie as our next President or things will continue to get worse. Its not just me typing these words these are words typing themselves though my fingers. dm