{"id":869,"date":"2016-03-08T14:15:16","date_gmt":"2016-03-08T19:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/?p=869"},"modified":"2016-03-08T14:15:16","modified_gmt":"2016-03-08T19:15:16","slug":"awesome-things-about-bernie-sanders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/?p=869","title":{"rendered":"Awesome Things about Bernie Sanders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a list of some of the awesome things I was able to compile about my favorite (and only) candidate, Bernie Sanders.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Longest serving Independent in Congress in history.<\/li>\n<li>He calls himself a Democratic Socialist.<\/li>\n<li>He knows his facts. He backs up his arguments with facts.<\/li>\n<li>He will NOT run as an Independent if he loses the Democratic nomination.<\/li>\n<li>He uses Uber, flies coach and is willing to sit in the middle seat, sleeps in cheap Motels across the country.<\/li>\n<li>He got 71% of the vote the last time he ran for Congress.<\/li>\n<li>He is treated as a fringe figure but he truly is the only serious presidential candidate in the race. He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the only one with a decent vision for the country and his record indicates he would follow through if elected.<\/li>\n<li>He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s never run a negative campaign ad in his life.<\/li>\n<li>He voted against DOMA, NAFTA, the Patriot Act, the war in Iraq, the Bush Tax Cuts, and a lot of other bills that were passed that turned out to be huge mistakes proving his judgement and instinct can be trusted and he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not afraid to fight.<\/li>\n<li>He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s for a living wage. If you work 40 hours a week you should not live in poverty.<\/li>\n<li>99% of Sanders campaign contributes have come from small donors. (Less than half of one percent of his donors have given the maximum. Three quarters of his donors give less than $200.)<\/li>\n<li>He has a positive favorability rating.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t say those things about anyone else who\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s running; including Hillary Clinton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a list of some of the awesome things I was able to compile about my favorite (and only) candidate, Bernie Sanders. Longest serving Independent in Congress in history. He calls himself a Democratic Socialist. He knows his facts. He backs up his arguments with facts. He will NOT run as an Independent if he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bernie-sanders"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=869"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":870,"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869\/revisions\/870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}