Why the Nation's Nurses are Supporting Bernie Sanders for President
Bernie Sanders aligns perfectly with nurses on the most critical problems facing our nation, from
income inequality to guaranteeing
healthcare to all to holding
Wall Street and corporations to account to opening the doors to
college education for everyone to
racial justice to the
climate crisis.
Those are the same issues that animate nurses when we talk about voting for nurses' values -- caring, compassion and community to heal America.
But we also support the Sanders moment also because of the rare opportunity his campaign represents to not just
speak truth to power, but to join movements together to change our country. To stand as
a social movement against the obscene wealth that controls our lives, starves our communities, destroys our people and expand a populist movement that put human life before profit.
All the establishment pundits who are scrambling for ways to dismiss the outpouring of excitement for his campaign and to marginalize those who have filled the stadiums increasingly look like cranks trying to stop an approaching train.
The myths: (debunked in the linked article)
Bernie can't win
He's not drawing black and Latino voters.
He's an "avowed democratic socialist."
"You'll never have to wonder which side I am on," Bernie says. While other candidates are intrinsically tied to Wall Street and the Chamber of Commerce, Bernie not only calls for repeal of Citizens United and public financing of campaigns he is the only candidate not taking money from big corporations and PACs.
Bernie wants to take money from Wall Street too -- by taxing them to fund a civil society with the health care, the jobs, the housing and the environmental protections people need.
Bernie Sanders knows that his campaign is not about him.
It's about all of us. And it will take all of us to change the course of history. It's time to start now.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rose-ann-demoro/why-the-nations-nurses-ar_b_7979948.html
