Bernie Sanders Infographic: Stance On Issues
Hey there,
Just created my first infographic on Bernie Sanders stance on an array of different issues and what % of Americans agree with him.
I've also pulled together a lot of great writers who have written posts about Sanders and how they feel his where he stands.
You can view the full post here.
Here's my infographic!
Below are the different chapters I gathered resources for. I urge you to click through to the full articles off the quotes, they're definitely worth a read.
Abortion
"We are not returning to the days of back-room abortions, when countless women died or were maimed. The decision about abortion must remain a decision for the woman, her family, and physician to make, not the government."
- Bernie Sanders
"He strongly supports a woman's right to choose to have an abortion"
- Jake Miller
"Clinton is no longer the only Democrat campaigning for women."
- Becca Stanek
"Sanders' staunch position on the issues of abortion and women’s reproductive rights will garner him further points with his left-leaning liberal base."
- Becca Stanek
Economy
"Some people say my economic ideas are radical. You should hear what the Pope is saying."
- Bernie Sanders
"Sanders has proposed a number of populist measures that aim to provide more support and economic mobility for middle- and lower-income workers."
- Jake Miller
"Sanders would divide large banks into smaller entities and charge a new fee for high-risk investment practices"
- Lisa Desjardins
Civil Rights
"If you want to get tough on crime, let's deal with the causes of crime. Let's demand that every man, woman, and child in this country have a decent opportunity and a decent standard of living"
- Bernie Sanders
"the truth is, Sanders has a 50-year history of standing up for civil and minority rights"
- Zaid Jilani
"Besides having marched with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and having taken part in civil rights sit-ins, Sanders has spoken out about racial issues many times in the past decade. "
- Thor Benson
Crime
"Millions of lives have been destroyed because people are in jail for nonviolent crimes. For decades, we have been engaged in a failed “War on Drugs” with racially-biased mandatory minimums that punish people of color unfairly."
- Bernie Sanders
Unlike his rivals, Sanders’ framed the issue of criminal justice reform in a larger issue of racial violence.
- Alex Seitz-Wald
As he reiterated his commitment to criminal justice reform, Bernie Sanders drew loud cheers from his crowd of 28,000 supporters
- Romain Bonilla
Sanders paid homage to Michael Brown and highlighted several aspects of criminal justice he believes do more harm than good.
- Romain Bonilla
Drugs
"It’s not that I support it or don’t support it. To me it is not one of the major issues facing this country. I’ll look at it. I think it has a lot of support and I’ll be talking to young people and others about the issues. But there are two sides to a story."
- Bernie Sanders
He's not your stereotypical candidate, and he's not your stereotypical hippie migrant Vermonter either.
- Hunter Schwarz
Sanders has voiced support for medicinal marijuana use
- Laura Donovan
Education
"We must end the practice of the government making billions in profits from student loans taken out by low and moderate income families"
- Bernie Sanders
he called once again for a move to “make college tuition in public universities and public colleges free.”
- Maureen Sullivan
Sanders would provide $18 billion to state governments to allow them to cut tuition at state colleges by 55 percent
- Lisa Desjardins
Sanders resents the notion that college is a privilege, not a right.
- Laura Donovan
Environment
"The bottom line is that when Senator Inhofe says global warming is a hoax, he is just dead wrong, according to the vast majority of climate scientists,"
- Bernie Sanders
Considered to be a “climate change hawk,” Sanders argues that shifting global temperatures are a significant threat
- Lisa Desjardins
In 2012, Sanders took to the Senate floor to blast Senator Jim Inhofe (R-Ok.) for doubting the severity of climate change
- Laura Donovan
Families
"Of course all citizens deserve equal rights. It’s time for the Supreme Court to catch up to the American people and legalize gay marriage."
-Bernie Sanders
In the 1990s, he voted against the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which permitted states to refuse to acknowledge same-sex marriages that were granted in other states.
- Laura Donovan
Sanders is an outspoken supporter of LGBT rights
- Jake Miller
Foreign Policy
“If the Middle East people perceive this is the United States versus ISIS, the West versus East, Christianity versus Islam, we’re going to lose that war. This is a war for the soul of Islam and the Muslim nations must be deeply involved.”
- Bernie Sanders
Unlike many far-left liberals, Bernie Sanders endorsed the air strike efforts on ISIL, but the independent senator believes that it should not be a U.S. led effort.
- Inquisitr
Sanders backs President Obama’s negotiations with Iran and sharply criticized Republican senators who signed a letter warning Iran against a potential deal.
- Lisa Desjardins
Free Trade
“Are you on the side of working people who would suffer as a result of this disastrous trade agreement, and seeing their jobs go to China or Mexico? Or are you on the side of corporate America and pharmaceuticals?”
- Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders has voted against trade agreements such as NAFTA, CAFTA and the TPP. He has also voted yes on withdrawing from the World Trade Organization.
- Inquisitr
he’s vehemently opposed to the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a 12-nation trade alliance being pushed by the White House
- David Francis
Government Reform
"Are we comfortable with an American political system which is being dominated by a handful of billionaires?"
- Bernie Sanders
Sanders proposes a Constitutional amendmentthat would effectively reverse the Supreme Court’s Citizen United ruling
- Lisa Desjardins
It is part of what Sanders sees as a :political revolution” that has as its point the establishment of electoral landscape where the vote matters more than the dollar.
- John Nichols
Gun Control
“We don’t have to argue with each other and yell at each other. We need a common sense solution.”
- Bernie Sanders
A mixed approach. No federal handgun waiting period. Some protection for gun manufacturers. Ban assault weapons.
- Lisa Desjardins
On gun laws, though, Sanders has cultivated a more moderate record, perhaps owing to his representation of a state with a rich tradition of hunting and firearm ownership
- Jake Miller
Health Care
We need to join the rest of the industrialized world. We are the only major country on Earth that doesn’t guarantee health care to all people as a right."
- Bernie Sanders
On health care, Sanders voted in favor of the Affordable Care Act, and he defended the law as "modest step forward"
- Jake Miller
he espouses a single-payer system in which the federal and state governments would provide health care to all Americans.
- Lisa Desjardins
the independent from Vermont who is running as a Democrat for president told ABC News host George Stephanopoulos that the nation was far from out of the woods on health care.
- Jon Greenberg
Immigration
"I’m a strong supporter of immigration reform and of the need to provide a pathway to citizenship for 11 million undocumented immigrants. I support President Obama’s action to help working families stay together. I think everyone agrees that the current immigration system is broken.
- Bernie Sanders
Sanders has said he supports comprehensive immigration reform that includes a path to citizenship for the roughly 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the U.S.
- Jake Miller
Sanders generally agrees with President Obama that most of the undocumented immigrants in the country now should be given a path to citizenship
- Lisa Desjardins
For undocumented immigrants currently in America, Senator Sanders is both a supporter of the DREAM Act and opposed to many deportations.
- Laura Donovan
Jobs
Youth unemployment remains 18%, and it's part of a 40-year trajectory the American middle class continues to decline, and we need very bold action,"
- Bernie Sanders
Sanders connects civil unrest in black communities, police shootings, and violence to soaring black youth unemployment.
- Collier Meyerson
We’re not just hurting these young people today. If we do nothing, they will be deprived economically for the rest of their lives.
- Bernie Sanders
Sanders may be the only former unemployment insurance claimant to mount a serious presidential run
- Arthur Delaney
Social Security
"At a time when half of all older workers have no retirement savings, we need to expand, not cut, Social Security benefits so that every American can retire with dignity."
- Bernie Sanders
Fifty-two percent of households of people 55 and older haven't saved a dime for retirement, though nearly half of those do have an employer pension.
- Arthur Delaney
Bernie Sanders cemented his appeal to older voters on Thursday with renewed calls for an expansion of social security
- Dan Roberts
Tax Reform
"I'm not sure that every very wealthy person feels that it's the worst thing in the world for them to pay more in taxes, to be honest with you. I think you've got a lot of millionaires saying, "You know what? I've made a whole lot of money. I don't want to see kids go hungry in America. Yeah, I'll pay my fair share."
- Bernie Sanders
Sanders has endorsed bills that would increase the tax burden on the wealthy
- Jake Miller
Calls for introducing a Financial Transaction Tax have grown since the financial crisis and the Great Recession,
- Rob Garver
Sanders also indicates that he'd like to see a 90 percent tax rate in the country.
- Michael Arria
War
"We have billions to spend on a war but no money to take care of the very pressing needs of hte American people. That bothers me a lot."
- Bernie Sanders
A longtime anti-war activist, Sanders voted against the Iraq war resolution in 2002. He has regularly called for the U.S. to withdraw troops from Afghanistan and Iraq as soon as possible.
- Lisa Desjardins
his “hawkish” support of Clinton’s military actions in the 1999 Kosovo War caused one of his advisers to quit
- Howards Linsoff
This makes Sanders an ideal candidate to help move pragmatic less war positions on Israel-Palestine deeper into mainstream American political discourse.
- Robert Naiman
Welfare
"We need to figure out why people are in poverty. We need to get people out of poverty… Instead of giving tax breaks to billionaires, we should make sure that every person in this country lives in dignity.”
- Bernie Sanders
"Sanders doesn’t want the government to run the entire economy, but he does want the government to ensure that the economy doesn't regularly ruin millions of people's lives."
- Thor Benson
There’s a reason the Scandinavian welfare states are still the envy of many across the world.
- Rune Møller Stahl & Andreas Møller Mulvad
Bernie Sanders says both Clintons made a mistake on welfare reform.
- Josh Eidelson
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Thank you !!! 
Nice list!
We were just discussing in a different thread whether or not Senator Sanders has addressed asset forfeiture.
Do you have anything on that? I'm sure he'd like to see it regulated, but it's not out there where I can find it.
Was lazy and didn't want to edit...it was a welcome to the OP...I think...maybe...ya, it was.
This is excellent.
Try to get this published somewhere---a web site or a newspaper
It has such value especially for those who don't have the time or inclination to read a lot of article to make a good decision on who to vote for, goes way ahead of the one minute ads that just try to tell a bunch of lies.
Thank you for all the work you put into this.
Welcome to DU
this is fantastic! 
I'm REALLLY glad folks in this forum are enjoying it. Always kinda nerv wracking to put your work out there in front of people, especially when you're new to something, so thanks again.
I couldn't find any good Sanders articles on Asset Forfeiture. But I did find this John Oliver video on the topic of police asset seizing. Which isn't quite the same at all, but still enlightening 
