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Five Things the Pundits Are Missing About the Sanders Surge
The Myth of the “Bernie Bro”
According to the smart people who talk all day on tv, most of Bernie Sanders supporters are millennial white men who harbor secretly sexist and racist views. Bernie Bros are constantly angry and hold completely purist views about their guy.
Hahahahahah.
This sixty-three-year-old grandmother, retired elementary school teacher and wearer of a handmade pussy hat thinks that’s just hilarious. And I’m not alone in my support of the Senator from Vermont. The desire for universal health insurance hits older folks hard. A lot of us spend the decade before our Medicare eligibility worrying that we’ll have a stroke, a heart attack, cancer.
Many of us have watched our children struggle to pay for eye care, dental care, and basic healthcare. We’ve seen them thrown into debt by a broken bone or a tick bite.
We know how college debt has crippled them. We see them working full time and still unable to afford decent housing.
Some of us are still waiting for the grandchildren that our kids can’t afford.
And a lot of those who worry about these things are women. Kind, open-minded, thoughtful women. Like me.
