The Editor's Back Fence

What About That Pony? (Letters I Never Finished Reading)

Bernie Sanders
Monday February 08, 2016 - 11:18:00 AM

I want you to imagine eight years from now: 

The minimum wage is a living wage and students are graduating college without the crushing debt stifling their ability to pursue the career of their dreams. 

Health care is recognized as a right for every man, woman, and child, and the United States is leading the world in fighting climate change. 

There is no bank that is too big to fail, no banker too powerful to jail, and we’ve leveled the playing field so that the billionaire class is no longer able to buy and sell our candidates and elections. 

When that happens, they will say it all started tomorrow night in New Hampshire where we have overcome not just a forty point deficit in the polls, but the sneers of the corporate media and opposition from the state’s political elites and billionaire super PACs. 

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