I'm Not Too Old

Kindred Parker: "I'm not too old. I'm not too young. I'm right in the middle of the American experience. In my 40 years on this planet, Bernie Sanders is the only presidential hopeful ever offered who consistently represents and advocates for my beliefs and concerns. I'd actually thought it was impossible to have anyone even close to the presidency that wasn't bought by, in contemporary terms: "the 1%," and until now, it was impossible for an authentic social justice politician to bring us their message and organize the people through the corporate conglomerate media. But alas, the internet is the people's, for the time being, and for what might be a brief spell, we have the opportunity to affect the media narrative ourselves: to argue; to explore and articulate our ideas beyond the few grotesque, sound-bitten versions of ideas that are usually meant to define us; to organize and elect someone who actually represents us. Bernie Sanders is not the stuff of impossible idealism. He is neither a scary Mccarthy era Marxist monster nor a sophomoric college-aged illusion. He is simply the first candidate of our lifetime whose sole concern is to actually represent us: the American people across all income strata. After a lifetime of corporate controlled media and elections, the message and the possibility of Bernie Sanders is blowing our minds, which is so very sad because this is actually the way democracy is supposed to work. You're supposed to be able to elect someone who represents you who isn't completely full of shit. The onus is on us now to elect him. Let's not fuck this up."