Sanders Vs Sanders

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This week, Ted Rall discusses how Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders have been running their presidential candidacy. Apparently, their race for presidential nomination is far beyond just politics and sitting down in office to transform our country. To these two candidates, it’s personal. Ted Rall clearly defines both as two opposite types of people: Clinton as an extreme realist and Sanders as an extreme idealist. Rall expresses how Clinton wouldn’t understand the importance of health care and how she can’t--and will never be able to--put herself in the shoes of the majority of Americans in our country today. Sanders, on the other hand, is an individual with a background life filled with poverty and problems. According to Rall, Sanders can seemingly make sense of the lives of the millions of Americans who have to undergo hard labor. Unlike Sanders, Clinton-like people will always have money readily available to them when they need it and will never know what it feels like to have to work their butts off, because …show more content…

I had already known that he was a respectable man that had fought for equality for some time now. However, the life of poverty explained by Rall revealed to me that Sanders only desires the equality because he believes that all Americans should understand what it’s like to get money handed to them--whether it be by their parents or by the government. I do keep in thought the fact that Sanders believes that it is only fair to keep the whole social class ¨equal¨ but it seems as if Sanders were to continue with his democratic socialism, many of the lower class people would get lazy. Once the government decides to just fund and provide for all the lower class, it is likely that the poor may depend solely on the government for money, which wouldn’t necessarily be fair or ¨equal¨ on the behalf of the more middle class and upper class who are working to get their own

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