Current Events: Bernie Sanders is the Best
http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/19/politics/bernie-sanders-puerto-rico-womens-convention/index.html
Bernie Sanders has just announced that he will be visiting Puerto Rico to help victims of Hurricane Maria, and has had to bow out of his speaking gig at the Women's Convention. He claimed that the best way of helping the island is experiencing what is actually going on there. One million still remain without clean drinking water and three million without power. Bernie has announced his visiting of Puerto Rico a week after his gig at the Women's Convention had been revealed. His appearance has received backlash because he is a white male speaking at a Woman’s Convention that is meant to empower that is meant to empower women of all races, gender identities, ages, abilities, economic status, and religion, even though is is a liberal icon.
I honestly think it was very smart of Bernie to back down from the Women’s Convention because he always likes to please the majority, and he probably did not feel comfortable with the backlash, so he backed out just to do more good. Donald Trump is so bad at getting out of messy situations and he always finds a way to make them worse, when Bernie simply just finds a way to benefit the greater good. Bernie definitely would have had his flaws in office, but not nearly as many as Trump. I hope that one day we will get a president as kind and empathetic as Bernie because we have not had one for a long while.
It's also nice seeing a politician from the contiguous states actually working to help Puerto Ricans because they aren't exactly in a position to help themselves and it seems the oval office isn't going to be very helpful either.
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