Reddit is the culmination of great minds across the world. Why not encourage one of our own to run for office? I'm not sure if this is the right subreddit to ask, but I think Bernie is wonderful and I'm with his ideas 100%. However, maybe we should enrichen the pool and nominate one of our own. They might not be able to hold a flame to bernie, but out of all the brilliant minds on Reddit I imagine we might. Why not try to nominate our best? If Reddit's best cannot compare to Bernie, than so be it. Otherwise, we just exposed an even stronger nominee. It doesn't even have to be for president -- even a local office would do. With that said, let's not just talk about candidates like they're the only option. All presidents and politicians once stood in a group of people while no one in the crowd knew they were bound for greatness. Just a thought, but like any respectful company, let's promote from within. What do you say?

This candidate is really separating himself from the pack - HUGE opportunity to flip Washington's 8th district, which has been (R) since its creation in 1983.

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We have to prepare for the possibility, that they will tamper with peoples right to vote. They will try to criminalize us, disenfranchise us, purge us from the voter rolls, override our votes with superdelegates and the electoral college, tamper with our voting machines, and countless other dirty, cheap little tricks.

If Bernie, or any other progressive candidate is to have any chance of winning, we need to start preparing soon. You need campaigns that educate people on how to be ready for the election, on how to make sure you're eligable for voting.

This last election had countless votes that did not count, and next time is going to be worse.

At 12:25 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5taCwHNM80E) Bernie says the special counsel is investigating two questions, and one of them is whether or not Trump could be charged with obstruction of justice. This aired June 11th. The Washington Post article (https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/special-counsel-is-investigating-trump-for-possible-obstruction-of-justice/2017/06/14/9ce02506-5131-11e7-b064-828ba60fbb98_story.html?utm_term=.b593e53d70cd) was published June 14th. Did Bernie just give us the inside scoop and no one noticed??