{"id":27487,"date":"2016-01-30T13:24:38","date_gmt":"2016-01-30T19:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/?p=27487"},"modified":"2016-01-30T16:48:48","modified_gmt":"2016-01-30T22:48:48","slug":"at-his-last-call-to-catch-clinton-sanders-points-to-youth-as-key-to-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/at-his-last-call-to-catch-clinton-sanders-points-to-youth-as-key-to-victory\/","title":{"rendered":"Racing to catch Clinton, Sanders calls for “political revolution”"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Enrica Nicoli Aldini<\/strong><\/p>\n

DAVENPORT, Iowa \u2013<\/strong> Bernie Sanders is tailgating Hillary Clinton in Iowa. With only four points separating the Democratic frontrunners,\u00a0 the Vermont senator is working to overtake the former secretary of state in the final days before the Iowa caucuses.<\/p>\n

Tapping into his ambitions for a political revolution in America, he is casting himself as the non-establishment Democratic candidate who would redistribute the country\u2019s income to benefit the middle and working classes, reform the criminal justice system and reduce the cost of education and health care.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we talk about the anger that\u2019s going on in America, it is the fact that ordinary people today are working longer hours for low wages and yet they\u2019ve been seeing that most of the new income and wealth go to the top one percent,\u201d he told a crowd that filled the\u00a0 Danceland Ballroom on Friday in Davenport, Iowa’s third-largest city. \u201cAnd whether the establishment likes it or not, we are saying enough is enough, that\u2019s going to change.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Money and the economy formed the bulk of Sanders\u2019 speech, intersecting with his positions on education and criminal justice as he introduced plans to reduce incarceration and increase college access for people without deep pockets.<\/p>\n

Sanders lamented \u201coff-the-chart youth unemployment,\u201d especially among Latinos and African-Americans, calling it \u201cthe tragedy that nobody tells you about.\u201d And he called a jail and prison population of 2.2 million \u201cperhaps an even greater tragedy.”<\/p>\n

\u201cYou want a radical idea?\u201d Sanders asked wryly.\u00a0 \u201cHow about investing in jobs and education for our kids instead of jail and incarceration?\u201d<\/p>\n

Rethinking drug and substance abuse as a health issue instead of a criminal issue would help lower the number of inmates across the country, Sanders said. He called for lifting the federal ban on marijuana and condemned what he believes is an inherently racist and unequal system of arrests and detention.<\/p>\n

While young African-Americans are arrested for marijuana possession and have their records stained forever, he said, Wall Street executives avoid prosecution and only pay fines, despite \u201cmassively defrauding the American people and helping to create the worst recession since the Great Depression.\u201d<\/p>\n

Turning to education, Sanders described supporters plagued by student debt and spoke at length about his ambitious plans to make tuition free at public colleges and universities. To finance this plan, which would cost $75 billion, a Sanders administration would impose a tax on Wall Street speculation, the senator explained. Only an educated workforce, he said, will enable the nation\u2019s economic growth.<\/p>\n

\u201cShamefully, many kids in our country are smart but can\u2019t go to college because their families don\u2019t have the money,\u201d Sanders said. \u201cNot only is this unfair to the kids, it\u2019s also dumb for the future of our economy.\u201d<\/p>\n

To reiterate his image as the champion of middle-class families, Sanders outlined his plans to expand the Affordable Care Act to insure a greater number of families. \u201cThe middle class families will save thousands of dollars a year,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He also discussed his proposal to pass a three-month paid family leave. He called the current two-week leave period afforded to most families “an international embarrassment for America.”<\/p>\n

Sanders did not spare his intra-party rival Clinton from a series of punches about how he has been catching up in the polls, finding himself in a near-tie. He reminded the audience that the Democratic Party historically wins elections when voter turnout is high. He called on his younger supporters to caucus on Monday, telling them they could change the outcome of the caucuses.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf thousands of people who were not previously involved in the caucuses come out on Monday, we win. If there is a low voter turnout, we lose,\u201d he said. He joked that the audience should do some \u201cshort-term kidnapping of people,\u201d to bring friends and relatives to the caucuses. \u201cThe entire country will be looking at whether or not the state of Iowa is prepared to lead this country forward in a political revolution which transforms America.\u201d<\/p>\n

While the revolutionary component rings a bell with Sanders supporters across the demographic board, much of the enthusiasm at the Davenport rally came from the young people in the audience, the core of the senator\u2019s supporters.<\/p>\n

Kerry Peters, a 24-year-old graduate student in Davenport, admires the fact that Sanders is funding his campaign through small contributions, while Clinton is raising large sums from political action committees.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe believes that everyone can come together and do their small bit,\u201d she said. \u201cI just donated $25, for example.\u201d<\/p>\n

Davenport-native Marilyn Linhart said what draws her to Sanders is that \u201che is worried about the people, and he wants all of us to succeed and be better.\u201d Jason Block, 28, said the Vermont senator is the only candidate who talks about issues that unite the country, while everyone else on the campaign trail is being divisive.<\/p>\n

\u201cDo you feel the Bern?\u201d he asked, enthusiastically repeating one of Sanders\u2019 campaign mottos as he stood in line for the rally. Block took a leave from work and traveled from Colorado Springs, Colo., to help canvass for Sanders in Iowa.<\/p>\n

\u201cFeeling the Bern means acknowledging that income inequality exists and that it affects everything, like gender and race,\u201d he said. \u201cIncome inequality is the underlying issue in this country.\u201d<\/p>\n

What makes his campaign different and what makes it fresh, Sanders said, is the acknowledgement that inequality exists – and can be reduced.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat this campaign is about is telling it like it is. And for that, we got the establishment a little bit nervous,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019re not playing by their old rules. We are calling for a political revolution.\u201d<\/p>\n

Photo at top: Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont cast himself as the champion of the middle and working classes in America at a Jan. 29 rally in Davenport, Iowa. The non-mainstream candidate in the Democratic Party said the middle class is shrinking while most of the country’s income goes to the top one percent. (Enrica Nicoli Aldini\/MEDILL)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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