Tomorrow I will be attending the Iowa Caucus for Bernie Sanders. I support the Senator because he is one of us. He is the one candidate who is not a millionaire, and does not have a Super-PAC. He does not accept money from Wall Street. I respect the accomplishments of Hillary Clinton, but she is not going to represent the middle class while she is taking millions in contributions from Wall Street. Bernie will confront the inequities of a rigged system. Bernie will steer our nation away from the great lie of the Republican party starting telling in 1980 — that tax cuts for the wealthy will make the economy better for us all. Bernie will confront the real challenges that face America’s middle class. Bernie is genuine. He has had the same message, and supported the same positions throughout his political career. He does not look at the latest polls to determine what he needs to say about an issue. America has been on the wrong track since 1980 when extreme right wing radicals started to take over the Republican Party, and they have hurt the American people with bad policies that are not founded in reality. The Democratic establish, best exemplified by Hillary Clinton and Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, has not offered the people a viable alternative, and they have been timid about standing for the Progressive Values of FDR that are the core values of the party. The proposition that the answer to America’s challenges is to cut government, roll back regulations, and let the free market govern everything is a miserable falsity that is unsupported by evidence or fact. Look at Flint Michigan. The answer is not less government, the answer is better government, a government of the people, by the people, and for the people. There is only one candidate who at his core represents this ideal, and that is Bernie Sanders. I am privileged to support him. I have two children in their twenties, and their future depends on breaking the current cycle of politics as usual, constantly favoring the wealthy and big business over the real interests of our people, and ignoring pressing issues like global climate change and the deteriorating infrastructure in favor of corporate profits and lower taxes for the wealthy. The press is telling us we can’t have real substantive change — it is too hard. Unfortunately, we no longer have journalists who report the facts, but we have a 24 hours news industry who feels compelled to tell us what we should think as defined by the corporatists who own that industry. It is time to end the cycle of government by the few for the few, and Bernie Sanders is our best hope to end the reign of special interests in American politics. Bernie represents the change America needs.