The Democratic presidential candidate and independent senator from Vermont urged about 2,000 cheering students at the University of Chicago to register to vote and stand up to the “millionaires” he says are trying to control USA politics. During his speech he remarked that while he didn’t know the tuition tag at the University of Chicago (the school’s website lists it as $44,178 for this academic year), he bet that it is less than the cost of imprisonment.
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Bernie Sanders said Monday that a commitment to getting big money out of politics would be his litmus test for Supreme Court nominees.
Sanders, who graduated from U. of C.in 1964, returned to a packed house, full of mostly U. of C. students motivated by Sanders’ words of changing this country. He said he spent a lot of time at the university library reading (though he joked that it was often not the material he’d been assigned to read for class), and that he learned about organized labor, democratic socialism and his fight for social justice through his experience on protesting against racially segregated housing. “It always takes place from the bottom on up”.
The event had echoes of those held by President Barack Obama, who campaigned aggressively on college campuses and relied on young voters to help him win two terms. In 1963, Sanders worked on a re-election campaign for Ald.
While touring in Iowa, Bernie Sanders was confronted by a teen who had a simple, yet very important question about his college tuition plan.
“You are not looking at democracy, you are looking at oligarchy – and we have got to change that”, Sanders told the students in Chicago.
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He touched on several of his left-sided political agendas, including women’s rights, poverty, sexual and racial equality, the environment and the economy.
