Anyone who believes in liberal progressive causes should support his bid for the presidency. We don't get an opportunity like this very often. This is our time.

Then again, didn't he say he didn't run then so much to get elected as to be heard.

In 1972, what he said certainly needed to be heard, including cleaning up the environment and Medicare for all (plus dental, LOL!) Just imagine if someone with those priorities had been President then and since then.

and Black Lives Matter?

20 Examples of Bernie Sanders' Powerful Record on Civil and Human Rights Since the 1950s
From fighting segregation to standing against police violence.

http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/20-examples-bernie-sanders-powerful-record-civil-and-human-rights-1950s

Just trying to save time for everyone.

The sad thing is - this is considered a more radical idea today than it was in 1972. It's past time we made it happen.

Yes. The Message is essentially the same for the past 45 years. It's been my mantra for the past 45 years and I'm damn sick and tired of Rightward moving goal posts of the so called "liberals" in this country.

It's way past time for those who claim to be "progressive", "Liberal" to yank the veil from their eyes and SEE how our party has morphed to the RIGHT of NIXON and that has got to stop!

We must return to policies of FDR at the very minimum. For the sake of our children's children futures.

"Basic social change in this state and country" i.e., "social justice" - in 1972. Free and excellent health and dental, low-cost housing, abolishing laws with a 'particular brand of morality'. Some heads around here may explode.

I can see the retort. "He put tax policy as point number one, and points two and three, the 'social' ones, come after. Obviously, he believes social justice comes after economic justice. Neener neener ..."

The guy is the real deal.

I must say, the Dr. Spock for President is delightful.

Excellent, consistency is nice to have in a candidate.

Peace

There is no reason to think that the current government in this nation is going to stay as it is for much longer. History suggests change is inevitable. Even Jefferson foresaw that.

The question is, what is our nation going to morph into, assuming the MIC doesn't flat out destroy us with more wars of imperalism.

This is still a very simple, very understandable agenda. Its ludicrous to think it'll be easy to achieve but something is going to happen. Having a road map can make a trip much easier.

career as an 'out' LGBT person and there were regular raids of gatherings and confiscations of published materials. It was not until 1976 that CA passed a law to legalize sexual activity between consenting adults in private. The end of the sodomy laws in the various States went on until Lawrence v Texas in 2003. So by 2003 the US had done what Bernie was calling for in 1972.

So what Bernie is talking about here is not really marriage equality at all, he is talking about literally ending laws against homosexuality which existed at that time. This is a very courageous and rare stance at the time and obviously a position that spoke to the changes that were afoot at the time. Very few straight people would say such a thing back then and frankly it was considered very radical to even say 'homosexual' out loud.

I'm from Vermont and I can tell you that there was a hell of a backlash against people who supported lgbt rights.

When the constitutional definition of marriage went before the Vermont Supreme Court in 1999 the opposition brought in the big guns to intimidate little old Vermont - including Randall Terry.

It wasn't as easy to fight for civil rights as people want us to believe.