The Safest Option

As a 15 year old kid, I probably have the most to benefit from what Bernie believes in.

When I was 14, I was fed up with how my parents abused my brother and I. I was molested, and I ate less than once a day. I got emancipated, which in case you don't know means legally earning the same rights that someone of age has in most situations. With a couple of other legal actions, I took my brother with me.

Now this is relative to Bernie Sanders, because if the actions he wanted to take were taken a year ago, I wouldn't be complaining. The problem is that 14 year olds have a different minimum wage than adults. For the first three months of work, I was paid $3.50 an hour, and 14 year olds are only allowed a 23 hour work week. That's half of the rent of my apartment per month. I worked for six months so I knew I could afford food and rent. When I wasn't working or going to school, I was on the street playing keyboard or guitar for tips.

Now, I really wanted to be able to afford college for my brother and I, because I want to be a politician. I also want my brother to be able to do whatever he wants when he grows up. I'm a big believer in college education. Unfortunately, if anyone besides Bernie is elected, even if I get $80000 in scholarships, I won't be able to afford my own college education. Instead I would save up all my money to put my brother through college. And to all the people who wonder how I can afford a laptop, or a phone, I needed them for my job and for school. I had to sacrifice eating for these.

I don't want college tuition and minimum wage to be the only reasons I want Bernie Sanders to win. I'm bisexual, and one of my best friends is transgender. He's constantly abused by his mom because he's transgender, to the point where he's psychologically damaged. We live in a relatively accepting state, which is lucky. Something I really get worried about is all the other people who have come out. My plan is to help those people in the middle east and in east africa who can't come out. And since I'm not old enough to vote in the U.S., and people here typically won't be murdered for their sexual identity, I couldn't care less about this country. But to everyone who lives here and isn't insane enough to go somewhere where they will most likely be murdered, gay marriage shouldn't be where you stop. Gay marriage should be the point when you realize that people are doing something about discrimination and you could at least be supporting them.

As a side note about homophobia, most of the people against gay rights are conservative Christians. I don't understand why someone would be against gay rights if it prevents abortions and doesn't risk the life of the mother. When I found out about gay pride rallies, I figured most of them would be conservative Christians. I've heard a few reasons why I shouldn't be gay and why it's a disease, and the one that stuck with me was "gay people only want sexual pleasure while normal people reproduce." That would make a lot of sense if the world wasn't overpopulated right now, first off. If we forget about equality, gay rights all over the world would make world hunger and poverty much easier to deal with. Plus, straight couples have sex for pleasure too, only with them it's more dangerous because they could end up having a baby. Straight couples could create a child and ruin their own lives and take away their companion's legal freedom. Maybe the Bible was against homosexuality, but it was written in a time when reproduction was necessary from every couple that could reproduce so the species could continue. I get why bisexual people would be hated according to Christianity, because they're either meant for a guy or a girl and God wouldn't give us extra choices just to end up with a soulmate of one gender. And to that, I'd like to point out that people are supposed to learn from their previous relationships, because in Christianity "it's all part of God's plan." Maybe I'm supposed to learn from someone who's a girl and end up with a guy. And as far as the problem with transgender, the difference between being a man and a woman besides the parts is that a guy can have a child that's biologically his without carrying it for nine months, while a girl has the opportunity to spend nine months with the child. Being transgender isn't sexist, as long as the reason isn't because of societal treatment. As far as this relates to Bernie Sanders, he's someone who stands up for LGBT rights to not be murdered, so... If you could kindly support him so I can live, that'd be nice.

And as far as the supporters of Hillary Clinton go, I don't want to be offensive so I'll keep this point short. Hillary Clinton has changed positions on many issues. Bernie Sanders stood up for civil rights a long time ago while Hillary Clinton was the cause of discrimination at points. I'm all for giving someone a second chance, but Bernie Sanders lasted more than 30 years doing everything right and he's still on his first chance, while Hillary Clinton should be on her fifth or sixth chance by now. Sanders supported gay marriage and civil rights since he started being involved in politics, while Hillary Clinton only switched up after already doing damage to both gay and civil rights. And she may regret her decision on Iraq, but regretting it only means she has good morals. It doesn't mean she has good foresight. She wants to raise the minimum wage to $12 while Bernie wants $15. Maybe $15 is a dangerous number considering the recession and unemployment rates and national debt, but I would like to propose this idea for any future politicians to use: make a law that says any companies based in other countries that import to our country need to have 2.7% of their manufacturing (measured by employees) held in this country. Since the U.S.A. has a large middle class consumer group that other countries can't provide, denying U.S.A. customers would sacrifice a lot of money for most international businesses, which means companies would have to accept the deal. This solves national debt by fixing the import-export ratio, unemployment rates go down because of the number of jobs offered in the country, and gets the economy flowing to the point that most American businesses could afford $15 an hour wages for employees. As long as whoever uses this idea names it after me so I can be president when I grow up.