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UC Berkley graphic from LATimes I have been watching a lot of mainstream media lately and I must say from the perspective of someone who generally watches independent media I've been noticing a trend in how the mainstream media covers Bernie Sanders they don't, they try to ignore him. It's really that simple. A recent story came out about ABC's coverage of Bernie Sanders they have covered him for a full 7 minutes. Read more here at The Free Beacon . The fact that ABC has only covered him for 7 minutes in 2019 when he is a top tier candidate in the democratic primary is asinine and plays into the blatant media bias against Bernie Sanders, it seems to be helping him build the case that he is the true outsider candidate, luckily he has a rather large online media platform thanks to Facebook and Twitter and YouTube. In the past having the most cash on hand was considered an indicator of the race and now that Bernie is leading the field they hardly bring it up. To be...

Image source:  https://www.robinhoodtax.org/ You may have heard it on MSNBC, CNN, Fox News or hell even your conservative uncle that Bernie Sanders is a radical socialist, but how radical are these ideas actually? The facts are they are not radical at all, in fact many major countries offer a Single Payer healthcare system and they also offer Free or virtually free college to citizens. Here is a list of countries that unlike the United States offer Universal healthcare: Albania Argentina  Australia Austria  Canada Denmark Ecuador Estonia Finland France Hungary Germany Japan Sweden Russia Turkey Rwanda And there are many more you can read a much larger list here In America today there are currently some places like San Francisco , NYU medical schoo l and the  University of Texas-Austin  that have free public college tuition for residents and this isn't something that is new either. The next time your Fox News watching uncle t...