The junior Vermont senator represents a post-Occupy Wall Street type of liberalism. His progressive economic agenda demands higher taxation for the wealthy and large corporations to thereby protect the dwindling middle class. Sanders also proposes a "living wage" of $15 an hour.
If any Democratic candidate is the antithesis of Donald Trump, it’s Sanders. If elected, he would sign the DREAM (Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors) Act into law and work on additional immigration reform to protect undocumented immigrants. Tough on the Second Amendment, he also wishes to demilitarize police forces and have law enforcement focus on the eradication of hate groups.
Sanders’s platform caters largely to millennial voters in various ways. He is big on acknowledging climate change, eliminating the gender pay gap, protecting reproductive rights, and passing antidiscrimination legislation for the LGBT community.
Sanders could easily appear in House of Cards and it would totally make sense. He's brutally honest and a little rough around the edges, like the rogue underdog Frank Underwood was in the show’s early seasons. He addresses corruption on Capitol Hill and doesn’t pander to the voters, and if you’ve been watching the debates, you’ll know that he’s also guilty of the occasional snarl or eye roll. His platform is a little ambitious, however, and reflects a post-Obama era of political campaigns — much like Underwood's American Works program. Remember that? So, yeah, Sanders is a little like Frank Underwood. But not like him in, well, every other way.
