During the 2016 elections Americans were faced with the decision of choosing either
Donald J. Trump or Hillary Clinton to run the country. Both the Democratic and Republican party had present the people with unfavorable candidates, each for their own reasons. In this election some Americans felt that there was no good choice that could be made. In order to establish support and a following Bernie Sanders tried to take advantage of this situation and released his political ad titled “Real Change”. In “Real Change” Sanders sets out the win the hearts, minds, and votes of the American people by using Ethos appeals surrounding military action, veterans, and the corrupt nature of Wall Street, and by using the structural metaphors of battle and
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Sanders is also trying to send a message to upcoming voters, by appealing to Ethos, that he will not be bought by wall street and that their interference in current and past election cycles has not tainted his campaign. The narrator states that Sanders is “taking on Wall Street and a corrupt political system”. The New York Stock Exchange building is shown from a low angle to make the building appear large and intimidating. Then other skyscrapers along Wall Street are shown from the middle of the street, looking straight up as the camera pans along. This is also to make the buildings that house top 500 companies seem intimidating and daunting. Sanders is stating that he is not a fan of how Wall Street and these companies interfere and buys elections, taking some of the power away from the majority of people by having elected officials push forward their secret agendas. Sanders wanted the voters to know that he was not in Wall Street’s pocket which is an Ethos appeal to voters who believed that Wall Street controlled all of the candidates and that no of the candidates had the interest of the majority in mind.
Looking deeper than what is clearly stated, Sanders uses the structural metaphor of battle lines to separate himself from his competition and from ideas and institutions he knows the people find unfavorable. SIL defines structural metaphor as “a conventional metaphor in which one concept is understood and
Liberal Democrats considered Bernie a traitor who “bashed the barons of Wall Street” and fought against the “true” democracy founded by those people.
From the very beginning, Sanders has faced many challenges, one being having a sustainable job. He went job to job attempting to gain some money. When Sanders was in his 60s, he was on the verge of quitting when he decided to put whatever he had left to sell fried chicken. From that one action, it would lead him to own a million dollar business and became a millionaire. Even at his darkest, Sanders never gave up. He kept pushing forward despite his roadblock and at the end, it paid off. He died a jubilant and rich man with a background of economic
Sanders uses ethos to gain credibility in his views, and does this by using tone shifts to look back at his past experiences. After every blank space throughout the story, Sanders ages and the tone shifts to show
Throughout his article, Robinson does appear to have a bias that leans towards Sanders, as he frequently highlights Clinton’s hypocrisies, possible flaws in her plans, and her excessive praising of president Obama’s actions
"There's a smidgen of foot-dragging now, it appears, on their side," he said. "It might be that, you know, there might be some backing down or, you know, an unwillingness to remain in front of an audience and truly wrangle with Bernie Sanders since they know Bernie Sanders is going to do entirely well in that civil argument, honestly." Weaver ascribed the slowed down correspondence to confuse in the extremely rich person's battle. "What's more, there might be distinctive perspectives in their battle about whether this ought to go ahead or not, but rather we would trust that Donald Trump would keep to his pledge, that it wasn't simply rave or trickery, that he, truth be told, truly needs to have this civil argument," he included. Sanders is set up to talk about anyplace and whenever in California, Weaver said, including that the congressperson and voters, as well, might want to see the proposed face off regarding push ahead. "I think, honestly, you'd get 35, 40, 45 million individuals watching this," he
It is not only about what plans he will enact but also what he stands for and what he believes in. One of the reasons students favor Sanders is because they understand his reasoning and his values and share those same values.
Time magazine shows how much popularity and support Sanders has received (“The Gospel” 34). A politician who is not afraid to stand up for what he or she trusts will make this nation grow for the future. Bernie Sanders shows this nation that if freedom and equality is given regardless of what color skin you are, where you come from, or how much money and power you have, will make a better
The democratic debate stage almost bursted into flames when one of the hosts questioned Bernie Sanders’ eligibility to be called a democratic representative. He recounted the facts that Sanders had been the “longest serving independent in the United States Congress,” and only joined the Democratic Party recently. Sanders replied with an enumeration of his previous projects with the party during the time. He bravely confirmed those facts, and proved that even though he officially did not work with his current political party for a long amount, he still supported their ideas and projects. To support his claim, Sanders reminded that audience that he “caucused with the House [of Representatives] for 19 years,... caucused with the Senate for 9 years,... and was elected by the democrats to be the chair of the Veterans committee three years ago.” Sanders then mentioned the 50-states party strategy that revived Hillary Clinton’s voice against her rival. She acknowledged that it was former the Vermont Governor's idea, Howard Dean, to have the 50-states party system. Her turn to count the people supporting her presidency followed the small
The 2016 presidential election is shaping up to be one of the most important elections in recent memory. As all pundits know, the media plays a very large part in shaping the way voters view the candidates. Much time has been spent discussing Senator Bernie Sanders (D-Vermont), a leading candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination and one of the most polarizing figures on the political scene today. Some journalists say he is a modern prophet; others believe he is an unelectable far-left ideologue.
Elections of 2016 are coming fast and for presidential candidate Bernie Sanders things are beginning take a turn for the worst. After recently losing New York, the realization of his possible failure is becoming clear. One may wonder why the sudden change. Why is he losing? Before understanding Bernie’s failure, one must understand why past presidents like Obama won. Yes, what they are fighting for matters, but what are the other factors? When Obama was running both times, his wife was right by his side campaigning for him to win the position of President of the United States. Did you know Bernie Sanders even has a wife? How often does she appear? Is Bernie’s failure coming from his wife’s lack of appearance? One can make the assumption that Sanders
The government of the United States is bought and sold like stocks. Billionaires and corporations have poured an incomprehensible amount of money into thousands of political campaigns. According to opensecrets.org, the average cost to win a senate race is now $11,474,362. For the 2016 presidential race alone the Koch brothers plan on spending $889 million. It is nearly impossible to win an election without the support of billionaires and corporations. The impact that money has on elections has spiraled of control. A political revolution to fix the power the wealthy have in politics is already happening. Senator Bernie Sanders is the one leading this revolution. Even without the revolutionary policies, Sanders would set in place to end the American Oligarchy his campaign is still important. Sanders leading by example and showing the country that it is possible to run a campaign without support from the elite. Sanders campaign has raised $75 million so far with an average donation of only $25. If
The Bernie Madoff scandal, along in conjunction with a range of other wall street scandals demonstrate a deep-ceded
Occupy wall street is a great example to show the big and rich corporation are just greedy, during the 2008 Financial World Crisis what lead that to happen is because is rich corporation is being greedy they are trying to look for a low risk but high return investment, so they’re plan was giving people mortgage even though they don’t good credit, so the housing price will skyrocket because back when giving mortgage for people that have good credit mortgage debate was good investment. The Richer corporation wants to be greedy starting to buy more and more of these securities, and they also made loans without verifying income and offered absurd, adjustable rate mortgage with payment people could afford first, but later it will beyond enlarge
found a way to come together and form a political movement that would represent their
After the financial crisis of 2008, however, there is another way of viewing Goldman Sachs: a firm that prided its dedication to its clients as the apogee of its structure, to one that has evolved into something more blatantly self-serving. According to author William Cohen, in his book-Money and Power, he has stated that “Its primary source of profit has shifted from banking to trading, and the firm is intentionally quite vague about how, and precisely where, those trades are made or, equally relevant, from whom the profits are coming.” It is a Wall Street titan whose clever bet against the mortgage market in