David Moore Boulware

What’s the connection between autism and music?

Subtitle: My answer would be magic…

For the past month and a half I have been preoccupied (obsessed) with watching and participating in the Sen. Bernie Sanders campaign for the US Democratic Party nomination.

That man inspired me and made me feel part of him along with wanting to do whatever I could do to help him win the nomination in order to help average souls in the US.

Today I took a break and did what I really enjoy in order to relax and generate emotions and feelings inside of me that make me feel good.

I decided to tune into various YouTube videos which comprise the various music contests internationally. On YouTube I have two favorites, ‘Britain’s Got Talent’ and ‘X Factor UK’. Today I focussed on watching the latest ‘Britain’s Got Talent’.

As I was watching several videos, some with phenomenal acts and others with individual singers, it struck me how important music is to me personally as an autistic person.

As a child and a young adult I had very few friends, so I would either take refuge in the local public library or immerse myself into listening to music that evoked emotions inside me.

Often I would focus on the lyrics of songs and relate to the poetry of the message, but more often the melody and the complexity of a music piece would be the therapy tool that would both give me goose pimples and affect my psyche in a very beneficial way.

I’ve contemplated that history of mine off and on over the years, thinking to myself how music might be one of the most successful tools to break through to those of us autistics that have great difficulty either relating to the non-autistic world or communicating with others how we feel.

When I was young I had a serious verbal communication problem which has been subsequently labeled Developmental Verbal Dyspraxia. It’s a convoluted label because it comprises various deficiencies but with me it could be described as speaking in gibberish, rearranging words in a sentence that made no sense, attempting to spit out that gibberish at warp speed, and in essence preventing most people from understanding what I had to say, how I felt, or most importantly understanding my view of the world.

Over the course of several years, my mother did what she could to find tools to enable me to function in life. One of those tools was singing lessons by a speech therapist at a theatrical school in Los Angeles where I grew up.

What I remember about that era taking those weekly singing lessons was first being able to look at the sheet music and lyrics twice and remembering every word. Secondly when I attempted to sing a song with the accompanying music I was able to get my brain to focus on articulating those words with the exact spot in the music score. There is a pattern to music and when one understands where each word belongs to a set of music notes, it gives the person a system to use to communicate.

Gradually I was able to associate words with the intended emotions of the song, and at least during the actual singing of any song, I was able to be understood by almost anyone.

That gave me great pleasure and a feeling of accomplishment for the few minutes of any song when I sang it that I was not different and finally others could understand me when I tried to communicate although it was not my personal thoughts whirling around in my mind.

Music Therapy is now recognized as one of the many tools to help autistic children come out of their shells and learn to use language among others in society.

But the greatest gift of music for me personally is the tapping into my soul and evoking emotions within me that are absolutely indescribable.

Below is an audition by a young woman that did that for me this evening and if you watch it, I hope you will understand a little about just how important music is no matter whether one is autistic or not.

To be continued…

Video: Kathleen Jenkins ‘Britain’s Got Talent 2016’

http://youtu.be/2CnbFjJw16w

Do autistics suffer the non-autistic trait of bigotry?

Subtitle: Not too many I hope… 🙂

I was perusing the Internet and stumbled on the attached Huffington Post article which includes several Tweeted photos of interracial couples including a couple of photos submitted by Sen. John McCain’s (R) son with his beautiful wife.

What I have read is that the majority of autistics are innately non-bigoted in the way that we think, and we are less likely to become bigots as we grow into adulthood. Therefore we can infer that bigotry is caused by an environmental occurrence and is not necessarily a genetic predisposition but who knows; since I deplore bigotry of any kind I will assume that is a correct statement.

This article and substance is timely since a couple of US States are attempting to turn back the clock and reintroduce legislation to permit both interracial discrimination and sexual orientation discrimination; i.e. Kentucky and North Carolina.

When I recently read about Kentucky trying to reintroduce interracial marriage discrimination I started chuckling. And the reason for that is I am a descendent of probably the very first legal interracial marriage between a white man and an African-American woman, and guess what state that occurred in, Kentucky circa 1873.

My paternal great-great-grandmother Elizabeth whom I’m referring to above was the product of a white slave owner and a black African-American woman, and for the first eleven years of her life she was an African-American slave. She was born in Georgia and at some point she ended up in Kentucky when she finally became a “Freed Slave” as a result of the end of American Civil War circa 1865.

Now my great-great-grandfather John who was half white and half Native American knew that Elizabeth was a “freed slave” and that did not deter him from falling in love with her, marrying her, and subsequently having three children together, one of which is my great-grandfather.

I reference this snapshot of my ancestry because it got me thinking, “Just how far back did autism occur in my ancestry?”

Since autism is very prevalent on my maternal side but only slightly prevalent on my paternal side based on my research and analysis, I’m wondering if there’s a connection of autism, the story of John and Elizabeth, and the assertion that most autistics do not share the non-autistic trait of “bigotry”.

Therefore, if we’re going to continue budgeting the majority of money for research in lieu of providing support and services for those living with autism, I would like these kinds of questions answered versus what gene combination is responsible for autism. 🙂

I think it’s far more interesting and may lead to new interventions to cure despicable human behavior such as bigotry. 🙂

To be continued…

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/john-mccain-son-old-navy-ad_us_572a2969e4b096e9f08fe4fc?cps=gravity_5059_7124461948081139230

Autism and politics, what’s the connection?

Subtitle: It’s complicated…

Over the last two weeks, I’ve been preoccupied (obsessed) with the current Democratic Primary race between Sen. Bernie Sanders and Secy. Hillary Clinton.

It didn’t take me too long to realize who I wanted to support as the next US President. It started with listening to the messages from Bernie himself which resonated with me personally, illuminating my personal views about what’s wrong with my native country, and providing hope to those that became followers including myself. Hence we now identify as Bernicrats.

Bernie always uses the pronoun “we” when he speaks, and that’s one small difference in contrast to his opponent who generally likes to use the “I” pronoun. The “we” are the rainbow of collected spirits that feel that the two party political system in the US no longer represents our interests nor represents us personally, culminating in the realization that the majority have been disenfranchised from the essence of government, replaced by money and power. There’s a label for that and it’s called a Kleptocracy.

The more that I became involved, the more I learned about both candidates, Bernie’s consistent history of trying to help the underdog, and the other candidate’s history of questionable decisions and controversial alliances.

When I started thinking about all of this, along with various states reporting voting irregularities, learning about the power of Super Delegates, learning how the Democratic National Committee engineered the Primary to favor one candidate, it struck me that all of this could be summed up as “stacking the deck” in order to win. And when someone does that, it’s another form of Bullying.

I suspect that many autistics reading this could see the association between what we’re witnessing in the US along with what many of us are up against on a daily basis.

In the autism political world, it’s basically a one-party system, and that political party is called Autism Speaks. The majority of thinking autistics deplore that organization based on their historical rhetoric, their quest to “fix” us opposed to providing support services, and most hurtful convincing the world that they speak for all autistics.

How do they sustain a one-party system? Simple, they have all of the money (donations), a very successful marketing strategy, and the founders are well connected to the Financial World (New York) and especially the Media (former CEO NBC Broadcasting).

There you have it. Who would have thought that autistics and Bernicrats had so much in common, how power and money of two different but large organizations, the Democratic National Committee and Autism Speaks, have successfully alienated, disenfranchised, and bullied a heck of a lot of people to the point of saying “ENOUGH!”

[To be continued…]

Are all autistics as gullible as I am?

Subtitle: I hope not…

For the past two weeks I’ve been caught up in the whirlwind of the Democratic Party Primary elections, and while it’s been a real eye opener it has also sparked a passion in me that had been dormant for a very long time, i.e. political involvement.

Of the two remaining Democratic Party candidates, there’s only one that resonates with me based on their ideals, their principles, and most importantly making me feel like I’ve known them for decades. That’s Sen. Bernie Sanders.

Many of us autistics have a propensity to think logically, to be highly empathetic to someone else’s needs, but unfortunately we often believe almost everything we read or hear.

It could be construed as naivety but I think of it as an inherent characteristic of ‘trust’ and seeing the ‘good’ in everyone.

That particular characteristic, ‘trust’, can sometimes get us in trouble or sometimes can break our hearts.

Today was one of those moments. There’s a website called ‘Change dot org’ and I assume that it is noble in nature, but I learned a little earlier that some human beings take advantage of it for devious purposes. From what I can tell, there are minimal background checks if any on all new petitions initiated using their services.

I saw a new petition today from that site asking for the United Nations to step in and to investigate the apparent fraudulent activities occurring with the Democratic Primary election process. It was worded perfectly and included the name of Sen. Sanders’ right hand man, Jeff Weaver.

As a result, I assumed that it was legit and I immediately posted it in all of the related Sen. Sanders Facebook groups. I even went one step further and posted it again including my satire introduction which starts “Dear Hillary…” in order to get people’s attention.

I think that I may have helped somewhat because the last time that I checked, the number of signatures was approaching 15,000 and that was all in an eight hour timespan.

I’ve been so busy trying to help the effort by researching and posting articles that I think may be pertinent, and using my satire introductions, that I rarely have time to read the comments from others.

However, this evening by chance I did click to see the comments from this post in one of the groups, and someone mentioned that often those ‘Change dot org’ petitions are bogus and are simply trying to capture email addresses for future scamming or spamming.

Guess what? I think this was one of those because I failed to notice that the originator of the petition was located in some obscure town in Nepal. [Lightbulb finally came on]

Therefore, it appears to me that my autistic trait of being gullible manifested itself again and I was duped.

Fortunately Facebook has a pretty easy way to <delete> posts so I immediately deleted all of those related to that possible bogus ‘Change dot org’ petition.

I’ve learned a lesson but I have not lost my faith in humanity nor my preference of assuming that everyone is telling the truth, at least not until otherwise proven.

Regarding the two Democratic Party candidates that are still competing against each other, I have figured out who is telling the truth, and it’s based on a vast amount of research and analysis.

All I can say is, I apologize to my fellow Bernicrats on Facebook if I suckered you in along with myself, and I hope not to let it ever happen again while I’m in political activist mode.

And at my age, that may not be much longer. 🙂

Best regards,
David Moore Boulware

p.s. #FeelTheBern

Why talk about autism when US politics is so much more fun!

Subtitle: I’ve been busy helping to write the script for The Bernie and Hillary Show this week 🙂

I’m really glad that I’m autistic because I’ve read that we folks tend to be more focussed than those that are not. I don’t know if that’s true, but it sounds good (I think).

I’m an old fart that has never become too involved in educating myself about politics, candidates, or the issues just like most Americans. Why bother when we have CNN and Fox News! 🙂 They’ll summarize it for us and tell us exactly who to vote for. Right?

I made a mistake this year. I started researching the candidates and learned a whole lot of stuff. Since I generally (always) vote the Democratic ticket, I decided to finally get involved like a lot of those younger whipper snappers.

And what I found out blew my mind! 🙂 There’s another old geezer like me that thinks logically like most autistics, and people are listening to him. So many people that the word “revolution” is probably being indexed by Google and confusing it with 1960’s articles!

Furthermore, I’ve always joked about Bill Clinton’s nickname “Slimey Bill” and thought it was cute, but he is one smart dude and I respect that. However his wife, Hillary, has put a new meaning into that adjective! (Shillary)

I’ve never seen so much trash (truth) roll off of somebody’s back like it does hers. She could give a course in that at some university (Goldman Sachs) and I bet she’d have students overflowing in the halls to hear her! (lies)

My brain is fried trying to absorb all of her advice (doublespeak) not to mention learning her skills (flip-flopping) to use in everyday life!

I should’ve brought a tape recorder (secure email server) to play it back (release the transcripts) over and over so that it would sink into this rusty old brain of mine. Oh well, maybe the next time. (Iraq War –> bomb Syria –>Iran War )

One of my favorite tidbits that I picked up this week was “how to influence people and win success” (Honduras CIA Overthrow President). There’s such a wealth of information in that skill set that’s it’s hard to know how and where to begin. (Whitewater)

However, that old saying that “you can never teach an old dog new tricks” may not be true. (Bernie Sanders is winning the people)

I think that I’m learning a lot in my old age (64) and I bet old folks like me can be successful late in life too. (April 19th NY Primary)

[To be continued…]

A Voter’s Guide to Hillary Clinton’s Policies in Latin America

Did the Iraq War cause the birth of ISIS? (and who voted for it?)

Hillary Clinton’s Unofficial Biography

Who’s the most electable candidate?

What’s the connection? Hillary and the Citizen’s United Supreme Court Ruling

April 13th Hillary’s lucky day!

What’s Hillary Clinton’s Position on Medicare For All?

Hillary Clinton’s Position of Free College and University Tuition

Hillary Clinton’s Position on Saving Social Security

Hillary Clinton’s Position on Building a Wall (Mexico)

What’s Hillary Clinton’s Secret to Raising Campaign Funds?

How Hillary Clinton is Helping the Democratic Party (DNC)?

Hillary Clinton’s Source of Income (Speeches)

What’s Hillary Clinton’s New Address? (And Bill’s and The Clinton Foundation)

Hillary Clinton, a Democrat or a Republican?

Does Hillary Clinton Shop at Walmart?

Hillary Clinton’s 2015 Award

“Is everyone entitled to their opinion about autism?”

Subtitle 1: “Why yes Dorothy everyone including me!”

Subtitle 2: I like the Wizard of Oz starring Dorothy and her friends… 🙂

Currently circulating on the autism related Facebook groups is an op-ed critiquing Dr. Temple Grandin written in 2013 by a well known autistic blogger by the name Lydia Brown.

A lot of my tribespeople respect this blogger and I’m beginning to think that her opinions are considered sacrosanct based on the comments that I’ve read.

I don’t agree with her opinions about Dr. Grandin but she is entitled to express them.

However in the manner that this particular op-ed was written, it was more than a critique and almost painting Dr. Grandin as an anti-autistic activist. 🙂

Under the title of the op-ed was, “Trigger warning for ableism”. Really? 🙂

I’ve read all of Dr. Grandin’s books on autism, read many of her essays and interviews, and watched several of her videos including her TED talks.

Dr. Grandin does speak for a lot of us autistics in the way that she frames issues helping many of us to identify with what she’s talking about.

Most of the time Dr. Grandin is repeating the same suggestions about how to help autistics which includes helping autistics be the best at what they like to do, period.

It’s pretty basic but needs to be regurgitated often to get the point across.

At other times, Dr. Grandin talks about how her mother helped her to get to where she is today and my mother did the same for me.

And one thing that her mother did and my mother did too was to teach me good manners.

In order to teach a child good manners, whether autistic or not, requires discipline, repetition, and brain conditioning. 🙂

Apparently that type of training is considered a form of ABA Therapy by this blogger, at least that was my take on it based on reading others’ remarks.

What really annoyed me about this op-ed was the way that the blogger twisted the facts regarding Dr. Grandin’s messages and presumed to know exactly what is going on in Dr. Grandin’s mind about other autistics, especially those considered severely autistic.

After thinking about that, my reaction was that this particular blogger at that point in time in 2013 was a little jealous that Dr. Grandin is more famous than she is. That’s my opinion.

The bottom line is that many autistics including myself are pushing the concept of Neurodiversity which embraces the notions of Acceptance and Inclusion opposed to just being ‘aware’ that we exist.

Furthermore, most autistics identifying with Neurodiversity also identify with the Autistic Union’s set of principles.

One of those principles addresses using sound scientific research in order to mitigate the comorbid health conditions that are often associated with autism.

If one agrees with both aspects above, then there is room at the table to discuss “fixing” certain aspects related to autism without deleting our existence.

That’s my opinion on this slightly old but currently discussed op-ed and I recommend that you form your own after reading it.

[To be continued…]

‘Critiquing Temple Grandin‘

‘Trigger warning for ableism’ 🙂

Happy World Autism Day! Light It Up [insert here] !

Subtitle: a) blue, b) gold, c) red, or d) all of the above

Happy Autism [insert here] Day !

Reporting from Mexico:

I turned on the news last night here in Mexico where I live to watch our main TV news source, Televisa, and the second news story was all about World Autism Day.

Everything was in blue including the background in the newscast along with a blue ribbon in the corner of the screen.

It got me thinking about how The United Nations has motivated countries around the world to place Autism as one of the most significant health issues to be discussed by creating World Autism Day, and the rest of the world has co-opted the color blue from Autism $peaks to represent that.

The vast majority of autistics have been striving to move beyond the notion of Awareness to Acceptance and I’m one of them.

In order to achieve that goal, we autistics have adopted the color gold in place of blue to represent ‘Acceptance’. I don’t know the history of choosing the color gold, but I suspect it was done to supplant the color blue which was introduced by Autism $peaks.

However, it doesn’t really matter because it’s different here in Mexico. Autism $peaks has little to no presence here, and Televisa the media conglomerate runs the main autism non-profit organization called Teletón Fundación. And that foundation only provides services and support to autistics and their families; the notion of a ‘cure’ is not ever discussed.

In Mexico we’re still trying to educate the populace about autism which includes educating parents about the signs to look for and that requires a lot of ‘awareness’ about a complicated subject.

What struck me about watching the news article last night was all of the children with their parents coming together for a common cause. It didn’t matter to anyone where they might be on the autistic spectrum, all that mattered was that there was unity amongst all of them and they represented that unity by everyone wearing blue shirts and lots of blue hats. 🙂

But I did get a little pleasure when I saw the newscast focus attention on lighting up the Televisa Tower in blue located in Chapultepec Park, the dead center of Mexico City.

As the tower lit up blue right next to it was the Televisa Building and it was lit up in gold! 🙂

Maybe we are making a little progress with our Light It Up Gold campaign!

Happy Autism Acceptance Day 2016!

Angry Americans and Angry Autistics, the saga continues…

Subtitle: What’s the relationship between the two?

For the past couple of weeks, I’ve been trying to put my finger on the similarity that I notice between the current US Presidential race and the frequent rants by my fellow tribespeople.

We have the Reality TV Series, the Republican Primary with the lead star Mr. Donald Trump, and we have the Game Show, Truth or Dare!, starring Sen. Bernie Sanders and Secy. Hillary Clinton. Sen. Sanders keeps telling the truth to the viewers which wins them over, and Secy. Clinton keeps daring him to unseat her rightful place as the Democratic Presidential nominee.

It’s been so fun watching this, I’ve barely written anything recently! 🙂

Today I was wrapped up into reading all sorts of newsbytes and articles about these two shows and simultaneously thinking about the big day, April 2nd Autism Acceptance Day, when it finally occurred to me the connection between the two.

Angry Americans are finally getting their frustrations voiced by either voting for Sen. Bernie Sanders or Mr. Donald Trump in their respective primaries.

Angry Autistics are getting ready to blast the internet with Light It Up Gold on April 2nd and for the entire month of April.

In fact, we autistics usually use April to really let off a lot of pent up anger towards Autism $peaks and the companies that support that organization, both in personal posts on the myriad of autism related Facebook groups, and by some amazing autistic bloggers and thinkers that really know how to rally the troupes!

One thing that has become pretty clear to me watching and reading about these political reality and game shows is that the media is the glue and distributor that makes or breaks a political candidate, and they are also responsible for the success of Autism $peaks.

I rarely see nor read any media report about the faction that is anti-Autism $peaks. It is completely one-sided with stories about an Autism Walk in Timbuktu or some story with photos about some building that is lighting it up blue for autism! [barf]

In a previous post I suggested that we autistics need an autistic Sen. Bernie Sanders or an autistic Mr. Donald Trump to lead us if we are going to have a revolution to get our autistic voices heard in order to change how money is used to fund autism related research and services. That’s part of the solution.

After thinking about the similarities we share with Angry Americans, I think the most urgent problem to solve is getting the attention of the big media outlets.

So Lighting It Up Gold on the internet is a start, but we need to Light It Up Gold in realtime in a really big way.

The Washington Monument and most importantly the Golden Gate Bridge comes to my mind…

[To be continued…]

Happy Autism Acceptance Day April 2nd!

What is the relationship between autism and the current US Presidential election?

Subtitle1: Are you scratching your head yet?

Subtitle2: People are fed up, period.

I am truly overwhelmed by the passion that I see on autism related Facebook groups related to the current US Presidential election, especially the involvement by my tribespeople from other countries; I wish they could cast a vote! 🙂

How is autism related to the current US Presidential election?

The majority of thinking autistics abhor Autism $peaks and the question is why?

It started with the marketing by that organization that autistics are less than human, broken and need a cure, and that autistics cause devastation within families often leading to marital breakups.

Autism $peaks has toned down those offensive doctrines in the last few years but not their mission statement.

The biggest thorn in the side of most autistics is that Autism $peaks has managed to take control of the narrative about autism. They control the majority of donated money towards autism services and research. They influence how US federal and state governments spend taxpayer money towards autism. And most infuriating, that organization is viewed as the mouthpiece for all autistics by the media and the public.

In political jargon, that’s called either an oligarchy or a plutocracy.

That’s the same problem in the US currently and has been for decades. Big business and the very rich control both US political parties which culminates in political favors often leading to tax breaks, subsidies, or getting away with stuff that should be illegal.

Since the inception of Autism $peaks, they have refused to include autistics in the decision making process of programs or how donated money is spent, whether on research or family services. They pretend that autistics don’t know what they need nor what is in their best interests.

How are thinking autistics responding to that?

April has become Autism Awareness Month, autistics that are motivated Light It Up Gold instead of Lighting It Up Blue, and autistics blast the internet with the slogan Autism Acceptance Month.

In essence, autistics are trying to spark a revolution and take back control of the autism narrative globally just like Sen. Bernie Sanders and Mr. Donald Trump are doing with their supporters, trying to take back the US for its citizens.

That’s politics in action by the people and for the people.

That is also the definition of a Democracy.

The two fringe US presidential candidates, Sen. Bernie Sanders and Mr. Donald Trump, use similar tactics to gain supporters and share some similar philosophies. The main common philosophy shared is inequality and that resonates with their respective supporters.

The word ‘inequality’ is the common denominator between fed up US citizens and fed up autistics.

Autistics are fed up feeling disenfranchised from the non-autistic world.

Autistics are fed up being treated as second class citizens.

Autistics are fed up that their voices are drowned out by the constant barrage of Public Service Announcements (PSA’s) by Autism $peaks and the money that fuels that organization.

And autistics are fed up not being ‘accepted’ as contributing members of society and viewed as broken things needing to be ‘fixed’.

What can autistics learn from the current US Presidential election cycle that share this perspective?

Autistics need either an autistic Sen. Bernie Sanders or an autistic Mr. Donald Trump to bring us together, to represent how the majority feel, and to create a revolution on this tiny round planet.

And that requires either a celebrity figure or a powerful business mogul that has finally figured out that they’re autistic too.

I’m sure there’s at least ONE out there! 🙂

That’s the missing piece of the puzzle, not some illusive or renegade gene! 🙂

[To be continued…]

Definitions:

de•moc•ra•cy ( dɪˈmɒk rə si )
n., pl. -cies.
1. government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system.
2. a state having such a form of government.
3. a state of society characterized by formal equality of rights and privileges.
4. political or social equality; democratic spirit.
5. the common people, esp. with respect to their political power.
[1525–35; < Middle French démocratie < Late Latin dēmocratia < Greek dēmokratía popular government; see demo -, -cracy]

ol•i•gar•chy ( ˈɒl ɪˌgɑr ki )
n., pl. -chies.
1. a form of government in which power is vested in a few persons or in a dominant class or clique.
2. a state or organization so ruled.
3. the persons or class so ruling.
[1570–80; < Medieval Latin oligarchia < Greek oligarchía. See olig -, -archy]
oli•gar′chic, oli•gar′chi•cal, adj.

plu•toc•ra•cy ( pluˈtɒk rə si )
n., pl. -cies.
1. the rule or power of wealth or of the wealthy.
2. a government or state in which the wealthy class rules.
3. a class or group exercising power by virtue of its wealth.
[1645–55; < Greek ploutokratía =ploûto(s) wealth +-kratia -cracy]

Why is my autism related Facebook newsfeed inundated with Sen. Bernie Sanders plugs?

Subtitle: I guess it’s because autistics like him regardless of what country they live in…

Since the US Presidential election cycle is the hot topic on Facebook in most groups, and we appear to have three frontrunners, Mr. Donald Trump, Secy. Hillary Clinton, and Sen. Bernie Sanders, it appears that we only have one candidate that has been consistent over the years with their rhetoric and their political philosophies.

Mr. Donald Trump used to be a staunch Democrat and a Hillary Clinton supporter, Secy. Hillary Clinton used to be a Republican when she was in college and worked on the Sen. Barry Goldwater Presidential campaign in the 60’s, and Sen. Bernie Sanders has always been a Democratic Socialist striving to help and represent the disenfranchised, i.e. poor people, women, and minorities including people of color.

The video below within the first few minutes substantiates that assertion and they are the same ideas that he is talking about in 2016.

I guess autistics are pretty good at figuring out who is telling the truth and what makes sense, versus who’s faking it with empty slogans and excuses about previous decisions…

YouTube Video: Sen. Bernie Sanders circa 1988