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As perhaps one of the only senators currently sitting in Congress as a self-proclaimed democratic socialist (which is entirely different from socialism), Sanders has surfaced as a figurehead for a continuingly growing population of dissatisfied protestors in Occupy Wall Street, and elsewhere, as the one hope of Congress’s to finally penalize the 1%. With such quotes as “You have given the wealthiest [portion] of the population a break, and now you are coming before the American people and saying, ‘We don’t have enough money to protect the sick and the old,” and “We have been expecting businesses to provide health insurance coverage, but is this fair? Or, should health insurance be like education, a public responsibility?,” it’s easy to see why Senator Sanders has been pushed out of the public’s consciousness. He’s unpopular to commercial motives, and he’s not entirely friendly to Democratic initiatives either.

But perhaps Senator Sanders is the exact person we need in Congress right now. With the Right trying to diminish the Left’s policies in revamping the economy so that President Obama will look bad, and thus, hopefully, not get re-elected, both sides have made it stringently clear that they’re not willing to help the situation. Instead, they bicker. Senator Sanders, while identified on ballots as a Democrat, is entirely independent. His record shows he’s neither Left nor Right, but a politician that consistently fights for those without a voice, those without lobbyists and millions, perhaps billions, of dollars to buy whatever they need in life, including politicians. Senator Sanders, rather, is the one gleaming hope within Congress. That is, to say, if his spirit of humanitarian policies that favor the majority and not a very small minority (i.e. the 1%) will catch fire with others, and I don’t mean in empty rhetoric by politicians on MSNBC stating how aghast they are that the Right has been bankrupting America for these past ten, twenty, forty years.

And so is it any wonder that Senator Sanders is now receiving so much attention after years of the media, both Left and Right, ignoring him? No. I mean, Occupy Wall Street, and any politicians with sympathies to the movement, is good headlines. Where as previously good headlines meant unwavering patriotism, anti-Middle-Eastern ennuendo, and overall hegemonic rhetoric that solidified the perception that everything was okay since everything was for sale, now we’ve run into the inevitable wall that said perception could only lead to in any logical inquiry. It is only an historical tragedy because such logical inquiry could have been made previously if we had listened to politicians like Senator Sanders rather than President Reagan, Bush, Bush, Jr. Jack Abramoff, Milton Friedman, Alan Greenspan, and the like.  

Sentator Sanders represents that very small minority of politicians that will unconditionally fight for the marginalized population, which is precisely why he wasn’t popular for quite some time. No one wants to think of themselves as marginalized, and will often vote for political caricatures since they look more defined and outlined, though with any serious investigation it can and will be found out that they have no depth. Senator Sanders, fortunately, is not of this characteristic. He is the likeable version of Ralph Naders meets George Orwell. And whether or not you like his rhetoric or meekness or even “liberal” connotations, Senator Sanders will continually ring a note of truism within Capitol Hill as one of the most genuine politicians in an age of corruption, greed, and insoluble consumerism that will continue to depreciate the value of American currency.