+Copulaxoxi Ranbooi Trump only supports Excel and Powerpoint art for businesses. But we know business plans often contain lot of creativity :-)

+Alex Fishman i'm sure they spend thousands of dollars on Football and others sports tho !

TasmanDevil13 of course they did! We just got a new stadium last year while my friend on the hockey team has to pay just to train on a local ice ring. They invest so much in these dumbass people yet they put nothing into people who want to actually start a career.

+Alex Fishman exactly, only fucking like one in a 10,000+ sport students actually go on to have a professional career in sports, in like major league NFL, NBA, Olympics, Soccer Clubs and etc.. it's so fucking stupid. Where as any creative person for example can make a difference in their field through whatever media, music, movies, photography, painting, drawing, and etc and etc; Besides creativity fuels progress in every other field as well, so no creativity no scientific, technological and political improvements.

+Alex Fishman as an artist and art instructor I appreciate and agree with you, but I also know that the principles of design and composition can be taught with the most modest of materials. A lack of good supplies should not deter the support and encouragement of self expression, but instead perhaps temper it.

+Evil or Divine Someone has a different way the express themselves, or a different way they were introduced to politics, and you act like they're less than you. You'll die cold and alone, even if you're surround by those who love you. I promise you that. You're whats wrong with America, and why we're becoming the laughing-stock of the world.

Actually many times the arts themselves can create that needed better economy. It's kind of a 'chicken or egg' conundrum, an owner of a business wrote an article about something similar. He says he doesn't have jobs to give because there's needs to be customers. Ok...well the way to create customers or patrons of any kind in any business is to CREATE those jobs in the first place.

I don't think people are going to base their votes on the fact that he supports and will fund the arts, people are going to vote for him because he is the only viable candidate for president. Bernie is the only candidate that has talked about this issue too, do you hear Hillary or any of the republicans talking about it? No.

Yeah I guess. Time will tell, we have another year to see candidates drop in and drop out of the presidential race.

+Hans Nisthaus artsleaks.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/corina_apostol_artleaks_gazette_3.pdf

+Hans Nisthaus Do you make your living in the arts? Those of us who do think it is a reason to base our vote on someone who supports us because everyone thinks they can design their own logo, print material, and web sites without our help these days. Oh yeah, and everyone is a photographer with their smart phones.

+superfinevids As an artist and a former art instructor, I can tell you that's all I ever lived for and fought for. At last, a guy who freakin' gets it.

+superfinevids 'Wow he be like 'artlover' too, Dam!'

Bernie the usurper is a nasty person.

+yourelawyered I disagree. But, he absolutely needs to clear this up and take a formal position on the horrendous "contest" and "crowd-sourcing" economy that creatives live in now --- participating in it was a very BAD choice!

+WonderPixels As apathetic as this may sound, read the fine print

+WonderPixels - it was not an unethical contest...there was nothing unethical about it. Just because an artist got upset because of a contest they held to get designs for his campaign, and she happened to not like the terms of the contest - does not have anything to do with this video or Bernie's love of the Arts. I for one loved the idea of the contest. My mom who is an artist wanted to help out the campaign - but she doesn't have much money to donate, or the physical strength to go door knocking...a contest like the one they held thrilled her- it was her way to be able to contribute to the cause. I am not saying the artist that got upset about it didn't have a right to their feelings...but not all artists got upset about at...you can't get all up in arms over everything that someone does a blog posts about.

+WonderPixels I highly doubt there was a copyrights grab, and if there was, it would have to be in a contract signed by the participants. Why don't you find something else to be offended about.

Yes, but abortion laws will not change, seeing as it has been decided by the Supreme Court that every woman has the right to a safe and legal abortion. Seeing as that cannot be overturned, this shouldn't be a factor when deciding whether or not to support Bernie! Help us out; if you' re old enough, register to vote in your state's primaries (instructions on voteforbernie.org, depending on your state you may need to register as Democrat/independent) and help Bernie become the Democratic nominee! Feel the Bern!

+Monica Tully I am also opposed to abortion. I just don't like the idea of killing babies. But Bernie Sanders, with his policies supporting affordable childcare and early education for all, tuition-free college and university education, and a living wage, will do more to reduce the abortion rate than anything any other candidate will do. I offer an example: in a recent study, it was found that nearly 80 percent of women who had abortions gave "can't afford a child right now" as one of the reasons. With the living wage Bernie Sanders is promoting and other family-friendly policies, "can't afford a child" as a reason for having an abortion will disappear. So, I feel perfectly comfortable supporting Bernie Sanders for President.

+Monica Tully Republicans have zero intention of banning abortion. They campaign on social issues because it's an excellent distraction. Time spent on abortion, gay marriage, etc is time not spent discussing the fact that their policy is not in the best interest of 99% of Americans. Why do you think they only vote on anti-abortion legislation when they know it could never pass? Because it would deprive them of a talking-point for the next re-election cycle. They 'attempted' to ban abortion, now they get to brag about 'doing something'. Honestly, your best solution is to vote for Bernie in hopes that he can fix the corrupt campaign process. If Republicans start representing the policy interests of the people, they won't have to pretend to represent the social interests. Then, finally, when you vote on an anti-abortion candidate, you're actually voting for an anti-abortion candidate.

+Monica Tully You know you want to support Bernie so just do it. I don't think everyone agrees with everything he says, but if you believe he could make a country that is fair where a mother would be able to get a job and day care, and many other policies that makes it easier for women and family as a whole. Then it's possible that more women would stop having abortions. Bernie is trying to build that kind of society, let's help him do it.

+Acheya Wachtel As a full time theatre artist, this 100%