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Campaign

1. Why do you think you would make a better President than President Starro?

Sean: I think I’d be a better President than President Starro..well..let me rephrase the question..eh..rephrase my answer here. I think I’d make a better President than President Starro because the reason I decided to run in the first place, right? I think I’d be a better leader and better President for the Democratic Party than Starro, ’cause I think currently Starro is..doesn’t organize the party very well, I don’t think he’s progressive enough and I think that I would be a better President because I would be a more progressive President and more willing to unite the Democratic Party and organize it better than the current President.

The reason I think I can unite, right, so, it’s not because I’m thinking, right, so when people say unite, right, mostly it’s a moderate person say “well, I’m moderate, I can unite the Progressives and the Moderates”. What I mean by uniting is making the party united under one agenda, right.

So when we want to pass something, right, like free healthcare, right. All the party supports it, we can get it passed very easily, you know? If we fight amongst each other, stuff like that.

2. How do you plan on beating the other candidates (first obviously for the primary)?

S: I do have a strategy, right. I think it comes down to one thing: the vocal.. there’s a vocal minority, right, which is the people that always talk in the chat, right? I’m doing a very grass[roots] movement, like contact, voter id (I’m calling it voter id which is basically a voter id contact). Basically I’m going out contacting voters and getting people on board with the campaign early on, right.

I’ve done the math, right, the math is you need about..if 40 people vote, you need about 22 votes to win. I have a number, internal number of secured votes, right, and it’s one of the reasons I decided to run, because I think I might have a good chance at winning.

To win the nomination, I think it’s voter contact, getting people together and getting people around an agenda that everyone likes. I think that the vocal minority is very loud in the Democratic Party right now, but I don’t think they are the majority. So I think when voting comes, you’re gonna see a lot of people you wouldn’t expect, that don’t talk a whole lot, going out and voting.

3. What would you say is your campaign slogan?

S: I have two. There is “The revolution will not be televised”, right, which is the one on the logo. And “The time for change was yesterday, the time for action is today”.

The meaning behind “The revolution will not be televised”, I think is up to people’s personal opinion on how they interpreted it, but my personal interpretation of it and the reason it’s in the logo is because whenever the bottom tries to stand up, right, whenever the lower class, the people that are not represented well, try to stand up for representation, everything at the top will stop it from being shown out, you know? It will never be shown.

If, so for instance, right, if like a popular candidate, right, who is very against big cooperations, stuff like that, the cooperations will make sure that this person isn’t on the news, right. So that’ s the very literal sense of “The revolution will not be televised.” They won’t actually show the real change going on. That’s what that logo..that’s what that means, that’s a little more deep to me.

And “The time for change was yesterday, the time for action is today”, that means that, that for instance, that pays a lot of tribute to like, Climate Change, right? Where the time for change was yesterday ’cause we should’ve been doing this a long time ago, so we need to do it today.

4. Some of your opponents in the primary have already released advertisements, what will be your campaign’s media strategy?

S: I think it’s dedication. I think it’s showing that we’re a serious campaign, right? So we’re going to be posting serious stuff, advertising. By advertising, I mean, we’re gonna do an ad campaign. So we’re gonna make a few more ads, maybe 2 more ads, right. I think the ads will show more to the dedication of my candidacy, right.

So I’ve written, I’ve done the most amount of bills than any other Congressman. Right? I think it was 14 bills in 4 days, I wrote. Now, now, most of them.. So I wrote like roughly like 13, 14 bills in a timespan of like 4 days, now some of them I didn’t actually put up for voting ’cause I actually wound up deciding that, maybe pushing this as a Presidential Agenda would be better. But I think my ad campaign is really going to be focused on showing my dedication for it all, right, so putting a lot of effort into attention to detail, right. Showing that I’m more dedicated than the next guy, I think is my whole ad campaign.

5. How do you plan on standing out in the debates?

S: Are the debates on voice chat?

Interviewer: No, they are text-based.

S: Text, that’s sad. We should do a voice chat debate. That’d be fun. I think that, hmm, so my original interpretation was that the debates were gonna be voice chat, so, but I guess my standing on the debates, right, so in the primary- is it a primary debate or is it only the general debate?

Interviewer: Last time there was only a general debate, mainly because it was a lot already, we had 4 parties then. I’m not sure. I think there was one, maybe one can be arranged again.

S: I think the biggest thing is, right, standing up for what you believe in, right. I personally think I’m very good and very passionate standing up for what I believe in and I think that will really show, right. I think that, I, I,..The thing is, when it’s over text, right, which I think we should do a voice one, I think that’s much more grander, right, so if you do it over text, like, I feel like people are gonna sit there and focus on the details of what they are saying, you know, but when it comes to debates, standing out, I think it’s just going to be my pure passion, when I talk about what I believe in, right.

And, I’m not someone who likes to attack my opponents, right. I’m not gonna be someone that’s like, going to debate, right, I have some personal opinions about, maybe some of the candidates, right, and I’m not going to go out and be like, I don’t know if I might be able to go and be like “woah, you did this, I don’t believe in that”, right. That being said, there is a line there, right. Because if someone voted on something or co-sponsored something, right, that I believe is super, super anti-progressive…My main thing is passion, dedication, right, show that I’m passionate for it and I’m a strong leader.

6. If you had to summarize what your campaign stands for in one word, what would that be?

S: In one word?

Interviewer: Yes.

S: In one word, what does it stand for in one word….People. People, that’s the word. It’s people.

7. Name one quality you admire about your opponents or their campaigns.

S: Well, I going to mention 3 here, okay. Starro, Mac and Wilson. (Editor’s note: at the time of this interview, Minority Whip Wilson was still running, he has since ended his campaign)

So, I think that, I think Wilson is a very dedicated person, I think that he’s very smart, and I think that he has his own opinions. I think we differ on our opinions, but I agree that this is a free country, so everyone can have their own opinions. I think Wilson is good. I think Wilson is….I’m trying to think of the one word that can describe Wilson. I think Wilson is understanding. That’s the one quality I like about Wilson. He’s understanding.

And then for Starro and Mac… Thing is, I haven’t really talked to Starro, right. That’s actually one of the reasons I launched this campaign, and I, so I don’t really know any good traits about Starro. I think that, one thing I liked about Starro was that he worked on the Blue Deal with me originally, when I was first making it, right.

I think Mac, I like Mac’s demeanor, I think Mac’s very soft-spoken, right, and seems like a kind person.

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Personal

1. Why do you think you should be President?

S: Because I’m dedicated and because I’m organized. I think, I think anyone that believes in my agenda could be President, but currently from the people I’ve talked to, I’m the most dedicated and most organized to do so. That being said, if I saw another candidate launch, had a similar campaign as me, and showed more dedication and more organization, and they were beating me in the polls, I’d probably drop out to endorse them.

2. How would you describe yourself politically?

S: I think that I’m a..I think they would call the..correct term, see, Bernie Sanders calls himself a Democratic Socialist, right. I think that that term, some people disagree what that term is, the best term I can call myself is a Bernie-crat. It’s a Democrat that’s very similar to Bernie Sanders, policies et cetera.

3. What are you doing currently besides Congress?

S: I currently go to college, right. I’m a volunteer for Bernie Sanders campaign. I’ve worked for his campaign, met him a few times, too. I’m a facillity manager.

4. What do you like to do for fun?

S: My hobbies currently, I like doing something called horse racing, the political term I mean. So that means someone who likes watching the polls, right. Everyday, I’m the type of guy that’s looking at the polls, right. I’m looking at the polls like “Oh, f***** Joe Biden went down two points today”, you know? Or “Bernie Sanders went down two points, oh f****”, you know? Like, I like looking at polls, I’m a big, one of my biggest hobbies is doing that.

I’m also very big into videogames.

5. What is your favorite book?

S: ……Our Revolution, I think is the name of the book. Yeah, Our Revolution by Bernie Sanders.

6. Who are your political heroes (can be fictional characters)

S: Political heroes?

Interviewer: Yes.

S: Well, obviously I’m gonna say Bernie Sanders here, I think that’s pretty obvious. I’ve had three responses with him in it, right? So we’ll have Bernie Sanders on this list, right. I think..political heroes..I think I don’t understand what the word political heroes means, right? It’s someone who you idolize, right, you like the way they did things…

Interviewer: I would say it’s someone who’s leadership style you like, or someone who’s policies you agree with, or someone who you would like to be like as a leader. Can be any of those.

S: So, I like, I like Bernie Sanders, right, on every, on all categories, you know, personality, compat-, you know, policy, everything, right.

I like FDR, but keep in mind FDR also put all Japanese people in camps, right. I don’t like the fact that he did that, but I do think FDR was one of the greatest President’s we’ve had, right. That type of personality, right.

I think one of the most respected people, politicians ever, right. I don’t agree with a single policy, or majority of policies, right. I think John McCain was a great person, right. As a person, in some regards, right. So for instance, when he was asked the question about Obama’s race, she’s like “Should we be worried that if Obama is an arab” and his response was like “Well, that shouldn’t be an issue in this campaign, we should focus on ideas”, right. I think that really showed that he was kind of a, a true hero. And then when the time needed him, right, he choose to vote to save people’s healthcare instead of getting rid of them, while he was dying, right. So I think John McCain is a, his leadership quality is very admirable.

I think Bernie Sanders is the number 1 guy I look up to.

7. What item can you not live without?

S: I don’t think I could live without my phone, I think being connected to the information of the world is very important. I think not being connected to information and knowing about what’s going on in the world concerns me a lot, you know? I like to be updated on news and everything, so not having my phone, not having access to the news, I don’t think I can live with that. Not having access to the world, I think that’s a better word than news.

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Platform and Policy

1. What would be your first priority as President?

S: In Virtual Congress, I think that Climate Change is going to be one of my first things we’re gonna tackle, right, we don’t have a lot of time, we gotta act fast, we gotta act now, right. The time for change was yesterday, the time for action is today. So we gotta act on climate change now and that is going to be one of my biggest agenda pushers as I become the, on day 1 of becoming President.

If it was real life, you know, I think it would be a mixture of Healthcare and Climate Change, but obviously on the server we already have a public option, I don’t however think that that’s the best way of doing it, but I think Climate Change is more important on Virtual Congress, currently. And then Universal Healthcare.

2. What is your position on the agendas of former President CollinMatthew and current President Starro?

S: I think they are empty. I think they are empty, I they are blank, I don’t even know what they are, and every single time I tried contacting Starro or CollinMatthew, CollinMatthew especially, I never got a contact back. I would make sure as President that it’s not going to be the same way I’ll respond, I’ll make sure to respond to everybody’s questions and responses.

3.What are your views on healthcare?

S: I believe healthcare is a right. I think everyone is entitled, everyone should be entitled to free healthcare, right. What I mean by that is having standard universal healthcare, no private insurances, universal healthcare for all. Simple as that.

Interviewer: follow up, with “no private insurances”, do you mean no private insurance exist or no one has to rely on private insurance?

S: No private insurance will exist. And under my plan for major medical needs and stuff like that. So for instance, most would consider plastic surgery not a medical need, right. So I guess, some world you can have that be a, you know what I mean, that’d be private insurance. Dental, right? You have a heart attack and you go to the hospital, you’re not gonna pay for that, right. We’re not gonna have private insurance for that. The reason for that is that private insurance will undermine a public option.

4. How would you summarize your approach to social equality (women’s rights and LGBT rights etc.)?

S: So, I think, when it comes to rights, right, I think we live in an America that’s much different than my parents did before that, right. When I grew up, my parents were, watched Martin Luther King Jr. on TV, right. That’s when black-only signs, white-only signs, right. We do not live in that America now. We live in a racist America, right, in some areas, because of the way culture is, right.

When it comes to me for tackling [in]equality, I think ’cause a lot of things for a lot of these, a lot of gender issues, right, I think that a lot of people are already equal in a lot of situations, right. There is a lot of work to be done, but I think there are a lot of equal stuff already done, right. I think forever including women in the draft, I think that’s a very important thing, right. I think that’s a really good step in equality, right. I think that it’s unfair that men get charged more for car insurance than women do, right. I think that..my biggest thing though, my biggest issue when it comes to fixing social equality, right, is the wealth inequality, is what creates a lot of inequality, right.

Structural racism, right, where black neighborhoods were designed, physically designed, that there should be a black community there, right. Wealth inequality is the fact that the top 1% owns more money than the bottom 99%, right. The big corporations and stuff like that can kinda, almost control the system, right, and the people in power, right. control a lot of stuff. So I think fixing structural racism, but then how do you fix structural racism, right? Legalizing marijuana is a good step in it, right, decriminalizing it, which I think we have already done now, right? So I think fixing structural racism, the wealth inequality, right, and making sure that LGBTQ+, that those rights of those people are not infringed on, right. I think that everyone here is an American, I think everyone’s entitled to their own opinion about their beliefs and how they act, right, so no one should be judged or harmed for doing that.

5. Elaborate on your foreign policy philosophy

S: So, I think that, so Teddy Roosevelt, right, I think his line where he says “Carry a big stick and speak softly“, right? I think there is some, some characteristics out of that are important, right. So America being a big country, right, being a powerhouse, right, sends a message to other countries not to mess with us, right? However, I think it’s also important to note here that a) I don’t think we should be in an area just to protect the oil for ourselves, right. To, oil, going to wars for oil, right, I don’t think we should be doing that, right. I think regime change is a terrible idea, right, I think there is a lot to be looking into that, right. i think that as President myself, I believe a lot more in diplomacy than going to war, right, and working on negotiating before any war can ever break out, right. I think being a part of the UN is an important thing so we can keep together, and NATO et cetera. I believe in a lot of diplomacy for that, right. But I also believe that knowing that we have a lot of power is also important, right, so. that’s my stance on foreign affairs.

6. What do you view as an issue that isn’t discussed enough?

S: I think it’s our failing education system. I think it’s a system where our current education system focuses on making people, focuses on, so there is a lot of people in classrooms, right, and they’re so smart, right. They understand math very easily, right, and by doing so they are awarded, they’re shown off, you know, stuff like that, but in real life, right. Your good grade in the classroom…I don’t know.

I think we should focus more on redefining education and helping out the students that are not doing so well in classrooms, focusing on career technicians, right. More vocational schools, stuff like that. More funding for vocational schools, I think we cut the vocational school spending [sic] in half, last year, so I think increasing it by a lot, advertising it to remove the stigma, that going to a [vocational] program is bad, right.

Here’s a note, right. In real life, I’m an education major, right. I’m going to school to become a teacher, right. And a politics major, right. But I’m also a student of a vocational school, where I’m a certified computer network technician. (Editors note: Sean visited vocational school while he was in high school and earned that certification. Now he is in college as stated.)

So I do have a lot of personal experience when it comes to doing this. So I think expanding and fixing our educational system is very important for our future, expanding vocational school funding.

7. What is an issue you would not compromise on?

S: One issue, huh. Hm. I will not compromise on? I’m sorry, this is a tough question for me as I think the logistics on how you accomplish my goals are open to compromise, however when it comes to Free Public College and Climate Change I will not budge on the fact we need to do both these things just I’m willing to compromise on how we fund and rollout said plans.