Bernie Sanders as a politician

I was raised by conservatives, later drifted to libertarian views in my adolescence. 2016 is the first election I can vote in and I was originally planning on voting for Rand Paul, but now I'm leaning towards Bernie because I feel like he could implicate a socialist system in America and actually make it work unlike Obama or Hillary. Bernie wants a truly free America, where everyone is treated the same, and no one gets special privileges. A government that doesn't intrude on its people unlike the government that most of the Republicans want to keep. People would be able to actually smoke a joint and not rot in prison. Electing Bernie would be an awesome "fuck you" to the corporations and billionaires like the Koch brothers. Bernie Sanders has my first vote and my support.