Who Actually Runs the US Government? - Bernie Sanders - #1010

I read something recently that I wanted to get your thoughts on. The left's greatest enemy is not the right, but the hard left. The right's greatest enemy is not the left, but the hard right. The lunatics of your own side make you look much sillier than the opposition ever could. All right, maybe.

But what I am most interested in right now is not left or right. Uh, what I am focusing on right now is that in an unprecedented way in American history, we have more income and wealth inequality, more concentration of ownership, more billionaire control over the media and our political system than we've ever had in the history of the United States. And you add all that together, that's what's called oligarchy. And that's the fight that I am engaging in right now. We should not be living in a nation where so few have so much wealth and power.

While at the same time, Chris, he got in the richest country on earth. 60% of our people, got it, 60%, are living paycheck to paycheck. They're struggling to pay for health care, for childcare, for education. Housing is off the charts. Very few young people can afford to buy their own homes.

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