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All through the years I’ve lined Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), one consistency in his dealings with the mainstream media has been his low tolerance for political nonsense and divisive questions.
Meet The Press’s Kristen Welker tried to make use of Sanders and the Combating Oligarchy tour to ask if he was attempting to start out a 3rd occasion, as a result of Sanders instructed that folks get into politics and run as Independents.
Video of Sanders on Meet The Press:
Sen. Sanders gave an fascinating reply:
No, we’re not attempting to start out a 3rd occasion. What we’re attempting to do is strengthen American democracy, the place religion in each the Democratic and Republican events proper now’s extraordinarily low. We live, Kristen, within the richest nation within the historical past of the world. And but you bought one individual, Mr. Musk, who owns extra wealth than the underside 53% of American households. That’s insane. That’s oligarchy on steroids. In the meantime, we’ve got 60% of our employees dwelling paycheck to paycheck. We’ve got the best fee of childhood poverty of virtually any main nation on earth. And we’ve got over 20% of seniors in America dwelling on $15,000 a yr or much less. What the American individuals are saying is that they need, and what our tour was about, is to say that they need an economic system that works for all of us, not only for Mr. Musk and different billionaires.
Now, my concern proper now’s you might have Democrats appropriately – and I am working with them – speaking about Trump’s motion towards authoritarianism. Vigorously opposing the so-called reconciliation invoice to provide over a trillion {dollars} in tax breaks to the 1%, and make huge cuts in Medicaid, diet and housing. Opposing what Musk is doing to dismember the Social Safety Administration and the Veterans Administration, making it arduous for our veterans to get first rate healthcare or advantages on time. We’re on the identical web page.
