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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 Preventing Oligarchy tour to ask if he was making an attempt to begin a 3rd social gathering, as a result of Sanders recommended that individuals get into politics and run as Independents.
Video of Sanders on Meet The Press:
Sen. Sanders gave an fascinating reply:
No, we’re not making an attempt to begin a 3rd social gathering. What we’re making an attempt to do is strengthen American democracy, the place religion in each the Democratic and Republican events proper now could be extraordinarily low. We live, Kristen, within the richest nation within the historical past of the world. And but you bought one particular person, 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 have now 60% of our staff residing paycheck to paycheck. Now we have the best price of childhood poverty of virtually any main nation on earth. And we have now over 20% of seniors in America residing on $15,000 a 12 months 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 financial system that works for all of us, not only for Mr. Musk and different billionaires.
Now, my concern proper now could be you will have Democrats appropriately – and I am working with them – speaking about Trump’s motion towards authoritarianism. Vigorously opposing the so-called reconciliation invoice to offer over a trillion {dollars} in tax breaks to the 1%, and make large cuts in Medicaid, diet and housing. Opposing what Musk is doing to dismember the Social Safety Administration and the Veterans Administration, making it laborious for our veterans to get first rate healthcare or advantages on time. We’re on the identical web page.
