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Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) promised to debate the reality on the Las Vegas cease of his Preventing Oligarchy tour, and he did.
Sanders additionally delivered a message to Trump and the billionaire class, “
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 Sen. Sanders stated partly:
We is not going to settle for an oligarchic type of society the place a handful of billionaires run the federal government.
We is not going to settle for an authoritarian society with a president who undermines the Structure daily, and is working aggressively to remove our freedom of speech and freedom of meeting. No, we is not going to settle for a society of huge financial inequalities, the place the very wealthy have gotten a lot richer whereas working households throughout the nation wrestle to place meals on the desk. Within the richest nation within the historical past of the world, we demand and can obtain an economic system and a authorities that works for all of us, not simply the richest.
It appears to me that earlier than we will successfully decide one of the simplest ways ahead, it is essential to do what could be very not often carried out in Congress or within the company media. And that’s to have a frank dialogue concerning the financial and political realities going through our nation. So let’s do one thing actually radical.
You prepared? Let’s inform the reality.
Immediately, we’ve two very completely different Americas. In a type of Americas, the wealthiest individuals have by no means ever within the historical past of our nation had it so good. Folks on prime are doing terribly properly in the present day. Now we have extra earnings and wealth inequality in our nation than we’ve ever had. The three wealthiest individuals in America.
Mr. Bezos, Mr. Zuckerberg, these guys, these three individuals alone personal extra wealth than the half of American society, 170 million individuals, 170 million individuals, the highest 1 p.c now owns extra wealth, than the underside 90 p.c and CEOs of main firms now make 300 instances what their common staff make. However it’s not simply earnings and wealth inequality.
Immediately, we’ve extra focus of possession than we’ve ever had. Whereas the income on Wall Avenue and company America noticed a handful of large firms dominate sector after sector, whether or not it is agriculture, transportation, media, monetary providers, small variety of very, very massive worldwide firms.
And so they cost us outrageously excessive costs for the merchandise they promote us. For those who may imagine it, three Wall Avenue corporations, three corporations, BlackRock, Vanguard, and State Avenue.
The foremost stockholders of 95 p.c of American firms. Let me say this. The 1 p.c stay utterly and remoted lives from the remainder of this nation. They don’t have any clue what’s going on in the true world of their gated communities. They fly around the globe within the personal jets or the helicopters that they personal. They’ve well-trained nannies taking good care of their infants. They ship their children to the very best personal faculties and faculties. Typically they take holidays, not in a Motel 6. Not in a nationwide park, however of their very personal islands that they personal.
And for the very, very richest, they’ve enjoyable flying off into outer area on their very personal spaceships. And possibly they need to keep there.
There’s one other America, the America that you recognize, and the America you reside in. And in that America, 60%, 60 p.c of our individuals live paycheck to paycheck. And hundreds of thousands of staff are attempting to get by on hunger wages. In contrast to Donald Trump, I grew up in a household that lived paycheck to paycheck. And I do know, as you recognize, one thing about that actuality.
And it’s a actuality that I’ll always remember. And I’ve a sense as I look out at you in the present day that lots of you recognize that actuality.
Even with 1000’s of individuals exhibiting up, the Preventing Oligarchy rally didn’t get mainstream media protection as a result of even the supposedly liberal-leaning networks like MSNBC are run by individuals who imagine that america is a conservative nation. They’ve satisfied themselves that individuals like Bernie Sanders and AOC are the novel left-wing outliers.
They and their company house owners are not any higher for working individuals than Trump and Musk.
Change must sprout on the grassroots and are available from the underside up as a result of standard resistance is the one method to defeat an oligarch.
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