Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) simply described inequality in America as “oligarchy on steroids.”
Throughout Sunday morning’s episode of “Meet the Press,” Sanders stated there was a disaster of democracy within the U.S., and he desires to combat again by getting common, working class Individuals to run for workplace.
Requested if his present cross-country “Fighting Oligarchy” tour with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was meant to assist Democrats or encourage folks to start out a 3rd get together, he advised moderator Kristen Welker, “We are trying to strengthen the American democracy.”
The senator then highlighted a obtrusive statistic about wealth disparity within the nation.
“We are living … in the richest country in the history of the world and yet you have one person, Mr. Musk, who owns more wealth than the bottom 53% of American households,” Sanders stated. “That is insane. That is oligarchy on steroids.”
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After serving to usher President Donald Trump into workplace, Elon Musk has been wielding unprecedented affect as an unelected member of the White Home inner-circle.
Although he advised Tesla buyers that he plans to spend much less time in Washington, D.C., throughout the automobile firm’s dismal first quarter earnings final week, he’s already gutted a slew of important applications whereas on the helm of the budget-busting initiative identified on the Division of Authorities Effectivity.
Sanders went on to level out the variety of American employees “living paycheck to paycheck,” and alarming charges of youngsters and seniors residing in poverty, and stated that Individuals are hungry for “an economy that works for all of us, and not just for Musk and other billionaires.”
Whereas the impartial stated he was partnering with Democrats to combat in opposition to Trump’s “movement toward authoritarianism,” his tax cuts for the ultra-wealthy and his assaults on the social welfare system, Sanders additionally claimed the nation’s present two-party system simply isn’t working.
“We’re on the same page, but what Democrats lack right now is a vision for the future,” he insisted.
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Sanders had an answer: push “working people” to hunt workplace, it doesn’t matter what get together they select to run for.
“You want to run as a Democrat? Great. You want to run as an independent? That’s great, but you’ve got to get involved in the political process because right now the two-party system is failing the working class of this country,” he defined.
Sanders’ message appears to be resonating with Individuals of all stripes. Throughout his “Fighting Oligarchy” tour, the far-left politician has been drawing big crowds in locations lengthy regarded as conservative territory.
Earlier this month throughout an occasion in Idaho with Ocasio-Cortez, he stated, “We don’t accept this blue state/red state nonsense. We are the United States of America, not red states, not blue states.”
Watch Sanders’ full interview on “Meet the Press” under:
