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Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) has promised to discuss the truth at the end of Las Vegas of his tour of combat oligarchy, and he did.
Sanders also sent a message to Trump and the billionaire class “
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Senator Sanders said in part:
We will not accept an oligarchic form of society where a handful of billionaires direct the government.
We will not accept an authoritarian company with a president who undermines the constitution every day and works aggressively to remove our freedom of expression and our freedom of assembly. No, we will not accept a society of massive economic inequality, where the very rich become much richer while the families of workers across the country have trouble putting food on the table. In the richest country in world history, we demand and achieve an economy and a government that works for all of us, not just the richest.
It seems to me that before effectively determining the best way to follow, it is important to do what is very rarely done in the congress or in the corporate media. And it is to have a frank discussion on the economic and political realities facing our country. So let’s do something really radical.
Are you ready? Let’s tell the truth.
Today, we have two very different Americas. In one of these Americas, the richest people have never had good in the history of our country. People on the top are extraordinarily well today. We have more income and inequalities of wealth in our country that we have never had. The three richest people in America.
Mr. Bezos, Mr. Zuckerberg, these guys, these three people alone have more wealth than half of the American company, 170 million people, 170 million people, the most 1% now had more wealth than the lowest 90% and the CEOs of large companies now do 300 times what their average workers do. But it is not only the inequalities of income and wealth.
Today we have more concentration of property that we have never had. While the benefits of Wall Street and Corporate America have seen a handful of giant companies dominate the sector after the sector, whether it be agriculture, transport, media, financial services, a small number of very, very large international companies.
And they charge us scandalously high prices for the products they sell to us. If you could believe it, three companies from Wall Street, three companies, Blackrock, Vanguard and State Street.
The main shareholders of 95% of American companies. Let me say this. The 1% live completely and isolated lives from the rest of this country. They have no idea what’s going on in the real world in their closed communities. They fly around the world in private jets or helicopters they have. They have well -trained nannies that take care of their babies. They send their children in the best private schools and colleges. Sometimes they take a vacation, not in a motel 6. Not in a national park, but in their own islands they own.
And for the very, very rich, they have fun flying in space on their own spaceships. And maybe they should stay there.
There is another America, America you know, and America you live in. And in this America, 60%, 60% of our employees live the pay check. And millions of workers try to manage on famine salaries. Unlike Donald Trump, I grew up in a family that experienced the pay check at the pay check. And I know, as you know, something about this reality.
And it is a reality that I will never forget. And I have the feeling that I look at you today that many of you know this reality.
Even with thousands of people who arise, the combat oligarchy rally did not obtain consumer media coverage because even so-called liberal networks like MSNBC are led by people who believe that the United States is a conservative country. They convinced themselves that people like Bernie Sanders and AOC are the radical left -wing values on the left.
They and their business owners are not better for workers than Trump and Musk.
The change will have to germinate at the base and come from bottom to top because popular resistance is the only way to overcome an oligarch.
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