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    3 months ago

    Also, during the same interview…

    Bernie Sanders on How the Democratic ‘Establishment’ Took Him Out of the Presidential Race

    “That’s what happens when you take on the establishments. What happened is we won the first three primaries, and then the establishment got very, very nervous…and they said, ‘Hey, it would be a good idea if you dropped out’…So if you’re asking me, are we a democracy? In one sense, we are…I use the term oligarchy. An oligarchy is a society where small numbers of very wealthy people control the economic and political life of the country. I think we are moving rapidly in that direction.”

    Video clip: https://x.com/TheChiefNerd/status/1823818576480153628