Opinion | How Bernie Sanders Sees Issues

So you bought a corrupt, a very — an financial system dominated by the very rich, a rigged financial system. You might have a political system dominated by billionaires. You might have the media, company media, having enormous affect. You add all of it up. What do you name that nation? You inform me. Is it truthful to name it an oligarchy? I believe I completely assume there are oligarchic points to our nation. You’re sounding like a New York Occasions reporter right here. I’m not prepared to say that we’re already an oligarchy, however I’m nervous that we’re very a lot transferring towards that. And so I believe there’s an enormous quantity of your prognosis that I agree with to some extent. I’m not pushing you on the oligarchy notion. I’m accepting it. I’m asking on this second, ought to we be paying extra consideration to the authoritarian risk. They go collectively. All proper. I agree. All proper. The purpose is, what could be very hardly ever mentioned, and I’ve been on 48 million tv reveals and no one has ever requested me — not one particular person has ever mentioned, Bernie, are you nervous that so few individuals in America have a lot wealth and a lot energy whereas working class persons are struggling? Nobody ever requested me that query. I wager you make the purpose anyway. I do. I say thanks in your foolish query. Now let me provide the reply to the query you didn’t ask.