Bernie Sanders Takes Aim at 'Ruling Class' of Corporations and Wealthy [View all]

[Uncle Joe]

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“I wanted to tell the American people that politics is more than polls. It’s more than dumb things that politicians say, of which there are many, including from myself,” he said. “It is asking what you might think is an easy question, but really is not and that is, ‘What’s going on in American life? Who’s winning?’”

Sanders said the winners are those in what he called “the ruling class.”

“When you have three people in America owning more wealth than the bottom half of American society; when we have massive concentration of ownership in sector after sector where a handful of large corporations control what goes on in agriculture, health care, transportation and financial services; do we have a ruling class in America?” he said. “Yes.”

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“The people on top have enormous power. Not only economic power, not only enormous political power, they also have enormous media power,” Sanders said. “They define what we are allowed to get upset about and outraged about and more or less what we’re not allowed to talk about. So what the book is about trying to break through all of that and talk about reality.”

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