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2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumBernie calls for A Revolution at the DNC Women's Leadership Forum: "We are slipping into oligarchy"
Video here: http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/watch/sanders-calls-for-a-political-revolution-550125123926
"The reasons that I am running for President is that I worry very much that both economically and politically our country is sliding into Oligarchy."
"We are the wealthiest country in the history of the world. But as we speak here and meet here this morning, millions and millions of Americans are struggling to feed their kids. We have the highest rate shamefully of poverty of any major country on earth and 40% of African American kids are living in poverty all at the same time that 58% of the new income is going to the top 1%."
"We are the wealthiest country in the history of the world. But as we speak here and meet here this morning, millions and millions of Americans are struggling to feed their kids. We have the highest rate shamefully of poverty of any major country on earth and 40% of African American kids are living in poverty all at the same time that 58% of the new income is going to the top 1%."
Is there anything else that really needs to be said?
This is why we must vote this year, and vote for Sanders. Unless you trust Hillary to tell Wall Street to "Cut it out."
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Bernie calls for A Revolution at the DNC Women's Leadership Forum: "We are slipping into oligarchy" (Original Post)
berni_mccoy
Oct 2015
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in_cog_ni_to
(41,600 posts)1. Nothing more needs to be said.
Every person on this forum knows he's right. Some choose to ignore his truth.
PEACE
LOVE
BERNIE
Armstead
(47,803 posts)2. AMEN -- Same speech but delivered masterfully
Something about him in this video...Telling the difficult truth and offering the solutions in a compelling way.
berni_mccoy
(23,018 posts)5. I noticed that too
Armstead
(47,803 posts)3. Just curious -- did MSNBC broadcast his whole speech?
Fawke Em
(11,366 posts)4. The Twitter machine was going nuts, so someone must
have been broadcasting it live.
WillyT
(72,631 posts)6. HUGE K & R !!! - THANK YOU !!!
yuiyoshida
(41,831 posts)7. Oligarchies
noun, plural oligarchies.
1.
a form of government in which all power is vested in a few persons or in a dominant class or clique; government by the few.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/oligarchy
yeah, that about says it all...
1.
a form of government in which all power is vested in a few persons or in a dominant class or clique; government by the few.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/oligarchy
yeah, that about says it all...
Uncle Joe
(58,362 posts)8. Kicked and recommended.
Thanks for the thread, berni mccoy.
leftofcool
(19,460 posts)9. Did he mention anything about women?
Anything about women and leadership?
Garrett78
(10,721 posts)10. Slipping into?
The US has been an oligarchy for a long, long time.
moobu2
(4,822 posts)11. I've heard this one before
Maybe a couple of times before.