“We have an administration that is leading us to oligarchy, an administration that is leading us to an authoritarian form of society, an administration that is leading us towards kleptocracy,” Sanders said at the beginning of his speech.
Noting that three of the world’s richest men—Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg—sat in the front row of President Donald Trump’s inauguration, Sander said that “instead of a government of the people, by the people and for the people, we have now become a government of the billionaire class, for the billionaire class.”
Sanders also took aim at Trump’s false election claims and the wider “post-truth” trend on the right, telling the crowd: “We’re up against a phenomenon that we have never seen, and that is the Big Lie. The Big Lie is not just stretching the truth; the Big Lie is not just fibbing. The Big Lie is creating a parallel universe, a set of ideas that have no basis in reality.”
The senator also linked past struggles against injustice with the current crisis, arguing that “the change that we have experienced over hundreds of years of our nationhood only occurs when ordinary people stand up against oppression and injustice and fight back.”
Is there a call to action? Are we going to storm something?
Gotta get a lot more support before that stage
I feel like a lot of people are closer to ready than they’ve been. When Luigi allegedly murdered that scumbag CEO, people were celebrating.
There’s a pretty big gulf between celebrating the death of a ceo and participating in overthrowing the government.
I believe sanders’ solution is still ‘just vote blue no matter who just a few more times guys.’
He would be out of office if he suggested anything that hurts Dems or the oligarchy in general.
Isn’t he an independent?
He was, then he joined the dnc for his presidential run and has been hard into bluemaga since Clinton sabotaged him.
And then all go vote Hillary Clinton. At this point I’m starting to think Bernie is a shill.
