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Bernie Sanders: “During this last election, a small, tiny number of people…”

Featuring: Bernie Sanders, Independent | U.S. Senate, Vermont

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Bernie speaks with @hasanabi (LIVE AT 5PM ET)

Published | Video Starts at 04:12

I mean, Bezos owns the Washington Post, Musk owns Twitter, but also own the political system. One of the issues that we don't talk about enough is that During this last election, a small, tiny number of people, multi billionaires, put huge amounts of money into both political parties. And that is, to my mind, not what democracy is about. So you got control of the media by the few, control of the political system by the few, control of the economy by the few. (04:12–04:24)

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Asserts that a few multi-billionaires heavily funded both political parties in the last election.

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