Bernie Sanders: “Never before in American history, never have so few people…”

“You're not going to see it when you turn on the TV tonight. You're not going to hear it in the halls of Congress. The bad news is that Never before in American history, never have so few people held so much wealth and even more importantly, so much power. And it's important to know, you know, when we were in school, we learned about the Gilded Age.” (05:14–05:25)

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