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Bernie Sanders: “Super PACs working every day to undermine democracy.”

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

FULL SPEECH: Bernie, Troy Jackson & Graham Platner say NO To oligarchy & endless war in Portland, ME

Published May 26, 2026 | Video Starts at 23:08

That's what democracy is about. One person, one vote. But what you got now is not only Trump and his authoritarianism undermining democracy. You got the billionaire class and their Super PACs working every day to undermine democracy. What democracy is supposed to be about. I know this sounds like an arcane, very old fashioned idea. It's supposed to be a debate about ideas, right? (23:08–23:14)

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“Despite spending over $15,000 per capita a year on health care, we have 85 million Americans who are uninsured or underinsured.”
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“It means that some 60,000 Americans die each year because they don't get to a doctor when they should.”
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“We got 800,000 Americans who are homeless today.”
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“Of 36 countries, we rank 35th ahead of Uruguay, richest country on earth, has almost the lowest child, highest childhood poverty rate of any…”
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“The only major nation not to guarantee health care to all people.”
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“Today, the top 1% owns more wealth than the bottom 93%.”
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“Mr. Musk owns more wealth himself than the bottom 53% of American households.”
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“CEOs of large corporations today making 350 times what the average worker in that company is making.”
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“Six major media conglomerates control about 90% of what the American people see, hear and read.”
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“Larry Ellison owns CBS, TikTok, Paramount Pictures, Skydance, MTV, and is on its way to acquiring cnn.”
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“We live in a country where the effective tax rates of billionaires is lower than it is for truck drivers or nurses.”
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“60% of our people are living paycheck to paycheck.”
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“Our life expectancy...is about three or four years shorter than people in other wealthy countries.”
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“If you are working class in this country, you're going to live seven years shorter lives than the wealthy.”
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“We spend twice as much as other countries.”
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“Guarantee health care to all people through a Medicare for all single payer programs.”
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“I was just in Italy, as it happens last week, a much poorer country than the United States. You go to a hospital, you know what the bill is…”
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“In 1991, [the average age for purchasing a first home] was 28.”
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“United nations does a study, they look at all of the major countries on earth in terms of how they treat their children and in terms of the…”
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“Our current child care system is broken and it is dysfunctional.”
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“We have teachers in Maine, teachers in Vermont and all over this country who are working at salaries far, far below what they deserve in the…”
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“One in three older Americans are economically insecure.”
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“Over 20% of seniors are trying to survive on $15,000 a year or less.”
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“We have got to significantly expand Social Security benefits by lifting the cap on taxable income.”
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“Rupert Murdoch owns Fox News, the Wall Street Journal and the New York Post.”
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“This billionaire class, not content with owning and controlling the economy, they now want to control our political system and undermine…”
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“Trump and his authoritarianism undermining democracy.”
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“What's going on right now in our very corrupt campaign finance system...is you're seeing big billionaires and their super PACs as a result…”
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“You're going to see billionaires spending unbelievable amounts of money to destroy candidates like Graham and progressive candidates all…”
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“It's not good enough to talk about overturning Citizens United, which of course we have got to do what we can and do right now is pass…”
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“The wealthiest people in the world, people like Musk and Bezos and Ellison and Zuckerberg and others, are now spending hundreds of billions…”
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“Economists out there who tell us that in the next 10 years, tens of millions of jobs in this country can be destroyed.”
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“AI can break away from human control, become independent of human control with possibly cataclysmic implications.”
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“We are not going to let a handful of billionaires control the future of this country.”
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“In California and New York, there are unions and other people who are demanding that the wealthy and the billionaires start paying their…”
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“We are going to impose a 5% annual tax on the 938 billionaires in America.”
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“If that 5% tax on less fewer than a thousand billionaires were to go into effect tomorrow, it would mean that every man, woman and child in…”
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“If we pass that tax, it would tackle the housing crisis by providing the resources necessary to build 7 million units of low income and…”
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“If we passed that legislation, it would expand Medicare to cover dental, hearing and vision.”
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“If we pass that legislation, it would bring about universal child care in America.”
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“If we passed that legislation, no teacher in our country would be earning less than $60,000 a year.”
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“If we passed that legislation, we would restore health care to the 15 million people that, that Trump threw off of their health care.”
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“If this tax were to be passed, Elon Musk would pay $39 billion more in taxes, but it would leave him with just 737 billion to try to…”
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“Jeff Bezos would owe about $14 billion more and he really would be in trouble.”
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“Working people, including Republicans, understand that the economy is rigged, that the campaign finance system is corrupt.”
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“Mamdani did in New York City is put together a grassroots coalition of 100,000 volunteers.”
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