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Bernie Sanders: “Trump is, in my view, the most dangerous president in…”

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

Who Owns America? Bernie Sanders Says the Quiet Part Out Loud

Published October 9, 2025 | Video Starts at 04:10

How far do you think America is off from the promise it's given to its people? I think you have a president who is way, way off, who Trump is, in my view, the most dangerous president in American history. taking us in the wrong direction in every area. On the other hand, I think you got a whole lot of people who would love to see a very, very different America than we have today. (04:10–04:22)

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“Mr. Musk, the wealthiest guy on earth spent $270 million to help elect Donald Trump.”
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“One guy, Elon Musk, [owns] more wealth than the bottom 52% of American households.”
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“These three corporations combined are the dominant stockholders of 95% of American corporations.”
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“Six large international conglomerates, media conglomerates, that control about 90% of what the American people see here and read.”
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“During that same period, there was a $75 trillion transfer of wealth that went from the bottom 90% to the top 1%.”
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“We got a half a million people go bankrupt every year because of medical bills [in the United States].”
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“The system is broken.”
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“In the richest country in the history of the world, we should be doing a hell of a lot better than we are doing today.”
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“We have more income and wealth inequality than we've ever had in the history of the United States.”
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“You have more concentration of ownership.”
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“Kamala Harris had some 80 billionaires contributing to her campaign.”
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“Over the last 50 or so years, real inflation accounted for wages. Weekly wages for the average American worker is lower today than it was 50…”
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“60% of people in America today live paycheck to paycheck.”
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“We have the highest rate of childhood poverty of almost any major country on Earth.”
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“Highest rate of senior poverty of almost any major country on Earth.”
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“You had the three wealthiest guys, Musk, Bezos and Zuckerberg, sitting right behind Trump.”
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“Right behind them were another, I think, 15 billionaires who Trump had nominated to head up major federal agencies.”
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“The Citizens United Supreme Court decision allows huge amounts of money in super PACs.”
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“If I put tens and tens of millions of dollars into your opponent, Trevor, I will beat you most of the time.”
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“The Democratic Party, according to the polls today, is at the lowest point that has been in decades.”
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“Bill Ackerman says, we are oligarchs, we are billionaires, and we are now going to spend as much money as it takes to defeat Mr. Mondani.”
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“Many of these big tech guys, they don't believe in democracy.”
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“Centrist parties like the Democratic Party are in decline in Germany, in France, in the UK.”
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“Right wing extremist bodies like Trump's MAGA movement are on ascendancy, with some exceptions.”
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“Working people, rural people are feeling left behind while the rich get richer.”
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“The current leadership of the Democratic Party is...way out of touch with where working families and the majority of the people are.”
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“There should be enthusiasm and excitement. There is fear that working class people...are going to get involved and threaten the existence of…”
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“The United States, the richest country on earth, is the only major country not to guarantee health care to all people.”
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“I introduced the [Medicare for All] bill in the Senate. We got I think 15 co-sponsors. Out of 15 out of 47.”
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“For years we've been fighting to lower the outrageous cost of prescription drugs.”
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“Psychologists tell us that 0 through 4 are the most significant years of human development intellectually and emotionally.”
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“In the richest country on earth. Don't you think we would have the best childcare system in the world?”
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“When I was a kid, young man, graduated James Madison High School here in Brooklyn, New York. And I went my first year of college to Brooklyn…”
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“University of California, one of the great university systems in the world. That was, I don't know the exact year, 60 years ago, 70 years…”
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“City College, before it was the city university, was tuition free for a very, very long time.”
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“We had state colleges that if you were a Vermonter, tuition free.”
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“The entire system, broadly defines economic and political, is working phenomenally well for the people on top of it is screwing working…”
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“In capitalist terms, there is minimal amount of competition [in the meat industry].”
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“Large conglomerates control prices to a large degree and how they treat their workers.”
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“We had 30,000 people coming out [to a rally in Folsom, California].”
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“Into LA, there were 36,000 people.”
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“Denver, 34,000 or something like that.”
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“We've been now to over 20 states. We did 35 events.”
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“I've talked to over 300,000 people.”
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“Democrats have retreated from class issues, from economic issues, from a desire to take on big money.”
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“King's March on Washington...was called, if my memory is correct, jobs and freedom.”
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“The working class of America...disproportionately...it's black, it's Latino, and women.”
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“In those countries, healthcare is a human right.”
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“Higher education is often free [in Scandinavian countries].”
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“Childcare is often high quality, free [in Scandinavian countries].”
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“Unions are much stronger than they are in the United States [in Scandinavian countries].”
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“You go to Germany, you graduate college, you're not in debt.”
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“A Labor government said, Health Care, 1948. Healthcare is a human right [in Great Britain].”
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“In the early 70s, Canada said the same thing [about healthcare being a human right].”
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“People die because they don't get to a doctor on time [in the United States].”
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“Workers earn quite good wages [in Scandinavian countries].”
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“The two major parties are deeply, deeply flawed and in many ways out of touch with ordinary people.”
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“Republican parties become right wing extremists.”
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“Democratic Party is corporatists, tinkering around the edges.”
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“There is a real possibility that there will be a third party.”
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“We are prepared to take on powerful special interests in the corporate world and the oligarchs.”
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“A strong progressive tax system which says to Mr. Musk and to the corporate world that they're going to have to start paying their fair…”
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“You need campaign finance reform if you want to run for office. We need public funding of elections and ending these super PACs.”
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“Here in New York City, you have public funding of elections that exist in other states.”
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“Our goal is a vibrant democracy, making it easier for people to vote, not harder.”
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“It's what we would call a progressive agenda, whether it's healthcare, education, a fair tax system, you know, dealing with many of the…”
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“If you had millions of people saying, you know what, you're running for office, you damn well better give me health care as a human right.”
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“Robotics and artificial intelligence are going to replace millions and millions of workers in this country.”
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“AI requires an enormous amount of energy, electricity and water.”
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“People's electric bills are going to go up for the privilege of getting. Losing their jobs.”
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“The younger generation will have a lower standard of living than their parents.”
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“[Young people will] buy their own home, if they're lucky, at a later age than their parents.”
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“We won the borough championship. We played after school in a after school program. A city of New York after school. You know what you cost?…”
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“Right now you want your kids to be a basketball player. You know what you do? You know, some kind of private thing, cost a thousand bucks a…”
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