It's because they used their wealth and power to buy off politicians of both parties who spent the last five decades waging class war from above. They changed the rules on us. They changed the tax code. They gutted the social safety nets that we built in the 1930s and 40s. all to make sure that those with enough money and power could get more. The system that we live in, it isn't broken. It is functioning exactly as it was intended to. (15:45–15:54)
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Asserts that the tax code was changed and social safety nets from the 1930s and 40s were gutted.
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