In the 1920s, the robber barons, the Elon Musk's of their day, they took over our government, enriched themselves and caused the Great Depression. But people just like you didn't play dead. They stood, they fought, they organized, they took back our government from the ultra rich, created Social Security, created the New Deal, beat fascism across the world in the 1960s. The segregationists had a chokehold on our government. But people like you didn't play dead. (07:34–07:54)
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