‘People are tired of being ignored while the rich get richer’: Bernie Sanders on anger and hope in the US and UK
"This brings his attention back to a perennial passion – and what he wants to talk to me about : the prospects of the US labour movement. We speak over the phone, but he hits all his rousing lines with the zest of a platform rally. The thread that runs through all his answers is class politics. This is less of a novelty in progressive politics on the British side of the Atlantic – to rousing cheers at a recent Enough Is Enough rally, Lynch proclaimed: “The working class is back” – but it was long considered alien in a US that peddled a myth of classlessness. This was a politically convenient myth in a country where, Sanders notes, three rich men have more wealth than the poorest half."
Last edited by Old Man Whirly! on Aug 30th, 2022 at 12:53 PM
Weird world when someone is considered "radical" because they want people's taxes to be to help the same people paying the taxes as opposed to going on subsidies for corporations that do everything they can to avoid paying taxes.
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Nah, to be completely honest with you, Im cool with Sanders for the most part and after Obama left office, I felt strongly about two candidates that I was interested in seeing do well. Sanders happened to be one of them. I am however opposed to the idea of making business owners pay their fair share of taxes speeches, just like I am opposed to Biden doing so. Ran Paul was another person that I liked, but for completely different reasons.
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Agree or disagree with him, Bernie is one of the very few politicians left who actually cares to help people. Especially in the U.S.
Having said that I dont think its about taxing business owners, but more about making sure huge corporations with massive profits pay their fair share (to help the poorest pay for healthcare, food and their soaring energy bills), and dont buy out politicians. And that they dont screw over the back bone of their huge profits (the employees) either.
Its not Communism. Its just adding some Heart to Capitalism.
Aug 30th, 2022 12:49 PM
