Senator Bernie Sanders Makes The Case For Socialism | All In | MSNBC

We must recognize that in the 21st century in the richest country in the history of the world, economic rights are human rights and that is what I mean by democratic

socialism

. Yesterday, presidential candidate Bernie Sanders made a staunch defense of democratic

socialism

, explicitly exposing why, in his opinion, it is the only way to defeat Donald Trump? Sanders is still the leading Democratic and Republican candidate who believes that many Blanche voters, with the same label of socialist, still say that they would love to run against a guy who was a True staunch socialist, many people are no longer afraid of that word.

A recent poll found that four to ten Americans say they would prefer to live in a socialist country, including 55 percent of women in 1854. Sanders shouldn't have done it. One problem with getting those votes is the people who are not in that group that the speech seemed to be aimed at who joined me now is Senator Bernie Sanders, presidential candidate twenty20, you're right, here's my first question, why What does the mandate matter at the end of the day? like the agendas the agenda the programs that had program people may like it may not like that you are pointing the finger at me, but why does the term matter? why even fight about it, okay, I'll tell you why, Chris, you know.

I'm thinking that in the last 40 45 years there have been about 20 elections and every candidate running for office said we need to improve healthcare, we need to improve education, we need to improve the environment, but not many things happen today, The average American worker is earning inflation that represents dollars, the same amount of money a worker earned 43 years ago, today has massive levels of income and wealth inequality, three families owning more wealth than the bottom half of the United States Now why does that happen? the candidates are liars, I don't think so, not in most

case

s, many are very decent people trying to do the best they can, but what we have to recognize and the reason I use the term democratic socialism is because I believe that we need policies. that protect working families and not just the 1%, but beyond that it is imperative to understand why so little economic progress is being made and I think my campaign is unique in saying this if you want real change in America if we want attention health care for all if we want true climate change reform if we want educational opportunities available to all we have to take on the ruling class of the United States, that is Wall Street, the pharmaceutical companies, the insurance companies, the fossil fuel industry , the military industrial complex and what I'm saying is that I, as president, can't do it alone.

The only way to achieve substantial change in this country is when millions of people stand up and fight for that change and that is why our campaign is called we, not me, because No president, no matter how well-intentioned, could do it. only. Well, let me ask you this. One of the reference points of the speech is about FDR on the New Deal and the economic Bill of Rights and, again, I agree with you on that, but his critics called him a socialist and in today's term he will be called a socialist but FDR didn't call himself a socialist the socialist of the time said he was selling pale pink pills and was basically a sellout capitalist, he probably did that for a correct reason, I mean it was an impeachment by FDR about his self-efficacy why the word matters more than the agenda because it is imperative that people understand look, a lot of people are going to say a lot of good things, but for Two reasons why I think the word democratic socialism is relevant because if you really want to defeat the Trump's authoritarianism, which by the way is an international phenomenon, you have to do what Roosevelt did and say: you know what I'm assuming against the ruling class and remember.

I mentioned this yesterday and these people hate me and I appreciate their hate; In other words, we cannot move forward unless we are prepared to take on incredibly powerful special interests; there is no shortcut around it and secondly, when I use the word democratic socialism, what do I mean, it's not that we have to improve the health care system, I mean that economic rights are human rights, people have the right to health care, to education, to a clean environment, to retirement security, to decent housing, this is not just an abstract idea, freedom of expression. That's what America is about.

I think economic rights should also be what America is about, and by the way, you mentioned in your preface that the Republicans are just biting the bullet, that's what they say, they say they're very excited about this and that. . You're going to scare people and they'd love nothing more than to compete, so just take a look at some of the polls. In some

case

s we are beating Trump by 10 points, but the point here is absolute, except that it's okay. but Minh

makes

Chris is that today we live in many ways in a socialist society if the definition of that is a massive group of people, yes, the problem right now is that you have, as you know, Martin Luther King jr.

We talk about having socialism for the rich but free and resilient in free enterprise, yes, for the workers we have to turn that around. You just said something, you talked quite a bit about sort of international authoritarianism as sort of an international force and And I thought about it a little bit in the context of what the president said yesterday about getting Russian help, but your first question is what is your position? If a foreign government or foreign adversary offered you help, would you call the FBI? that his position is illegal, so yes he would do it and I guess my second question is: are you concerned about that aspect of this campaign?

You know we talked about the top, it's not just about Russia, it's also about the Saudis, for example, you've been very frank. on the US-backed Saudi war in Yemen, the Saudis have a lot of interest and a lot of investment in Donald Trump being president Eight, you have given them free rein is a hot topic for you, the fact that if Bernie Sanders were the nominee as The Saudis probably would like to see you defeated, you think so. I agree with you. Look, this is what I think we should be concerned about far beyond your legitimate concerns, and that is we have a president who doesn't live by the Constitution or doesn't understand the Constitution thinks he's above the law and I think what we're probably going to see (I hope I'm wrong, but we'll probably see) he's a president who will merge the agencies of the federal government and his position as president and he combined that with his position as a candidate and we need to be very aware of that and I think we all need to be vigilant in how we proceed.

I guess that's the question: what to do about it. I think, I mean. That seems like a live issue that we have seen today that the letter from the special prosecutor of the Hatch Act violations office that is design, do you think it is? I mean, what I think is important is actually not decisive and it's not just Miss Conway, you know it is. I don't think he knows. I don't think in his own mind he sees many different things. He is a candidate. He is the president. What is the problem? I will use all the resources he can to win as well. to the fact that he is a pathological liar and all that and that he will have the support of many very, very rich people in this country, including his own personal wealth, so yes, in my opinion, it is a really worrying issue, but it all comes down to it. reduce Let me respond and tell you what I think the antidote is, and the antidote is a strong progressive message that tells the workers of this country and the young people that now is the time, in this unprecedented moment in American history, that people become involved in the political process and you go back to the word democratic socialism, it is not the same as always, yes, we have to rise up, we have to fight back and we have to defeat the oligarchy and we have to defeat authoritarianism and Donald Trump as Well, okay, Senator Bernie Sanders, who is a

senator

against twenty-five presidential candidates who will meet on that debate stage one of the two nights in thirteen days, thank you for taking the time, thank you.

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