CBS This Morning; What Makes Bernie Sanders Run?
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CBS This Morning (literally, seeing as how it was on just a short while ago) has a great interview with Bernie, conducted by Jim Axelrod.
What makes Bernie Sanders run?
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/what-makes-bernie-sanders-run/
Sanders on the campaign trail in 2015 sounds, word for word, verbatim what he was talking about in nearly 30 years ago. "We need to radically change the priorities of this nation," he told "60 Minutes" back in 1988. "We have the wealth to provide a decent standard of living for all our people."
"More and more Americans are catching on to what I have been talking about for decades," he said.
Axelrod asked, "Do you feel a little bit of satisfaction? Like, 'Suddenly you people are listening?' Were you waiting for America to catch up with you?"
"Well, I'm glad that it's happening," he laughed.
He's now running neck-and-neck with Hillary Clinton in New Hampshire by calling for a revolution:
"The only way we really transform America and do the things that the middle class and working class desperately need is through a political revolution, when millions of people begin to come together and stand up and say: Our government is going to work for all of us, not just a handful of billionaires."
"'Political revolution' -- that's a big term," said Axelrod.
"Look, in the last election, Jim, 63 percent of the American people didn't vote. Eighty percent of young people didn't vote. Big money is increasingly buying political elections.
"A political revolution means that we involve tens of millions of people int he political process today to stand up and fight for their rights, to stop the disappearance of the American middle class, and say that our government belongs to all of us and not just a handful of wealthy campaign contributors."
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