The big problem is that we are still thinking like people of the 19th century. Enough of Marxism and capitalism. They have also deceived us with that of "democracy", which is not the power of the people, but of politicians, companies, churches, etc. We need a radical change, like the Resource-Based Economy, like the one proposed by Jacque Fresco. There are no politicians in an EBR society, there are public administrators who are experts in what they do. They have studied administration, various engineering, mathematics, sociology, psychology, medicine, other sciences, etc., but none of them have studied political science or that thing that they now call economics and pretend it is a science, nothing could be further from the truth.
His views aren't extreme. He talks a good rhetoric game on domestic affairs though in the end he is the carrot on the stick to bring phony liberals who lack critical thinking into the corporate capture of the US state while he stays silent in the back row when it comes to action. Talking and action aren't the same thing.
Those who have a vested interested in keeping the status quo i.e. 1% billionaires own and controlling everything would consider the working class who build society and generate the wealth having control and lions share of the wealth, is considered radical and extreme.
People in general aren't capable of a balanced perspective on anything. It's always one extreme or the other. Capitalism or socialism, liberal or conservative, left or right, it's always one extreme or the other. Instead of replacing one with the other, capitalism and socialism could be combined to produce socially responsible capitalism. Instead, the pendulum just keeps swinging back and forth between both extremes instead of reaching an equilibrium in the middle.
The trouble is, he brings people in by criticizing the system then votes 99.99% of the time with mainstream neocons/wokes and always opposes conservative attempts to reign in centralized power. He doesn't walk the walk.
I am a Canadian , living in Eastern Ontario on the St. Lawrence River at Brockville . Bernie lives in Burlington Vermont , about one hundred miles east of my town . I think that living in Vermont , on the Canadian border has had an influence on Bernie as regards to our social safety net which is non existent in the States . Citizens there can lose all their savings and property due to medical debt because they had the misfortune to become ill or had someone in the family fall ill . What the hell is that ? If that doesn't sound like Orwell's ' Animal Farm ' where the 'Pigs ' are in control of everything , then what does ? A good interview by Sophy , who obviously likes Bernie and employed non of the usual attack dog tactics of the right wing media on him .
@@Grimenoughtomaketherobotcry yes it was Reagan who changed the old trust busting Republicans of Roosevelts day and Clinton took the ball and ran with it by making neoliberalism bipartisan.
Yes,Thats why he Let HILARY and the DEMS shaft.- Him and he supports sending Billions of USA $$$ to A Corrupt UKRAINE Gov. ZERO $$$ for East Palestine OHIO.
@@rsuriyop the establishment actively ensures that real leaders that represent the values of normal people are never given the reins of power. We are handed the illusion of democracy, but at the end it is Hobsons choice at the ballot box.
The only politician in my country I listen to. He truly cares about people, about human beings. It so sad that this evil world doesn’t care about humans who truly care about their wellbeing 😔
@@eonesoundsuk 😂😂😂😂😂😂, give me a break. He's an old pi##ed off socialist, a MILLIONAIRE socialist that like all socialists switches fire on people that are richer than them. That same as corbyn has money doesn't want anybody eles to have it and blames capitalism. He like all socialist will not practice what they preach....
As a dual UK/US citizen who knows everything about US politics and life, I was truly startled to move to the US last year and see the Market Concentration in each sector that Bernie speaks about. It really is true that it seems that in every sector, some 2-3 companies basically dominate about 60-80% of the market share leaving any sense of competition or price controls in rear view mirror. I'm a free market capitalist like anyone else but left unchecked there is no threshold they won't cross. I don't support Bernies policies but that doesn't mean that he's not right on the money on that one.
I used to revere the "free" market but over time it became evident that most sectors have oligopolies and that this is the natural state of late capitalism.
We’ve entered a post-capitalist era. There’s so little completion. We only have a handful of banks, energy companies, supermarkets., media. They’re so big that they steer Governments to consolidate power. Quiet complicity maximises profits. Apply penalties and break the monopoly now.
I watched this live by accident yesterday! Amazing guy and he likes our NHS system over that of the dreadful American healthcare system claiming the NHS is revolutionary! 👍
@@farhadchaudhry Not 'left to rot'...more like actively defunded and sabotaged, leading to piecemeal dismemberment, asset stripping and privatisation of the profitable parts. Just as was done to the transport and energy sectors.
Thanks for having him, we need to talk more about Taxes and the difference between taxing working class (income tax) Vs owner class / super rich (wealth tax).
I love this guy. Talks so much sense and pulls this presenter to bits. Sky works for the millionaire and billionaire class and sky's only job is to help maintain the status quo
Bernie is absolutely amazing. Handled every question with ease - calmly and with class. As Bernie so thoughtfully explains, it is not radical at all to want workers to be paid fair wages, to fight inequality, provide health care and good education, to want peace in the world, fight hatred and protect the planet we live on! What is however, extremely radical, is to seek to undermine all of those things, as we see all the time with the radical right and billionaires that fund them. In other words, the real "radicals" are on the right, not the progressive left.
Lol . Words have meaning. Radical means changing the system Not one right wing politician has ever proposed anything radical . Conservative. Amazing how foolish people can get
The big problem is that we are still thinking like people of the 19th century. Enough of Marxism and capitalism. They have also deceived us with that of "democracy", which is not the power of the people, but of politicians, companies, churches, etc. We need a radical change, like the Resource-Based Economy, like the one proposed by Jacque Fresco. There are no politicians in an EBR society, there are public administrators who are experts in what they do. They have studied administration, various engineering, mathematics, sociology, psychology, medicine, other sciences, etc., but none of them have studied political science or that thing that they now call economics and pretend it is a science, nothing could be further from the truth.
The American Sheeple have been convinced that any effort to redistribute wealth equates to communism/socialism, and that's somehow bad for them. They'd rather have billionaires flying over their heads in private jets and spacecraft, than enact laws that might be called socialist. I'd vote for Bernie Sanders in a heartbeat, and hope that from the bully pulpit he could change the narrative, if not the actual system. The oligarchy in America is too firmly entrenched to be undermined by a single, clear-thinking politician.
McCarthyism is alive and well on BOTH spectrums atm, the shoe is not responsible for the sins of the brain. We need to change and help all people, start with housing, and thinga will change
@@xmillion1704 ....He's a socialist democrat living in and benefiting from a capitalistic society. I totally agree with the wage gap and healthcare problem. But he's going to have to take from someone and the rich aren't rich enough. Plus i trust politicians even less in how they spend any extra tax money. Bernie always points to Scandinavian countries as the model but they only exist under the protection of the US tax payer. Otherwise they'd be like everyone else and spend vast sums on defense instead of social programs.
What a great interview Old and Young Male and Female Bright and articulate Berne would have been a brilliant President And is still an amazing leader!!!
The tories have been causing most of the problems in the NHS over the last 13 years. That way when they say "we have no choice, we will have to sell it off!" (which they would love to do) people will accept it.
Gotta ask yourself, why is it our healthcare model was in the top two in the world until Blair's PFI and then a decade + of Tory underfunding? It all boils down to wanting to break down the NHS for profit!
Even Sophie is ill-informed. I can't believe she kept calling him radical 🙄. I did love her amazon question though. Of course people should stop shopping from amazon.
She prefaces most comments with "some people might say" - she is trying to play devil's advocate for both sides, probably to avoid accusations of bias. I doubt she really thinks he is radical.
@@verar5844 Well more like searching for invisible people to shake hands, stuttering reading the text from the boards trying to find the exit door after conference and falling from airplane stairs three times. So far these directions are proven. Where he is going? Probably in the direction 'down the tubes'. 🤣
Actually change almost always comes from the top down. I recommend reading some Neema Parvini on this topic. The group dominating all others easily dictates the public consciousness. When we had a wasp elite culture reflected their values and mourned their historical sufferings. With a Judaic elite, we collectively adhere to their sensibilities and obsess over their historical sufferings, their villains are our villains, etc. Change will only come when a different group seizes power at the top. A new culture filter changes our perception of normalcy and history. The data backs this up but it causes people a feeling of powerlessness so as an idea its never popular.
He impressed me. There is a huge amount of commonality from what he is saying with those on the American Right. "Left" and "Right" are just defunkt labels used to keep people divided
Yes, the political party system works this way, its their cheating tool, they want to keep us looking like a horse on the sides and not what's in front of us.
@Daniel yeah I know the rich must hate the idea of losing money through tax and getting less since their greed is of competing who has more or gets richer
@@snowman7106 He is still advocating for a 2% wealth tax on everything over $50M. People with $50 M are still millionaires. His policies haven't changed. His tax policies never targeted those with only $1M to $2M like he is reported to be worth currently. There is no double standard which is apparent here.
He could be if he has 50 or 51 Democratic US Senators not named Joe Manchin and Kysten Sinema, and a Democratic majority in the House of Representatives.
@@sharonharris9782 that’s fine and dandy, but find me 52 Senate and 218 US House seats. That’s how the function of U.S. government work. We are not parliamentary system, we have a Madisonian or colloquially called “Checks and Balance” system.
Sanders only sells pipe dreams. His spending increases outmatch his tax increase suggestions by leaps and bounds, and he stupidly believes that massive tax hikes wouldn't cause economic issues. The man watched his idolized Soviet Union collapse and learned nothing.
@@ritemolawbks8012 Yeah but he was smeared as an antisemite by their media just like Bernie was but the difference is that Bernie is Jewish so nobody believes the lies but Corbyn isnt Jewish so they believe it.
I have refused to shop with Amazon for years after seeing their poor working conditions , low pay and anti union stance in the US and UK ! That's not to mention the fact that they earn millions of £s in profit here in the UK but pay negligible if any income tax as their headquarters are not UK based .
As Bernie said: "It is good to know some history...Invasion by Russia is not an answer; neither is intransigence by NATO," Sanders said. "It is also important to recognize that Finland, one of the most developed and democratic countries in the world, borders Russia and has chosen not to be a member of NATO." "Putin may be a liar and a demagogue, but it is hypocritical for the United States to insist that we do not accept the principle of 'spheres of influence,'" Sanders went on to write. "Does anyone really believe that the United States would not have something to say if, for example, Mexico was to form a military alliance with a US adversary?" Sanders asked. "Countries should be free to make their own foreign policy choices, but making those choices wisely requires a serious consideration of the costs and benefits," Sanders added. "The fact is that the US and Ukraine entering into a deeper security relationship is likely to have some very serious costs - for both countries."
The premis of her alarm being that bad people only belong to Russia. Her question is just another way of saying: I am ethnically prejudiced. Other than that an all-round great interview.
Sanders may be a one note pony (or maybe a few notes), but they're important notes and no one has listened to him while he's been singing those notes since the 80's. Taxing the hugely wealthy isn't just a catch phrase. He means it. And it would have a massive positive effect on society. It's mind blowing that so many people who would benefit from his policies are so resistant to them. It just shows how thoroughly the conservative political parties have brainwashed people into voting for parties that actually do them harm.
He’s right on so much stuff. Bernie has lived a long life and seen how the system has changed and failed in some aspects. Making the changes needed and getting it right is very important. Bernie for PM😂
I love Bernie. I'm actually happy he said that about Scotland. Honesty the process of secession and statehood needs to be changed internationally. When Scotland wants a referendum, UK Supreme Court should not be the arbiter on that process (its biased) like international law outlines today. That process should be sent to the United Nations and the United Nations should send in OSCE observers (and possibly peacekeeping forces) to oversee a credible referendum on Scotland's independence referendum. Having a neutral international organization to oversee these things allows both sides to recognize the results of how the referendum plays out. It's crazy how its the most moral thing to do yet every country is against it for its own interest. It kills the facade of democracy.
The goal is never equality. The goal is to ensure the vulnerable are cared for and there is an abundance of opportunity. Fair is not equal and equal is not fair.
Right on sir. Few people can handle truth,they prefer to absolve their sins with well-sounding,well intentioned half truths that if implemented,would bring more ruin and misery than the system they are trying to ammend. Most argumentation against the rich is based on the venal detestable sins of envy and jelousy. Its very hard for some people to accept that others are better off than them,thus the hatred of "enequality" . The poor will always exist in some form,and to put a limit or cap on personal wealth and achievement is backward and proven to be a recipe for systemic poverty.
@@carlosmantilla4018 Some people do not have the goal to be filthy rich. There are people who like their lives as they are, or at least as it was. Where they could afford to live and could rely on the services their taxes pay for. Since the tories have been in power these basic things have steadily been in decline. In 90’s (even during credit crunch, recession) and early 2000’s people were no where near as worse of as we are now in 2023.
@@carlosmantilla4018 what people in general object to is the absurd amount of money paid to some individuals - - it is not jealousy at all - - how can sanity or fairness justify money paid to footballers ? - - earning in a week what a doctor, a SCIENTIST, a PM earn in the all year ? - - are entertainers, and sport people that necessary to justify it ? -
Yeah, but since there's no limit to grow their wealth they will take someone's else turn as they keep growing capital to grow even more wealth on a planet of limited resources then we have the poor who works for them and can't even afford a place to live, because house is big business and when things get wrecked like now and inflation takes away purchase power poverty grow even bigger. So why things don't change and the rich is super protected? Government and politicians accept donations from them so while they're on charge they can enrich a bit too. It's all about making money fast on the expense of people.
@@eonesoundsuk He preaches socialism, but he is a multimillionaire. $15 minimum wage was his campaign promise, but he refused to pay his own staff that amount. Look it up. That is just the beginning of everything he is lying about. Happy now?
I loved it when Bernie was talking about media control on a Murdoch channel. Ridge was quite charitable in this interview because Bernie doesn't pose a threat to the status quo. Quite a contrast to the hostile interviews given to anyone from a similar left position in the UK (e.g., Corbyn).
Senator Bernard Sanders, the champion of working class Americans 🇺🇸 the current lion of the senate, I am proud to have voted for this man! We need to elect more working class leaders!
1. Centralization of business. 2. Centralized currency backed by nothing. 3. The Fed 4. Business collusion with government 5. Vertically monopolized media 6. Too much unskilled immigration too soon, increasing the “supply” of workers and driving the “demand” 7. Inaffordable education 8. Lack of social welfare policies due to government corruption 9. Military industrial complex 10. Stock market bailouts 11. Hedge funds algorithmically stealing money in circular investment schemes (BlackRock) 12. General economic ignorance - and deliberately so - amongst even the college educated And the most important: financial sector deregulation.
"Don't look at the people that really own the system"
That's from the Wizard of Oz, right?
Oy vey
✡✡✡✡?
@@sam8837 da jooooo give it a rest
check the small boats tho
He is a gem. Changed the conversation in 2016 but he’d been saying it since the 70s
He's a jew who supports killing the unborn and sodomy - abominations that cry to heaven for vengeance.
The big problem is that we are still thinking like people of the 19th century. Enough of Marxism and capitalism. They have also deceived us with that of "democracy", which is not the power of the people, but of politicians, companies, churches, etc. We need a radical change, like the Resource-Based Economy, like the one proposed by Jacque Fresco. There are no politicians in an EBR society, there are public administrators who are experts in what they do. They have studied administration, various engineering, mathematics, sociology, psychology, medicine, other sciences, etc., but none of them have studied political science or that thing that they now call economics and pretend it is a science, nothing could be further from the truth.
And he lost badly.
@@iluvmoney6767 more like robbed
@@hypermiraclepositivegirl2415 Deal with it.
This interview is like a breath of fresh air ...
Just realism
Yea nothing like a millionaire socialist
@@wwbuirkle yea Guess that’s because America is a plutocracy, nothing like a democracy
@@wwbuirkle Yea millionaires should never care about anything but money.
The guy has three homes. What does he need three for? The state should immediately seize two and give it to someone more needy.
Bernie's got a very balanced perspective. How anyone can think his views are extreme, whilst believing that the way things are is not is beyond me.
That's because a large portion of american views are extreme.
His views aren't extreme. He talks a good rhetoric game on domestic affairs though in the end he is the carrot on the stick to bring phony liberals who lack critical thinking into the corporate capture of the US state while he stays silent in the back row when it comes to action. Talking and action aren't the same thing.
Those who have a vested interested in keeping the status quo i.e. 1% billionaires own and controlling everything
would consider the working class who build society and generate the wealth having control and lions share of the wealth, is considered radical and extreme.
People in general aren't capable of a balanced perspective on anything. It's always one extreme or the other. Capitalism or socialism, liberal or conservative, left or right, it's always one extreme or the other. Instead of replacing one with the other, capitalism and socialism could be combined to produce socially responsible capitalism. Instead, the pendulum just keeps swinging back and forth between both extremes instead of reaching an equilibrium in the middle.
Seriously, in Europe he'd be described as a normal social democrat (btw, don't connotate that with American democrats, there's no connection here)
Now,he has me contemplating my political views. I'm a die-hard Republican,however I am very impressed with his views. He's articulate and consistent.
The trouble is, he brings people in by criticizing the system then votes 99.99% of the time with mainstream neocons/wokes and always opposes conservative attempts to reign in centralized power. He doesn't walk the walk.
@@lukeduke6693 LOL, what? 🤣😂🤣
He's been very consistent for a long time. Here's him on the Today Show in 1981 - th-cam.com/video/OraxqbUjpHw/w-d-xo.html
@@Sempuukyaku what a compelling argument
What he seems to be missing is that he is a billionaire, and he as a congressman does not need to use medicare. He is a hypocryte.
I am a Canadian , living in Eastern Ontario on the St. Lawrence River at Brockville . Bernie lives in Burlington Vermont , about one hundred miles east of my town . I think that living in Vermont , on the Canadian border has had an influence on Bernie as regards to our social safety net which is non existent in the States . Citizens there can lose all their savings and property due to medical debt because they had the misfortune to become ill or had someone in the family fall ill . What the hell is that ? If that doesn't sound like Orwell's ' Animal Farm ' where the 'Pigs ' are in control of everything , then what does ? A good interview by Sophy , who obviously likes Bernie and employed non of the usual attack dog tactics of the right wing media on him .
Glad to see that others from Brockville feel this way about Bernie, considering that most of the people around here are pretty conservative.
If Bernie Sanders becomes president of the US, then Canada risks becoming America's Ukraine! Socialism leads to Putinism!
There were systems in place in the 60's that made sure that there were limitations to ownership and monopoly.
Limits on media corporate ownership, yes.
And, back in the day, the laws against monopolies were enforced far more rigorously.
Reagan destroyed those yes. And we have been tumbling down a hill ever since in a snowball effect picking up more and more problems along the way.
And large American corporations took advantage of economy of scale to beat smaller companies in Europe and Asia.
@@MrInuhanyou123 Reagan got the ball rolling. Clinton kicked it a mile.
@@Grimenoughtomaketherobotcry yes it was Reagan who changed the old trust busting Republicans of Roosevelts day and Clinton took the ball and ran with it by making neoliberalism bipartisan.
Never knew sky news do these kind of interviews great interview
They don’t tend to
I was surprised by that too
They play with the percentage. 5% Bernie and 95% Elon Musk..
Bernie is a politician that CARES about working people. Please protect this great man! 🙏🏾
Yes,Thats why he Let HILARY and the DEMS shaft.- Him and he supports
sending Billions of USA $$$ to A Corrupt UKRAINE Gov.
ZERO $$$ for East Palestine OHIO.
That's how he stays in office acting like he cares while simultaneously not moving the political needle an inch. Making millions off the masses.
@@constitutionalbill ...but he actually does care. Unlike Trump
@@constitutionalbill How does he "move the political needle" when the big corporations own all of the other politicians in Congress?
He’s not
He's by far...the last TRUE voice of calm and reason in American politics..and should be protected at all costs..i love this man.❤
I wish he was our president
Why did more people not vote this man for Prez?? In what capacity was Sleepy Joe even remotely better in their eyes??
He is a cheesy Jewish charlatan
@@rsuriyop the establishment actively ensures that real leaders that represent the values of normal people are never given the reins of power.
We are handed the illusion of democracy, but at the end it is Hobsons choice at the ballot box.
Thomas Sowell is still alive also
In America, Go Fund Me is a means for health care
The only politician in my country I listen to. He truly cares about people, about human beings. It so sad that this evil world doesn’t care about humans who truly care about their wellbeing 😔
Sophie felt the Bern.
But did the Bern feel Sophie?
@@phillipdavidhaskett7513 hopefully not he (and possibly she) is married 😆
Sanders - a man with a soul, do hope he will be healthy and continue to serve, one of those rare lawmakers who genuinely cares for people.
The leaders in Cuba have similar ideas.
Bernie Sanders is the type of man we need in this world to lead
We had Corbyn here in the Uk, but as always the Mainstream Media attacked him from all sides and the people fell for it.
Every time it's refreshing and heartwarming to hear this man speak
That man is a lying thug. He is a multimillionaire. Check your account balance
Is it rearly 🙄
@@unitedkingdomoffiveeyes9765 Yes, it is. He's speaking for the people
@@eonesoundsuk 😂😂😂😂😂😂, give me a break.
He's an old pi##ed off socialist, a MILLIONAIRE socialist that like all socialists switches fire on people that are richer than them. That same as corbyn has money doesn't want anybody eles to have it and blames capitalism.
He like all socialist will not practice what they preach....
Why does he live in america and move to North Korea he owns 3 homes he is a fool hypocrite
As a dual UK/US citizen who knows everything about US politics and life, I was truly startled to move to the US last year and see the Market Concentration in each sector that Bernie speaks about. It really is true that it seems that in every sector, some 2-3 companies basically dominate about 60-80% of the market share leaving any sense of competition or price controls in rear view mirror. I'm a free market capitalist like anyone else but left unchecked there is no threshold they won't cross. I don't support Bernies policies but that doesn't mean that he's not right on the money on that one.
Read some basic analysis of capitalist ecomomics by a German called Karl Marx.
I used to revere the "free" market but over time it became evident that most sectors have oligopolies and that this is the natural state of late capitalism.
We’ve entered a post-capitalist era. There’s so little completion. We only have a handful of banks, energy companies, supermarkets., media. They’re so big that they steer Governments to consolidate power. Quiet complicity maximises profits. Apply penalties and break the monopoly now.
I don't think it's big companies as much as buying cheap overseas products and selling them at a much higher price. That ruined small businesses
@@davidp4456 They"ll go to war to maintain their position.
I watched this live by accident yesterday! Amazing guy and he likes our NHS system over that of the dreadful American healthcare system claiming the NHS is revolutionary! 👍
The NHS is amazing compared to other countries
The principle of the NHS is revolutionary. It's a shame it's been left to rot.
@@farhadchaudhry Not 'left to rot'...more like actively defunded and sabotaged, leading to piecemeal dismemberment, asset stripping and privatisation of the profitable parts. Just as was done to the transport and energy sectors.
The NHS is TOXIC!
@@someirishguy1662 Third world countries?
Thanks for having him, we need to talk more about Taxes and the difference between taxing working class (income tax) Vs owner class / super rich (wealth tax).
The book will be an interesting read . I’ll get hold of a copy when I’m back in the uk . Top man . So straightforward.
I love this guy. Talks so much sense and pulls this presenter to bits. Sky works for the millionaire and billionaire class and sky's only job is to help maintain the status quo
Correct!!
Bernie was far too much for that lady....
And besides,,Sky News is just like CNN and the others...
Controlled by the oligarchs...
He's a jew who supports killing the unborn and sodomy - abominations that cry to heaven for vengeance.
Health care in the US is a shame. The life expectancy there is even lower than those in many developing countries.
The question about Scotland made me laugh. Lol. But good answer. I love Bernie and voted for him twice. I am definitely picking up a copy of his book!
Great interview! If only the BBC could do the same.
Wasted opportunity. She should have asked him for his secret recipe, coated herb and spice chicken.
And CNN .... That won't happen
He isn’t wrong. Bernie is the only politician who tell’s it like it is.
TRUUUUUUE
He is in the oligarchy. Right in the center of it. That's why he is knowledgeable about it
@@gdiwolverinemale2745 L comment
@@gdiwolverinemale2745 he's still talking about it unlike others.
@@silencemeviolateme6076 That's the point. He talks ... but nods everything the oligarchy wants
The "American dream" is more like a "nightmare" struggle, for most. A nightmare.
to complete the american dream buy a tent
Stop lying
Bernie is absolutely amazing. Handled every question with ease - calmly and with class. As Bernie so thoughtfully explains, it is not radical at all to want workers to be paid fair wages, to fight inequality, provide health care and good education, to want peace in the world, fight hatred and protect the planet we live on! What is however, extremely radical, is to seek to undermine all of those things, as we see all the time with the radical right and billionaires that fund them. In other words, the real "radicals" are on the right, not the progressive left.
"to want peace in the world, fight hatred and protect the planet we live on!" . Such vague words
Lol . Words have meaning.
Radical means changing the system
Not one right wing politician has ever proposed anything radical . Conservative.
Amazing how foolish people can get
Bernie is a liar and a populist ‼‼
He's a jew who supports killing the unborn and sodomy - abominations that cry to heaven for vengeance.
The big problem is that we are still thinking like people of the 19th century. Enough of Marxism and capitalism. They have also deceived us with that of "democracy", which is not the power of the people, but of politicians, companies, churches, etc. We need a radical change, like the Resource-Based Economy, like the one proposed by Jacque Fresco. There are no politicians in an EBR society, there are public administrators who are experts in what they do. They have studied administration, various engineering, mathematics, sociology, psychology, medicine, other sciences, etc., but none of them have studied political science or that thing that they now call economics and pretend it is a science, nothing could be further from the truth.
Wonderful interview! Bernie Sanders is such a great man that he cares about the people and the country deeply.
If he cared about affordable housing, then he would live in an apartment instead of owning three homes.
We could do with him over here in the UK, to give our MPs a shake up and wake up call.
@@badluck5647, Aa!!!!
I was doing very well before Biden
Dude may be “.nice” but he’s horrible in politics
I like him, if he’s telling the truth, he’s a good man
He’s been saying the same thing for 40 years. The man is solid.
Indeed
The American Sheeple have been convinced that any effort to redistribute wealth equates to communism/socialism, and that's somehow bad for them. They'd rather have billionaires flying over their heads in private jets and spacecraft, than enact laws that might be called socialist. I'd vote for Bernie Sanders in a heartbeat, and hope that from the bully pulpit he could change the narrative, if not the actual system. The oligarchy in America is too firmly entrenched to be undermined by a single, clear-thinking politician.
Look at how they simp over billionaires like Elon Musk, Bill Gates (to a lesser extent), etc.
And the British simp over their billionaire monarchy.
@@gfys756 True. Touché 😄
McCarthyism is alive and well on BOTH spectrums atm, the shoe is not responsible for the sins of the brain.
We need to change and help all people, start with housing, and thinga will change
Right on Berni!
He's just captain obvious. But he doesn't have any realistic ideas just like everyone else.
@@tommygun5038 What, in your opinion, is not realistic of the ideas he's expressed?
@@xmillion1704 ....He's a socialist democrat living in and benefiting from a capitalistic society. I totally agree with the wage gap and healthcare problem. But he's going to have to take from someone and the rich aren't rich enough. Plus i trust politicians even less in how they spend any extra tax money. Bernie always points to Scandinavian countries as the model but they only exist under the protection of the US tax payer. Otherwise they'd be like everyone else and spend vast sums on defense instead of social programs.
Bernie sanders is a legend!!!
Wish there was more people like Bernie sanders
I'm glad there aren't.
why does he have sanders as a surname I heard he has Jewish roots
@@ayoub.3939 so what if he does?
@@ayoub.3939 he denounced it in protest to isreals terrorism and hostility towards civilians
@@ayoub.3939 what the hell has that got to do with anything
What a great interview
Old and Young
Male and Female
Bright and articulate
Berne would have been a brilliant President
And is still an amazing leader!!!
everytime I hear abt the UK NHS conversation, I've been screaming the same thing. don't look at us for a good healthcare model, we don't have one 😬😬😬😬
They’re tryna privatise the NHS like your healthcare in the US.
The tories have been causing most of the problems in the NHS over the last 13 years. That way when they say "we have no choice, we will have to sell it off!" (which they would love to do) people will accept it.
We do its just that successive uk governments have been underfunding it and trying to privatise it piece meal for years
Gotta ask yourself, why is it our healthcare model was in the top two in the world until Blair's PFI and then a decade + of Tory underfunding?
It all boils down to wanting to break down the NHS for profit!
It was fine before the Tories fucked it up.
Even Sophie is ill-informed. I can't believe she kept calling him radical 🙄. I did love her amazon question though. Of course people should stop shopping from amazon.
Yeah, work to sustain the rich only. The freedom of Idiocracy where the rich has freedom and the poor has labour for the basics
The way my eyebrows rose up when she said that 😄
He is not radical. He is ultra-radical.
He wants to nationalize most American industries like Hugo Chavez. How out of touch does one have to be to not think that is radical?
She prefaces most comments with "some people might say" - she is trying to play devil's advocate for both sides, probably to avoid accusations of bias. I doubt she really thinks he is radical.
Bernie is the man we need but don't deserve
United States still has a lot of potential to grow if Biden would be open for other directions. I hope all will be okay.
If Bernie Sanders believed in half of what he says, then he wouldn't be getting rich selling a $30+ book on Amazon.
@@badluck5647 right....lol
@@verar5844 Well more like searching for invisible people to shake hands, stuttering reading the text from the boards trying to find the exit door after conference and falling from airplane stairs three times. So far these directions are proven. Where he is going? Probably in the direction 'down the tubes'. 🤣
@@badluck5647 he quite clearly said he doesn't mind people getting rich, just not too rich like billionaires
Love this man -- he is entirely correct in every assertion.
And yes, real change never comes from top down. Comes from working people organizing and applying pressure!
Actually change almost always comes from the top down. I recommend reading some Neema Parvini on this topic.
The group dominating all others easily dictates the public consciousness. When we had a wasp elite culture reflected their values and mourned their historical sufferings. With a Judaic elite, we collectively adhere to their sensibilities and obsess over their historical sufferings, their villains are our villains, etc. Change will only come when a different group seizes power at the top. A new culture filter changes our perception of normalcy and history.
The data backs this up but it causes people a feeling of powerlessness so as an idea its never popular.
So true, Katie.
He impressed me. There is a huge amount of commonality from what he is saying with those on the American Right. "Left" and "Right" are just defunkt labels used to keep people divided
Yes, the political party system works this way, its their cheating tool, they want to keep us looking like a horse on the sides and not what's in front of us.
@Daniel how?
@Daniel yeah I know the rich must hate the idea of losing money through tax and getting less since their greed is of competing who has more or gets richer
He is as always on the ball. Get money out of politics... Take the power away from the western oligarchs give it to the people
he used to say tax the millionaires & billionaires. now, just tax the billionaires, because he made his millions in politics. bernie is two faced.
@@snowman7106 He is still advocating for a 2% wealth tax on everything over $50M. People with $50 M are still millionaires. His policies haven't changed. His tax policies never targeted those with only $1M to $2M like he is reported to be worth currently. There is no double standard which is apparent here.
Sounds antisemitic
The world needs more of Bernie's politics.
Bernie is the best. We would do well to listen and take heed.
Well said
Wow!
Awesome interview!
Cut to the truth!
I don’t know why Americans don’t rise up behind him in masses
First time I felt like I could breath and have been holding my breath this whole time
Wanting necessary change and equality isn’t radical.
Alas, it *is* in America.
@@scotmark yup.
Making everyone equally poor like the Soviet Union is radical.
gotta love bernie!
A great man who talks truth!!
If this guy was the president of the US we would live in a better world.
That is why fascist hate him, he is our only hope
If he was president of US, he would do whatever men in black suits tells him to do.
Only if he could change the fake democracy there
......impression human being, the world needs more like him.
As far as he is left out of power
Multimillionaire socialist hypocrite!
Brilliant interview. The journalist really was on a level with Bernie and provided a scintillating interview
So Sophie is feeling the Bern 🔥
What a refreshing change. A sane intelligent fair-minded US politician not obsessed with culture wars!
He wants the wealthy to support the poor, that's a culture war.
@@foxtrotbravo1744Only for obscenely greedy Spivs.
Her repeatedly saying radical left is grating
This man should be the President of the United States. He isn't a liar and has had the same message for 50 years.
Yes, that's why I voted twice for him
The man of the people... The last gleam of hope...
Barnie would be a Great US president .
He could be if he has 50 or 51 Democratic US Senators not named Joe Manchin and Kysten Sinema, and a Democratic majority in the House of Representatives.
Sanders refuses to compromise, and that is why he doesn't have a single achievement to point to.
@@dmmartinez9 we will get back in 2024. I know we will!
@@sharonharris9782 that’s fine and dandy, but find me 52 Senate and 218 US House seats. That’s how the function of U.S. government work. We are not parliamentary system, we have a Madisonian or colloquially called “Checks and Balance” system.
Wrong
I wish we had people like Bernie here outlining the realities and giving real solutions not just pipe dreams
I'm not from there, but weren't David Lloyd George and Jeremy Corbyn the British version of Bernie?
Sanders only sells pipe dreams. His spending increases outmatch his tax increase suggestions by leaps and bounds, and he stupidly believes that massive tax hikes wouldn't cause economic issues.
The man watched his idolized Soviet Union collapse and learned nothing.
@@ritemolawbks8012 Yeah but he was smeared as an antisemite by their media just like Bernie was but the difference is that Bernie is Jewish so nobody believes the lies but Corbyn isnt Jewish so they believe it.
@@Tribuneoftheplebs Oh great! I don't mean what happen was good, but I always get Jeremy Corbyn and Ed Miliband swapped. I'm surprised I got it.
I have refused to shop with Amazon for years after seeing their poor working conditions , low pay and anti union stance in the US and UK ! That's not to mention the fact that they earn millions of £s in profit here in the UK but pay negligible if any income tax as their headquarters are not UK based .
Good Job .wish there was more guys in politics and media that have the power to change the current situation to benefit humanity in this world ..
As Bernie said: "It is good to know some history...Invasion by Russia is not an answer; neither is intransigence by NATO," Sanders said. "It is also important to recognize that Finland, one of the most developed and democratic countries in the world, borders Russia and has chosen not to be a member of NATO."
"Putin may be a liar and a demagogue, but it is hypocritical for the United States to insist that we do not accept the principle of 'spheres of influence,'" Sanders went on to write.
"Does anyone really believe that the United States would not have something to say if, for example, Mexico was to form a military alliance with a US adversary?" Sanders asked.
"Countries should be free to make their own foreign policy choices, but making those choices wisely requires a serious consideration of the costs and benefits," Sanders added. "The fact is that the US and Ukraine entering into a deeper security relationship is likely to have some very serious costs - for both countries."
Nato is trash
Sanders has achieved nothing. Being an uncompromising ideological grump achieves nothing in a democracy.
@@badluck5647 unlike daddy trump whom is a beast
@@suzyrottencrotch5132You need to donate your paycheck to my bank account.
I have a lot of respect for Bernie Sanders he speaks truth.
1:00 Gee, what a stupid question to ask🤦♂
Edit: Otherwise great interview, kudos to Bernie👏
The premis of her alarm being that bad people only belong to Russia. Her question is just another way of saying: I am ethnically prejudiced. Other than that an all-round great interview.
Can we have Bernie be PM please?
They need too make a livable wage law that keep up with inflation 🙏
They need to stop socialist spending, which increases inflation beyond a liveable wage.
No they should just import more grateful migrants who will work for less and not complain like Americans or Brits
I wonder how Elon Musk is progressing with his private army.
It's true, he seems to want to be the Prigozhin of the US. He's going to end badly if he keeps his BS going.
:D
@@acchaladka Yep. He will be selling hot dogs on street corners pretty soon.
Only army musk would have is an army of astranaunts
Sanders may be a one note pony (or maybe a few notes), but they're important notes and no one has listened to him while he's been singing those notes since the 80's. Taxing the hugely wealthy isn't just a catch phrase. He means it. And it would have a massive positive effect on society. It's mind blowing that so many people who would benefit from his policies are so resistant to them. It just shows how thoroughly the conservative political parties have brainwashed people into voting for parties that actually do them harm.
He’s right on so much stuff. Bernie has lived a long life and seen how the system has changed and failed in some aspects.
Making the changes needed and getting it right is very important. Bernie for PM😂
I think if he had become president the world would be a much saner place
Bernie “tax the rich”
Sky “but rich people”
I love Bernie. I'm actually happy he said that about Scotland. Honesty the process of secession and statehood needs to be changed internationally. When Scotland wants a referendum, UK Supreme Court should not be the arbiter on that process (its biased) like international law outlines today. That process should be sent to the United Nations and the United Nations should send in OSCE observers (and possibly peacekeeping forces) to oversee a credible referendum on Scotland's independence referendum. Having a neutral international organization to oversee these things allows both sides to recognize the results of how the referendum plays out. It's crazy how its the most moral thing to do yet every country is against it for its own interest. It kills the facade of democracy.
We must must must keep the NHS. Anyone who says otherwise is a fool.
The goal is never equality. The goal is to ensure the vulnerable are cared for and there is an abundance of opportunity. Fair is not equal and equal is not fair.
Right on sir. Few people can handle truth,they prefer to absolve their sins with well-sounding,well intentioned half truths that if implemented,would bring more ruin and misery than the system they are trying to ammend. Most argumentation against the rich is based on the venal detestable sins of envy and jelousy. Its very hard for some people to accept that others are better off than them,thus the hatred of "enequality" . The poor will always exist in some form,and to put a limit or cap on personal wealth and achievement is backward and proven to be a recipe for systemic poverty.
@@carlosmantilla4018 Some people do not have the goal to be filthy rich.
There are people who like their lives as they are, or at least as it was.
Where they could afford to live and could rely on the services their taxes pay for.
Since the tories have been in power these basic things have steadily been in decline.
In 90’s (even during credit crunch, recession) and early 2000’s people were no where near as worse of as we are now in 2023.
@@carlosmantilla4018 what people in general object to is the absurd amount of money paid to some individuals - - it is not jealousy at all - - how can sanity or fairness justify money paid to footballers ? - - earning in a week what a doctor, a SCIENTIST, a PM earn in the all year ? - - are entertainers, and sport people that necessary to justify it ? -
@@rob5197Because billions of people pay money to watch footballers. Athletes command a better salary than some random doctor.
Yeah, but since there's no limit to grow their wealth they will take someone's else turn as they keep growing capital to grow even more wealth on a planet of limited resources then we have the poor who works for them and can't even afford a place to live, because house is big business and when things get wrecked like now and inflation takes away purchase power poverty grow even bigger.
So why things don't change and the rich is super protected?
Government and politicians accept donations from them so while they're on charge they can enrich a bit too. It's all about making money fast on the expense of people.
He's absolutely right!
Nope, he is absolutely left ... and a liar
@@gdiwolverinemale2745 He is right! Monopolies are good for nothing.
@@gdiwolverinemale2745 Prove me where he is lying
@@eonesoundsuk He preaches socialism, but he is a multimillionaire. $15 minimum wage was his campaign promise, but he refused to pay his own staff that amount. Look it up. That is just the beginning of everything he is lying about. Happy now?
@@gdiwolverinemale2745
what is he lying about? Name one thing ....
He is great
I loved it when Bernie was talking about media control on a Murdoch channel. Ridge was quite charitable in this interview because Bernie doesn't pose a threat to the status quo. Quite a contrast to the hostile interviews given to anyone from a similar left position in the UK (e.g., Corbyn).
yet Corbyn is the UK's Bernie equivalent with many of the same policy ideas
Sky UK is a Comcast channel.
lol. The media that Bernie likes sings panegyrics to his buddy Biden 24/7, the 10% man. What has he achieved? Absolutely nothing. Seals clap
Senator Bernard Sanders, the champion of working class Americans 🇺🇸 the current lion of the senate, I am proud to have voted for this man! We need to elect more working class leaders!
He's very Smart 🤔
Yes he is!!!
She tried her best to trip him up. Bernie is a clever man.
My man, Bernie!
That is the way to do an interview......
Brilliant interview!
Great interview.❤
What a brilliant man Bernie is. We need more politicians like him.
*CREDIT WHERE ITS DUE* that was an excellent interview by Sophy Ridge
I remember the days the BBC did good journalism.
the irony of this being on sky news
All Americans deserve livevable wage 🙏
That's no good enough : they expect, foreign holidays, eating out, golf membership, 2 or 3 cars, big houses etc
Love Bernie Sanders - everyone should be rallying around him for real change.
“Hmmm, I wonder why nobody asks me who blew up Nordstream “
Wealth inequality is a national security issue, as well as a moral one.
He’s not wrong.
We need SKY NEWS like reporting in the USA!
We already have it. It's called Fox News. Sky is corporate media with a conservative bias.
How Bernie never became a president is beyond me !
Because Americans have seen what socialism has done to Cuba, Venezuela, and the Soviet Union.
Big Business…American Oligarchs and their lobbyists, American media distorting Bernie’s fact based messages!
She doesn't appear to know her subject very well! Bernie doesn't compromise, and thank God for that!
Love this guy, People are so stupid not to vote for him.
Fun fact, wealth inequality is primarily a result of being paid in fiat currency while companies compete for the thriftiest workforce.
1. Centralization of business.
2. Centralized currency backed by nothing.
3. The Fed
4. Business collusion with government
5. Vertically monopolized media
6. Too much unskilled immigration too soon, increasing the “supply” of workers and driving the “demand”
7. Inaffordable education
8. Lack of social welfare policies due to government corruption
9. Military industrial complex
10. Stock market bailouts
11. Hedge funds algorithmically stealing money in circular investment schemes (BlackRock)
12. General economic ignorance - and deliberately so - amongst even the college educated
And the most important: financial sector deregulation.
Excellent show!
There's a reason this man has never been given much power in the government. He's right about too many things.
U.S. is literally Brazil. A banana Republic
Not yet, but close. Give it another 10 years of the liberal/progressive rule
@@gdiwolverinemale2745 As if the Boomer tradcon fantasists were any better, lol
UK is struggling.
UK has nothing America has everything, The American Middle Class dream should still be alive, now it's a living nightmare.
Yeah, work to sustain the rich only. The freedom of Idiocracy where the rich has freedom and the poor has labour for the basics and no house.
Apparently, Bernie is envious of your economic decline.