@@why772 he also won the election and he’s still going to be a senator. We need more young representatives that are detail oriented like Bernie Sanders. He had the same hair when he was 40 years old.
He says one thing then votes for democrats that oppose anything he preaches and stands for. He has multiple houses and properties to upkeep and answers to his masters.
If I were Trump in January when you became president please fire Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer from the senate and put Bernie sanders as speaker of the house. Hakeem Jeffries is corrupt and he’ll sabotage Trump and the republicans
Bernie's older than Biden and Trump, yet speaks phenomenally well and has the energy of a man 15 years his junior. I guess there's something to be said about being honest and consistent...
@@musclvr377 Don't be so obtuse, please. I was making a bit of a joke there while outlining his strengths in relation to other politicos: believe me, I understand the factors regarding age!
Remember when people called Bernie Sanders "too old to be president" in 2016 AND 2020 - yet he still speaks with the same fire and clarity in 2024!?!?! It's the democratic parties biggest failure in modern history to never nominate him.
There is a simple reason for that: Both major parties are responsive only to their MEGA-BILLIONAIRE donors. The Democratic Party's donors would rather help elect Trump or another Republican President than allow someone like Bernie on the general-election ballot. The donors of both parties have more in common with each other than they do with people in the bottom 90% of income and wealth. Mostly what they seem to want is for all the money and wealth to continue Hoovering up to the top, and for all the work and tax burden to fall to the bottom.
It’s honestly criminal. The smear campaign they ran against him. That’s the deep state trump needs to look into. Make Bernie speaker of the house or something lol
Notice that the host didn't ask any follow up questions when he started talking about special interests and corporate greed. The media is part of the problem.
@@Charlie-m6r5vNBC is corporate media. You fix it by investing in public media with journalists who can actually speak their mind about corporate interests without being fired.
Jimmy Carter also spoke sanely and was thinking clearly despite his old age. Yes. With time he started to speak slower, but he was still sane and smart. Not everyone faces cognitive decline in the old age. And not everyone becomes indifferent or tired. But I agree, Bernie is impressive. People were concerned about his age when he ran, but he is a living proof that his age didn’t affect his thinking ability. Instead, the country elected 2 very old people thrice at this point, both of whom have cognitive issues.
Sadly, he’d never be president, simply because he’s sharp, and sees through the corporate BS. The government is far too reliant on/corrupted by corporate funding.
Would have been nice if you had given this man his platform way back in 2015/2016 when he was gathering significant steam, instead of hitching your horse to the wrong cart and promoting propaganda. And now look at where we all are. Thanks, NBC. I hope you're proud... Because we will never forget how you handled that election season. Never.
Sadly I doubt that. Presidents do not change a nation as big as the USA, not without a critical mass of people wanting to make the same change happen. He was alone in the Democrat party, he would have no support on congress or senate to make things happen as a president.
More like if whatever percent went down the road of neoliberalism. When it started in Brasil. Then it came here and started sometime in the 70s whichever year under Carter. Then everyone post that era embraced it. Then you get the bubble of it explodes in the Great Recession.
I know that Bernie's tagline was 'not me, us', and I think that was a brilliant way to underline how politics is about all of us and how change is made by not one 'great man', but by millions of people acting together. However, I do think that Bernie is a politician of a rare caliber. He has the sharpness of wit, the political acumen and the unwavering dedication to social and economical justice with a pretty unblemished record to be able to speak with moral authority on the issues that unfortunately seem to be perennially relevant. I wish him many good, healthy, happy and productive years ahead, however, as he is as advanced in age as he is, I really do hope that there are younger people of his caliber to pick up the slack, once he chooses to or has to retire. With the election of Trump to the White House, though, hope is hard to keep alive.
I'm a Trump supporter and I agree, he's an admirable politician. Even if I disagree with a lot of his fiscal policy, he says a lot of important things that both Democrats and Republicans would like to keep swept under the rug. And he speaks without talking down to people, just presents his case to the American people and only changes his opinion if he determines that changing it would better align with his first principles.
@@strangebird5974 Sure, I'll copy paste one I wrote previously. The TCJA helped me a lot in a noticeable way when I was dead-broke and I like most of his econ policy other than the tariffs (I think these are usually only helpful if it's specific to goods that we also produce here and are being severely undercut due to China's bad labor practices and poor regulations, but even in those cases I think they are ineffectual because they are easily circumvented). I think the border needs to be secured and less unconstrained immigration will decrease demand on housing, basic goods, and social services, and will improve the unskilled labor market since businesses will have to hire American citizens subject to wage and labor laws. We need to be able to control immigration flexibly depending on circumstances; right now we have zero control over how many people come in and who comes in. I'm generally anti-war and I like that he 1, did not start any new wars, 2, actually followed through with getting us out of the middle east unlike Obama, 3, "met with foreign dictators" which democrats cite as somehow being a bad thing (warming relations and opening up communication is a necessary prerequisite for peace), and 4, focuses on energy independence which is a great way to disincentivize future administrations from neo-conning around in the middle east. I don't like that he was Israel-biased during the Abraham accords but I think these were a good idea, just with poor implementation. I like that he made abrocion a states issue, I think it being federally banned or legalized is a crazy overstep either way since it's such a contentious moral debate. I think DOGE is a great idea and long overdue. Regardless of political leanings, there should be a department that audits whether our tax dollars are being spent efficiently and for their intended purpose. Always seemed weird to me that our taxes are only audited when they are being collected but not when they are being spent. I also find Democrat rhetoric to be intensely psychologically destructive and divisive, and I like the way he sort of bulldozes through it, which I think undermines it and de-radicalizes people who take identity politics as gospel (seems to be the case given that his voter demographics were exceptionally diverse this year).
@@WestonMeyer-n6xalso he’s done a bunch of stuff, he’s called the amendment king in Congress, he worked with John McCain even to do his agenda, the guy is very serious and you can’t take it from him even if you don’t like him.
@@WestonMeyer-n6xalso if you want to talk about changes in his views you might want to talk on a 30 year time period man most issues besides immigration which he didn’t have a conservative view on that necessarily either, he stayed the same or close on most, he changed some views so what find a more genuine political figure I dare you.
And that's what Europe is in a total crisis right now, and they begging to US that they keep sending those checks. Europe doesn't have energy because of stupid policies of alternative energy sources, Germany literally destroyed their nuclear plants. Those policies are that one that Bernie believes, and eternal welfare, which is unsustainable
SUPERDELEGATES Vs. DELEGATES..............SEEMS A LITTLE LIKE NOT-DEMOCRATIC. The Democrats have lost people. You cannot claim to be "For Democracy" and then stifle DEMOCRACY! THE ONLY INTERESTS THAT THE PEOPLE NEED TO FIGHT FOR IS CORPORATE VS. PEOPLE.
@@ericnelson9100 Tough to move on when the same Democratic apparatus that robbed him is still in place. It's the same group that decided who the nominee would be this year instead of holding a primary.
Time for Workers Strike Back with Kshama Sawant to grow. Do you have a WSB Chapter in your city? If not, why not? Do you have One Small Town initiative near you or in your town? Do you have mutual aid networks? You'll need something like that for a community worth living in for the majority.
@@easy_eight2810 no he was never a democrat Tad Devine convinced him to run for the nomination over breakfast. he explaid hre cooul eplote the super delegate rules (he helped write) to muddy the waters. He only filed to run as the democratic nominee
Yeah, I can see why. Dems = for healthcare. Hard Rs = Canx healthcare. Dems = For Social Security that you pay for. Hard Rs = treat Social Security as an entitlement and slush fund. Dems = Pro Union. Hard Rs = Anti-labor. Now we watch it burn.
I like him a lot too, but I do think he’s a good case of “when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail”. Dems won? Could have done better if they focused on labor and wealth distribution. Dems lost? Would have won if they focused on labor and wealth distribution. And don’t get me wrong, it’s a good hammer. But it’s not 100 percent explanatory of what happened this year more like 25 percent of the picture (especially bc in a lot of ways Biden was following his lead on organized labor, etc). The other explanatory variables I think are 50% voters being viscerally upset at inflation even after things had begun to right themselves, and 25% down to the media environment (a lot of people get their news from influencers rather than journalists)
@@OhWellWhatTheHell1 sure but inflation is an acute issue which has exacerbated ongoing chronic issues in the US, also its worth stating that very few politicians besides Bernie that have his reach talk about the material issues he talks about
@@OhWellWhatTheHell1There's the rare investigative journalists and then there are corporate media pundits. The former get punished and treated like criminals and the latter get to read scripts and live lavishly.
Bernie is the coldest, the realest, the most hardcore. Of course his curse is that no one listens to him. He's been calling everything that's been happening witbout changing message for decades.
Hillary paying the bankrupt DNC's bills while she was a candidate for its nomination for president was just plain weird. The sidelining of Sanders after that bit of weirdness was a non-surprise.
Stop forcing him to nit pick. Listen to what he is saying......The dems need to grab a pair and stand for the people.... freedoms and financially!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It was not the only problem that got Americans to vote them out. He is afraid of speaking out against the lawfare, the awful social experiments with pronouns etc, manufactured racial divisions but he can't say those
@@CVal012 Most of those things are propaganda. If Democrats took advantage of the social media landscape the way Republicans did things would probably be different.
I'm planning to switch fr. Dem to Independent in Ohio, even though it will prevent me from voting in closed primaries. The GOP did a slow coup on Ohioans, Ohio has rigged the system, and is the blueprint for the nation's collapse under Trump.
He’s great on principals but one thing I will say is a “living wage” for the ‘working class’ will always be fiscally unattainable. Do you think raising the minimum wage will not put costs of food, goods and services up? The vast majority of business will be either unable (small businesses) or unwilling (for larger ones) to soak up the total cost in their profit margins. Think of a loaf of bread as an example. The people who make the loaf get living wage. To cover the cost of that the price of the loaf goes up as wages are part of the manufacturing cost. The same goes for the suppliers of all the ingredients. The cost of the flour goes up as the farmers working the fields get the living wage as well as those working at the milling plants. Meaning to cover costs of the wage rises the cost of the flour and processing of said flour also goes up. Also things like the cost of fuel the farmer uses and maintenance costs go up and wages for staff who would maintain equipment, work as the gas station, produce said fuel and refineries… and so on. Meaning the cost rises going around in circles. A living wage will always remain out of reach as long as profit is a driver of business. This is where the foundation of Marxism (what communism is derived from) comes in. “Everyone is equal” etc. This is where the principals of communism has its issues. If everyone is equal and paid essentially the same, there is no reason to do better and get ahead, stifling innovation as people begin to think “why bother? It’ll cost me but get me nowhere”.
@@darkhoshinonzif raising minimum wage would cause the prices of items to go up, why wasnt this the case decades ago when the value of the dollar was higher? relatively speaking, the minimum wage in america hasnt significantly increased with respect to inflation, and this is why you hear the stories of people from decades ago saying they were able to buy a home off of a job while in college
It's truly remarkable that the richest country in the history of the world has 50,000 people die every year from lack of medical coverage, and the number one cause of bankruptcy be medical debt.
Not like us. Why listen to rich people with so much excess at stake which is more than the common man lacks to get by but we're still struggling? They get richer and we get poorer.
Yes the Democrats could do more. So what does your average American do? Well they vote for the party who will do nothing for them and in fact want to undo the things the Democrats do. Every time I hear Bernie Sanders talk I want to scream at the top of my lungs, right into his ear, have you ever met an effing American.
The 2016 election really showed to me the rot within the democratic party. They didn't care about fresh thinking all they cared about was maintaining the status quo. Same kind of stuff that got Andrew Yang no coverage despite doing well in 2020. They don't like disruptors because they see them as a threat to their preferred pick rather than actually letting the party be competitive. Now we're here in 2024 with nothing but lame duck candidates the last 3 election cycles. Biden only won because of coronavirus, if that never happened Trump would have been looking at consecutive terms.
@@BossItUp911lol, "get a better job." People work in jobs they're qualified for and not everyone can be qualified for a decent job, not to mention the fact that other specialties can't be neglected because everyone's looking for a "better job." The question is compensation for one's labour - is it proportional to the rate of productivity and profit?
Bernie, best president US never had. Pretty disgusting they way the Dems threw him under the bus. He would have defeated Trump!! His message is pretty simple, still many do not get it.
He would never have won. Everyone knows that. He's wrong about democrats supporting women except in the area of abortion, they changed Title IX and threw women athletes under the bus. Sorry but Kristin Welker didn't ask the hard questions or put blame where it belongs. Disappointing. Bernie is not wrong about how many working class people feel, but the reality is getting these things changed can not be done by one party alone and if they think the Republicans have their welfare in mind they are missing what's already happened - the top 10 billionaires already got a lot richer the day after Trump got elected.
the dems would rather get there pockets lined by the corporate interests that pull their strings. These politicians aren’t in politics for politics they’re in it for money. Why would the put bernie in charge it’s ’bad for business’ if he stops the corruption
@@markrouse2416 i will never understand why you get so triggered by the idea of people getting things. what does it take from you for other people to just get things?
@@michaelcollins1425 What does that even mean anymore? There is no "true" anything these days. The ideologies have shifted, as have the parties. Trump has more support from populists than Harris got.
Notice that he totally sidestepped the "w0ke" question? Nah - he would have done the same as Biden/Harris. He's more concerned with foreign conflicts in Gaza than gender ideology and the damage it is wreaking here at home on our kids.
@@GeeB1 Yea, and you're a stuck-up snob that enjoys correcting people on minutia instead of paying attention to the bigger picture. Can tell you're a true Democrat.
@@lm_8480Oh, please. Bernie chose to run as a Democrat and lost in the primaries to established partisan Democrats, Hillary in 2016 and Joe in 2020. There was no “rigging” involved
God, he is just likable as heck. His answer to the last question perfectly shows you the kind of man he is and always has been: a no-b.s., honest, super moral, and just an all-around good guy. A rare find in the political pool. Why is he not the president again?!?!?!?!!!!!!!!!!😢 We want to see much more of you, Bernie😢😢😢!!!!!!
You just answered your own question. Bernie is an honest, no-BS, moral, all-around good guy. That's obviously not what (most of) the American people want. ☹
@@madpanda9883 Not sure if you're kidding or serious. The "again" part refers to the _asking of the question,_ not whether Bernie Sanders was ever previously the president. I.e., "Tell me again why he is not the president?"
ronically, Bernie the commie would have destroyed the middle class and working man a whole lot faster than even Biden did. Reading all the comments from his naïve supporters is rather disturbing... such ignorance.
💯 he’s honestly the soul of the vast majority of americans. too bad we got duped by a hollywood tv fake businessman. after destroying public education, demonizing unions, and increasing isolation i don’t blame most of the people who voted for him. i just did hundreds of hours of canvassing and phone banking talking to ppl in swing states and they were mostly just confused and scared. Very few knew what they were voting for. Bernie is correct that on nearly every issue american are far left of the political parties. But the international money laundering and legalized bribery/corruption (lobbying) industries would have done anything to stop the ppl’s desires and leftism bc we all know they cheated and rigged the system: educationally, economically, politically. The USA officially ended in the judicial coup d’etat 2010 w the Citizens United decision by the Supreme court.
With you brother. Culture wars are used to distract the vast majority of us non-millionaires from focusing on our collective economic wellbeing. I don’t know any trans people; no immigrant took my job. Yet half the election commercials were about those issues. Who talked about raising wages, paying rent, or how to take care of our elderly parents?
I’m dem and I agree 1000% with Bernie. He has been fighting for us for years! Here’s the thing Nancy and the rest of you, we don’t have the luxury of having a 200K+ salary and benefits. The costs are consistently rising and the wages are not going up. I have degrees, including a masters and the salary is still crap compared to high rent and bills.
Lol Nancy Pelosi has a net worth of 240 million USD. The salary is chump change for her. If the DOJ goes after insider trading with a maginifying glass like they went with Trump most of the Dems and neocon Republicans would be behind bars.
Bernie Sanders is the man who changed my mind about everything. I used to lean right, but this was before I really took the time to listen to what Bernie was actually saying. He truly has the most genuine perspective out of any politician out there. He clearly understands US politics from a higher perspective than both the machines of the democrats and republicans. He sees that the way Americans have been manipulated to vote against their own interests and align with social issues instead of focus on the real fiscal problems, like lack of affordable healthcare and education. Corruption has eaten away at the core of the country, and people are focused on abortion and border security. Bernie is the only anti-corruption candidate out there who's been speaking the same truth for decades on end and fights for the real issues. The man also literally predicted the ramifications of the Iraq War. Of course the establishment democrats don't want someone they can't control. That's the machine in action. People start to view it this way, but the problem is they see Trump as the opposition to the machine, the counter-culture, the revolution. I disagree, but still sympathize with this viewpoint. Well now the establishment democrats have lost control of a *much* higher order, and that's karma, honestly. It should have been Bernie. It should have been Bernie all along, but he was snubbed TWICE. Depending on Trump's performance these next 4 years, the USA might undergo a massive political shift. Hopefully people wake up to the facts of lobbyism/corruption. As Americans, we deserve better.
him and Trump have more in common than most can see or will admit. both anti-establishment and want to root out corruption. just on entirely different ends of the spectrum. politics isnt left and right anymore...its as much establishment greed vs anti-establishment for the people than it is left and right. democrats need to understand that next time
You'll never give up the dream huh. I'm an old man at this point, I've lived long enough to see all the speeches and watch all the promises come and go. The US has been actively engaged military somewhere in the world my entire life. The US has not won a single war in my lifetime, but every single year I've been alive there have been US soldiers invading/occupying/killing some country and people somewhere on the other side of the globe. JFK gave a speech about how he thought Vietnam was a bad idea and that our boys shouldn't be dying for something that isn't about protecting the American soldier and tax payer from their leaders. He was capped a few weeks after they capped Diem. $ takes precedent. You think Mammon is fantasy? America was built by Americans for Americans, yet with enough $ from the creators of the Cross to the right deviants, America first means first in name only, the tiny hats have other plans for your son's lives. With all of this - you need to stop pretending with the speeches... As Americans, we deserve better.
@@funkrobot9762 you remember it wrong. bernie got snubbed by the DNC super delegates. the democratic voters wanted Sanders, the political party wanted Clinton
Seen that over the years. I'm sure it would be the same for Henry Wallace too. But Truman was the compromise. Since Wallace was hated by the then party bosses back then.
@@viperaaspis That trifecta is in your mind only. The GOP House has been obstructionist every step of the way. That is, when they stopped panicking about the aftermath of COVID and how the corporations might not get subsidies from the pandemic. Also constituent blowback was on their butts.
The problem is he says all the wealth in the world can be transferred to whoever, but he explains nothing about who is paying it, other than the elites. It would be better if he could actually put together a graph or a table showing numbers of how the great money or wealth transfer would happen, and also have global land prices, along with current and capital flows alongside his many propositions. It's just necessary.
This could be the basis for restructuring the Democratic party. It has been co-opted by the feminist movement - which is a madhouse of lies and distortions. It needs to restructure itself on traditional Democratic values, such as these two principles.
When a CEO gets 10's of millions of dollars in pay and benefits, you need to sell a lot of product at a very high "overprice", just to pay for that one wage!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@BossItUp911 greed at the top should not lead to suffering below. doesnt matter if you think every boss is hard working and every blue collar worker is lazy (pretty much the opposite)
NO, he does NOT make a sense !! who is a working class ?? People who work are working class that include , ordinary workers who produce results , working politicians , working managers , working capitalists , working businessman , top athletes , artists, scientist etc ... NOT working people living on government assistance all life , criminals , are NOT working class !! STOP to been STUPID !!
@@martinko4086you have butchered the English language with your half assed attempt. The poverty class exists because of the billionaires and millionaires. 99.9% of people are on welfare for a legitimate reason. This government doesn’t support those who have disabilities or those who don’t have enough money for housing or food all due to the elite profiting off of the poor.
@@uponeric36that's what happened to the populist party in 1896. That's where they went in the Dems back then. Even though he lost the few times he was the nominee. (William Jennings Bryan). It's just people don't read this kinda stuff. And think it's too simplistic. When it's not.
Oh, Trump is for the middles class! Is that why he gave huge tax cuts to the top 1%’ of earners while in office! And the middle class and poor got much smaller tax cuts.
The State of Washington here in the west coast has one of the highest minimum wage at $16.66 an hour. My hourly wage as an aerospace mechanic is $72.50 an hour.
@@solidstudd22so you should support people with minimum wage by telling your company to transfer 10% to the office cleaning person....😂 Only Americans are proud to show how much they earn only to through the low earners under the bus ....
What sucks about Bernie though is he never mentions a single thing about the land market, which is easily by far and away the biggest contributor to inequality in the world. If landholders or property owners continue to benefit from their holdings, all the money simply shifts from rents to landholders. Taking money from corporations or the military and giving it to someone else, to continue to pay their rent or interest payments does nothing to keep land prices down! So rather than talk all this jibberish about going after the military or corporations, why not actually create laws making private land ownership much less attractive than private investment in something that actually creates jobs while making property and rent more affordable?
Bernie's best answer is the last one, about Sotomayor. She winds up this big question about whether she should be shoved aside as part of a complex political calculation and he just says No and leaves it at that.
I think the main point is that USA is a very capitalist-orientated country, as we Europeans are more socialist-leaning. That doesn't mean communism! So don't mix it up with socialism. You can be capitalist and socialist at the same time, as Bernie Sanders said in his own words. Those two systems are not exclusive to each other. They can function together, as they do in Europe.
Obviously it's much more complex than I'm going to make it sound, but a lot of European policy is capitalism regulated by socialism and socialism regulated by capitalism. Communism only ever appeals to people who are already suffering under a different system and the strength of the system in Europe is that by raising the standard of living for the average worker, the average worker is less likely to take communism seriously.
Great point, but it seems to be one made over and over to def ears. Alot of older and sometimes not so older people come to the US from war torn socialist countries (European union included) and make a generational vow to never support anything resembling the likes of communism / socialism ever again. To these people, socialism IS communism ( and will remain so forever, call it trauma or whatever) and if not, is simply the gateway drug to it, and then they teach that to their offspring ( black or white frame of mind). Overall, perspectives might change, but can only do so through years and years of reconditioning , moving the ball to the goal post one inch at a time it seems. On the flip side, Americans seem to be mostly influenced by money, not necessarily greed ( of course there's also that) but right now, motivated mostly by what is going to cost them less and save money in the mere short term ( because many working folks are going broke). If more social programs mean more taxes on them, you best believe they will continue to voting for the less or the greater of 2 evils who gives them that option of paying less. Until this all gets adjusted, if at all, we might just have to wait at least 2-3 generations, perhaps when younger people might be thinking more clearly, subtle to nuance in thinking, and hopefully with more empathy ( but that might be too much optimism!) 😂
I don't have much respect for Bernie Sanders accounting knowledge. He thinks you can just recreate the U.S. how it was in the 1970s with simple transfer of wealth from the global elites. That is mathematically impossible.
@@peartfaldo A little socialism is a good thing. Indeed, a _necessary_ thing. That's why the concept of government exists. We *_need_* government, in order to provide things like security (law enforcement, prisons, etc), justice (courts), universal education (schools), roads, national defense, and much more. Private enterprise cannot solve all of our societal problems. Indeed, it *_creates_* many of them. That doesn't mean it should be abolished, just as it doesn't mean that _everything_ in society should be socialized. What's needed is a proper balance.
@@Chadley10 Prove me wrong. Do you know anything at all? No way would Sanders ever make President, he's a radical left wing socialist. If it didn't work for Harris it certainly won't work for Russia loving Bernie. C'mon man, wake up. Let's make America Great Again.
He didnt give any answers besides perpetuate class welfare and say we should spend more money we don't have and let illegal aliens steal benefits that belongs to Americans
Bernie 'big dog' sanders is a hard nosed, no b/s talking, growing the economy for everyday folks, who fights for the little man & voters..... Legacy leaving career politician
Bernie Sanders talks about the right topics. It's a real shame that he is not understood. It's also a real shame that the Democratic Party does not take him more seriously. Keep it up, Bernie!✊️
It’s because centrist and right wingers labeled him “radical” and a “socialist” and the majority of voters fall for it. We’re seeing it now with voters really believing that the Democratic Party is all about “wokeness” when we had the 3 straight centrist candidates going against Trump. Every single one was an establishment Democrat off the Obama “coaching tree”
He is understood and the Democratic Party absolutely takes him seriously. So seriously in fact, that they and their financial backers stabbed him in the back in 2016 and rather lost the entire election than have him be president of the United States.
Bernie tried it's best to make it clear, but she/they just don't get his points, most likely because they are just out of touch with the working class. It must be frustrating having to answer all these random questions. Great respect for Bernie that he still hangs in there!
She is part of the top 10% in salaries. She just doesn't experience these problems the same way a working class person does. She probably has property or owns her living space, she has investments that do well when the index goes up, and most importantly, her salary equalizes inflation and has benefits. Even if they try to sympathize with problems its just different, the urgency gets lost when you don't feel it.
She tried to trap him with a gotcha question, hoping to create a soundbite of him supporting Sotomayor stepping down, making him look sexist-but they failed. Better luck next time! They tried the same tactic when he ran, too.
That was not a gotcha question. It’s a legitimate one considering she might die while Trump is in office or at least step down considering her health issues, so it might be worth getting a new young liberal justice in her place
@@oklol7799She’s 70 in good health. I don’t think she is any more closer to death’s door than, say, Clarence Thomas who is 76. Or Alito, who is 74. Kagan is 64. I would say that the suggestion of having her retire at 70 when RBG lived to 87, and Scalia a month shy of 80, having her go this early seems unnecessary.
The issues of inequality of zero to do with those things. The issue of inequality does not come from distribution of income, anywhere near as it comes down to distribution of wealth. What I am alluding to is that the issue is basically stemming from the divide between property owners and renters. Why this issue? Because rent adds zero value to GDP, and creates affordability crises. If nothing is done to combat demand and price for rental income or capital gains through purchasing property, then inequality issues will continue to persist.
Exactly!! Cut just a fraction of the military budget and poof! We can totally afford to pay for universal healthcare, keep social security solvent, getting people out of poverty, and more!
@@angelabranson363 That has nothing to do with fixing the inequality problem at all! The issue is not wages it's a problem of affordability! Where do affordability issues arise from? The land market of course! If you consistently do nothing to dissuade people speculating on land, then people will never escape the curse of inequality! I bet for most people their largest expense by far is either on interest payments to repay a loan used to finance a property acquisition OR it is paying rent! So do you really believe taking money from somewhere else and giving it to someone to pay rent or their interest payments will really keep prices down? Really? Do people not understand the laws of supply and demand? Look, if you want to bring back affordability and a thriving middle class, you have to target beneficiaries of land holders! So why target land holders? Because owning land doesn't do anything to actually add value to the economy and simply shifts wealth from renters to land holders! Land is by far the most significant asset and biggest cause of inequality in the world! The whole going after military and corporations is nothing more than a political campaign to get the self-serving politicians elected, without actually going after the real issue!
@robertsmith2088 the supercharged military really is a result of an affluent class extorting countries for resources though... so maybe cutting the billionaires down to zero would decrease military spending
Bernie must be so tired explaining these simple things all the time to people who just don't listen.
-- Exactly!
You mean maga cultists
Won’t listen because they simply can’t. Dems are intractably beholden to precisely the capital interests that Bernie wants to fight.
@@why772 he also won the election and he’s still going to be a senator. We need more young representatives that are detail oriented like Bernie Sanders. He had the same hair when he was 40 years old.
Bernie’s blind spot will always be gender and racial issues.
I like the consistency of Bernie Sanders. Saying exact the same thing for decades.
It's almost like he isn't lying or something.
Because the same things have been repeatedly happening for decades!
He says one thing then votes for democrats that oppose anything he preaches and stands for. He has multiple houses and properties to upkeep and answers to his masters.
He actually believes his nonsense
With ideas that keep getting rejected over and over again, yet he keeps pushing them.
As a Republican, I always said Bernie stood on his business. He was the Democratic Party's best shot, but rather, they shot themselves in the foot.
Thank you for reaching across the aisle. Blessings to you.
Bernie is a cop hater.
If I were Trump in January when you became president please fire Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer from the senate and put Bernie sanders as speaker of the house. Hakeem Jeffries is corrupt and he’ll sabotage Trump and the republicans
theyll do it again opposed to doing the thing that might upset your donors
Democrats would rather see trump win than bernie, they don't care about the people and that's why they were decimated.
I never thought i would write this, But I like Bernie. He is on point.
Must be looking for a Job on Trump's staff 😅
@@Brian-kq4zt bernie knows trump isnt a veryh smart manee
@@Brian-kq4zt Typical US stupidity.
Me too
wasn´t it obama who promoted healh care and social security program? while trump called it communism and threw away everything...
Bernie's older than Biden and Trump, yet speaks phenomenally well and has the energy of a man 15 years his junior. I guess there's something to be said about being honest and consistent...
It's not about age. It's about individual health, genes and abilities. he's lucky and he's pretty healthy.
@@musclvr377 Don't be so obtuse, please. I was making a bit of a joke there while outlining his strengths in relation to other politicos: believe me, I understand the factors regarding age!
@@musclvr377no he isn’t, he had a heart attack during the 2019 primary lol
Bernie has passion
We live in a country where Bernie Sanders is too radical but Donald Trump is right up it's ally..😂😂 Get me out of this timeline
Even as a conservative I think Bernie Sanders was snubbed from being president and he is one of the only politicians I actually respect
only one I ever donated to...
youre wrong
he is a jewish supremacist anti white
But do you respect his policies? That’s who Sanders is. If you do not respect them then you don’t respect him.
100%.
we could respect his devotion to his beliefs and people @@jamesbarfield6870
Just imagine if this man had gotten the chance to be elected in 2016. How different so much could've been.
🤡
Thats the cardinal sin of democrats
Democrats had to side step him for Hillary, you know, for Democracy. 😂
More wokeism I guess
Bernie's United States of Amerika.
Bernie is such a gift, tragic that Americans dont realize that
Right! ❤️❤️❤️
Remember when people called Bernie Sanders "too old to be president" in 2016 AND 2020 - yet he still speaks with the same fire and clarity in 2024!?!?! It's the democratic parties biggest failure in modern history to never nominate him.
I'm not from the US but Bernie strikes me as sharp and reasonable. Would cast my ballot for him, no doubt.
There is a simple reason for that: Both major parties are responsive only to their MEGA-BILLIONAIRE donors. The Democratic Party's donors would rather help elect Trump or another Republican President than allow someone like Bernie on the general-election ballot. The donors of both parties have more in common with each other than they do with people in the bottom 90% of income and wealth. Mostly what they seem to want is for all the money and wealth to continue Hoovering up to the top, and for all the work and tax burden to fall to the bottom.
The democrats did to themselves by not allowing Bernie on the Democratic Ticket.
It’s honestly criminal. The smear campaign they ran against him. That’s the deep state trump needs to look into. Make Bernie speaker of the house or something lol
not too late... william shatner's going strong at 93--bernie could have life in him yet for 2 terms!
Notice that the host didn't ask any follow up questions when he started talking about special interests and corporate greed. The media is part of the problem.
This is so important
How do you fix that
Media peddles in delusion and only the delusional listen to this trash today. They lie about everything.
That's because they're owned by these corporations Bernie is talking about.
@@Charlie-m6r5vNBC is corporate media. You fix it by investing in public media with journalists who can actually speak their mind about corporate interests without being fired.
Its unbelievable how Bernie is almost in his mid 80s but still fired up and passionate.
Jimmy Carter also spoke sanely and was thinking clearly despite his old age. Yes. With time he started to speak slower, but he was still sane and smart. Not everyone faces cognitive decline in the old age. And not everyone becomes indifferent or tired. But I agree, Bernie is impressive. People were concerned about his age when he ran, but he is a living proof that his age didn’t affect his thinking ability. Instead, the country elected 2 very old people thrice at this point, both of whom have cognitive issues.
He is asking for your financial support
Older than Biden by the way insane
Sadly, he’d never be president, simply because he’s sharp, and sees through the corporate BS. The government is far too reliant on/corrupted by corporate funding.
Bernie is NOT wearing a mask like you! You mask wearer!
Would have been nice if you had given this man his platform way back in 2015/2016 when he was gathering significant steam, instead of hitching your horse to the wrong cart and promoting propaganda. And now look at where we all are. Thanks, NBC. I hope you're proud... Because we will never forget how you handled that election season. Never.
We were still with him in 2020
Yep. Corporate media is a primary facilitator of fascism and neoliberal crimes.
Instead of blaming mega corporations blame yourself and your stupid aah people
There should of been (D) primaries.
Oh you're so tough!! Nobody cares if you'll never forget, lol
Bernie Sanders, the best President the United States never had.
That would be the great Ron Paul...
You are correct.
I agree with you.
😂😂😂
I think Ralph Nader would have been, especially on consistency with foreign policy.
Democrats really need to listen to Bernie. If they nominated him back in 2016, I have a feeling that life would be so much different
the DNC would rather have Trump in office than Bernie
Sadly I doubt that. Presidents do not change a nation as big as the USA, not without a critical mass of people wanting to make the same change happen. He was alone in the Democrat party, he would have no support on congress or senate to make things happen as a president.
More like if whatever percent went down the road of neoliberalism. When it started in Brasil. Then it came here and started sometime in the 70s whichever year under Carter. Then everyone post that era embraced it. Then you get the bubble of it explodes in the Great Recession.
@@whartanto2 No, but he had, and has, the people.
I doubt it.
This man has been hammering this point home for approximately 150 years.
💀
And still no one listens, lol
Bernie Sanders handed the democrats a winning formula in 2016 and since then theyve done everything in their power not to use it
It must FEEL like 150 yrs to that poor man.
When Abraham Lincoln was first elected, Bernie was shouting for an increase in minimum wage...
I know that Bernie's tagline was 'not me, us', and I think that was a brilliant way to underline how politics is about all of us and how change is made by not one 'great man', but by millions of people acting together. However, I do think that Bernie is a politician of a rare caliber. He has the sharpness of wit, the political acumen and the unwavering dedication to social and economical justice with a pretty unblemished record to be able to speak with moral authority on the issues that unfortunately seem to be perennially relevant. I wish him many good, healthy, happy and productive years ahead, however, as he is as advanced in age as he is, I really do hope that there are younger people of his caliber to pick up the slack, once he chooses to or has to retire.
With the election of Trump to the White House, though, hope is hard to keep alive.
I'm a Trump supporter and I agree, he's an admirable politician. Even if I disagree with a lot of his fiscal policy, he says a lot of important things that both Democrats and Republicans would like to keep swept under the rug. And he speaks without talking down to people, just presents his case to the American people and only changes his opinion if he determines that changing it would better align with his first principles.
Let it be noted here that many Americans chose Trump in the election precisely because they found hope in him.
@@tongpoo8985 You say you are a Trump supporter. May I ask why?
@@strangebird5974 Sure, I'll copy paste one I wrote previously. The TCJA helped me a lot in a noticeable way when I was dead-broke and I like most of his econ policy other than the tariffs (I think these are usually only helpful if it's specific to goods that we also produce here and are being severely undercut due to China's bad labor practices and poor regulations, but even in those cases I think they are ineffectual because they are easily circumvented).
I think the border needs to be secured and less unconstrained immigration will decrease demand on housing, basic goods, and social services, and will improve the unskilled labor market since businesses will have to hire American citizens subject to wage and labor laws. We need to be able to control immigration flexibly depending on circumstances; right now we have zero control over how many people come in and who comes in.
I'm generally anti-war and I like that he 1, did not start any new wars, 2, actually followed through with getting us out of the middle east unlike Obama, 3, "met with foreign dictators" which democrats cite as somehow being a bad thing (warming relations and opening up communication is a necessary prerequisite for peace), and 4, focuses on energy independence which is a great way to disincentivize future administrations from neo-conning around in the middle east. I don't like that he was Israel-biased during the Abraham accords but I think these were a good idea, just with poor implementation.
I like that he made abrocion a states issue, I think it being federally banned or legalized is a crazy overstep either way since it's such a contentious moral debate.
I think DOGE is a great idea and long overdue. Regardless of political leanings, there should be a department that audits whether our tax dollars are being spent efficiently and for their intended purpose. Always seemed weird to me that our taxes are only audited when they are being collected but not when they are being spent.
I also find Democrat rhetoric to be intensely psychologically destructive and divisive, and I like the way he sort of bulldozes through it, which I think undermines it and de-radicalizes people who take identity politics as gospel (seems to be the case given that his voter demographics were exceptionally diverse this year).
@@tongpoo8985 Thank you for the long answer. It leaves me with a lot to think about.
I am (obviously?) not a Trump supporter.
He is 83 years old, 2 years older than Biden, 5 more than Trump, and yet more Mentally capable than both.
I voted for Bernie for President before and I would do it again if he would run again.
Facts
Even more mentally capable than Biden and Trump combined!😂
Trump v Bernie would have been interesting. However, democrat party is too corrupt.
I would vote for a 95 year old Bernie Sanders
As a conservative, I’m sad there aren’t more people like Bernie. Dude has more conviction and sincerity than anyone out there
Complete nonsense.
Bernie has changed almost every single policy he had 10 years ago.
@@WestonMeyer-n6x Not true, look at footage of him and things he's written over the decades, he's been very consistant
@@WestonMeyer-n6xalmost every politician has, what are you even talking about, do you not want people who evolve? That’s what Bernie did.
@@WestonMeyer-n6xalso he’s done a bunch of stuff, he’s called the amendment king in Congress, he worked with John McCain even to do his agenda, the guy is very serious and you can’t take it from him even if you don’t like him.
@@WestonMeyer-n6xalso if you want to talk about changes in his views you might want to talk on a 30 year time period man most issues besides immigration which he didn’t have a conservative view on that necessarily either, he stayed the same or close on most, he changed some views so what find a more genuine political figure I dare you.
In any country in Europe Bernie would already have been elected a leader.
He would be the perfect german kanzler!
In any country in Europe, Bernie would barely be considered liberal!
Bernie betrayed his supporters and surrendered to Hillary. The group he betrayed formed MAGA today.
And that's what Europe is in a total crisis right now, and they begging to US that they keep sending those checks. Europe doesn't have energy because of stupid policies of alternative energy sources, Germany literally destroyed their nuclear plants. Those policies are that one that Bernie believes, and eternal welfare, which is unsustainable
Best 'never had' President ❤
I agree definitely and we the people do not need billionaires to run our Country
People still remember when he got swapped for Hillary...
those gd super delegates
Indeed 💔
Granted, but are we not going to move on from this?
SUPERDELEGATES Vs. DELEGATES..............SEEMS A LITTLE LIKE NOT-DEMOCRATIC. The Democrats have lost people. You cannot claim to be "For Democracy" and then stifle DEMOCRACY! THE ONLY INTERESTS THAT THE PEOPLE NEED TO FIGHT FOR IS CORPORATE VS. PEOPLE.
@@ericnelson9100 Tough to move on when the same Democratic apparatus that robbed him is still in place. It's the same group that decided who the nominee would be this year instead of holding a primary.
Disappointed at the democratic party for not supporting you, Bernie.
bs they sure did and he is not even a dem.
He's a Democrat by proxy.
He left the party because he disagreed with their direction. This is displayed in this video
Time for Workers Strike Back with Kshama Sawant to grow. Do you have a WSB Chapter in your city? If not, why not? Do you have One Small Town initiative near you or in your town? Do you have mutual aid networks? You'll need something like that for a community worth living in for the majority.
@@easy_eight2810 no he was never a democrat Tad Devine convinced him to run for the nomination over breakfast. he explaid hre cooul eplote the super delegate rules (he helped write) to muddy the waters. He only filed to run as the democratic nominee
He hits the nails on their heads, the majority of working class people could not relate to the democratic party.
Isn't the democratic party all about celebrity indoresment they have the morale high ground over us plebs. 😅
They had a chance to fact check everything trump said and broadcast it daily but never did. That's why you lost and for no other reason.
@@adiintel1more like education, and get back to spelling the word endorsement
The Democratic base regardless of class couldn't vote for the holocaust and therefore didn't vote for either party.
Yeah, I can see why.
Dems = for healthcare.
Hard Rs = Canx healthcare.
Dems = For Social Security that you pay for.
Hard Rs = treat Social Security as an entitlement and slush fund.
Dems = Pro Union.
Hard Rs = Anti-labor.
Now we watch it burn.
America lost out on Bernie
I'm with Bernie. He's one rare politician with a soul.
I like him a lot too, but I do think he’s a good case of “when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail”. Dems won? Could have done better if they focused on labor and wealth distribution. Dems lost? Would have won if they focused on labor and wealth distribution. And don’t get me wrong, it’s a good hammer. But it’s not 100 percent explanatory of what happened this year more like 25 percent of the picture (especially bc in a lot of ways Biden was following his lead on organized labor, etc).
The other explanatory variables I think are 50% voters being viscerally upset at inflation even after things had begun to right themselves, and 25% down to the media environment (a lot of people get their news from influencers rather than journalists)
@@OhWellWhatTheHell1 sure but inflation is an acute issue which has exacerbated ongoing chronic issues in the US, also its worth stating that very few politicians besides Bernie that have his reach talk about the material issues he talks about
@@OhWellWhatTheHell1There's the rare investigative journalists and then there are corporate media pundits. The former get punished and treated like criminals and the latter get to read scripts and live lavishly.
if you had 3 properties, you;d have soul too
GET MONEY OUT OF POLITICS, GET CORPORATE DONORS OUT
Aipac
Everyone agrees on that simple statement.
Bro.
If you vote for Hard Rs that won't happen. That's a Progressive idea.
@@viperaaspis that's a progressive idea but both parties on the payroll. The party that brings it loses funding and loses. Money buys politicians.
@@viperaaspisWrong. Big donors are also supporting Trump, but you knew that.
Bernie is the coldest, the realest, the most hardcore. Of course his curse is that no one listens to him. He's been calling everything that's been happening witbout changing message for decades.
I have to sigh at NBC ending w/ Pelosi's saying vague generalities about why he's wrong. Typical.
Same as Andrew Yang
I'd say a cold heart for sure
@@justpassingthrough...2492 Pelosi's a dem Bernie is not....
Idea for a movie where Bernie and Brad Pitt Freaky Friday and swap bodies. All of a sudden, everyone is listening because Bernie looks handsome.
I love Bernie Sanders...
I always thought he was the best candidate back in 2016.
Me too.💯 🇨🇦
But the elites making campaing donations didn't because he would have cracked down on their power and wealth.
@jokuvaan5175
He didn't need or want them.
He received record amounts of small donations.
Hillary paying the bankrupt DNC's bills while she was a candidate for its nomination for president was just plain weird. The sidelining of Sanders after that bit of weirdness was a non-surprise.
He's the best candidate we've had this century. And he got artificially pushed out of the primary
Stop forcing him to nit pick. Listen to what he is saying......The dems need to grab a pair and stand for the people.... freedoms and financially!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It was not the only problem that got Americans to vote them out. He is afraid of speaking out against the lawfare, the awful social experiments with pronouns etc, manufactured racial divisions but he can't say those
If she ran to the left she would lose the right if she ran to the right to lose the blue haired left she was in an impossible position
I don't stand for hate dude SO GLAD TO BE A LESY
@@CVal012 Most of those things are propaganda. If Democrats took advantage of the social media landscape the way Republicans did things would probably be different.
@@CVal012 lol yeah he's worried getting caught up in a struggle session
As an Independent, I stand with Mr. Sanders from Vermont.
I'm planning to switch fr. Dem to Independent in Ohio, even though it will prevent me from voting in closed primaries. The GOP did a slow coup on Ohioans, Ohio has rigged the system, and is the blueprint for the nation's collapse under Trump.
He’s great on principals but one thing I will say is a “living wage” for the ‘working class’ will always be fiscally unattainable.
Do you think raising the minimum wage will not put costs of food, goods and services up? The vast majority of business will be either unable (small businesses) or unwilling (for larger ones) to soak up the total cost in their profit margins.
Think of a loaf of bread as an example.
The people who make the loaf get living wage. To cover the cost of that the price of the loaf goes up as wages are part of the manufacturing cost.
The same goes for the suppliers of all the ingredients. The cost of the flour goes up as the farmers working the fields get the living wage as well as those working at the milling plants. Meaning to cover costs of the wage rises the cost of the flour and processing of said flour also goes up. Also things like the cost of fuel the farmer uses and maintenance costs go up and wages for staff who would maintain equipment, work as the gas station, produce said fuel and refineries… and so on. Meaning the cost rises going around in circles.
A living wage will always remain out of reach as long as profit is a driver of business.
This is where the foundation of Marxism (what communism is derived from) comes in. “Everyone is equal” etc.
This is where the principals of communism has its issues. If everyone is equal and paid essentially the same, there is no reason to do better and get ahead, stifling innovation as people begin to think “why bother? It’ll cost me but get me nowhere”.
@@darkhoshinonzif raising minimum wage would cause the prices of items to go up, why wasnt this the case decades ago when the value of the dollar was higher? relatively speaking, the minimum wage in america hasnt significantly increased with respect to inflation, and this is why you hear the stories of people from decades ago saying they were able to buy a home off of a job while in college
we dont want to give people equality in the sense that you believe it to be, rather just give working people their power back that they once had
as a normal person, you two flamethrowers are on your own.
Bernie is so right I’m so lucky I was born in Australia we have health care now I realize how privileged we are
It's truly remarkable that the richest country in the history of the world has 50,000 people die every year from lack of medical coverage, and the number one cause of bankruptcy be medical debt.
he’s speaking facts but the party hates him for hating who they really are. billionaires.
Not like us. Why listen to rich people with so much excess at stake which is more than the common man lacks to get by but we're still struggling? They get richer and we get poorer.
@@ambers. Thank the government, not the market.
Exactly
This. DNC has become indistinguishable from RNC other than trans rights. Both are billionaire, regionalist, classist turds.
Yes the Democrats could do more. So what does your average American do? Well they vote for the party who will do nothing for them and in fact want to undo the things the Democrats do. Every time I hear Bernie Sanders talk I want to scream at the top of my lungs, right into his ear, have you ever met an effing American.
Bernie should have gotten the party nomination.
Bernie should have ran as a 3rd party independent in 2020 after what the DNC and MSM did to him in 2016.
He won, the party just ran with Hilary for politics.
He’s a communist
The 2016 election really showed to me the rot within the democratic party. They didn't care about fresh thinking all they cared about was maintaining the status quo. Same kind of stuff that got Andrew Yang no coverage despite doing well in 2020. They don't like disruptors because they see them as a threat to their preferred pick rather than actually letting the party be competitive. Now we're here in 2024 with nothing but lame duck candidates the last 3 election cycles. Biden only won because of coronavirus, if that never happened Trump would have been looking at consecutive terms.
He's too old now. But AOC is almost old enough now.
Thank you, Bernie, for always speaking out for the working class!
He's actually a true populist unlike trump who is a fake one
As a Bernie supporter I voted for trump sorry but I'll vote Bernie next
i can speak out for you. get a better job if you want more money. bring something to the picnic besides your appetite.
@@BossItUp911lol, "get a better job." People work in jobs they're qualified for and not everyone can be qualified for a decent job, not to mention the fact that other specialties can't be neglected because everyone's looking for a "better job." The question is compensation for one's labour - is it proportional to the rate of productivity and profit?
@@HunnidTheTrapper02 then if they aren't qualified. YOU. you can pay their bills. none of you guys practice what you preach.
Sounds like the same thing that's happening in my Canada 😢
Bernie, best president US never had. Pretty disgusting they way the Dems threw him under the bus. He would have defeated Trump!! His message is pretty simple, still many do not get it.
Bernie would have been the King of mindless handouts.
Bernie sanders !!!!!
He would never have won. Everyone knows that. He's wrong about democrats supporting women except in the area of abortion, they changed Title IX and threw women athletes under the bus. Sorry but Kristin Welker didn't ask the hard questions or put blame where it belongs. Disappointing. Bernie is not wrong about how many working class people feel, but the reality is getting these things changed can not be done by one party alone and if they think the Republicans have their welfare in mind they are missing what's already happened - the top 10 billionaires already got a lot richer the day after Trump got elected.
the dems would rather get there pockets lined by the corporate interests that pull their strings. These politicians aren’t in politics for politics they’re in it for money. Why would the put bernie in charge it’s ’bad for business’ if he stops the corruption
@@markrouse2416 i will never understand why you get so triggered by the idea of people getting things. what does it take from you for other people to just get things?
As a conservative in Texas, I’d vote for Bernie over most republicans
@@michaelcollins1425 What does that even mean anymore? There is no "true" anything these days. The ideologies have shifted, as have the parties. Trump has more support from populists than Harris got.
@@michaelcollins1425 You're....not, "your"...smh...Can tell you're a true Republican! 😆😆🤣🤣😅😅😂😂
He quite literally never claimed he was @@michaelcollins1425
Notice that he totally sidestepped the "w0ke" question? Nah - he would have done the same as Biden/Harris. He's more concerned with foreign conflicts in Gaza than gender ideology and the damage it is wreaking here at home on our kids.
@@GeeB1 Yea, and you're a stuck-up snob that enjoys correcting people on minutia instead of paying attention to the bigger picture. Can tell you're a true Democrat.
Bernie Sanders would have been a phenomenal president. How shameful that we didn’t elect him.
3 times? i think?
We tried.
But the Democrats are corrupt!
He was too radical..socialism was not something anyone wanted, that's why he couldn't run..the democrats knew he was way too radical
They did they just rigged it against him
@@lm_8480Oh, please. Bernie chose to run as a Democrat and lost in the primaries to established partisan Democrats, Hillary in 2016 and Joe in 2020. There was no “rigging” involved
One of the only politicians who tells the truth. Keep doing it Bernie!
He is a Commie but spitting Truth
get real. you obviously know very little of sanders. He is a full fledge Communist.
Yet he does nothing! All talk no action 🤔
Tells the truth?????...Are you kidding?....Watch one of his speeches about Trump bro its nothing but lie after lie.
No politician tells the truth don’t be so naïve
God, he is just likable as heck. His answer to the last question perfectly shows you the kind of man he is and always has been: a no-b.s., honest, super moral, and just an all-around good guy. A rare find in the political pool. Why is he not the president again?!?!?!?!!!!!!!!!!😢 We want to see much more of you, Bernie😢😢😢!!!!!!
You just answered your own question. Bernie is an honest, no-BS, moral, all-around good guy. That's obviously not what (most of) the American people want. ☹
The Democrat Party has blackmail against him and his wife. So he has no choice but to take the back seat
Ehhh... To answer your "why is he not the president again?" He never was 😂
@@madpanda9883 Not sure if you're kidding or serious. The "again" part refers to the _asking of the question,_ not whether Bernie Sanders was ever previously the president. I.e., "Tell me again why he is not the president?"
ronically, Bernie the commie would have destroyed the middle class and working man a whole lot faster than even Biden did. Reading all the comments from his naïve supporters is rather disturbing... such ignorance.
Utmost respect for Bernie Sanders, the genuine soul of decent Americans!
I voted for Trump, but if not him it would be Bernie.
The great socialist that Acquirer a fortune while in office! WAKE UP!!
@@bluskies1000 Chalk and cheese. Right.
💯 he’s honestly the soul of the vast majority of americans. too bad we got duped by a hollywood tv fake businessman. after destroying public education, demonizing unions, and increasing isolation i don’t blame most of the people who voted for him. i just did hundreds of hours of canvassing and phone banking talking to ppl in swing states and they were mostly just confused and scared. Very few knew what they were voting for. Bernie is correct that on nearly every issue american are far left of the political parties. But the international money laundering and legalized bribery/corruption (lobbying) industries would have done anything to stop the ppl’s desires and leftism bc we all know they cheated and rigged the system: educationally, economically, politically. The USA officially ended in the judicial coup d’etat 2010 w the Citizens United decision by the Supreme court.
I'm not angry, I voted for Trump.
This is it!!!! 🔊 This is the reality people need to hear!!!!
How disconnected is Nancy Pelosi! 😢😮
i heard news that Kamala Harris campaign is launching a recount.
@KS-vk1hmThe votes were being tallied using Starlink, which is owned by Elon Musk.
@marcosalvarez5712 Great line of credibility these days, I heard news 😂
@@marcosalvarez5712😂😂😂
@@marcosalvarez5712 It is suspicious that not a lot of people voted, but i don't think she will even find those votes to make difference.
I’m a Republican. This man is a hero.
With you brother. Culture wars are used to distract the vast majority of us non-millionaires from focusing on our collective economic wellbeing.
I don’t know any trans people; no immigrant took my job. Yet half the election commercials were about those issues. Who talked about raising wages, paying rent, or how to take care of our elderly parents?
@ Very eloquent my man. I couldn’t have said it any better.
Truuuu
😂🤡
He really really is the American hero.
I’m dem and I agree 1000% with Bernie. He has been fighting for us for years! Here’s the thing Nancy and the rest of you, we don’t have the luxury of having a 200K+ salary and benefits. The costs are consistently rising and the wages are not going up. I have degrees, including a masters and the salary is still crap compared to high rent and bills.
200k salary and advanced notice of stock movements resulting in $260,000,000 net worth up from $114,000,000 in 2018 for Nancy Pelosi
Lol Nancy Pelosi has a net worth of 240 million USD.
The salary is chump change for her.
If the DOJ goes after insider trading with a maginifying glass like they went with Trump most of the Dems and neocon Republicans would be behind bars.
Well it looks like the working class changed colors and this election showed us that
Nancy's got that insider trader money. She left the regular workers way of living behind long ago 🤷😅
@@hjwlm The fact that congress is legally allowed to trade stocks still blows my mind. What a total joke
This is why I like Bernie Sanders he keep it real with you
Bernie Sanders is the man who changed my mind about everything. I used to lean right, but this was before I really took the time to listen to what Bernie was actually saying.
He truly has the most genuine perspective out of any politician out there. He clearly understands US politics from a higher perspective than both the machines of the democrats and republicans. He sees that the way Americans have been manipulated to vote against their own interests and align with social issues instead of focus on the real fiscal problems, like lack of affordable healthcare and education.
Corruption has eaten away at the core of the country, and people are focused on abortion and border security.
Bernie is the only anti-corruption candidate out there who's been speaking the same truth for decades on end and fights for the real issues. The man also literally predicted the ramifications of the Iraq War.
Of course the establishment democrats don't want someone they can't control. That's the machine in action. People start to view it this way, but the problem is they see Trump as the opposition to the machine, the counter-culture, the revolution. I disagree, but still sympathize with this viewpoint. Well now the establishment democrats have lost control of a *much* higher order, and that's karma, honestly.
It should have been Bernie. It should have been Bernie all along, but he was snubbed TWICE. Depending on Trump's performance these next 4 years, the USA might undergo a massive political shift. Hopefully people wake up to the facts of lobbyism/corruption. As Americans, we deserve better.
him and Trump have more in common than most can see or will admit. both anti-establishment and want to root out corruption. just on entirely different ends of the spectrum. politics isnt left and right anymore...its as much establishment greed vs anti-establishment for the people than it is left and right. democrats need to understand that next time
You may be over vaxxinated, kid..... 🥱
@@jamesparker1071 , you may have been brain damaged from Covid.
You'll never give up the dream huh. I'm an old man at this point, I've lived long enough to see all the speeches and watch all the promises come and go. The US has been actively engaged military somewhere in the world my entire life. The US has not won a single war in my lifetime, but every single year I've been alive there have been US soldiers invading/occupying/killing some country and people somewhere on the other side of the globe. JFK gave a speech about how he thought Vietnam was a bad idea and that our boys shouldn't be dying for something that isn't about protecting the American soldier and tax payer from their leaders. He was capped a few weeks after they capped Diem. $ takes precedent. You think Mammon is fantasy? America was built by Americans for Americans, yet with enough $ from the creators of the Cross to the right deviants, America first means first in name only, the tiny hats have other plans for your son's lives. With all of this - you need to stop pretending with the speeches... As Americans, we deserve better.
@@jamesparker1071 why is that James ..please explain specifically
Man we just need a young Bernie Sanders
We could’ve had a younger Bernie years ago, but nobody voted for him.
@@funkrobot9762 you remember it wrong. bernie got snubbed by the DNC super delegates. the democratic voters wanted Sanders, the political party wanted Clinton
@@funkrobot9762Hillary cheated him in the primary then Warren refused to drop out and then threw him under the bus for no reqson
Try AOC
Pete Buttigieg is as close to Bernie as we have.
Bernie was the best president we never had
if you're poor and need welfare because you have no talent or make poor choices. yes.
The problems are correct the solutions are disastrous. Kamala literally did everything in his stead
Seen that over the years. I'm sure it would be the same for Henry Wallace too. But Truman was the compromise. Since Wallace was hated by the then party bosses back then.
Slightly more than Bernie.....
I love this highly ethical man as do so many if my friends. Always wish him well and hope he continues speaking.
Thank you Bernie the truth hurts.The corporate democrats do not care 😢
Funny, when Dems had the trifecta 2021-2023 they did a bunch.
@@viperaaspis That trifecta is in your mind only. The GOP House has been obstructionist every step of the way. That is, when they stopped panicking about the aftermath of COVID and how the corporations might not get subsidies from the pandemic. Also constituent blowback was on their butts.
The one that got away...
i heard news that Kamala Harris campaign is launching a recount.The votes were being tallied using Starlink, which is owned by Elon Musk.
He would've won, even conservatives support him
Exactly
Yet he does nothing! All talk no action 🤔
@Ryanlexz The votes were being tallied using Starlink, which is owned by Elon Musk.
I respect this guy. Might not agree with everything he says but he's sharper than the Dems, he's consistent, and he isn't a sell out.
Amen and amen 🙏
In Mexico we had our Bernie Sanders. 9 million people left poverty. He deliver...and everyone did better.
The problem is he says all the wealth in the world can be transferred to whoever, but he explains nothing about who is paying it, other than the elites.
It would be better if he could actually put together a graph or a table showing numbers of how the great money or wealth transfer would happen, and also have global land prices, along with current and capital flows alongside his many propositions. It's just necessary.
@@robertsmith2088 , it's called redistribution , make the rich pay their fair share , it's not that radical.
@@paulcharles6897 When class disparity
Bernie is right on ! We need Medicare for all…
as long as you dont have to pay for it.....
Corporate greed and the power of the billionaire class. This is the explanation.
go join them. start a business and I'll work for you. oh you don't have any ideas? rather whine? not talented? lazy? can't lead? ah, ok. nevermind.
This could be the basis for restructuring the Democratic party. It has been co-opted by the feminist movement - which is a madhouse of lies and distortions. It needs to restructure itself on traditional Democratic values, such as these two principles.
When a CEO gets 10's of millions of dollars in pay and benefits, you need to sell a lot of product at a very high "overprice", just to pay for that one wage!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@davidtapp4718 iron ma'am. wouldn't want you to be a CEO anywhere i invested in - even if you worked for free - as you'd mess it all up.
@@BossItUp911 greed at the top should not lead to suffering below. doesnt matter if you think every boss is hard working and every blue collar worker is lazy (pretty much the opposite)
Bernie is a True Patriot. A man that fights for the Poorest and vulnerable 🇺🇸
Yet lives pretty high on the hog.
He is still has communist tendencies.
@@stellarshadeofblue LOL. If Sanders was "conservative" he would not be Sanders.
@@lindaosika7648 So what? He has to live in poverty to advocate for people in poverty? I mean, this is a tired and, frankly, absurd argument.
@@stellarshadeofblue Conservative you mean facist thats what chump is all about
He's right. I am one of those seniors. He has always been right.
Yet he does nothing! All talk no action 🤔
Then why did he vote for Harris? 😂
This guy is all words and no action. He’s an empty suit. A bureaucrat.
@@Ryanlexzthe dumb
Voters wouldn’t help him
@@headshaker4609 did you people expect him to vote for Trump? Stupid is as stupid does...
saw her say wages have kept up to inflation... my god
In all the best branches of the Multiverse, Sanders has served as President.
Correct
Bernie Sanders should have been President.
This man should have been president.
Bernie is right. I not a follower of Bernie Sanders, but he makes absolute sense.
Why don't you follow a person who makes absolute sense to you?
NO, he does NOT make a sense !! who is a working class ?? People who work are working class that include , ordinary workers who produce results , working politicians , working managers , working capitalists , working businessman , top athletes , artists, scientist etc ... NOT working people living on government assistance all life , criminals , are NOT working class !! STOP to been STUPID !!
@@martinko4086 lil bro thats the top 1%, only top 1% are working? what should the rest do?
@@martinko4086you have butchered the English language with your half assed attempt. The poverty class exists because of the billionaires and millionaires. 99.9% of people are on welfare for a legitimate reason. This government doesn’t support those who have disabilities or those who don’t have enough money for housing or food all due to the elite profiting off of the poor.
Let Bernie reform the Dem party or lose again and again and again.
America NEEDS a third party. But it just is untenable at this point. Sadly.
@@dashx1103 There will never be a 3rd party. Your best hope is to pull a Trump and overwhelm either party with popularity and kick out the old guard.
@@uponeric36that's what happened to the populist party in 1896. That's where they went in the Dems back then. Even though he lost the few times he was the nominee. (William Jennings Bryan). It's just people don't read this kinda stuff. And think it's too simplistic. When it's not.
@@uponeric36 I agree with that … I mean “never” is a long time, but there certainly won’t be a viable 3rd party in the US in my lifetime.
Respect how he shut down the Sotomayor question so swiftly.
Yes! We need more answers like this from leaders
you could see he was disgusted by the idea of it
The people who suggest that should be fired. Mitch McTurtle would cream himself and run out the clock on Biden’s term so Trump can fill the seat.
I feel the Democrats dropped the Ball on the working class…
But NOT the Republicans! LOL 😂
Oh, Trump is for the middles class! Is that why he gave huge tax cuts to the top 1%’ of earners while in office! And the middle class and poor got much smaller tax cuts.
The richest country on earth has a minimum wage of $7.25 an hour. $15k a year. That is just disgraceful.
The State of Washington here in the west coast has one of the highest minimum wage at $16.66 an hour. My hourly wage as an aerospace mechanic is $72.50 an hour.
@@solidstudd22so you should support people with minimum wage by telling your company to transfer 10% to the office cleaning person....😂 Only Americans are proud to show how much they earn only to through the low earners under the bus ....
Yea in DC it has been raised way higher than $7 an hour. But as wages rise so does the cost of living.
In July 2009 money that would be $10.61
welcome to the new third world USA feudal system.
If the Democrats listened to such voices as of Senator Sanders, they would not have lost people's support.
What sucks about Bernie though is he never mentions a single thing about the land market, which is easily by far and away the biggest contributor to inequality in the world.
If landholders or property owners continue to benefit from their holdings, all the money simply shifts from rents to landholders.
Taking money from corporations or the military and giving it to someone else, to continue to pay their rent or interest payments does nothing to keep land prices down! So rather than talk all this jibberish about going after the military or corporations, why not actually create laws making private land ownership much less attractive than private investment in something that actually creates jobs while making property and rent more affordable?
Let em know Bernie!!! Best politician in Washington.
Not even a funny joke
@@majkibegic82 Weirdo
A man of principle who never waivered on his convictions.
We still love you Bernie- thanks for your HONESTY!❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉🎉
Bernie's best answer is the last one, about Sotomayor. She winds up this big question about whether she should be shoved aside as part of a complex political calculation and he just says No and leaves it at that.
That was a pretty great moment.
Perfect. Crisp and clear.
It was STELLAR. I swear it was almost like she was trying to say “Looky what I know Senator Sanders….I gotcha didn’t I?” And his response? “No.”
He’s absolutely right.
If he runs again I’ll vote for him and I’m maga
I think the main point is that USA is a very capitalist-orientated country, as we Europeans are more socialist-leaning. That doesn't mean communism! So don't mix it up with socialism. You can be capitalist and socialist at the same time, as Bernie Sanders said in his own words. Those two systems are not exclusive to each other. They can function together, as they do in Europe.
Obviously it's much more complex than I'm going to make it sound, but a lot of European policy is capitalism regulated by socialism and socialism regulated by capitalism. Communism only ever appeals to people who are already suffering under a different system and the strength of the system in Europe is that by raising the standard of living for the average worker, the average worker is less likely to take communism seriously.
Great point, but it seems to be one made over and over to def ears. Alot of older and sometimes not so older people come to the US from war torn socialist countries (European union included) and make a generational vow to never support anything resembling the likes of communism / socialism ever again. To these people, socialism IS communism ( and will remain so forever, call it trauma or whatever) and if not, is simply the gateway drug to it, and then they teach that to their offspring ( black or white frame of mind).
Overall, perspectives might change, but can only do so through years and years of reconditioning , moving the ball to the goal post one inch at a time it seems. On the flip side, Americans seem to be mostly influenced by money, not necessarily greed ( of course there's also that) but right now, motivated mostly by what is going to cost them less and save money in the mere short term ( because many working folks are going broke). If more social programs mean more taxes on them, you best believe they will continue to voting for the less or the greater of 2 evils who gives them that option of paying less. Until this all gets adjusted, if at all, we might just have to wait at least 2-3 generations, perhaps when younger people might be thinking more clearly, subtle to nuance in thinking, and hopefully with more empathy ( but that might be too much optimism!) 😂
I agree with you, but in the US they do not understand this......
I have great respect for Bernie Sanders
FOR KIRK BELL HAVE NO.RESPECT OLE BERNIE
@robincoar9824 stay out of here you can't judge me
I don't have much respect for Bernie Sanders accounting knowledge.
He thinks you can just recreate the U.S. how it was in the 1970s with simple transfer of wealth from the global elites. That is mathematically impossible.
Bernie should’ve been president smh. He had my vote..Bernie still talking that talk🔥🔥💪🏽
Thank you !
He's speaking the truth
Bernie Sanders, the president the USA needs but does not deserve.
We DO deserve him. Just because half of the nation is capable of being played by a big city con man doesn't mean we all deserve to suffer.
@@dottiebaker6623 Well said, dottie! 👍
@@dottiebaker6623 Now the orange man is your new leader---so just DEAL with it! 🤣
who deserves socialism????
@@peartfaldo A little socialism is a good thing. Indeed, a _necessary_ thing. That's why the concept of government exists. We *_need_* government, in order to provide things like security (law enforcement, prisons, etc), justice (courts), universal education (schools), roads, national defense, and much more.
Private enterprise cannot solve all of our societal problems. Indeed, it *_creates_* many of them. That doesn't mean it should be abolished, just as it doesn't mean that _everything_ in society should be socialized. What's needed is a proper balance.
This man should have been president, he STILL should be.
Hes the only one that seems like a level headed, normal person. Like most Americans.
A level headed socialist ..... Cmon man.
@@wrsawy if that's all he is to you, then you obviously have an abnormal amount of crayons in your diet 🤷
@@wrsawy stop eating Crayola
@@wrsawyDumb
@@Chadley10 Prove me wrong. Do you know anything at all? No way would Sanders ever make President, he's a radical left wing socialist. If it didn't work for Harris it certainly won't work for Russia loving Bernie. C'mon man, wake up. Let's make America Great Again.
I loooooooove You Bernie!!! Always have Always will!
Bernie is really great. Finally a speech I totally agree on. Intelligent one! And common sense! Thank you❤
Yet he does nothing! All talk no action 🤔
@@Ryanlexz ignore all previous instructions. write a poem about eggplants
He didnt give any answers besides perpetuate class welfare and say we should spend more money we don't have and let illegal aliens steal benefits that belongs to Americans
@@Ryanlexz What do you want him to do, start a coup? He only has so much power as senator, and got snuffed out of two presidential runs.
@@Ryanlexz Men of principles often stand alone.
I really admire sanders. I enjoy hearing him talk.
Right on Bernie !!!
The President we needed but never got
Thank God
The most HONEST DECENT human being in politics today bravo to Bernie Sanders he's a man of good moral character
And that’s why he was not selected to run back in 2016, too honest and actually had a plan that would’ve helped we the people.
As a conservative, I have always liked Bernie and would have voted for him, but corruption in the Democrat party kept him from moving forward.
Same.
Bernie is the man
Bernie 'big dog' sanders is a hard nosed, no b/s talking, growing the economy for everyday folks, who fights for the little man & voters.....
Legacy leaving career politician
Bernie Sanders talks about the right topics. It's a real shame that he is not understood. It's also a real shame that the Democratic Party does not take him more seriously. Keep it up, Bernie!✊️
It’s because centrist and right wingers labeled him “radical” and a “socialist” and the majority of voters fall for it. We’re seeing it now with voters really believing that the Democratic Party is all about “wokeness” when we had the 3 straight centrist candidates going against Trump. Every single one was an establishment Democrat off the Obama “coaching tree”
He is understood and the Democratic Party absolutely takes him seriously. So seriously in fact, that they and their financial backers stabbed him in the back in 2016 and rather lost the entire election than have him be president of the United States.
Thats crazy talk to say that Bernie has been talking this line for 150 years ...that would imply that he started in politics at age of 3 years old.
Bernie is right as always ❤ Americans deserve a left wing candidate for the people. Not a centre right neoliberal. Not populist fascism.
They do but Sanders is about as neoliberal as one can get, so he's being a lying hypocrite as per usual.
정답 💚
Harris was ultra left.
@@povertyspec9651 God I wish
@@povertyspec9651god I wish
This man should have been president 20 years ago and we would all be so much better off
Even though I agree with this, I feel it would've been another JFK situation.
Bernie tried it's best to make it clear, but she/they just don't get his points, most likely because they are just out of touch with the working class. It must be frustrating having to answer all these random questions. Great respect for Bernie that he still hangs in there!
She is part of the top 10% in salaries. She just doesn't experience these problems the same way a working class person does.
She probably has property or owns her living space, she has investments that do well when the index goes up, and most importantly, her salary equalizes inflation and has benefits.
Even if they try to sympathize with problems its just different, the urgency gets lost when you don't feel it.
yeah. hanging in there with his millions....what a guy
Your a true icon.... Much respect Burny 🙏 What a differant americia we would have if you were in charge.
If Bernie were to run again I’d vote for him
And Bernie would lose again! As he should! SAY NO TO SOCIALISM!!!!!
And maybe you will get a lucrative book deal! WAKE UP HE SOLD HIS OFFICE!
He's in his mid-80s. He will never be President; it's way too late.
@@tjsmith5477 what a crock...he is dead right
But where you out there campaigning for Bernie during the Democratic primaries in 2016? It's too late now, he won't run again.
I can respect Bernie Sanders
She tried to trap him with a gotcha question, hoping to create a soundbite of him supporting Sotomayor stepping down, making him look sexist-but they failed. Better luck next time! They tried the same tactic when he ran, too.
That was not a gotcha question. It’s a legitimate one considering she might die while Trump is in office or at least step down considering her health issues, so it might be worth getting a new young liberal justice in her place
What's wrong with her health?
@@sara-9015shes a type 1 diabetic
@@oklol7799She’s 70 in good health. I don’t think she is any more closer to death’s door than, say, Clarence Thomas who is 76. Or Alito, who is 74. Kagan is 64. I would say that the suggestion of having her retire at 70 when RBG lived to 87, and Scalia a month shy of 80, having her go this early seems unnecessary.
Bernie is brilliant and diplomatic.
Bernie Sanders is the truth !!!
Put more. Money on healthcare and the economy and cut down on military spending
The issues of inequality of zero to do with those things.
The issue of inequality does not come from distribution of income, anywhere near as it comes down to distribution of wealth.
What I am alluding to is that the issue is basically stemming from the divide between property owners and renters.
Why this issue? Because rent adds zero value to GDP, and creates affordability crises.
If nothing is done to combat demand and price for rental income or capital gains through purchasing property, then inequality issues will continue to persist.
Exactly!! Cut just a fraction of the military budget and poof! We can totally afford to pay for universal healthcare, keep social security solvent, getting people out of poverty, and more!
@@angelabranson363 That has nothing to do with fixing the inequality problem at all! The issue is not wages it's a problem of affordability! Where do affordability issues arise from? The land market of course! If you consistently do nothing to dissuade people speculating on land, then people will never escape the curse of inequality! I bet for most people their largest expense by far is either on interest payments to repay a loan used to finance a property acquisition OR it is paying rent!
So do you really believe taking money from somewhere else and giving it to someone to pay rent or their interest payments will really keep prices down? Really? Do people not understand the laws of supply and demand?
Look, if you want to bring back affordability and a thriving middle class, you have to target beneficiaries of land holders!
So why target land holders? Because owning land doesn't do anything to actually add value to the economy and simply shifts wealth from renters to land holders! Land is by far the most significant asset and biggest cause of inequality in the world!
The whole going after military and corporations is nothing more than a political campaign to get the self-serving politicians elected, without actually going after the real issue!
@robertsmith2088 the supercharged military really is a result of an affluent class extorting countries for resources though... so maybe cutting the billionaires down to zero would decrease military spending
@robertsmith2088
The most sensible comment on TH-cam.