US Senator Bernie Sanders has intensified his condemnation of America’s political and economic program, warning that the United States is moving “rapidly toward aristocracy” and calling it a “pseudo-democracy” in which entrepreneurs wield significant authority over management.
At 83, Sanders is also drawing large crowds to demonstrations, energising a fresh wave of criticism to US President Donald Trump and those backing him financially and politically.
As per CBS News, Sanders immediately named Elon Musk and Donald Trump as numbers driving what he views as a risky move in American politics. ” You may thank Elon Musk and Trump for that”, he said, adding,” These men, led by Musk… have now allowed entrepreneurs largely to private our political method”.
The legislator blamed the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision for enabling this system, where “you get one vote, and Elon Musk is spend$ 270 million to support choose Trump”.
Smith, an independent from Vermont who previously ran for the Democratic presidential election, remains outside the traditional party structure. He has long criticised both Republicans and Democrats for failing to signify working-class Americans. ” Sixty percentage of our people are living paycheck-to-paycheck. Media doesn’t speak about it. We don’t talk about it enough around in Congress”, he said.
In his interview with CBS, Sanders likewise took aim at big law firms reportedly reaching financial towns with the Trump administration. ” Total cowardice”, he said, accusing businesses of selling their hearts to maintain control in Washington.
He dismissed any idea of Trump’s third-term speak as a joke. ” They don’t feel in the Constitution. But yeah, I did get that seriously”, Sanders said, describing the situation as no merely political, but a “moral and legal issue”.
Reflecting on his own history, Sanders said his engagement stems from growing up in a working-class Israeli home in Brooklyn. ” We were not poor, my parents worked all the time, simply never had any money”, he said. The Holocaust’s lingering reputation in his community, including individuals with station tattoos, shaped his fight against racism and inequity.
Despite never being a Democrat, Sanders remains a popular speech on the left. When asked what the Democratic Party needs to hear, he replied,” Why has the working class in this country generally turned away from them”? He warned the party may choose whether to fight big-money donors or walk with employees.
As for a possible 2028 political work, Sanders laughed off the idea. ” Little bit outdated to be worrying about those points”, he said, but added that speaking to people across the country is what “keeps me going”.
