Americans Against the Tea Party has the article If You Love Bernie Sanders, You’ll Love Him Even More After Seeing This!
No matter how much you love Bernie Sanders, you will love him even more after hearing this!
During an appearance on The Thom Hartmann Show earlier, Sen. Sanders (I-VT) went on a rant against the Koch brothers and a recent video they produced which makes the asinine claim that the American middle class is just fine and, in fact, anyone making over $34,000 is wealthy. Charles Koch also said in an interview on Tuesday with The Wichita Eagle that we should abolish the minimum wage because it would help poor people.
I guess we’re not the only ones who feel ill when billionaires pedal this kind of condescending claptrap.
Sharon registered her dissent over the headline. She noted that Sanders didn’t answer the caller’s question. That just drives her wild when politicians do that. Elizabeth Warren had the habit of going into her standard spiel no matter what the question, and I sometimes did get annoyed at that. However, I have also noted that this is one of Sanders’ campaign and interview strengths. This caller’s question was a good one, but in circumstances where pundits and interviewers try to side-track Sanders, it doesn’t take him long to get back onto his talking points.
Let’s get back to this caller’s question. One of the answers to this question is that what the oligarchs and the rich have done throughout history is to push things so far that it leads to revolutions which overthrow their class. Still it is not absolutely crazy of them to behave that way, even given the history. After all, any particular oligarch or rich person might get through his or her own life without experiencing any of the eventual turmoil. Let the descendants worry about the consequences.