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Bernie Sanders Rails Against Musk And The 'Corrupt Campaign Finance System'
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4/14/2025
At a "Fight Oligarchy" event in Los Angeles on Saturday, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) spoke about election financing.
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You know, lately, given what's happening in America, I've been remembering the history
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lessons that I learned when I was in the sixth grade.
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And I remember, and I think many of you will recall, when you think about your education,
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you'll remember hearing about Abraham Lincoln on the fields of Gettysburg in 1863, and that
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was just a few days after 20,000 Union soldiers had either died or been wind-wounded fighting
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against the nightmare of slavery.
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And Lincoln looked out on that field, and this is what he said, and you will all remember
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it.
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He said, quote, we hear highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain.
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That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom.
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And that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
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And that is precisely why we are here today.
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To make sure that government of, by, and for the people does not perish.
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And that we do not become a government of the billionaire class, by the billionaire class,
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and for the billionaire class.
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The American people do not want the richest guy on earth running all over Washington, D.C., decimating
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the Social Security Administration, making it harder, the richest guy on earth, making it
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harder for old people with disabilities to get the benefits that they paid into.
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Proposing to lay off 83,000 workers at the Veterans Administration, denying the health care that the
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men and women who put their lives on the line to defend us deserve, slashing the Department
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of Education, decimating USAID, which, by the way, means that hundreds of thousands, if not millions,
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of the most desperate people in this world will die as a result.
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And when we talk about oligarchy, it is not just economics.
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I trust that all of you know that you are living under a corrupt campaign finance system, which
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allows billionaires to buy elections.
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Don't tell me about democracy when Musk himself can put $270 million to elect Donald Trump and
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then get rewarded with the most important position in government.
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