Opinion | How Bernie Sanders Sees Things

So you got a corrupt, a completely — an economy dominated by the very wealthy, a rigged economy. You have a political system dominated by billionaires. You have the media, corporate media, having huge impact. You add it all up. What do you call that country? You tell me. Is it fair to call it an oligarchy? I think I absolutely think there are oligarchic aspects to our country. You’re sounding like a New York Times reporter here. I’m not willing to say that we are already an oligarchy, but I’m worried that we’re very much moving toward that. And so I think there’s a huge amount of your diagnosis that I agree with to some extent. I’m not pushing you on the oligarchy notion. I’m accepting it. I’m asking in this moment, should we be paying more attention to the authoritarian threat. They go together. All right. I agree. All right. The point is, what is very rarely discussed, and I’ve been on 48 million television shows and nobody has ever asked me — not one person has ever said, Bernie, are you worried that so few people in America have so much wealth and so much power while working class people are struggling? No one ever asked me that question. I bet you make the point anyway. I do. I say thank you for your silly question. Now let me give you the answer to the question you didn’t ask.