Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) officially launched his
presidential campaign with a vowed goal of building a movement that will
take down the Koch brothers and right-wing billionaires while returning
the country back to the American people.
Sen. Sanders has officially announced his candidacy
for President Of The United States of America. Sanders said, Today, we
begin a political revolution to transform our country politically,
socially, economically, and environmentally.” Sen. Sanders said
proclaimed that this great nation belongs to everybody and not a handful
of billionaires.
Sanders called for an end to the stale inside the
Beltway politics, and a return of the United States to the leadership of
the free world in social and economic justice. Sen. Sanders promised to
fight for working families and build a movement of millions of
Americans who are prepared to stand up and fight back.
Sen. Sanders said, “This campaign is about the needs
of the American people and the ideas and proposals that effectively
address those needs.” Sanders promised that his campaign won’t be driven
by gossip or reckless personal attacks. He said, “These are serious
times, and we need serious debates.”
Sanders said that we live in the richest nation in
the world, but that doesn’t mean anything because the wealth is
controlled by a few individuals. Sanders called wealth and income
inequality issue the greatest moral and political issue of our time.He
said that the level of income inequality in the United States was
immoral. Sanders called the American economy rigged and proclaimed this
is not what America is about, and this has got to change.
Sanders took on Citizens United. He said that the
foundations of American democracy had been corrupted and undermined. He
said, “American democracy is not about billionaires and candidates being
able to buy elections.” Sanders directly called out the Koch brothers
and said, “That is not democracy. That’s oligarchy.”
Sen. Sanders called for a meaningful jobs program.
Sanders vowed to rebuild the nation’s infrastructure, oppose trade
agreements, a $15/hour minimum wage, and equal pay for women.
The media is trying to frame the race for the
Democratic nomination as a contest between Hillary Clinton and Bernie
Sanders, but Sanders has something much bigger in mind. Bernie Sanders
is looking to build a movement of millions to take back America from the
billionaires. Sen. Sanders is building an army to take on the
oligarchs.
Sanders wants to win the Democratic nomination, but
his remarks regularly returned to the goal of bringing people together.
Sen. Sanders called for a meaningful jobs program. Sanders vowed to
rebuild the nation’s infrastructure and oppose trade agreements.
Sen. Sanders’ message to the billionaire class was
that they can’t have it all. He said, “To the billionaire class, I say
your greed has got to end. You can’t take advantage of all the benefits
of America if you refuse to live up to your responsibilities.”
Bernie Sanders is building an army, and that of millions is coming for the wingnut billionaires and the Koch brothers.
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