‘We are living in the most dangerous moment in the modern history of this country,” Senator Bernie Sanders recently proclaimed. The 20,000 or so Salt Lake City residents who squeezed into the University of Utah’s Huntsman Center were enraptured. “We are living in a moment where a handful of billionaires control our government,” he continued. “We do not want a government of the billionaire class, by the billionaire class, for the billionaire class — we want a government that represents all of us.”
Sanders passed the mic to his co-star, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. “We can either have extreme and growing wealth inequality with the toxic division and corruption that it requires to survive,” she warned, “or we can have a fair economy for working people along with the democracy and freedoms that uphold it.” There are only two mutually exclusive choices available to Americans now, AOC added: “Oligarchy or democracy.”
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