BREAKING: Elon Musk , you are DAMN RIGHT - Bernie Sanders
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given what's happening in America, I've been remembering the history lessons that I learned when I was in the sixth grade. And I remember, and I think many of you will recall, when you think about your education, you'll remember hearing about Abraham Lincoln on the fields of Gettysburg in 1863. And that was just a few days after 20,000 Union soldiers

had either died or been wind wounded fighting against the nightmare of slavery. And Lincoln looked out on that field and this is what he said, you will all remember it. He said, quote, "We hear highly resolved that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom and that government of the people

by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. And that is precisely why we are here today, to make sure that government of, by, and for the people does not perish, and that we do not become a government of the billionaire class, by the billionaire class, and for the billionaire class.

The American people do not want the richest guy on earth running all over Washington, D.C., decimating the Social Security Administration, making it harder. It's the richest guy on earth making it harder for old people with disabilities to get the benefits that they paid into. Proposing to lay off 83,000 workers at the Veterans Administration.

denying the health care that the men and women who put their lives on the line to defend us deserve, slashing the Department of Education, decimating USAID, which, by the way, means that hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of the most desperate people in this world will die as a result. And when we talk about oligarchy, it is not just economics.

I trust that all of you know that you are living under a corrupt campaign finance system which allows billionaires to buy elections. Don't tell me about democracy when Musk himself could put $270 million to elect Donald Trump and then get rewarded with the most important position in government.

So why are we here in LA today? And the answer is obvious. We are living in a moment of extraordinary danger. And how we respond to this moment will not only impact our lives, but will impact the lives of our kids and future generations and in terms of the climate.

It will depend, we can depend on whether or not the planet Earth survives. That's why we're here today. We're living at a moment where a handful of billionaires control the economic and political life of our country. We're living at a moment with a president who has no understanding or respect for the Constitution of the United States.

And let us make no doubt about it, moving us rapidly toward an authoritarian form of society. And Mr. Trump, we ain't going there. We are living in a moment where the Republican Party has, to a large degree, become a cult of the individual, obeying Trump's every wish.

And at a time of massive income and wealth inequality, right now as we speak, they are plotting about how they can give 1.1 trillion in tax breaks to the 1% and devastate programs that working families need. You know, it's funny, just yesterday, our good friend, Elon Musk, Mr. Musk sent out a tweet.

And in essence, he said, you know, Bernie Sanders has been talking about the growth of oligarchy year after year after year. Well, Ilan, you're damn right. That's what I've been talking about. The difference is I'm no longer talking about how we're moving to oligarchy. I'm talking about how we are living today in an oligarchic form of society.

Three months ago when Trump was inaugurated, standing right behind him during his inauguration were the three wealthiest people in this country: Mr. Musk, Mr. Bezos, and Mr. Zuckerberg. And right behind them were 13 other billionaires who Trump had nominated to head up major federal agencies.

And that, brothers and sisters, is what oligarchy is all about.