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<blockquote data-quote="The Question" data-source="post: 1138444" data-attributes="member: 1100">&quot;I got emotional watching it...&quot; Red Flag #1. People need to feel less often and think more often. Or, in some cases, at all.Let's continue.Being against oligarchy is great. Let's look into that word:oligarchy /ŏl′ĭ-gär″kē, ō′lĭ-/<h3>noun</h3>
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<li data-xf-list-type="ol">Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ol">Those making up such a government.</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ol">A state governed by a few persons.</li>
</ol>The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition • More at <a href="https://www.wordnik.com/words/oligarchy" target="_blank">Wordnik</a>Does Sanders include the various layers of unelected bureaucrats within Federal and state governments in that? Because appointees aren't answerable to the voters, making that body of bureaucrats fit the above definition. We'll see if Sanders addresses that, or if he misapplies the definition to 'a group of people the voters approved of but whom I do not.&quot; (Spoiler alert: he does not.)Sanders asks, at timestamp 2:03, &quot;What is it like living paycheck to paycheck?&quot; And well he should ask; <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernie_Sanders#Early_career" target="_blank">he's never done it himself.</a>Like any skilled con artist -- and I'll give the old devil his due, he is a skilled con artist, having been in constant practice at his craft for over fifty years now -- he preys on the emotional malleability of his listeners.But he's also the man who accepted a nice juicy payday from the DNC to &quot;take a dive&quot; in 2016, and then did it again in 2020.This just proves that, like the good Socialist he's always been, he's more than happy to spread the wealth -- as long as it's other peoples' wealth.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="The Question, post: 1138444, member: 1100"] "I got emotional watching it..." Red Flag #1. People need to feel less often and think more often. Or, in some cases, [I]at all.[/I] Let's continue. Being against oligarchy is great. Let's look into that word: oligarchy /ŏl′ĭ-gär″kē, ō′lĭ-/ [HEADING=2]noun[/HEADING] [LIST=1] [*]Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families. [*]Those making up such a government. [*]A state governed by a few persons. [/LIST] The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition • More at [URL='https://www.wordnik.com/words/oligarchy']Wordnik[/URL] Does Sanders include the various layers of unelected bureaucrats within Federal and state governments in that? Because appointees aren't answerable to the voters, making that body of bureaucrats fit the above definition. We'll see if Sanders addresses that, or if he misapplies the definition to 'a group of people the voters approved of but whom I do not." (Spoiler alert: he does not.) Sanders asks, at timestamp 2:03, "What is it like living paycheck to paycheck?" And well he should ask; [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernie_Sanders#Early_career']he's never done it himself.[/URL] Like any skilled con artist -- and I'll give the old devil his due, he [I]is[/I] a skilled con artist, having been in constant practice at his craft for over fifty years now -- he preys on the emotional malleability of his listeners. But he's also the man who accepted a nice juicy payday from the DNC to "take a dive" in 2016, and then did it again in 2020. This just proves that, like the good Socialist he's always been, he's more than happy to spread the wealth -- as long as it's [I]other peoples' wealth.[/I] [/QUOTE]

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