Bernie Sanders
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And it bothers me very much that my colleagues here are not addressing these issues.
We're trying to fill the hole.
And that has a lot to do with money and politics and the fact that AI
Industry, again, owned by the wealthiest people in our country, are spending hundreds of millions of dollars to make sure that members of Congress and candidates do not raise the important issues about guardrails and how we best go forward.
You raised a couple of important issues in terms of immigrants.
What disgusts me very much about Trump is not just his, by and large, terrible policies.
is he is doing today what demagogues throughout history have always done.
It is no secret to anybody who is watching this, our country faces enormous problems, right?
Not easily solved.
But these are very, very serious problems.
And what decent political leaders try to do is to say, all right, how do you deal with the housing crisis?
How do you deal with childcare?
How do you deal with healthcare?
How do you deal with income and wealth inequality?
How do you deal with climate change?
All right, tough issues, right?
You lay them on the table and we debate into democracy.
What Trump is trying to do is saying, hey, you're a working class person out there having a hard time feeding your family.
You can't send your kids to college.
You can't afford health care.