Sen. Bernie Sanders
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And then I'm looking at what Trump and his inauguration, and I'm seeing these billionaires there, and I'm thinking, this is a government of the billionaires, by the billionaires, for the billionaires.
And that's kind of how it's evolved.
Theo, this is where we've got to take a deep breath and accept our very serious responsibilities as citizens, okay?
And you think back, and I don't want to romanticize this, but you think back on American history.
And, you know, we read all about this when we were in the third grade, you know.
Those were pretty brave guys, George Washington and Jefferson and all those guys, taking on the British Empire.
No one in a million years thought you could defeat the British Empire.
And they did.
And a lot of, thousands died.
Thousands of them died.
It was a pretty bloody situation.
And then you think about the Civil War where very brave people said, you know what, slavery is a moral abomination.
We're not going to accept it anymore.
God knows what that Civil War was about.
Hundreds of thousands of people on both sides died.
And then you think about, and I think about this, December 7th, 1941, the United States was attacked at Pearl Harbor.
We were totally unprepared.
Do you know that?