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Mr. Sanders, great to see you. Good to be with you, Joe. Great to be with you. You've got a bunch of notes. Not all that much. Have you prepared for this?
I am all prepared.
Well, it's a good time for you to be in here because the world's gone haywire. Yes. Yeah. What are your thoughts on this?
I think I start off with Joe trying to take a deep breath and doing what is not often done. Where are we as a country today? What's going well? What's not going well? And I don't think we don't have that kind of basic discussion. And to my mind, I think in America today, we are facing more... serious crises than we have in the modern history of our country.
This is a pivotal moment in American history, and what happens now will depend, determine the lives of our kids and future generations.
What specifically concerns you?
I'll tell you what concerns me. The issue of wealth and power. All right. I'm kind of old fashioned and I believe in democracy. And I believe that everybody should have a good shot at living a decent life. And what I worry about right now, and this is an issue, Joe, and it's part of the problem. It just ain't talked about very much. And I applaud, by the way, you and the other podcasters.
who give people the time to really seriously discuss things rather than seven-second soundbites. But if you take a look at where we are as a nation today, this system is not working. It's broken. It ain't working for ordinary human beings. So you have an America today where we have more income and wealth inequality than we've ever had in the history of this country. That's just a fact.
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