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Bernie Sanders
On the record 2024
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“Sometimes one can become very cynical. You look at the terrible wars that are going on right now. You look at the divisiveness in this country, the ugliness, the poverty, you look at climate change. You get depressed from all of it, but I am lucky in this sense. That I've had the opportunity people often have, when it surprised you, how do you keep going? And I remember, actually it was in California where it really crystallized me. I was in a rally in the agricultural area of California. And we did a rally. It was sunset.”
Lex Fridman Podcast23 October 2024Source ↗
“I really like Alex Scharinger She is a young woman who comes from a working class. She helped her mother clean houses. She was a bartender in the Bronx, New York. Aye, and I'm very proud that my campaign for president inspired her to run.”
Lex Fridman Podcast23 October 2024Source ↗
“Look, nothing new. Trump didn't invent it. That's called a photo opportunity. I've done one or two in my life too. So you go to a place, he puts on an apron, you could old Donald Trump, just another McDonald's worker. But anyhow, he was fine. He did his photo op. That's fine. Kamala Harris was in North Carolina handing out food to people who were victims of the hurricane. Fine. That's what politicians do.”
Lex Fridman Podcast23 October 2024Source ↗
“That's right. That is the story. Look, I am no great fan of Elon Musk, especially in the role that he's playing right now in Trump's campaign. But is he a brilliant guy? Of course he is. Does he work like a dog? Of course he does. Does he come up with these incredible innovations in companies? Yes, he does. Does he deserve your creditor for that? Yeah, he does. But”
Lex Fridman Podcast23 October 2024Source ↗
“I know we're not best friends, but I know him well, and we chat every once in a while. First of all, don't underestimate What it was in 2008 to be the first black president in the history of this country. And I think few would deny that he's an extraordinarily intelligent guy, very, very articulate, one of the best speakers that there is in America, and that he and his family, and again, it's a lot harder than it looks. He and his family for eight years, that's his wife Michelle and his kids really.”
Lex Fridman Podcast23 October 2024Source ↗
“Deb's lost badly in every race that he ran in. In 1932, Franklin Donald Roosevelt ran for president, and much of what Roosevelt ended up doing was at least some of what Debs had talked about. Debs helped lay the groundwork for ideas. So sometimes you can lose and win if you're into transforming society. What my view is, where I disagree with Obama, is I think you have got to raise consciousness among ordinary people. And when people know what's going on and are prepared in an organized way to fight for change, they can make incredible changes. And we've seen that in recent years.”
Lex Fridman Podcast23 October 2024Source ↗
“All right, Deb's many listeners may not know who Debs was. Debs was a union organizer in the early nineteen hundreds, helped form the American Railway Union, ran for president, I think, five times Ran the last time while he was in a jail cell because of his opposition to World War I and got a million votes doing that.”
Lex Fridman Podcast23 October 2024Source ↗
“Yeah, of course I'm angry and of course I'm upset. But you know. When you take on, in this case, the democratic establishment. Who have controlled that party forever, that money didn't trust in the Democratic Party? You know, you're taking on corporate America when you're taking on the corporate media. And when you're calling for a political revolution that creates the government that works for all and not just the few, the opposition is going to be extraordinary. But what I am extremely proud of from that campaign in 2020 as well. Is that we took on the anointed candidate of the establishment?”
Lex Fridman Podcast23 October 2024Source ↗
“Somebody's paying for your health insurance. It depends. If you are working, most people get their health insurance through their jobs. So if you're working for a large company, your employer is paying your health insurance. And by the way, that comes out of your wages. Health care costs in America are very high, and your employer will tell you honestly, look, I can't give you more than a 3% wage increase because I got a 10% increase in your healthcare course. You want that? Or if you're a union negotiating, you know what they'll say, hey, you want decent wages? We're going to have to cut back on your healthcare. That's what every union has to deal with, you know, every negotiating session.”
Lex Fridman Podcast23 October 2024Source ↗
“We have a pretty good system, not great, but a pretty good system in Medicare. So it's there for the elderly, and Lyndon Johnson passed that in the 1960s, a huge step forward. It is being chopped away by the private insurance companies through Medicare Advantage. But if you strengthen Medicare and you do away with the kind of deductibles that seniors now have to pay and you do away with other stuff, you say basically right now you're a senior in America. Go to any doctor you want.”
Lex Fridman Podcast23 October 2024Source ↗
“That sense it's radical, but if you go to walk down the street here and you say, Do you think billionaires should be able to spend as much money as they want to buy politicians? I would say nine out of ten people say, that's crazy. That's not what America is supposed to be about. So that says it's certainly not radical. Let's talk about healthcare. Go out on the street, do it, do a poll. I've done the polling. Is healthcare a human right? Should every American be able to go to a doctor when they need, regardless of their income? You know what people say? I would say about $85, 90% of the people say, of course.”
Lex Fridman Podcast23 October 2024Source ↗
“It's not, you know, like many other issues, we don't have to reinvent the wheel here. It exists in other countries. If you go to, you know, every country has their own election system, but nobody has a system where billionaires can spend unlimited sums of money through super pacs to elect the candidates of their choice. So first thing you got to do. One of the things Lex I found that the more important the issue, the less discussion there is.”
Lex Fridman Podcast23 October 2024Source ↗
“Over a thousand There are a hundred members of the Senate, four hundred and thirty five members of the House, five hundred and thirty five members of Congress. There are eighteen hundred well paid lobbyists representing the drug companies, including former leaders of the Republican and Democratic Party. That is why one of the reasons why we pay the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs. Military-industrial complex. You've got a revolving door. People go from the military into the general dynamics, into Lockheed Martin and the other large companies. And what we see there is an institution in the Pentagon. We spend a trillion dollars a year on the Pentagon.”
Lex Fridman Podcast23 October 2024Source ↗
“Qing was a very impressive guy More impressive, I think, than people think that he was. And what he did is he created his movement from the bottom on up. So he developed real organization, grassroots organization, which put pressure on communities and officials to end segregation, to open up voting patterns And I think what has to also be remembered about King, which is really quite extraordinary, is he won the Nobel Peace Prize and never says, oh, you're great, you're wonderful. But then to the end of his life, he took on Lyndon Johnson on the war in Vietnam. And as soon as he did that, suddenly the editorial pages throughout America, establishment papers, no longer thought he was so great. In fact, the message sent out, you're black, deal with civil rights, don't worry about foreign policy. We'll take care of that.”
Lex Fridman Podcast23 October 2024Source ↗