Common Dreams | BernieSanders/X)
“Today in America we are rapidly moving toward an oligarchic form of society where a handful of multibillionaires not only have extraordinary wealth, but unprecedented economic, media, and political power,” said Sen. Sanders in Iowa City, which like Omaha is represented by a Republican U.S. House member who narrowly won reelection last November and has faced pressure to reject the GOP budget plan. “Brothers and sisters, that is not the democracy that men and women fought and died to defend.”