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  • 5 months ago
During a "Fight Oligarchy" event in Asheville, North Carolina on Sunday, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) spoke about what reforms he believes the Democratic Party should undergo.
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00:00But our job right now is to fight Trump every day of the week, as Reverend Barbara pointed
00:12out.
00:13But we have got to do more than that.
00:16And we have got to understand that the Democratic Party, in many, many respects, has turned
00:23its back on the working class of this country.
00:26And if Democrats want to win elections, they're going to have to stop taking money from billionaires
00:41and start responding to the needs of working people.
00:48So let me give you a rough idea of some, underlying some, of what we have got to do as Americans
01:03and what the Democratic Party has got to stand for.
01:07Health care is a human right, not a privilege.
01:19The function of a rational health care system in a democratic society is not to make hundreds
01:28of billions in profits for the drug companies or the insurance companies.
01:33It is to provide quality care as a right to every man, woman and child.
01:42In America today, we do not need to continue paying, by far and even close, the highest prices
01:53in the world for prescription drugs.
01:58We can lower the cost of prescription drugs across the board by 50% by doing nothing more
02:04than demanding that drug companies charge us the same prices here as they do abroad.
02:16Let me tell you something else that we've got to do.
02:20I hear politicians talking about how much they love America.
02:25If you love America, you love the future of America, and that is our children.
02:38You don't have in America the highest rate of childhood poverty of almost any major country
02:45on earth.
02:46You don't have a child care system which is broken, wildly expensive, and pays its workers
02:52inadequate wages.
02:55You don't have a public school system where teachers are often making starvation wages,
03:01taking money out of their own pockets to help their kids.
03:08You don't have a higher education system where kids are leaving college $50,000, $100,000
03:16in debt.
03:20You don't have a system where, at a time when we desperately need doctors and nurses,
03:25you want to go to medical school, you're from a working class home, you know what you're
03:29going to leave school deep in debt with?
03:31$500,000.
03:34How do you attract doctors under that scenario?
03:38It is not a radical idea to say that in a competitive global economy, higher education should be free
03:48for all.
03:49A long time ago, a long time ago, working class people fought to make, create public education
03:56in America.
03:57They said, you know, we don't want our kids just working in factories and the fields and
04:02farms.
04:03They need an education.
04:04And they fought and they got public education free from first grade to 12th grade.
04:10You know what?
04:11The world has changed a little bit in the last 150 years.
04:16There is absolutely no reason why our public colleges and universities should not be tuition-free.
04:37Does anybody here think that that's a radical idea?
04:47There are countries around the world who already are doing that and have done it for years.
04:51They understand that if they want a strong economy, they want a strong democracy, they've
04:56got to have the best educational system for their kids.
04:58They can do it.
04:59We can do it.
05:00.
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