Bernie Sanders Warns U.S. Is Becoming an Oligarchy – Rolling Stone

                        By  <a class="c-link  lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-color-brand-primary-dark:hover lrv-u-text-decoration-underline:hover lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase" href="https://www.rollingstone.com/author/pwade/"            >   Peter Wade</a>                      <br>    Sen. <a  href="https://www.rollingstone.com/t/bernie-sanders/"  id="auto-tag_bernie-sanders"  data-tag="bernie-sanders"  >Bernie Sanders</a> is ringing the alarm that the United States is &#8220;rapidly&#8221; becoming an oligarchy run by billionaires out to enrich themselves.<br>   &#8220;We are moving rapidly into an oligarchic form of society. Never before in American history have so few billionaires, so few people, have so much wealth and so much power,&#8221; the senator said.<br>Bernie Sanders: &quot;We are moving rapidly into an oligarchic form of society &#8230; we can&#39;t go around the world saying, &#39;in Russia Putin has an oligarchy.&#39; Well we got an oligarchy here too.&quot; <a  href="https://t.co/3l27Nu5h20"  rel="nofollow"  target="_blank"  >pic.twitter.com/3l27Nu5h20</a><br>  &#8220;Never before has there been so much concentration of ownership, sector after sector, power of Wall Street,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;And never before in American history &mdash; and we better talk about this &mdash; have the people on top had so much political power. We can&#8217;t go around the world saying, &#8216;Oh, well, you know, in Russia Putin has an oligarchy.&#8217; Well, we got our oligarchy here too.&#8221;<br>     Sanders decried the influence of billionaires in the past election, saying that &#8220;billionaires spent huge amounts of money to elect their candidates.&#8221;<br>   In a <a  href="https://twitter.com/SenSanders/status/1867587923933081643"  rel="nofollow"  target="_blank"  >video released Friday</a>, Sanders said, &#8220;In 2024, just 150 billionaire families spent nearly $2 billion to purchase candidates.&#8221;     <div class="admz" id="adm-inline-article-ad-1">                     <div class="adma boomerang" data-device="Desktop" data-width="300">                  <div style="min-width:50px;min-height:75px;"   class="pmc-adm-boomerang-pub-div ad-text"   data-priority="10" >    <div id="gpt-dsk-tab-article-inbody-uid0"       class="adw-300 adh-250" data-is-adhesion-ad="">         <script type="application/javascript">

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