Name: The political journey of Bernie Sanders
Uploaded: 2020-03-05T21:00:40.000Z
Duration: 8 min 18 s
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it takes a different kind of candidate to do well here.

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You really need to go out there and meet a lot of the people

who are going to vote for or against you.

who may be a little bit rough around the edges

-Bernie Sanders seemed to come out of nowhere in 2015.

He was an obscure senator from a small state.

-You want to share it with the American people!

He tells the truth, and he's just about the issues.

-People were making fun of me last summer,

-For David Zuckerman, it brought back old memories.

-Bernie first inspired me as a cynical college student

I thought that the corporate money in politics,

that the two parties and the power structure

was something I didn't want to get involved in.

-But thanks to Sanders, Zuckerman did get involved.

-I was incredibly impressed with what he did a few years ago

where basically that inspiration for me I saw happen

with millions of people all across the country.

-For many Americans, it felt like Sanders

But it was the same message he'd been running on for 40 years.

-What we talk about is the fact that in our society,

you have a handful of people who control our economy.

we have the most unequal distribution of income

and wealth of any major country on earth.

-When Sanders was elected mayor of Burlington in 1981,

-Face it, you don't find too many socialists

and one is elected mayor of a sizable city, well, that's news.

-You try to make the story, you know, Communist takeover.

He says Sanders may have talked like a radical,

There's no nationalizing, you know, of industry.

Every rich person in Burlington remained rich.

You know, no, they weren't driven out of the city

-Bob Kinzel is one of Vermont's most well-known journalists.

-Bernie's got a lot of philosophical ideas

Can he work with the business community?"

Is it worse today than it was 20 years ago or what?

-Well, the problem has almost gone on forever.

As long as Burlington has had a sewer system,

which probably dates from about the middle of the 1800s,

you had these big oil tanks out in the water,

And he worked with the business community to say,

"Let's make the waterfront sort of the jewel of Burlington."

-Sanders also increased funding for the arts

-So you had this sort of synergy of lefty politics

and then, you know, artists and musicians,

sort of mini mecca here in the woods of New England.

-In 1990, Sanders ran for the House of Representatives

as a member of the independent party, and he won.

He spent much of his time in Washington as an outsider,

a third-party politician in a two-party town

and a champion of progressive policies at a time

when Democrats were moving to the center.

I have problems with the Democrats' bill.

Let me describe very briefly how, with a single-payer system,

to every man, woman, and child in this country.

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