Comments by "Harry Stoddard" (@HarryS77) on "Early 90s Bernie Explains Exactly Why Our Politics Is Broken" video.

  1. re: 7:15 Unfortunately you can go back several hundred years and find similar arguments and conditions. The locutions may change, but the core reasoning is still there. I read this passage today, from Mercier in 1783: "The distance which separates the rich from other citizens is growing daily and poverty becomes more insupportable at the sight of the astonishing progress of luxury which tires the view of the indigent. Hatred grows more bitter and the state is divided into two classes: the greedy and insensitive, and the murmuring malcontents." French Revolution: 1789
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