The great political issue now facing our country is not Democrat vs. Republican or progressive vs. conservative. It's much deeper than that. It's about democracy vs. authoritarianism. | U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders
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The great political issue now facing our country is not Democrat vs. Republican or progressive vs. conservative. It's much deeper than that. It's about democracy vs. authoritarianism. | U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders
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I am proud to have stood with working people to stop efforts to cut and privatize Social Security over the years. Social Security is the most successful government program in our nation's history. Our job is to protect it and expand it. | U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders
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I am proud to have stood with working people to stop efforts to cut and privatize Social Security over the years. Social Security is the most successful government program in our nation's history. Our job is to protect it and expand it. | U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders
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I want to emphasize what this campaign is about is not just winning the Democratic nomination. It is not even just defeating Donald Trump, the most dangerous president in modern American history. What this campaign is about is you, the people in your community, and all of us coming together to take back our democracy. | Bernie Sanders
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I want to emphasize what this campaign is about is not just winning the Democratic nomination. It is not even just defeating Donald Trump, the most dangerous president in modern American history. What this campaign is about is you, the people in your community, and all of us coming together to take back our democracy. | Bernie Sanders
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Without net neutrality, our democracy is in trouble. Congress will soon be voting to save net neutrality. That will be one of the most important votes for the future of our country. | U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders
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Without net neutrality, our democracy is in trouble. Congress will soon be voting to save net neutrality. That will be one of the most important votes for the future of our country. | U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders
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Trump’s threat against the Secretary of State of Georgia is outrageous. It is the most consequential attack on American democracy in the history of our country. | Bernie Sanders
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Trump’s threat against the Secretary of State of Georgia is outrageous. It is the most consequential attack on American democracy in the history of our country. | Bernie Sanders
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Today we have a president who does not believe in democracy. A president cannot send troops wherever he wants to quash dissent. | Bernie Sanders
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Today we have a president who does not believe in democracy. A president cannot send troops wherever he wants to quash dissent. | Bernie Sanders
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Undermining the legitimacy of an election–what Trump is doing now, and in fact has done for months–is how demagogues destroy faith in democracy and move us toward authoritarianism. | Bernie Sanders
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Undermining the legitimacy of an election–what Trump is doing now, and in fact has done for months–is how demagogues destroy faith in democracy and move us toward authoritarianism. | Bernie Sanders
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Socialism? We're already a social democracy! | The People For Bernie Sanders
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You ready for something radical? We are going to practice Democracy. I know, it’s a pretty radical idea but what the heck. | Bernie Sanders
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Today we have to come together in a united front and say to this president: Sorry, too many people fought and died to preserve this democracy. You’re not going to destroy it. | Bernie Sanders
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What Trump is doing right now: delegitimizing our electoral process and American democracy. | Bernie Sanders
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When you hear people telling you this is the most important election in our lifetimes, they’re not kidding. This election is not just about the economy, climate change, education and health care. This is about whether we retain American democracy. | Bernie Sanders
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This is not just an election on the issues. This is an election on the future of American democracy. | Bernie Sanders
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The American people do not want authoritarianism. They want democracy. Too many Americans have put their lives on the line to defend our Constitution and our freedoms. We’re not going to let Trump and his fellow Oligarchs take it away from us. | Bernie Sanders
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Bernie called it: after giving $1.5 trillion in tax breaks to billionaires and corporations, Republicans are trying to cut Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. | U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders
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Bernie Sanders explains that while disagreement is essential in a democracy, those disagreements must be rooted in facts and truth, not misinformation. #Colbert #BernieSanders | The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
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Does the Republican Party believe in democracy or the Big Lie and conspiracy theories? That is what Republicans must decide. That is what is at stake. | Bernie Sanders
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Election days come and go. But political and social revolutions that attempt to transform our society never end. They continue every day, every week and every month in the fight to create a nation of social and economic justice. That’s what this campaign has been about over the past year. That’s what the political revolution is about and that’s why the political revolution must continue into the future. | Bernie Sanders
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Bernie Sanders: When We Talk About America As A Democracy We Should Call It a "Pseudo-Democracy"
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Republicans all across the country are touting the absurd position that the former president, Donald Trump, won the last election in a landslide, and zero Republicans are prepared to vote to support American democracy. That is the sad reality we face. | Bernie Sanders
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When we talk about protecting American democracy, we have absolutely got to look at what the Special Counsel Mueller is doing. But that’s not all that’s going on in this country. | U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders
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The debate now with the Republican Party is not over health care. It's not over education. It's not over climate. It is over whether or not we remain a democracy. | Bernie Sanders
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Social Security keeps 18 million seniors out of poverty every year. Trump and Musk are lying about it for one reason: so they can cut, privatize & dismantle it. We must EXPAND Social Security benefits, not cut them. And I am introducing a bill to do just that. | Bernie Sanders
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Full interview: Sen. Bernie Sanders on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan"
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I have long believed that democracy isn't just voting every four years—it’s about ordinary people creating community, engaging in the political process togethe | U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders
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It is truly frightening that in the last presidential election we had the lowest voter turnout in 20 years. We need to revitalize American democracy and bring millions of people into the political process. | U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders
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We have got to be active in the political process in a way that we have never been before in our lives. We have got to rethink what democracy means. | U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders
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We cannot simply protect democracy. We must expand it, so that every person in America can participate in the political process. | U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders
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These are the five ways Republicans are working to suppress the votes of young people and people of color. I believe there is nothing more fundamental than the principle that every single vote counts. We must fight back to make sure no person is blocked from participating in our democracy. | U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders
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Today we face an unprecedented situation where we have a president who, for whatever reason, refuses to acknowledge an attack on American democracy. | U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders
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