From socialist mayor to presidential power player — this is the life of Bernie Sanders.
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00:00**Cheering**
00:30Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
00:53Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
01:03What socialism means, basically, is democracy.
01:06It's a society in which you don't have a handful of giant banks and corporations
01:10controlling the economic and political life of the nation.
01:13Maybe we should be protecting elderly people who have lost their life savings in a declining stock market.
01:29Maybe we should be protecting the millions of American workers who have seen their jobs go to China and Mexico.
01:35Maybe we should be talking about the fact that our health care system is collapsing and insurance rates are going up.
01:42Not only will I fight to protect the working families of this country,
01:57but we are going to build a movement of millions of Americans who are prepared to stand up and fight back.
02:05We were told that Medicare for All, a $15 an hour minimum wage, free tuition at public colleges and universities,
02:22aggressively combating climate change, demanding that the wealthy start paying their fair share of taxes.
02:29We were told that all of these concepts were ideas that the American people would never accept.
02:36Well, three years have come and gone, and as a result of millions of Americans standing up and fighting back,
02:46all of these policies and more are now supported by a majority of Americans.