{"id":1869,"date":"2025-04-04T18:45:43","date_gmt":"2025-04-04T18:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gunnewsusa.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/04\/bernie-sanders-warns-the-u-s-is-now-a-pseudo-democracy\/"},"modified":"2025-04-04T18:45:43","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T18:45:43","slug":"bernie-sanders-warns-the-u-s-is-now-a-pseudo-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunnewsusa.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/04\/bernie-sanders-warns-the-u-s-is-now-a-pseudo-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Bernie Sanders warns the U.S. is now a “pseudo-democracy”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Senator Bernie Sanders, who has been drawing large crowds across the country<\/a><\/span> in recent weeks attacking the Trump administration and Elon Musk’s DOGE efforts, sat down with national correspondent Robert Costa for this Sunday’s “CBS News Sunday Morning.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

In this preview clip, Senator Sanders, a Vermont independent who ran for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016 and 2020, calls the United States a “pseudo-democracy” due to the way President Trump has governed and how he believes the wealthy have accrued power in both major parties.<\/p>\n

Transcript below: <\/p>\n

BERNIE SANDERS:\u00a0<\/strong>One of the other concerns when I talk about oligarchy, Bob, it’s not just massive income and wealth inequality. It’s not just the power of the billionaire class. These guys, led by Musk, are \u2013 and as a result of this disastrous Citizens United Supreme Court decision, have now allowed billionaires essentially to own our political process. So, I think when we talk about America is a democracy, I think we should rephrase it, call it a pseudo-democracy. And it’s not just Musk and the Republicans. It’s billionaires in the Democratic Party as well.<\/p>\n

ROBERT COSTA: <\/strong>That’s a serious thing to say as a U.S. senator, pseudo-democracy.<\/p>\n

BERNIE SANDERS:<\/strong> Well, look \u2013 <\/p>\n

ROBERT COSTA:<\/strong> Not, not a full democracy? <\/p>\n

BERNIE SANDERS: <\/strong>Look, you get one vote, and Elon Musk can spend $270 million to help elect Trump. Does that sound like a democracy to you?<\/p>\n

For more of Costa’s interview with Sen. Sanders, tune in to “CBS News Sunday Morning” Sunday, April 6, at 9:00 a.m. ET, and streaming on Paramount+.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

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