It's ok to be angry about capitalism - Bernie Sanders

In Yanis' book Adults in the room he describes the support he received from Bernie Sanders when he was trying to renegotiate a deal for Greece in Europe.

The first chapter of the book walks you through Bernie's 2020 presidential run. He did surprisingly well until the Democratic party acknowledged the risk he represents and banded its forces behind Biden.

"You can’t receive campaign contributions from the pharmaceutical industry and lower the outrageous cost of prescription drugs. You can’t rely on funding from the fossil fuel industry and combat climate change. You can’t take big checks from CEOs who have made their fortunes running non-union plants and then implement pro-worker labor law reforms. You can’t do fundraising events with billionaires and help develop a fair and progressive tax system."

"Let’s be honest. What the establishment was anxious about was the fact that we were beginning to transform the Democratic Party from an election machine dominated by wealthy campaign contributors and corporate interests into a multiracial, multiethnic, urban and rural movement of the working class."

The next two chapters describe how Bernie worked inside the government to push for the same things he campaigned for. It gives you insight in how restrictive the two party system with almost 50-50 split it government is. It is very good at maintaining a status quo and not getting anything done. It also describes how buying one or two votes in such a system is enough to torpedo any agenda that otherwise has broad support in the party. It must indeed be very frustrating to work in such a system.

The rest of the book is more future oriented and describes what Bernie stands for. Here is a link where he explains it all: https://www.youtube.com/live/ldKdyt6rKls?feature=share&t=3866