“Everywhere you look, you see greed, greed, greed,” Sanders exclaims in a broad New York dialect. Three super-rich would have more wealth than half the country. Energy companies would ruin the planet. “In a moral society they would be held accountable, but we don’t live in a moral society.”
It is this populist courage and unshakable class perspective on US socio-economic conditions that made Sanders the figurehead of a left-wing movement that few in the homeland of hyper-capitalism believed was possible. And Sanders maintained his combative attitude in the fall of his political career. Actually, the senator from Vermont “only” wants to present his new book “It’s OK To Be Angry About Capitalism” at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, but he sounds like he’s on an election campaign.