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On the recordFebruary 12, 2025
But I must confess that he's done an exceptional job of demonstrating a point that a few of us have been making for years, and that is the reality that we live in an oligarchic society in which billionaires dominate not only our politics and the information we consume from media but our government and economic lives as well.
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Bernie Sanders
Independent · Vermont

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Sanders acknowledges Musk's role in highlighting oligarchic influence.

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