#BernieSanders explained the GOP 'divide and conquer' strategy over two decades ago. Watch how relevant it still feels today…
"How's the Republican Party do so good? Now I'm going to tell you something that very few people in Congress will tell you. If you are the Republican leadership, and this is what your goals are. Your goals are to give huge tax breaks to the very richest people in this country. Your goals are ultimately to privatize Social Security so that Wall Street can make money from that. Privatize Medicare so the insurance companies can make more money. Privatize education. Do away with public schools. Now if you had an agenda like that and you went before the American people, tax breaks for the rich, destruction of Medicare, destruction of Social Security, as we know it, lowering the minimum wage or abolishing it, how many votes do you think you'd get? Not a whole lot. Maybe the richest 1% would vote for you. That's not a lot of votes. So what do I do? I've got a problem. You package it. How do you package it? And here I want you to pay attention to me. What you do is divide people up. Affirmative action becomes ownership. All them black people getting the jobs that we white people used to have. Split people, working class, white against black, instead of working together to create decent jobs for all. Those uppity women now, they want the right to choose, we'll split people on the abortion issue. We'll split people up on the gun issue. We'll split people up on religious issues. You follow what I'm saying? So you split people up, and then they end up, if you're a middle class person, voting against your own interests, and the rich go laughing all the way to the bank. And they very often play white workers off against everybody else. We'll play off women against men, black against white. Oh, the gay issue. Very, very big issue. Okay? Straight against gay, right? You're all supposed to hate gay people. So we split that group up. And then the argument, some of us are not patriotic. We had concerns about the war in Iraq. Well, that makes us unpatriotic. We hate America. Divide those things up. And that's how they succeed."
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#BernieSanders explained the GOP 'divide and conquer' strategy over two decades ago. Watch how relevant it still feels today…