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Fighting Oligarchy in Tulsa, Oklahoma (Program at 7PM ET)

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"do not want let me let me just say this that in the
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midst of all of what is going on what is enormously important is that we
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do not give up on a vision of where this
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country must go
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what the establishment what the establishment wants you to
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believe is that you have no power that you can't
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accomplish anything they have it all nothing you could do
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and in this moment in American history what we have got to do in Vermont and
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Oklahoma in Texas all over this country is stand up and fight back and tell them
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this is our country
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and I don't care i don't care if you are a progressive a
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moderate or a conservative this country belongs to all of us not just a handful
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of billionaires
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and when we look out into the future the kind of America we want let's understand
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a few things number one instead of giving tax breaks to billionaires we
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should demand they start paying their fair share of taxes
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no we should not be throwing 16 million Americans off the
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health care they have we should be doing what every other major country does
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guarantee healthcare to all as a human right
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this is this is not a radical idea
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it exists in virtually every other wealthy country the function of a
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rational health care system is not to make hundreds of billions for the drug
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companies and the insurance companies it's to provide quality care to all

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none of us have the privilege of hiding under the covers the stakes are just too
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high and I would like to remind all of you short history lesson that throughout
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the history of this country what we have always seen is that real change
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fundamental change never takes place from the top on down it is always from
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the bottom on up ...."