#1010 - Bernie Sanders - Who Actually Runs the US Government?

Modern Wisdom

Chris Williamson

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 23 October 2025

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Bernie Sanders is a US Senator, former presidential candidate, political activist and an author. What happened to the Democratic Party? After a brutal defeat to Trump in 2024, the Left looks lost, divided, leaderless, and unsure of its future. Bernie Sanders breaks down what went wrong, how Democrats are trying to recover, and whether they’ve learned from their mistakes or are doubling down on them, repeating the very ideas that cost them the election. Expect to learn what the future of the democratic party could look like, Bernie’s thoughts on Kamala’s presidential run in 2024, how much of an own goal identity politics was for the Democrats, why the Democratic party turned their back to the working class, how the Democrats can fix their messaging to men and young men after abandoning them completely, if ICE should be abolished, how worried Bernie and the Left is about the birth rate crisis and much more… Sponsors: See discounts for all the products I use and recommend: https://chriswillx.com/deals Get a Free Sample Pack of LMNT’s most popular flavours with your first purchase at https://drinklmnt.com/modernwisdom Get 5 Free Travel Packs, Free Liquid Vitamin D, and more from AG1 at https://ag1.info/modernwisdom Get 35% off your first subscription on the best supplements from Momentous at https://livemomentous.com/modernwisdom Get $100 off the best bloodwork analysis in America at https://functionhealth.com/modernwisdom Extra Stuff: Fight Oligarchy by Senator Bernie Sanders out now: https://tinyurl.com/3vcu5s9h Get my free reading list of 100 books to read before you die: https://chriswillx.com/books Try my productivity energy drink Neutonic: https://neutonic.com/modernwisdom Episodes You Might Enjoy: #577 - David Goggins - This Is How To Master Your Life: https://tinyurl.com/43hv6y59 #712 - Dr Jordan Peterson - How To Destroy Your Negative Beliefs: https://tinyurl.com/2rtz7avf #700 - Dr Andrew Huberman - The Secret Tools To Hack Your Brain: https://tinyurl.com/3ccn5vkp - Get In Touch: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/modernwisdompodcast Email: https://chriswillx.com/contact - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I read something recently that I worked to get your thoughts on. The left's greatest enemy is not the
0:04.5	right, but the hard left. The right's greatest enemy is not the left, but the hard right. The
0:09.9	lunatics of your own side make you look much sillier than the opposition ever could.
0:14.7	All right, maybe, but what I am most interested in right now is not left or right. What I am focusing on right now is that in
0:24.1	an unprecedented way in American history, we have more income and wealth inequality, more
0:30.2	concentration of ownership, more billionaire control over the media and our political
0:36.1	system than we've ever had in the history of the United
0:38.9	States. And you add all that together, that's what's called oligarchy. And that's the fight that I
0:43.6	am engaging in right now. We should not be living in a nation where so few have so much wealth
0:48.8	in power, while at the same time, Chris, he got in the richest country on earth. 60% of our people got it, 60% are living paycheck to paycheck.
0:59.2	They're struggling to pay for health care, for child care, for education.
1:04.2	Housing is off the charts.
1:06.2	Very few young people can afford to buy their own homes.
1:10.0	And parents having a hard time even affording to buy decent quality food for their kids,
1:15.1	that's the reality I'm focusing on right now.
1:17.4	What's the story of how we got here?
1:19.4	Good question.
1:22.4	Let me throw out a statistic and we go from there.
1:26.7	In the last 52 years, you got it?
1:30.0	Go back to 1973.
1:32.0	All right.
1:33.0	You'd have been 31.
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