Summary of Bernie Sanders's It's OK to Be Angry About Capitalism

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Get the Summary of Bernie Sanders's It's OK to Be Angry About Capitalism in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Sanders argues that unfettered capitalism is to blame for an unprecedented level of income and wealth inequality, is undermining our democracy, and is destroying our planet. How can we accept an economic order that allows three billionaires to control more wealth than the bottom half of our society? How can we accept a political system that allows the super rich to buy elections and politicians? How can we accept an energy system that rewards the fossil fuel corporations causing the climate crisis? Sanders believes that, in the face of these overwhelming challenges, the American people must ask tough questions about the systems that have failed us and demand fundamental economic and political change. This is where the path forward begins.

It’s OK to Be Angry About Capitalism presents a vision that extends beyond the promises of past campaigns to reveal what would be possible if the political revolution took place, if we would finally recognize that economic rights are human rights, and if we would work to create a society that provides a decent standard of living for all. This isn’t some utopian fantasy; this is democracy as we should know it.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: May 8, 2023
• ISBN: 9798350063875

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Summary of Bernie Sanders’s It’s OK to Be Angry About Capitalism

Contents

Overview

The System Is Broken

The 2020 Campaign

Defeating Trump

A Fight for Democracy

Thinking Big, Not Small

Tax the Rich

Health Care Is a Human Right

The Class War

The Future of AI

Corporate Media

Fighting Back

What the Democrats Must Do

About the Authors

Overview

For decades, billionaires have been prioritizing profits over the well-being of the working class and the environment. The result has been unprecedented levels of wealth inequality, a dysfunctional health care system, and a climate crisis. In It’s OK to Be Angry About Capitalism (2023), Senator Bernie Sanders provides a blueprint for progressive change, both economic and political. He looks at the flaws in American democracy and offers a vision for a future where health care and a decent standard of living are guaranteed human rights.

The System Is Broken

The current uber-capitalist economic system is not merely unfair but deeply immoral. While the middle class continues to decline, the system is doing well for the people who own it, the oligarchs. They have enormous wealth and power and are doing everything possible to maintain the status quo. But millions of Americans are starting to look at society from a new perspective.

In 2016, Bernie Sanders won 22 states and 13 million votes in the Democratic presidential primaries, shocking the political establishment. In 2020, Sanders won the popular vote in the first three Democratic primary states. The most important lesson from his campaigns is that the votes came, in overwhelming numbers, from people under 40. Young people understand that America’s uber-capitalist system is not working for them. They want real change.