”You divide everyone up, and you know what happens?” Sanders asked. ”The rich get richer, and everyone else gets poorer.” Sen. Bernie Sanders wearing ILWU jacket at rally in Southern California, May 2016
From the Los Angeles Daily News:
Sen. Bernie Sanders’ 30-minute speech before a crowd of about 1,000 mostly union dock workers — members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 13 — rarely mentioned Clinton, but he did take repeated shots at corporate America, Wall Street and the Republican’s presumptive presidential nominee, Donald Trump.
His attacks on Trump zeroed in on the reality television star’s comments that have been labeled as racist and misogynistic.
“You divide everyone up, and you know what happens?” Sanders asked. “The rich get richer, and everyone else gets poorer.”
He also brought up Pope Francis and the need for “moral economy.”
“A moral economy is not an economy where CEOs make tens of millions of dollars a year, ship our jobs abroad and take away health care from their workers,” Sanders said. “That is the type of corporate culture that has got to be fundamentally changed. There is more to life than billionaires making more money.”
Sanders has been buoyed by a recent California field poll that showed him trailing Democratic front-runner Clinton by 2 points.