Bernie Sanders’ speech | Non-fiction analysis

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The video in your assignment shows the beginning of the commencement address “Bernie Sanders to Brooklyn College Graduates:

Don’t ‘Allow Demagogues to Divide Us’ ” when Sanders is introduced and walks on the stage while the audience is cheering and applauding.

In the video, he talks about the difficult times which the US is experiencing but also about his trust in a better future.

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The overall topic of the commencement address “Bernie Sanders to Brooklyn College Graduates: Don’t ‘Allow Demagogues to Divide Us’ ” is inequality in US society.

The speech focuses mostly on economic inequality, with the speaker using several data and statistics which show that “43 million Americans live in poverty” and that “the top 1/10 of 1% now owns almost as much wealth as the bottom 90%”.

Through such statistics, Bernie Sanders explores income inequality and argues that the US is turning into an oligarchy:

“Directly related to the oligarchic economy that we currently have is an oligarchic and corrupt political system which is undermining American democracy.”

Sanders looks at how income inequality is directly related to political leaders who pass laws that often favor the rich and discriminate against the poor:

“The very rich get much richer and they get huge tax cuts. The middle-class shrinks and the poor struggle…”.

Apart from economic inequality, the speaker also explores the inequality caused by discrimination, arguing that politicians can try to divide people “by race, by religion, by national origin, by gender or sexual orientation.