Bernie Sanders Brings Stephen Colbert the Perfect Campaign Message

Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders appeared on the “Late Show with Stephen Colbert”“early Friday to talk about the Republican National Convention Disastrously Boring.

“I’m going to tell you what no one else is going to tell you,” Sanders told the host. “Why not? It’s two in the morning, who’s listening anyway?” While Sanders was indeed funny, he was also dead serious about the importance of the November choice for all working Americans.

Regarding Donald Trump tortuously long speechSanders said: “You know what amazes me about these things, Stephen, is how little the real problems of the country are talked about and how few real solutions there are.”

“Basically the pitch was, ‘The country is in terrible shape. Vote for me. And I’m going to bring wonderful things to all of you. You don’t know how, or why, but I’m going to do it. Just trust me.’”

Sanders then said that the Republican Party’s catastrophic denial of climate change should alone disqualify anyone who votes for their candidates, one in particular.

“No one in America should vote for Trump,” the two-time presidential candidate said, noting that Trump and the Republican Party’s number one policy is to cut taxes for the wealthiest billionaires. Everyone else is screwed.

“Ninety percent of Republicans want to cut Social Security in some way,” Sanders said. “Anyone who has any illusions that Republicans will do anything to help the working class in this country is sorely mistaken.”

Colbert asked Sanders what he thought about the world’s most expensive midlife crisis.Elon Musk promises to pay around $180 million in Republican campaign coffers.

“In a sense, we should thank Musk for making this problem so obvious,” Sanders said.

“What we have in America today is a corrupt political system. That’s it. We don’t really live in a democracy. We live in a semi-democracy. You have the right to vote. But a billionaire has the right to contribute hundreds of millions of dollars to advance his agenda. And what Musk has done, and what other billionaires are doing, is they’ve gotten behind Trump because they know they’re going to get huge tax cuts.”

Sanders showed his support for President Joe Biden during the chaos that followed the latter’s grueling June 27 debate. The senator also wrote a editorial in the New York Times On Saturday, he said Biden was the best candidate to face Trump in November. He reiterated his support for Colbert.

“I want to be very clear about why I support the president. I think about all the candidates and I am very aware of the disastrous debate he had and the problems he had. But I am also very aware that he has been the strongest and most progressive president of my lifetime. He is the first president in American history to stand with working people on a picket line. He took on the pharmaceutical industry and cut prescription drug prices. We are rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure. We have invested more money in climate change than ever before in the history of this country. Five million Americans have gotten student debt relief, and that is a start.”

TRUE. TRUE. TRUE. TRUE.

But Sanders’ final message may be the most important: why we must continue to vote.

“Over the last few decades, Stephen, we should be proud as a nation. We have come a long way in erasing bigotry against our African-American brothers and sisters. We have come a long way in combating sexism and homophobia. Our job now is to fight back economically and tell the billionaire class and their greed that they can no longer think they are going to have it all. This country belongs to all of us.”

Whether Biden stays in the race or not, Sanders’ message remains: “No one in America should vote for Trump.” And it’s a message we should all amplify.

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