{"id":244540,"date":"2023-06-22T11:37:34","date_gmt":"2023-06-22T10:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/?post_type=snippet&p=244540"},"modified":"2023-06-22T11:37:34","modified_gmt":"2023-06-22T10:37:34","slug":"bernie-on-morality","status":"publish","type":"snippet","link":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/snippet\/bernie-on-morality\/","title":{"rendered":"Bernie on morality"},"content":{"rendered":"

Indefatigable as ever, Bernie Sanders has been railing against inequality<\/a> in the USA, pointing out that just 3 people own more wealth than the bottom 50% of the population, which is 165 million people. ‘That’s not moral,’ he thunders, ‘that’s not right. That’s not what should exist in a democratic society.’<\/p>\n

But the USA is not a democratic society, is it, Bernie? It’s a capitalist society in which the whole point is for the rich to get richer off the backs of the labouring poor, aided by a puppet government whose sole purpose is to enforce the status quo. Just like Britain, just like China, just like every country in the capitalist world.<\/p>\n

Welcome to the class war, where morals don’t matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-244540","snippet","type-snippet","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/snippet\/244540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/snippet"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/snippet"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}