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 About a year ago (in 2023), upon watching: Bernie Sanders spells out why capitalism is failing us | Down the pub with Bernie Sanders at: https://youtu.be/eNXoL5Qwu8g I wrote the following: First (the least important point:), I am glad that the stupid music which accompanied the conversation at the beginning went away later. Second, I am glad that the people sitting in the joint did not make any noise, nor interrupt the conversation. Bernie Sanders was given enough opportunity to say things that he believes are important. Sadly, he is a man of intellectual courage only by the low standards of intellectual cowards. The 'ruling class' of intellectual cowards imagine that political thought is REQUIRED to depict a BINARY world-view, and pick only ONE side --and at least one side. We are also expected, in the 21st Century, despite the long record of the damage that our species has been causing on this planet, to DISREGARD INTERGENERATIONAL HARM, and act as if the villains and (poten