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Transcript via Morning Joe:
SCARBOROUGH: Talk about what you mean when you say revolution.
SANDERS: Good. This is what I mean, Joe. You’re absolutely right, and there are people who are doing that and I think that is pretty pathetic. What do I mean by a revolution? I will tell you, political revolution.
That is in the last election that we had in November 2014, do you know what, 63 percent of the American people didn’t vote. Eighty percent of young people didn’t vote. To my mind, what a political revolution means is a revitalization of American democracy.
You know what I think? I want to see America have one of the highest voter turnouts of any major country on Earth, not one of the lowest turnouts. And I think — I want to see people get involved in the political process, be thinking about the important issues, debating the important issues.
I want political consciousness to go up because I believe when that happens, when young people and working people become involved in the political process, it will not just be billionaires and wealthy campaign contributors who determine what’s happening in Washington. That’s the thrust of everything I’m talking about. That’s the political revolution, Joe.
Sanders was correct. The political revolution that he is talking about is a grassroots revitalization of American democracy. Many of the ideas on the Sanders platform are linked. To give political power back to the people at a grassroots level, Citizens United must be overturned.
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