Iran Press/America: Democratic Senator from Vermont and one of the leading candidates for the US 2020 presidential election, Bernie Sanders wrote in his Twitter account: "Our corrupt campaign finance system is increasingly controlled by billionaires and special interests. We must fight this drift toward oligarchy. The future of our democracy is at stake."
Sanders' warning is understandable given the current US election process. Prior to the 2016 presidential election, when Donald Trump entered the political arena as a billionaire, the main concern in the presidential election was that elections turn into a place to compete with American billionaires. By that time, billionaires had not yet entered the election campaign, but behind the scene with the financial backing of candidates who had pledged to protect their interests, they played an important role in steering the election.
Although the 2016 presidential election was held in the same context, it was different from previous contests, in which Donald Trump was a Republican nominee; One of the same billionaires who had previously attempted to influence the election unnoticed.
Trump decided to come to the scene in order to realize his ideas, which he had repeatedly emphasized before and during the election, in particular the fulfillment of the "America First" slogan, thanks to his careful electoral strategy while he used his own money to win the votes of the American people.
Famous Jewish financier Sheldon Adelson, one of Trump's most important friends and supporters in the election, had the responsibility to support Trump among the Conservatives. On the Democratic side, well-known financiers such as Tom Steyer, George Soros, and New York billionaire and former mayor of New York, Michael Bloomberg led the Democratic presidential campaign to finance Hillary Clinton's campaign.
So, the presidential elections became a field for competing billionaires who wanted to be directly involved in politics.
Now, while approaching the November 2020 US presidential election, in addition to US billionaire President Trump, the Bloomberg media mogul Michael Bloomberg is among the Democrats.
Bloomberg, whose wealth is estimated at about $58 billion, announced in November 2019 his entry into the Democratic intra-party race to determine the party's final candidate for the presidency.
Bloomberg has come to realize that if Trump by his wealth and strategists like Steve Bannon was able to win the 2016 presidential election, so he, himself, will certainly do well in the 2020 election.
Sanders has a similar view about his Democratic opponent in the Democratic intra-party race, Pete Buttigieg. In a speech, he described Buttigieg as the favorite candidate for the billionaire class, which the senator considers a source of corruption in the Democratic Party.
Sanders said: "Pete Buttigieg has 40 billionaire donors. I'm proud to say our campaign has zero. What we have is over 6 million contributions from over 1.5 million people averaging $18 apiece."
Bernie Sanders warned against the presence of billionaires in the US presidential election, who believe that these billionaires, after entering the White House, are in the interests of the US financial, industrial, political, and media oligarchs, and groups in general and thus sacrifice national interests for their personal and factual interests. Hence, there will no longer be any sign of democracy and sovereignty in America.
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