The Senator from Vermont

Said Sanders: "I could have predicted
How the wealthy their way have inflicted,
Since the votes on the Right
They've locked up airtight,
And those on the Left are conflicted."   

In the debate over retaining tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans, Vermont's Senator Bernie Sanders - a Socialist -  offers one of the few full-throated defenses of progressive taxation, a policy that once ago was centrist.