Bernie Sanders: Everything isn't awesome

If Sen. Bernie Sanders were the director of the Lego Movie, whose catchy song blares, “Everything is awesome,” the animated film’s title track would have been decidedly less upbeat.

For Sanders, everything in the United States isn’t awesome – far from it, in fact.

“I know that people aren’t comfortable when I say this, but I worry very, very much of the future of democracy in our country,” said the Vermont independent, speaking at the Brookings Institution on Monday.

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Sanders is known for highlighting what he sees as the ills that plague the United States