Good evening Wyoming!
It is my pleasure to introduce 
the former agricultural commissioner
of the state of Texas, Jim Hightower.
Hello Wyoming!
Hello revolutionaries!
Wow, what a fabulous, fabulous event this
is. What a fabulous presidential campaign
this is. What a fabulous opportunity this
is. Just makes me happier than a flea at a
dog show to be standing up here, looking out
at all of you Bernie-istas as we take power
back to the American people at the grassroots level.
And what better place to come to talk
about the inequality state of America than
the Equality State of Wyoming.
The problem in this country is the powers that be.
Too few people, and I'm talking about
a handful of billionaires and corporate executives,
they control too much of the money and power
in our country. And they're using that control
to take more from you and me for them.
Now, you know, economists 
have a technical term for this.
"Stealing."
Woody Guthrie had that
great song, "As I travel through this world
I see lots of funny men / Some will rob you
with a six-gun and some with a fountain pen."
It's a fountain pens, the fountain pens are
doing the serious stealing in our society
today. It's a big time for America, a big
time for presidential politics, a big time
for We the People. A big time for democracy
itself. I come to you not just from Austin,
Texas, but from South Austin.
We got a little different attitude south of the river.
We're a little more irreverent. Our unofficial slogan
over there is, "We're all here because
we're not all there."
Well, I think we're all here
tonight because we know that the Powers That Be
on Wall Street, and in Washington, and
in the corporate suites, they're not at all
there in comprehending what America is all about.
Those powers that be, they're as confused
as goats on astroturf when it comes to understanding
that in America, we're supposed to be all
in this together. But they want to separate
themselves. And by the Powers That Be, I'm
talking about the downsizers and privatizers.
I'm talking about the Walmart wage-whackers,
the Big Oil frackers. I'm talking about the
bosses, the bankers, the big shots, the bastards,
the bullshitters, who think that they can
run roughshod over us. They might think that
they're the top dogs, and we're just a bunch
of fire hydrants out here in the countryside.
But look at what's happening in Wyoming, here
tonight. We're gonna send 'em a message.
You know, inequality doesn't just "happen," it's
planned. It's decided. By corporate executives,
sitting in comfortable executive suites, it's
decided by their lobbyists and by their Congresscritters,
whom they have bought. They have made decisions,
they put out a whole array of forces against
us to steal our rights. Their campaign dollars
are lobbyists, they're Fox News, they're union
busters, off-shoring. They're front groups
and governors, they're legislatures like yours and mine.
They're courts. You know, they say
that in sex-- I don't know a lot about this, but,
they were explaining it to me backstage.
And they say that in sex, using a feather can be erotic.
But using the whole chicken,
that's just nasty.
They're using the whole chicken!
That's why we have to have a big
politics to create big change in this country
for the people. And we're not gonna get that
from the Republican freakshow that they're
running over there, in their primaries.
I hear Donnie Trump and I hear Ted Cruz. I hear
this gaggle of Goofy and Daffy and Dopey and
Grumpy, and I think,
"A hundred thousand sperm and you were the fastest?"
So we have to have
a candidate, a candidate in the Democratic
primary who is going to stand up for America's
workaday majority and rally them into a democratic
revolution to overthrow the plutocrats, the
autocrats, and the kleptocrats who think that
they can run roughshod over us and luckily,
we have one such candidate.
Everybody say "Bernie" together!
And here he comes. My message
to you, my message to you tonight, is it's
not up to Bernie, it's up to you and me. It's
up to us. We've got to the heavy lifting.
Let's get together and we can do it, we can
take power to the people and move America
forward, not take America back. The Tea Party
did that, we're back a hundred years already.
We need to go forward, with all the people,
and this man is gonna get it done.
Bernie Sanders, our candidate, 
the people's President of the United States!
