I'm confused. Merkley points out that his middle class background and education allowed him to be and do anything he wanted (as his dad told him he could in America), then proceeds to claim that America is off the rail now  (which, ironically, has been driven by politicians and numerous global factors other than fossil fuel use!). 

Here in Oregon, 30+ straight years of his party's Governing has in many ways put us on a negative trajectory path. Cover Oregon personnel even hand signed Merkley up on the incorrect healthcare plan! Incompetence de jour. 

Then there was his perpetual complaining about the Koch Brothers funding Wehby's campaign, but never a peep regarding Soros and Steyer doing the same thing? To pretend that Merkley and Sanders were the first to really gripe about large corporations effect on policies and politics is a real, serious slap in the face to Ralph Nader who has been discussing that since I was a child. Go figure!