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Glad to see my former boss in a position where he’s still making a difference. Worked as his main political appointee in the City Controller’s office until 1979. A lifetime ago.
Great presentation. Interestingly, the greatest resistance to EV transportation comes from 'conservative'/red states when they were/are the ones complaining the most about enviros stopping development! And EVs are only a fraction of what needs to be done on the climate change front.
"Frustration with the system is inversely related to participation in the system." Wow, is he wrong. Several decades ago, the Democratic party abandoned its traditional base of working- and middle-class voters to cater to a professional managerial class at odds with anyone economically below them, and to a corporate-military complex that sucks up public funding. (Thomas Frank has described this political shift in detail.) No amount of participation by these abandoned Democratic voters has been able to shift the corporate Dems back to their traditional base. These voters have been been betrayed by a party that now ignores their interests, and their frustration is all the more severe because they remain participants, but participants unheard, unseen, unrepresented.
When he talks about working "around the world" that included working along side of Paul Manafort in Ukraine getting Putin's man elected and leaving when the violence started. Next campaign was volunteering to help reletively unknown Bernie and ran a everyone else is "corrupt" and "rigged" campaign just like Manafort did with Trump and they did together in Ukraine.
Biden? The savior of democracy at home and perhaps worldwide, at least until Jan 2024, when the next insurrection happens. That's so huge for me that it masks his historic accomplishments. Infrastructure, college debt forgiveness, handling the Covid pandemic including continuing the relief for US citizens, the first woman vice-president, etc. And Afghanistan? He couldn't make a silk purse out of what Trump left him. Trump dancing with the Taliban and going around the recognized government of Afghanistan left Biden left only two moves 1) withdraw or 2) escalation of the war there.
The lady in the pink is like, " nope I'm confident that Trump nor Republicans will pay a political price because our voters are either not informed or being lied to about Trump commanding as a private citizen and the Republican party listening as to NOT passing a comprehensive immigration bill that was 90+% of what Republicans have ALWAYS wanted. " I believe her. They are that mis and dis informed
Sorry Mike but those that still support Trump have no credibility! Historians have begun to record Trump as the worst thing to have happened to the USA. You like other Republicans will be foot notes as to how Trump devastated and eviscerated the Republican Party.
My congratulations to all the speakers. Each presentation was very clearly explained. Well done. Political polarisation is good in the sense that it encourages democracy for as long as both parties do not go to extremes. But, there is nothing better than a positive discussion.
Very interesting to have a 3rd party primary in 2028, where cool people can be candidates for president like Mark Cuban, The Rock, Matthew McConaughey, etc
Thank you for this conversation. It is very important to expand awareness of antisemitism and other hatred beliefs and behaviors. I am learning a lot just by listening. I hope I have the courage to stand up 🟦
Folks like the ones in the audience should register to vote under the Common Sense party of California. They are working with the Forward Party to fix all the problems discussed in this talk.
The two old parties are staled, archaic, and rotten to the core, the party-line practice smells, polluted the freedom air and destroyed democracy! There's a need of some fresh, progressive injection into the just society push the country forward to American Greatness! People keep cool, there's a new party, you ought to exercise your god gift freedom of good choice to elect a wise, knowledgeable person for next president!
if theres not enough of the pie to go around in ten years how can this current system work. i think andrew yang is a pure genious ahead of his time and i love how he sees us all as humans. thanks
Looking at all the comments here, all the ooohhh and aaaahhh, and adulation. This guy is just another politician. I regret donating to his campaign 4 years ago. Total waste of money.
Yes and he's not addressing how things got where they are, why democracy with a deregulated campaign financing in a oligarch run corpratocracy isn't working... Incentives for corporations to expose the real policy causes of rotting within the system usually do not come from CEOs, pushing their bottom line means keeping the rott going regardless its unsustainable. Any politician that doesn't understand laws and policies, corroding the entire nation, and instead piggy back off of the crumbling poisoned wells with shiny new ideas only... is pushing a product not a complete solution. HEY WHERE ARE YOUR START UPS 👏🤲😄 WHAT CAN I DO TO HELP. ECONOMY ECONOMY ECONOMY.. wake the country up mainstream a solution. .... product priduct. Legit Yang would never have GOTTEN and infrastructure or chips bill passed.
Masih Alinejad showed her true side and character recently as a corrupted incompetent woman. She uses woman, life, freedom campaigns for her own financial benefits. She is NOT representing us the Iranian woman anymore. She is just a shame for our nation.
Bill, I've followed you off and on for years--as have others you went to school with in your hometown in S.C. Hello from Terri Spencer. :). All continued best wishes from the alumni of the best little High School in the States! Will always be thankful for the fabulous rehearsal dinner your Mother put on for me, too.
It's so sad that most people can't see the perfect (rare) candidate (genuine and brilliant) and rather allow the media to tell them who to vote for, or they feel the need to vote for a "charismatic" (typical phony conman, or corporate hack) candidate who only tells them what they want to hear. Do Americans suck at judging character, or what? The future is changing extremely fast and Yang was the only candidate who understood the serious problems coming down the pike. Americans used to see the value in highly intelligent and genuine introverts (Lincoln, JFK, MLK Jr...). All of which were the same rare personality type as Yang.
There is not much nationalism populism in China, trust me. If there is, the world can not take it. The Chinese government deliberately suppress excessive nationalism, they just told everybody to "roll up their sleeve and work harder - President Xi". The evidence is a few years ago, the government closed a famous right wing BBS, called TieXue. It is deemed as "excessive" given this situation. If there is multi-party voting system in China just like the one in US, we are already at nuclear war now. The so called "dictatorship" in China is indeed a blessing for the world.
media propaganda created the divison sometimes it was straight up lying, like Fox News does, sometimes it was leaving parts of the story out like MSNBC does.... If people arent gonna be smart enough to see thru the bullshit, then we cant let them vote. Simple as that. I propose a basic 5 to 10 question quiz before youre allowed to vote. Simple questions that both sides can agree on. Ya gotta know basic facts or you are worthless as a voter.
I love when liberals bring up the faireness doctrine to try to pin todays tottaly corrpt media via out of controll intelligence state on reagan when it was bush and obama that were the biggest advocates and expanders of the survailence state. As if having the government be the arbitor in what is fair and what is not fair on TV is somehow not just another censorship tool used by the government to shut down or discredit disfavored speech. its the most absurd thing in the world, no one can agreee on what is fair. people think accidently callign someone a she a he is hate speech.
