“He’s a Fake”: Robert Kuttner on How J.D. Vance Disguises His Anti-Worker Views as Economic Populism 

Yes, U hit it right in the 'bulls-eye'...

Oh well, all her past supporters switched over to Kamala yesterday...

How can anyone trust him now?

​@@mschlund1- We can't forget that Kamala turned on her old friend Joe Biden during the debates and called him a racist. Look where that cackling imposter is now.

Kamala did exactly the same thing to Biden.

Poverty is a lack of cash that isn't MEANS TESTED. Basic Income not Welfare.

Poverty isn't a lack of character but there are paths people who manage to escape poverty tske. He took 2 of them : 1) he joined military and 2) he got an education after getting out of the military. In addition, a huge number ot people helped him. None of this means poverty is the fault of the poor.

It's a TED Talk by Rutger Bregman about basic income. He's a historian and the author of "Utopia for Realists". It's a great TED Talk for sure.

"Great wealth isn't a proof of personal character, it's a myth imposed upon by the lesser ones"

SAY WHAT?? Truer words? I really do not get that. He who is without character is impoverished indeed.

Everything is backwards now and there's no point in those groups- so register and vote independent!

You don’t see the irony in defending Raytheon while also talking about what is best for the average American worker? 😂 The neo-cons own both sides of the aisle now, let’s be real about this. And this coming election is the Catholic Church Globalists vs the Freemason ‘New World Order’. Neither give one hot hoot about you and me.

President Biden walked the picket line. The Democratic Party is the party of workers. Republicans have F’d workers for decades.

You gotta expect some things to change in 78 years, don’t you?

It was the biden administration and the dems who busted up the railroad union when they wanted to strike .

I think you mean WASTE 💩

@@johnbrown1851 ooops🤭I didn't check before clicking the "reply" button, but you are absolutely correct; she is a political WASTE AND A FECAL WASTE too👍.

Back over the WALL! with you!

@@harrisdupree3323 Everyone of you "Americans" are NOT Americans and I do not care whether you arrived in the MayFlower or later on! So don't you dare telling any latinos that they do not belong! They were there before all of you! An Spaniard speaking !

I agree! Working people won't get any help from her, she is there to GET what she can for HERSELF ONLY

He is "New" around "Train Wreck" Time, and suddenly pushed to "PICK 4 VP" These are the things that people miss, that are Not Normal. This is where "Critical Thinking" is severely needed. How does a New Rep get JUMPED TO VP? For a Reason. But, he will make a Great Uncle JD for Donald's ewe.wish Grandchildren, and prob a ... zhek el ...with Prez & Uncle pic's together.

Be aware of this billionairs,they are a real treat.they spent milj on trump to get power back!!

You could be correct. However, we know with certainty that Biden's backers bought and cheated to win the 2020 election, and extend back through 60 years of scandals. We further know they are the warmongers who once correctly called out by the Democrat populist base who also correctly called out China's litany of human rights violations. Where does that leave "centrist" Americans?

And tucker Carlson did the talking to Trump to convince him to pick Vance. Tucker also used to be a Trump hater turning into ultra, ultra Trump and MAGA cheerleader.

@@karincarl4535 Sounds like that’s what happened. Corporate buyout of a person. Probably Thiel wants no taxes to have to pay.

He didn't say he grew up in Appalachia. He moved away when he was young, but visited often and felt connected.

@@BigAl444 He was born and raised in Ohio and went to Appalachia with his grandmother on frequent visits. Read his memoir.

@@YaelIvet_NYC I'd rather drink hemlock than read Vance's prose. I have a Scottish grandmother, being English myself, and visited Inverness very often with her, I wouldn't dream of claiming to 'feel connected' to the degree that would allow me to represent (with truthfulness, that is) life in the Great Glen. Assuming you care about books that masterfully convey the experience of life in Appalachia, I recommend the books of a real writer (and literary giant, very much unlike Vance -the cultural opportunist and fraud) like Barbara Kingsolver.

@@allegory6393 It seems people are easily impressed by the fact that Vance has been able to write a whole book.

@@RebeccaTurner-ny1xx - Oh come on, be fair...Vance's book has large print and at least 50 pages...anybody can read, but only if they want to. And now that he's famous I expect it'll have to have an extra print run...maybe even 100 more copies.

Self-serving snake .

Ok, so you think the government would do a better job allocating capital ?

This is AMERICA. No one cares about poor people...red or blue. We are ruled by Corporate Capitalists.

​@@ryeisenmanone is helping people. The other is helping rich people. Give us a break.

Just like Kamala's BULLSHIT memories of "Growing up a poor Black child in America" while in fact living very well in an Upper-Middle Class suburb of Montreal, Canada with her PHD University Professor Father & Biologist Mother raising her in very observant Tamil Indian family

Well said, thank you!

Please vote for the Green & Dr. Jill Stein. TY x

Are people not allowed to change their mind by what they see or notice?

You are dead WRONG. Wait for it. It's gonna be a real revelation to all who've been paying no attention, a real dilly!

he is not confused he is a weasel

Newest incarnation of trickle down.

RE: "Project 2025"... They plan to eliminate Unions and worker protections. I was smh when I saw the representative of the Teamster's Union publicly climb into bed with them at the RNC. Somebody needs to get that man out of there and fast. He betrayed the people he's paid to represent by not doing his homework before cashing the RNC check. Truckers... I'm so serious. You really need to get rid of that guy. Might even want to dig deeper into the finances.

You know that is a fantasy from a far right think tank?

I’ve read Project 2025 and I don’t see what you’re freaking out about! 1)Reducing school lunches? We throw away the majority of those lunches. My sister who is an office manager at an elementary school has told me they throw away the majority of the food supplied all over California. 2)Reduce SNAP benefits? Too many people are on the dole in this country. We are paying for people that could be working and are sucking of the government teat! Only those who really need it should get it, like our mentally ill and disabled who can’t support themselves. 3)Outlawing pornography? That would be a good thing for this nation and it will probably reduce sexual crimes, too! 4)Stopping government funding to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting? Half a billion dollars are squandered on leftist opinion each year. Why should conservatives be forced to pay for the suppression of its own views. As Thomas Jefferson put it, “To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical.” It would be absolutely fantastic if they did this. Why should we pay for this? Pay for your own opinionated programming. Only public service announcements should be paid for Just from these few proposals, our costs would be reduced. I don’t see anything wrong with any of that. Do you? Just what are you afraid of? You have much more to fear from Agenda 2030 and the GrEaT rEsEt. Check out the prison you’ll be in if those elites get reelected!

I read some parts of this Project 2025 and also listened to some news sources commenting about it. To be honest, I have not seen the bad or evil part the people is yelling about. You shouldn't believe all the mainstream propaganda bullshit around you, it is nothing more than distraction and brainwashing, especially from the left (no i'm not right wing). If you really wanna worry about something important, pay attention to the World Economic Forum, Blackrock, the Military Industrial complex, George Soros, Bill Gates and all these criminal globalists. Those are the real enemies.

Me too!!!

The goal is a Good self-governing country in which all citizens are those who HAVE a Decent Livelihood, i.e., none are in deprivation (or none are HAVE-NOTS) of enough of the (6) external elements which together comprise a Decent Livelihood. Those (6) external elements are: 1 ) A decent supply of the means of subsistence. 2 ) Living & working conditions conducive to health. 3 ) Medical care. 4 ) Opportunities for access to the pleasures of sense as well as the pleasures of play & the aesthetic pleasures. 5 ) Opportunities for access to the goods of the mind through educational facilities in youth & adult life. 6 ) Enough free time from subsistence work both in youth & adult life to take advantage of these opportunities.

Vote Kennedy

@@thomasd2444 This is Vance's goal?

​@@kathiedito1318 Amen! "ISA"

The mysterious 3am ballot drops, in key swing states all at the same time. The truckers who reported delivering ballots across state lines, but then were shut up by FBI. The big water leak that forced all poll watchers out in Fulton County that was just a running toilet. The countless numbers of illegal drop boxes. The countless number of changed laws right before the election.

FACTS! WHYYYYY?

The only fraud in the 2020 election was done by trump, his lawyers, and Bannon. The fake electors scheme in six states that he lost. When that didn't work rump turned his followers loose on the capital

Except they do, that's why there is still litigation going on to this day in Georgia.

@@earlysda don’t go giving any specifics now.

So you're a Marxist too

Only because a billionaire paid for him to be a venture capitalist!

Oh well maybe when he's elected can just pull a dem move and raise the minimum wage and then we can all be like CALI, NY, ILLINOIS..NO JOBS, BUSINESSES SHUTTING DOWN AND JUST MORE WHINING FROM YOU AND PPL LIKE YOU. HELL WHY WOULDN'T ANYONE WANNA DO THAT??? Y'ALL R JUST SO SMART

Because the government collects more in taxes from people working than from "taxing the rich" that the Democrats claim [which is hilarious, because THEY ARE the rich -- you really think they are going to tax themselves...?]. Problem the Dems have is that when people are working, they are not depending on the government, so the Dems lose their voter base -- and they can't have that.

Minimum wage is a salary cap on the poor and corporate collusion to fix wages. Since fiat currency and globalism, it only benefits multinational corporations.

❤

We are There

Corporations make money with American workers or without. Would you agree that outsourcing jobs makes Americans poorer?

Under Traitor Joe, every single American got poorer except his billionaires oligarchs friends.

I know sleepy Joe Brandon has ruined the nation totally ,no middle class,the back bone of corpo rations have been squashed out ,they have become poorer and the corporations have become wealthier,thanks democRATS

They always bring up that tired old threat . And the republicans rebuke it everytime . When has the social security changed ??? Why not ask yourself how it will survive with millions of immigrants being put on SSI/ SSD plus medical ??? Lets see whats left after that ? Thank you democrats!

My parents are dead. I’m more concerned about if I will have Social Security. I know I won;t if the Dems get in because they are giving away all of our money to illegals. They won’t be able to keep up this level of free handouts. Social Security and Medicare will die!

@@sharonolson5782 typical democrat fear mongering!

Our social security has been spent by Kamala Harris opening the boarder.

​@@christiejohnston8538, nonsense

The new wage slaves hiding in plain sight. Wicked.

@virginiatierney408 I think the mean worker as opposed to owner of the enterprise. Someone paid by someone else. But good point, nonetheless.

I think he means who isn’t living off of passive income or buddies with Thiel.

Excellent point. That's a very common GOP strategy so they can tap into the middle American, white working class emotional self-image of "worker," rather than the reality of the average worker.

And what did you do in the military?

His MOS was Combat Journalist. It's a respectable service to this country. Ask yourself how many veterans are getting disability for PTSD that never served on a combat mission. Look at the US generals to see how many generals don't have a CIB award (i.e. the 'blue knife award' is designed to appear like a CIB from a distance but it's just a 'I brought a knife to a gun show' award - aka, no combat fighting needed, 10mi from any active combat site, stayed in the safe zone - aka REMF material).

​@@user-kb3tp6un1hJD was not boots on ground. Period.

And you typed that bullshit.😂😂😂

That it's correct... Public knowledge he was not boots on the ground... PR!

He joined the Marines from a poor family, obviously it was the Marines who assigned him that job. It is Waltz who keeping boasting about his military service,

@@mozartsbumbumsrus7750 youtube liberal red neck vance

You know the "sainted" Einstein wasn't all that bright, right? His wife on the other hand...

​@@albertfinney1328"sainted"? Never heard that one before. I fear he wasn't into fairy tales. Not bright? Compared to who?

They may well not be …but they are seduced by someone who is ….and is convincing them that he is very much smarter.

​@@pruecook5064That appears to be true. But if the people are seduced by the stupids, are the people not complicit in being stupid? We're all of us conned at some point. We were stupid at that point. Even a genius is stupid sometimes. I think that sapiens is a failed species even though there are brilliant minds among us. We learn by the imperative of making mistakes. We shut the barn door AFTER the horse has already bolted. We improve aircraft after it crashes. Evolution requires death. Is their a fine line between death and extinction? Stupid is as stupid does. The people get the government they deserve and deserve the government they get. President tRump, Putin, Hitler, Lenin, Pott, Orban, Stalin, etc. A recent poll states that 98% of Israelis approve of what they are doing to Palestine and Palestinians.

Probably same level of genuineness, honesty, and loyalty too!

That’s a myth. The who,e Hillbilly Elegy is a myth and despised by people who live in Appalachia.

Great comment. Spot on 💯.

This is outdated. President Biden has done a great deal for the middle class. He has stepped aside and Kamala Harris will be on the Democratic ticket. She is an excellent candidate and is young. I’m watching an outdated clip.

@@dotmurphy7279 - It's been deeply disappointing to learn that Vance is tight with Peter Thiel, David, Sacks, and Elon Musk, associations that make him potentially as troubling as RFKjr's VP choice. Transhumanist technocrats are terrifying.

​@@Riley0509now I'm going to watch that movie.

Their ALL owned by someone friend. ALL of them both sides.

​@@jdaze1that's a lazy distortion. There's a big difference in the parties.. Republicans are 100% for the billionaires and they use divisive rhetoric to divide the working people.

... and Donnie will be pissed when he figures out that JD isn't wholly owned by him.

@@jdaze1 No, not all are 'owned' and certainly not Bernie Sanders.

Who owns the Uniparty that opposes Trump?

They mean "make America white and ignorant, again".

Take it back to the none-woke era. no more abortion, no more wars, no entitlement, no more shit from liberal ideologies.

Is it moving forward to important millions of people who understand nothing about what makes the country work?

No, the tent is bigger.

Expose him for what? Being a good husband and father? Pulling himself out of poverty? What? Proof?

@@suew4609​​⁠ Whether or not he grew up poor or lower middle-class is irrelevant. I’m sure some of the worst actors in history were sweet children at some point who may have grown up in poverty. I am commenting on the 39 year-old man who has been bankrolled by tech billionaires through two jobs and one ultimately failed business venture, and coddled financially as a senator who now has become one of the most extreme politicians in an already extreme party. His hypocrisy is already exposed, and I don’t think he cares. When I say he will be exposed I am referring very specifically to the puppet strings attached to him from the federalist Society and the project 2025 sociopathic authors. Dismantling the levers of government and the fundamentals of democracy, which they failed to understand, have allowed for incredible wealth generation, all to hoard, political and financial power in the hands of an empty vessel as president, whether that be Donald Trump or JD Vance. If you think otherwise, you should consider removing your head from your rectum.

Nobody pulls themselves out of poverty. If that were true the guy on Castaway would have returned home a billionaire. Individual success only comes by way of selling out. Real relief of poverty is only attained through socialism.

Don't you mean 'big league', professor?

@@fubokuen Tremendously beautifully big league. The likes of which the world has (ignorantly, redundantly) never seen before. A lot of (unsubstantiated and unquantifiable masses) of people are always saying it.....the painfully obvious charlatan demagogue with a well documented history of being a fraudster 🍊🤡

And Russia too...

It's pronounced 'Steele '

Ya, he says VPs don't matter but the selection of Vance has set his hair on fire.

Well she was /is a complete idiot and demonstrated such - certainly no way she could have stepped into "the" job.

Absolutely, especially when she started talking

It affected the election because of the democRAT media only ruined a great leader with the lies and slanders and making fun and disgracing her,What a shame for American

Yup

Pence did nothing because he always takes the easy way out.

He is still better than Harris Who locked up innocent ppl and Hide the evidence that they should been free!

I think no. Horrible pick, of course, somethng is behind it. Always strategic moves unrecognized till over. For some reason for some short time Vance is in the broad light of day. Something worthwhile will come of it, certainly not any presidential position.

Well in fairness, the top of this ticket is a horrible pick as well.

ALL politicians are phonies and liars

5 days later and the rains stopped; going to have to do better than that

Thar wasn't the point. It's that the book portrays poor people as lovers, lazy, responsible for their situation instead of presenting the real facts. An old myth.

that's interesting. thank you for clarifying this point.

​@@amber40494 have you read the book? It's far more nuanced than that. It talks about both structural issues and cultural issues as drivers of poverty and how those forces interact with each other. Kuttner completely misrepresented what's in the book.

peter thiel's casting couch boy lol he's a rainbow boy

He got many things wrong.

Kuttner's phrase is fear mongering.

Trump had 4 years to kill Democracy, and he didn't. The Dems run on unfounded fear. That's a terrible and dishonest way to run a campaign.

Perfecto!😵‍💫🤡

@@hubrisonics9517 the "late, great" Hannibal Lecter 🤣 WTF!!

Vance is close enough

And he should be worried.

Trump looks real old and fat next to Vance

trump aint worried bout shhht jack

His grooming started a while back, no less obama..

Maybe Peter Thiel paid them off.

Peter Thiel helped Vance get his first 3 jobs which he didn't do too well at. Peter Thiel also spent $15 million to purchase a senate seat for Vance.

He went on G.I. Bill to Ohio State and then got a scholarship to go to Yale.

he had a best selling book, maybe you should open a book every once in a while.

"In this case... "??? In ALL cases. This matter has always been a concern for ALL presidential races.

@@alexleanh100%. I cannot fathom cackling Kamala 😮

@@Scooter430 Sure, Kamala is not ideal but still better than Vance.

@@alexleanh Harris is not better than Vance.

@@bwofficial1776 She is way better than him in every area, from her law career to her experience as a politician and most of all her loyalty. JD Vance is a neophyte in the political world, and already he has shown his hypocrisy and double-facing with his little to no experience as a junior senator who has served less than a year and a half.

huh? Nominated a baby? btrump will be your next president. Enjoy the next 4 years sweetheart lol 😘

JFK was only 46 when he was killed

well DJT has certainly raised a successful family (and not degenerates like ol' creeping Joe raised) and he is definitely fearless, so your point is????

Good observation. Tricky red hats.

The Radical Leftists are hating America, in fact this WH inflicted more damage to our country than Fascist Putler and Communist China combined.

Very correctly stated. One could hardly trust someone who “jumps the fence” so readily.

yeah new leaf gentler guy while he's calling people who dont vote for him vermin

@jaelancaster5506 he he. Reminds me. Didn't Vlad Putin endorse Biden a while back? While "Sergei Lavrov endorses Trump. THAT is hilarious 😂

I think you are correct. Trump wouldn’t have chosen a guy who criticized him so intensely just a few years ago.

Yes Trump would and did. Vance is a friend of Don, Jr. and Vavak

@@vickiegibson2920ALL the same!

How much did Thiel contribute to trump for Vance?

@@tapptom Good question

Huh?????

That’s all ya got huh? Your going to belittle and create disdain for your friends and family that disagree with you.

@@KickRocks343 No, that's not ALL I got. As for my friends and family, not a single one of them disagrees with me.

I can not believe that there are many who are this ignorant.🙄

@@RandomActsofCruelty-gu1mhthat doesn’t say much about the people who surround you.

There is that name calling against. As for victim blaming, he blames the corporations for their impoverishment of the Rust Belt not the people he grew up with.

No. Cognitive Dissonance, untreated and internalized, creates zealots.

The republicans

​@@andrewmcnamara6978LOL! Sure, kid. 😂

You seriously asking?

@@andrewmcnamara6978thanks for the laughs sweetheart teeehee

And you think there’s a party that isn’t? Another clown 🤡

Ted Bundy was seen to be handsome, likeable, charming, intelligent....but he was a violent narcissist.

And not allowed to leave the state

That’s up to each state to decide, the Supreme Court ruled that way.

Handmaids tale stuff. Super scary.

100% truth. Trump and Vance will own every woman's organs from puberty age.

@@maxinemoo6972 until they make it a national abortion ban putting it over state's rights.

Biden can't even keep his pants clean.

Which lies?? Former dem here...win me back. And I don't mean switched 20 years ago, like end of 2021...bring it on, say something worth saying

True

Spin doctor for the Marines. Wow, how macho. Public Affairs- aren’t they journalists? Ouch!

@@war-painter Why do you say such contemptuous things? J D Vance never claimed to be "macho" but admitted he was a correspondent and did not see action, never mind yur life could be snuffed out at any time on the bases in both Iraq and Afghanistan by rockets and mortars. And may I ask about your "macho" credentials?

I am glad we are a republic

The New Deal is the source of a lot of our problems. Other sources are the Federal Reserve Board, the Income Tax, and the direct election of Senators.

The only thing that can pass almost unanimously is unending money for the two wars their involved in

@@annettemacdonald9192 Trumpers are challenged by basic grammar.

The goal is a Good self-governing country in which all citizens are those who HAVE a Decent Livelihood, i.e., none are in deprivation (or none are HAVE-NOTS) of enough of the (6) external elements which together comprise a Decent Livelihood. Those (6) external elements are: 1 ) A decent supply of the means of subsistence. 2 ) Living & working conditions conducive to health. 3 ) Medical care. 4 ) Opportunities for access to the pleasures of sense as well as the pleasures of play & the aesthetic pleasures. 5 ) Opportunities for access to the goods of the mind through educational facilities in youth & adult life. 6 ) Enough free time from subsistence work both in youth & adult life to take advantage of these opportunities.

No it just implied that Trump et al would support the Teamsters agenda when nothing could be farther from the truth.

Like when people wear neck braces to court trials...

​@@OhGeeWillickersMisterOr when murderers come to court in wheelchairs.

Trump wants the attention and wants sympathy from voters. I wonder if trump wore those spurs on his feet the same way?

Are you in your late seventies?

Its really a square bandage covering up the new brain implant from Elon, to run trump from a computer…lol

Or anything for homeless people who live in one of the wealthiest counties of PA. There is no more funding! That's ridiculous!!

Living in California, where public school education is terrible, I could say democrats are doing nothing to create new jobs and quality education. I used to be a democrats but republicans my only hope now.

@@misterlyle. youtube liberal red neck.vance

And at the beginning of the interview he stated that Vance's family moved from Ohio to Kentucky.

No, he didn’t, and I don’t think he has one. He’s just trying to demonize the guy with no evidence!

@@YaelIvet_NYC Just read Vance's book and Kuttner DID get this backwards, which disappointed me. It damages Kuttner's credibility. However, I agree that Vance is not whom he seems to be. He says "Not in the pocket of big businesses" and he is IN exactly that kind of pocket. He told on himself.

robbert f Kennedy is running!! my vote !!!

Nope

Vance's wife is a DEI hire.

@@DaveTalks985 What is a DEI? I think it's Latin for "god."

Doubt it! Or more likely, it will be an "all Indians except certain ones like my wife" thing

Yep, instead of basic human rights

Not at all but don't be naive enough to believe Republicans will address these issues. Get a grip buddy and get your head out of the sand

Yes, when you ask people who hate populism , Trump, and Vance. If you want the truth, you don’t get your info from people who hate or oppose it, you ask people who do support it or are unbiased

Here’s another guy making excuses for the vitamin ministration. It was all Trump that started making our guests are gas prices under two dollars and food cost come down and energy cost. I’m sick of listening to these lying communist make themselves rich.

Here’s another guy making excuses for the vitamin ministration. It was all Trump that started making our guests are gas prices under two dollars and food cost come down and energy cost. I’m sick of listening to these lying communist make themselves rich.

I would expect nothing less from Glenn

​@@annettemacdonald9192- Greenwald is a Universal Treasure.

Glenn did not cover the Peter thiel aspect nor the Vc aspect. He really dropped the ball re Vance

They have to smear him. It's a joke. The people who listen to Democracy Now won't use Freespoke or any other browser to find any other alternate news anyway. They are all snookered, naive and trusting of these folks who affirm their confirmation bias. They won't even watch the RNC convention for themselves only the snippets and viewpoints people like these on MSM give them to shape their views.

if you actually listened you would have heard that he's not a Biden guy.

11:00 on.

​@camille9803 but he's already trying to make it Racist... As Mixers, we resent these types of guys

LOL!! Right, Joe Biden is 💯% wonderful. Oh please stop the misleading bullshit. No one is perfect on earth, absolutely no one. But "there are limits to what a man in power should do or NOT DO AT ALL". REGARDLESS OF WHAT POLITICAL PARTY HE BELONGS TO. God please HELP OUR COUNTRY. There are absolutely too many "phony" Politicians and other "fake" business corporate CEO'S IN AMERICA. GOD HELP US FIND "HONEST GOOD PEOPLE" SERVE IN CONGRESS SOON. 2024-2025.

Either you weren't paying attention to what he said or you didn't understand

His side of the story. What would his other family members say?

marcus, it is doubtful that anybody supporting this channel has any idea about what Vance believes except what the talking heads on this channel tell them.

He was willing to stretch his own truth, similar to what Kristi Noem was willing to do. I think his flip flopping on trump and other issues makes him suspect. I need to see courage of conviction, not flip flopping.

Hmm. I’ll have to reread the last part of the book, because I thought his message was a “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” kind of message. I’ll check his voting record. That generally shows what a Congress person’s thinking is.

We know Vance has no answers and is wrong because the rust belt crumbled to dust 30 years ago AND THEN ppl turned to drugs to cope. The drug abuse wasn't the cause but the response- the outcome of that shattering. Their subconscious brains correctly recognized they have no meaningful control over their economic destiny and to numb that pain they turned to drugs and alcohol.

This is correct. Demanding a level playing field (Constitutional principles) welds the party bases to the center base. Right now, Trump is winning this strategy. Whether this is for show or not is a separate discussion. Letting Bill Kristol and Liz Cheney speak for the Democrats should tell the Base everything they need to know. The Republican base ejected them for a reason.

I disagree the east coast, RI etc, gave Biden the go ahead. We in the west have no say in primaries for potus. The system should include All states at the same time with rank choice voting for who should represent All Americans.

@@karenwaddell9396 Hi Karen: I agree that all states should have a say. I am from Canada and don't fully understand the elements of US governance that clash with my own ideas of democracy. My country is not as democratic as I want it to be. One person one vote is my idea of democracy in action. The Electoral College system and gerrymandering and Huge Money directing politics are dangers (as I see it) to democracy. My interest in American politics is that the decisions and direction the US takes has a profound affect on Canada and countries around the world. My comment is in harmony with " Pro-Biden/Harris" views of AOC and folks like John Flannery. It reflects my own love of democracy. All the best. I am rooting for a free and democratic America. 🌎❤Carolyn PS. I also agree with rank choice voting

Really? Over 10 million illegals taking working class jobs. That's how you support workers. Too dumb to realize it though. Nothing but propaganda on this channel.

I agree the demonrats have let the American people down.

They take them in..and make their problems worse.

I’ve been working in construction for 40 yrs…Regan, Bush 1, Clinton, Bush 2 & Trump were all better for me as a blue collar individual…trump was the best!…the worst was Obama & Biden!!!

@@burdineblue you’re talking about political realism. I was simply talking about political rhetoric. in terms of political realism, for sure both parties operate for the same financial institutions and special interest groups.

Lol yes and he can hunt and eat bear cubs! He crazy! 😂

Trump trusts losers

I grew up and still live in a rural county that is even poorer and less populated than where he's from, and I agree. In our communities there's two types of hillbillies, there's the poor hardworking and humble rednecks, and those "rednecks" whom are apart of the few affluent families who employ us. Their worldview typically (although there are exceptions) reflects a deep hatred and contempt for us, as if we're poor simply because we're bad and lazy people who didn't work as hard as them. Which ultimately is just a way to justify to themselves why they can treat us like cattle. Vance and everything he espouses reminds me of them, not of my peers. I think it would be charitable to just assume that he's victim blaming, and that he doesn't actively view us a worthless cattle, considering he's a venture capitalist worth millions.

Yes... we should all be victims. 😂😂😂

Then you read it wrong. Or maybe you can’t read

The GOP love to hear this narrative. Helps them sleep at night.

Right? These Republicans 🤣

​@@gpw203how do you know what was in Crooks mind?

@@gpw203 Well with this type of low empathy power hungry politicians they never have had integrity so they say or do whatever they can to get ahead flipping opinions left and right there are good odds he never supported any of these opinions because sociopathic conmen can't be trusted on their word.

@@SK-jo8dk "Tell me you don't follow actual news and just guzzle down disinformation without telling me you don't follow actual news and just guzzle down disinformation."

That "idea" failed and resulted in over 100 million dead. A free market is the best the world has. It lifts more people out of poverty than any socialism ever did. It encourages entrepreneurship and business start ups, competitive pricing and growth which benefit the consumer. It opens up options to the buying public. Which in turn results in business & labor having to compete which in turn usually provides better service to the consumer. It's gives Choice. Something the left is always so big on except when it comes to the economy & our money. If workers owning their production was a successful model, we would have experienced by now and my family definitely wouldn't have fled the eastern bloc!!!

@@davewitter6565 That's what Vance says.

Never has done a day of honest work in his life you can tell. People that do real work for a living dont spend time complaining about things they can't do anything about

He has multiple interviews and a TED talk from 8-10 years ago. If you're waiting for DN to show you, you'll never get it. This channel will only talk with people they agree with. This segment is an example of why people are now so ideologically insane.

Yeah a man who served in the US Marines with honor and came from poverty to success and fame. You can continue to pull your liberal division and race based woke political evil but the rest of America sees right through you. Can’t wait til November to see dividers like yourself weeping in the corner. The peoples eyes have opened. To call an American soldier and rags to richest success a man who lacks integrity only shows your TDS is stage 5

That's the same as taking Marco Rubio as VP.

Really? Wasn’t 20 yrs ago “weapons of mass destruction” lie?

What's the moral difference between the DNC & RNC? The DCC ? Both create whatever happens in Gaza and Ukraine. Both make sure air, water and soil is as unfit as the health of its people . Both are more dishonest than honest. Both transfer almost 50 trillion from the US Treasury to the least deserving welfare 0.01% caste... DN! is as misleading as CNN or Fox but ONLY its naive audience thinks otherwise. Missed Good?man is basically the mouthpiece of international organized crime. Democracy? NEVER D' Mockery NOW! And so experts say.

That was until the current one got in, then you "saw it with your own eyes".

DJT never apologizes for anything.

Just like Kamala's BULLSHIT memories of "Growing up a poor Black child in America" while in fact living very well in an Upper-Middle Class suburb of Montreal, Canada with her PHD University Professor Father & Biologist Mother raising her in very observant Tamil Indian family

In this Trump is a freaking genius.

@@CircaBEFORE you know someone else is pulling the strings. Treasonous trump is ignorant.

So is that what they're both doing?

Repubs are doing what they do best, convincing people to vote against their own self interest. This started with reaganomics. Their base does not get they cannot be both. Pro worker and pro boss, just like reaganomics it will take years for those voting repub to wake up.

wake up and smell the roses TRUMP 2024 and more

The Democratic Party has descended into the pit of phony, from which it will never emerge.

@@harryholyfield1550 Your internet & porn will be regulated. Your religion will be chosen. your future health will be up to greedy autocrats. Good Luck

True, but I guess he, Teamster President, was trying to make a name for himself and did it as an experiment. I am sure many at the convention never listened to his words though. It was a smoke and mirror move by GOP.

I know, little Joe is spiraling downward as I type this.

@@gpw203 So did I! I realized the Marxist media was gaslighting and lying to us! Once I realized that I was no longer blind! I was a never Trumper as well! Never voted for him… The Trump/Vance ticket is crushing it. Yayay!!!🎉 America is awake and wants the country back! People change their opinions and thoughts on all sorts of things as the mature, critical think and experience! No more media lies and gaslighting!

@@gpw203 and Kamala called Joe Biden racist whats your point? Clinton called Bernie a racist in 2016 and backed her in 2016, what your point?

Bert utter..no stuff. Say tings. Uhh Yaw dere buggy

@@nozzledrich Supporting treason ehh?

Where did you do your digging?

@@kathleenamatangelo3713 youtube liberal red neck vance

This. They keep us divided by making us think that voting in one candidate will save us while the other will ruin america. Divide and conquer

If they don't hear you and take you for granted (I am not American) who do you vote for? Why vote at all? Interested to know how you solve this dilemma...

go back to sleep...

​@@lefranglais1155most people don't vote

So does butchering Mark Twain quotes...

yes but you are unwittingly talking about yourself

Here's one that these redcaps obviously missed during all those Bible studies classes they've never taken: Proverbs 17:28: Even a fool is thought wise if he keeps silent, and discerning if he holds his tongue.

Huh??

Sean should have mentioned the GOP being anti- Union...