Thank you David for inviting Robert Reich, a great Man and an amazing human being. He's a national treasure to our country. Keep up the great job, standing up for the truth & Democracy.
Speaking of wannabe dictators, remember when Biden was inaugurated behind a fence and military personnel, with no public in attendance, only to be witnessed by the political and social elite's deemed worthy of attending? So, who are you voting for again?
@@sonjakozman1699RFK Jr isnt any better than most MAGA Republicans, his own family doesnt support him. Also a vote for RFK is a vote for Biden, to much is at stake to be voting for a clown. Think before you vote or you'll get thrown in jail for not liking Trump
I totally agree with you that he is very organised in his thoughts and the thinking is coherent. Very different to the style of Donald Trump who can’t seem to hold on to one idea for a whole sentence.
Same here, I read his newsletter every day. Very informative and to the point. He knows of what he speaks. We can not make the same mistake in 2024 that we made in 2016.
Robert Reich seems to me to be one of, if not the, most sensible and reasonable economists I've ever heard. Been listening to his content for years. He's not starting from a position of apologia for the wealthy and working to that end. He seems to genuinely be working from a framework of what is best for everyone, rich, poor, and in between.
Voting for someone other than Biden is not the same as voting for Trump. That's a false equivalence and a clear manipulation of facts. Voting for Trump is voting for Trump, plain and simple. Any other vote is just that - a vote for another candidate. To suggest otherwise is to stretch logic to its breaking point, and it's a blatant attempt to manipulate people's choices and perceptions. And this notion that if Trump gets back in office, he'll have free rein to do whatever he wants? That's fearmongering, plain and simple. It disregards the checks and balances of the U.S. political system. No president, Trump or otherwise, operates in a vacuum where they can act unilaterally without any constraints. The fact that this kind of rhetoric is coming from a so-called expert, a professor no less, is exactly the problem. It shows that academic credentials don't necessarily equate to unbiased, rational discourse. Instead, they can be used to push narratives more eloquently, dressing up bias in the cloak of expertise. Let's be clear: voters should make their decisions based on facts, not fear. They should be wary of narratives that try to oversimplify complex political realities or that use scare tactics to herd them towards a particular choice. Critical thinking is key, especially when faced with eloquent but potentially misleading arguments from those with academic clout.
If everyone in this country modeled their political views along the same lines as Robert Reich we would be in a much better place. His views and ways of approaching the political system are not controversial or partisan, they are simply self evident truths. If we want to get rid of corruption, we should be listening closely to Roberts words.
Voting for someone other than Biden is not the same as voting for Trump. That's a false equivalence and a clear manipulation of facts. Voting for Trump is voting for Trump, plain and simple. Any other vote is just that - a vote for another candidate. To suggest otherwise is to stretch logic to its breaking point, and it's a blatant attempt to manipulate people's choices and perceptions. And this notion that if Trump gets back in office, he'll have free rein to do whatever he wants? That's fearmongering, plain and simple. It disregards the checks and balances of the U.S. political system. No president, Trump or otherwise, operates in a vacuum where they can act unilaterally without any constraints. The fact that this kind of rhetoric is coming from a so-called expert, a professor no less, is exactly the problem. It shows that academic credentials don't necessarily equate to unbiased, rational discourse. Instead, they can be used to push narratives more eloquently, dressing up bias in the cloak of expertise. Let's be clear: voters should make their decisions based on facts, not fear. They should be wary of narratives that try to oversimplify complex political realities or that use scare tactics to herd them towards a particular choice. Critical thinking is key, especially when faced with eloquent but potentially misleading arguments from those with academic clout.
3:18 Trump has never been "hinged." 🤪 It's a shame people abandon sensible thought to go along with unhinged pretenders like trump. I worked in a large office where too many co-workers listened to Rush Limbaugh and gravitated toward that angry nonsense.
Because it's true given how your electoral system works. But if the Republican side was sane, just conservative, the consequences wouldn't be nearly as severe as they would be if Trump got reelected. For all our sakes (even for we who don't live in the US but will be greatly impacted by Trump, just as we where the last time), swallow your pride and vote for the Democratic nominee (likely Biden). The consequences of not doing so will be catastrophic. To our environment, to Europe (and specifically Ukraine), to women, to immigrants, to LGTBQ+ people, to disabled people, to Muslims, to Jews, to people of colour, to Israel, to Palestinians, to Taiwan, to everyone. If I were American, and the choice was Trump or question mark, filled in later with a random non-MAGA, I would have voted for the random non-MAGA without question. Because the consequences almost can't be comprehended. I would even vote for Mitt Romney, despite him being a terribly right-wing religious fanatic. I would know that at least he wouldn't destroy democracy. But that's me. I value democracy that much. Nothing is more important than that for me, because from that springs every other right. Without it, we have no rights.
@@oliver_twistorNo its just a stale state of mind & a bullshit narrative that's been spewed for ions. If you live in a swing state, then maybe. As Citizens it's our obligation to vote our conscience since so much blood lives lost has been spilled & continues to be for us to do so......point being, so many fall for this narrative that this is the way system works vote our side, meanwhile years upon decades pass & then those who actually do vote more & more just hold their nose avert gaze & pull lever really to keep someone out of office NOT cuz they really want their candidate in. Then we're left with shittier & shittier choices which becomes no one really to vote for, let alone against. I say fuck this!!! I vote my damn conscience & if that means third party then so be it. Neither side has earned my trust one iotta. The lies & corruption on both sides are fuckin endless!
@@JoffreyKimbotay Normally, I would agree with you. I live in Sweden and with our electoral system, voting "third-party" is not a problem at all. We have currently eight parties in Parliament. I myself usually vote for a party that has ca. 5 % of the vote. Here, it's natural and common for multiple parties to form coalitions in order to get majority. The current administration consists of three parties with the support of a fourth. But my point is that the US electoral system doesn't work that way. A party with 5 % of the vote is equivalent to that party having 0 %. And when democracy itself hangs in the balance, as it does with Trump, then it's not the time to play games. The single most important thing is to keep Trump from winning, in my opinion. How best to do that? Vote for someone with no way of winning that only serves to dilute the vote and take away a potential vote for Biden, or to vote for Biden? The answer is: vote for Biden.
In order to vote against Trump/MAGA, I will be voting in the primaries as a Republican. Then it is Democrat down the entire ticket in the General election. I am not to concerned with who the Democrat ends up being in the general election, as stopping a wanna be dictator is far more important. Let there be a third party if that person is Trump, or someone who will syphon votes from Trump.
ONLY IN AMERICA can people find themselves in a situation in which its bad to have more political choice than in a dictatorship. Somebody needs to get a grip over there.
As an American, the point is this. Voting "third party" in 2024, where the "third party" has no chance in hades of winning, is a throw-away vote. It's about NOT Trump. In America the Electoral College elects the President. Hillary Clinton won the popular vote, but Trump became President via Electoral College. So our votes must feed the Electoral College in every single state, especially in swing states, to go Biden. Or else Trump will win. The election is too close. And the stakes are too high. Hope that helps.
Robert Reich!! 🎉 There is hope yet for progressive media platforms! David Pakman leading the way! Kudos, sincerely!! Unexpected and so welcome!! We become smarter and more engaged and inspired!
Yes, yes yes yes yes. You'd think people learned their lesson from 2016. "Oh I just can't bring myself to vote for Hillary clinton, I just can't," then have the nerve to gripe about roe being overturned, when that's exactly what they voted for by taking away a vote for the only person who was in a position to actually defeat the guy who overturned roe, and who made it perfectly clear that's exactly what he was going to do if elected.
@williamfulk9574 More conspiracy drivel, huh? No, democrats could never codify it because of the filibuster, but since demonizing democrats are more important to you emotional degenerates than voting with common fucking sense we're probably going to get Trump again and I can guarantee you that he won't leave a second time once his term is up. So you think about that.
@@ssolano7535Buden isnt supporting geno ide you dumbass. Also Bidens the nominee, a vote for anyone else is a vote for Trump so when he throws you in jail for not liking him, i dont wanna hear shit.
I really can't see the U.S. ever breaking out of the two-party system. Certainly not presidential elections given the way the electoral college works, but even concerning legislative and local council politics. I've come to see American politics as largely characterized by: culture wars, a self-serving upper middle class constantly looting public budgets by voting themselves a free ride through tax cuts, a working class totally devoid of class consciousness enabling the former, sensationalist cable opinion show hyperbole, cults of personality, and general provincialism. In other words, American political culture is simply too atomized, idiosyncratic, and dumbed down to exist in any other form than broad strokes within just two parties. We don't have either the philosophical diversity or the disciplined, hierarchical leadership structures of the legislative party systems in Europe and elsewhere. Now, obviously nothing is written in stone, and it's not to say that we have no capacity to evolve, but as things stand, any meaningful change is nowhere to be found anytime in the near future.
Donald cannot be made president in 2024 - he is far too unstable and dangerous. To that end, I will vote for Biden. After seeing Biden's first term in office, I have more of a reason to vote for him in 2024 then I did in 2020.
Biden's track as President looks pretty good but he doesn't crow about it enough about it. Guess he doesn't have to brag for doing his job for the American people !!!
It's the voters' job to elect politicians who will do the most good and the least harm to the country we all have to share. I'm a queer person. I love many people who are all different flavors of marginalized and minorities. My hope is that you and many other fellow Americans will cast a vote with people other than themselves in mind, because those votes will have real-world consequences for people.
@joelsommers well, the most good and least harm can be subjective depending on the person. Some would say funding two wars at the same time might be causing harm. I guarantee that most normal voters feel like the world is burning right now and Biden is at the helm. He's also quickly losing support amongst the youth, and most minority votes. If Democrats hope to win, they need a new candidate.
@@jimbonilla2 It's not that democrats need to win. Who cares about democrats. The point is that Trump needs to lose, however that can happen. Do you have a credible way to get that done that doesn't involve Joe Biden? Because if you do, then I'm your biggest supporter.
Voting for a 3rd party is a dumb thing to do...clearly knowing they don't have a snowball's chance in hell. Essentially a totally wasted, futile vote and only helps either the other two.
But if you're a true progressive you could vote in the primary for Marianne Williamson whose proposed policies are most aligned with those of Bernie Sanders and who would not be stealing votes away from Biden as a third party would in the general election.
@@MarcillaSmith The fact remains that Biden is the candidate -- not Jamie Raskin or Gavin Newsom or anybody else. "The Democratic candidate," generically speaking, is vastly superior to the horror that is tRump. What is the most likely outcome of thousands of battleground state voters choosing West or Stein or Williamson in the name of idealism ... or whatever? Do you remember 2016? Hillary Clinton may not have been every/any progressive's dream candidate, but she was/is a trillion times better than Donald the wannabe autocrat.
If non voters voted that person would win the presidency. Instead of demonizing people picking something outside red or blue modify your policies to attract them to vote for you.
This country needs to lose the electoral college first remove what party affiliation and incumbent on the ballot. We need more than the two parties we need popular vote wins and term limits not everything works as intended after 250 years.
It's clear you don't understand the ramifications of a leader being elected by a simple majority. If a simple majority wins, then the actual majority of the country is in dissent of it's leadership. It's simple mathematics.
@@dr.g3860 You mean the thing that's deliberately set up to control the election? If it were truly based on morals, then each state would just do it on their own.
Might be better to explain that 'third party candidates' cannot be elected president. Most State Constitutions specifically require that electors can only cast votes for members of National Parties. There are only two national parties. Why Bernie had to run as a Democrat. 'Third Parties' aren't parties, they are political clubs, nothing more.
Robert Reich, a sound, objective, sane voice for democracy. Check the accuracy of his predictions and opinions over the years. Not a nut bag like those on the maga side.
Mass movement is the best approach for the working class to address issues. Unions are mass movement, womans pro-choice is mass movement, mass movement organizations is the only method for the working class. Any vote 💙 for a third party candidate is a vote for trump.
3:59 criticism of progressives: supporting liberal - not progressive! - Biden vs Jill Stein, Cornel West 7:55 healthcare tied to workplace 11:01Obama failed gun reform 15:23 advice to Biden: be bold, dare to criticize, fight Wall Street, private equity, hedge funds, exorbitant CEO salaries
I love Robert Reich thank you for having him on the thing that we can do is, we can give platform elevation and a microphone to new candidates and people with new ideas that aren’t getting the publicity they deserve.
Robert Reich is a Boomer. My mom is a Boomer. My mom was part of the Hippie movement in the late 1960s that promoted peace, love and understanding. Robert Reich is educating an audience about the pitfalls of capitalism and the importance of public policies that help to support the many people, not the few elites. it's folks like him and my mom that i feel there needs to be sub-categorise of the Boomer generations: Hippies and Yuppies. Robert is a hippie, Mom is a hippie, and the Boomers who're still fleeced over by TFG are a bunch of yuppies who can't tell the difference between voting FOR or AGAINST their own interests when it comes to their social security stipends and medicare. so tell a Hippie they're loved and that we value them, and tell a Yuppie that they need to reevaluate their views on life when it comes to what's good for them versus what's good for their bruised egos of being mediocre due to an intentionally broken system.
I did vote for Jill Stein in 2016, but if I had not done that I would have left the top of the ticket blank, and if I had not done that I would have voted for Trump - and ONLY because he was not Hillary Clinton, I knew almost nothing else about him. Voting for Hillary Clinton was never an option.
Cool. So you are a Trump voter. Maybe not a Trump supporters, but your vote helped to elect Donald Trump, which makes you a Trump voter. I'm sure you 're a very good person, but you do have to accept the consequences of being a Trump voter, bro. I hope you cast your 2024 vote keeping other people in mind and not just your own personal feelings of discomfort attached to voting for a candidate you find personally unacceptable.
if Robert Reich is speaking I'm listening. If Robert Reich is talking, I'm learning. If Robert Reich is opining listen twice. Guy is brilliant like his former pal Bill.
Democrats and Republicans are POLITICAL DOMESTIC TERRORISTS AND SYMPATHIZING TRAITORS. Glad I'm an AMERICAN and REFUSE TO NEGOTIATE OR PARTICIPATE WITH THESE VILE TERRORIST ORGANIZATIONS.
It's VERY dangerous. Most people are afraid of BOTH parties, the Dems and the Re's. Both only seem to care about the wealthy and the rich, definitely not the middle class on down, the working class, definitely not the poor, definitely not the homeless. America should have compassion and mercy for the masses, America was a wilderness, literally covered with tree's and the forests. There was alot of suffering, alot of de@th , alot of pain and sorrow, by all r@ces, all people, that make up the USA , America. Alot of pain, sacrifice, sorrow, and suffering. Even the settlers and explorers suffered, they lashed out at the Indigenous, and faced all the harsh conditions, all the obstacles, that's where the climate for sl@very and colonization came from in the first place, not an excuse, but facts. There really needs to be some compassion and mercy in this country, and the world, there really does.
All this pent-up emotion about the past, doesn't change the future. I can't count the times Democrats speak for us. I can't count the times Republican's speak for the rich. Its a two party sytem and the House of Rep's is screwing us all.
I agree, Biden has been a great President he has depth and experience. Right now we need someone ,whose core is right from wrong. Might sound simplistic. But Joe Knows How.
Bernie would never have been president. If he had become the Democratic nominee in either 2016 or 2020, Trump would have red-baited him into the ground. I can see the commercials now: a shouting Bernie pounding the lectern and a voice-over in his own voice: "I'm a socialist! I'm a socialist! I'm a socialist!" over and over. Bernie handed the Republicans all the ammunition they could possibly have needed by calling himself a socialist.
@@lechatbotte. We American people need an honest broker in the Whitehouse, not one more paid for career politican that has connections to crooked dealers and foreign investors.
The interviews really are where David excels most. I’ve had pretty much nothing but distain in my heart for DP and RR for the better part of a decade now but I’ve got to admit that was still a top class interview. 👍
Excellent video, and I'm glad I saw it, because RR answered something that had been bothering me, so neatly. I felt less favourably towards Biden about Gaza, but as RR explained, if you don't vote for Biden because of that issue, what makes you think Trump will deal with it any better? Trump wd make the situation much, much worse and then demand the Nobel Peace Prize!
To vote third party is to vote for absolutely nothing, further aiding Trump. If you think there will be any progressive voices left in our government after that tyrannical dipshit takes control, then you're delusional.
There's a time to be principled and there's a time to be pragmatic. Packman is a pragmatic progressive. Vote for the results you want, not to express yourself.
So love your show!! Being into politics b4 I could vote I understand the hazards of voting 3rd party, BUT THIS IS PRIMARY SEASON. Finding the best candidate seems a good idea? And gives the media positive progressive points to cover? Caps lock for attention not volume lol
You are absolutely right, ma'am. The primaries are for deciding if we want someone other than Biden. The general election is for slapping the reThugs down. Vote Blue!
So true. That's how democracy should be done. Argue before election, speak with one voice after. My worry is that some people won't accept the Democratic nomination and vote for their candidate anyway in the general election. Just like they did in 2016.
