Why do so many Americans support a neofascist? | The Coffee Klatch with Robert Reich 

Amazing proverb. So sad but so true. Thanks for sharing this. People will vote for their own demise to quench their hatred.

Si true!

Just as Trump's head is made of wood, like too many of his followers heads.

Brilliant. Thank you

Beautiful quote. Thanks. Am gonna circulate it.

💯 agree

Why would a rich Narcissistic misogynistic billionaire give a damn about the lower and middle classes and any non wealthy Americans for that matter?

The basket of deplorables are suseptible to fear mongering. They are fearful and shame based.

Isn't that how it works with gods?

It makes me sick, too. And I have lost faith in half the American public.

You have just described the republican base

@@kentcavender6949 "You have just described the Demonrat base" -- fixed it for you.

Fool #MAGAts once, shame on #TheTrumper. Fool #MAGAts twice shame on them.

@@adstryker5084trump has risen to power specifically by relentless and shamelessly slandering his opponents (anyone/everyone who stood in his way). He has mastered the power of lawlessness. Regardless of the sins of the democrats, the republicans have rationalized that the ends justify the means-fighting evil with evil.

​​@@adstryker5084 Let's make it simple for you. In 1970 the top tax bracket was 70%. Now, tax advantages go to the wealthy and to businesses. Were you not listening to the gentleman? Your anger and frustration is a direct result of you being manipulated by the wealthy and powerful. Being manipulated against your own best interests. But you can't even see it.

What is a "dark horse candidate?" I don't know the expression.

@@kenashworth7672 It's a lesser-known candidate. Why don't you just Google it?

@@kenashworth7672 an expression from over 150 years ago, by training a racehorse horse "in the dark" owners & trainers could enter it in a race and place bets at very favorable odds to win, since no one expected the horse to even be running in the race. So a human “Dark horse candidate” is one no one expected to even be in the political race, but has a good chance to win.

@@carolewhelan2492 Ah - thank you: the context now makes sense.

@@carolewhelan2492 You could've just written "a lesser-known candidate."

And how many TV personalities are now in the business of running the country? Americans are not serious voters.

Exactly. The USA has a habit shipping the rich. Even though the rich has usually done NOTHING to earn either their money or our respect. The money is being stolen from the middle class and the poor.

....world wide...look at the English Royals...other dynasties..

No Doubt!

Americans IDOLIZE the greedy rich, are you kidding?!

Ronald Regan really got the ball rolling.

people only want happy news or news that favors their position.

It's democrats who is destroying us here is the proof when taxes were raised by a large amount by Eisenhower it took one person working to support a family of four after the big tax increase it soon went to two people working to support a family of four a big drop in liveing standards now with government bigger than ever before and more regulations on business than ever before two people working struggle to support a family of four and our debt grows by seven percent a year our economy little over two this is unsustainable and will destroy our nation because of Democrat greed vote out handout Democrats before it's to late our childrens future depend on it

Republicans are still trying to tell the average American middle and lower income earners that Reagan’s trickle down economics is in our best interest. It’s only in the interest of wealthy Americans and large corporations.

Or the Hate, anger and chaos caucus

If you vote Democrat why do you not pay enough taxes for the social programs they want do you not know the size of our debt and that our children will inherit a bankrupt shell of a nation because you won't pay enough taxes for the handouts democrats want

Our debt is thirty four trillion dollars our economy is twenty six trillion meaning when our creditors cash there bonds in for dollars they will lay claim to everything we produce and still owe more resources thats the future our children will have because you won't pay enough taxes for the handouts Democrats want stop voteing your own selfish interests and start voteing our childrens intrests vote out handout Democrats for our childrens sake

Biden is also a neofascist.

@illisssawhite2676 If you vote blue, you must REALLY hate this country. SlowJoe has made a mess and you want to vote for more of THAT? Jimmy Carter is breathing a sigh of relief knowing that SlowJoe is a bigger turd than he was.

If you vote blue why do you not pay enough taxes for the social programs Democrats want instead of bankrupting our nation for our children we have a debt so big it defies belief because of Democrat programs that Democrats won't pay for why do Democrats hate our children

He seems a mediocre intellect to me couched in unfounded assertions and coached in Socialism.

What’s unfounded about what he’s saying? You don’t seem to even know what socialism is. I’d hardly call a Rhode Scholar a mediocre intellect. Let’s compare your achievements by all means.

@@brianmclaughlin4419 Only socialism will save the working class Only socialism will save the country Only socialism will save democracy Only socialism will save the planet Capitalism destroys all of the above... this is FACT.

Socialists politicized labor in the early days because it's a necessary part of their underlying class-struggle schtick. They have to have oppressors and oppressed else they can't divide and conquer the masses. This strategy had little success in the west so they turned to finding oppressors and oppressed outside of economic classes. They continue to use economics to try to woo people into surrendering their wealth and liberties, but it only works on a certain percentage of the population. There's no power base there still in what remains of the west. That's why you get all this other socialist propaganda on every conceivable social issue nowadays. Even 'gender' is now politicized in the most insane way that few ever could have predicted. So, in terms of why Trump is popular, one answer I would give is that he seems to know the difference between a man and a woman, and this resonates with the portion of the population that is still somewhat rational.

@brianmclaughlin4419 Yes, to you, I’m sure he does. Not to smart people.

Well said !

Did you forget who indicted their opposition?

Did you forget who sent your tax funds to Ukraine?

Did you forget who locked you down during the "pandemic"?

You're 100% correct!!

I have always believed strongly in my heart one reason we should be grateful for immigrants, legal or illegal, is they are the only ones in this country who know what it is NOT to live in a Democracy.

We might well find out, if Trump actually gets elected. I truly believe that is his goal. He is so full of hate and vindictiveness towards people he believes have done him harm.

Fascism is a monster that eats its’ young. Some people won’t realize this until they find out the hard way and it’s NEVER pretty.

Ask David Hogg about that.

…night of the long knives. And that's amongst the psychopaths, not real people.

If you vote Democrat why do you not pay enough taxes for the social programs they want we have a debt so big it defies belief because you won't pay for the handouts Democrats want

Our debt is bigger than our entire economy

Our bond status was downgraded for the first time ever under Obama and Biden interest payments alone is nearly a trillion dollars the imf just recently issued a warning about our debt we are leaving our children a bankrupt shell of a nation some Democrats don't care some Democrats just can't see past the next handout vite out handout Democrats before it's to late our childrens future depend on it

@@fritzforsthoefel8031 Private debt levels are building fast, and hit new records this year. Credit card debt just passed $1 trillion for the first time ever, according to Federal Reserve data.

You can thank the Republicans for that.

Are you kidding Bernie Sanders talks about the free things you would get from the government if you voted for him free free free and let our children pay for it all that's the Democrat way adults living off our children

Bernie has only said what he needed to say to grift a fortune from politics from those naive enough to believe he will go anywhere to help anyone but himself, while Trump is willing to spend himself broke to defend the country from those trying to stuff electoral seats by way of census counting illegals now overwhelming ALL of our major cities. Big difference, indeed.

Yes. Obvious, yet paradoxically not so obvious. This has been overlooked.

Sanders tells you that you can have free things

Sanders says his brand of socialism is like Swedens if you vote for Sanders why do you not pay taxes like swedish people do

I work for a large corporation and my job is a union position. Thanks to the union, I get a guaranteed raise and bonus every year, comprehensive, low-cost health insurance, excellent retirement benefits, protection against unfair discipline/being fired or laid off, and a say in policies and procedures. For me, being in a union provides a balance of power between employee and employer. The benefits outweigh the costs. However, I know that not all unions are as beneficial as the one that I am a member of.

In the little bitty town of Foster Oregon, there was once a Plywood Mill owned by Willamette Industries. The Murphy Lumber bought it. Out went the union because Murphy's is a union busting company. Murphy's propagandized, badgered their employees until the employees voted out a union. They wish they hadn't. Now too many employees work 6 days a week just to make ends meet. So much for union busting.

I have one bumpersticker- I support the labor movement The people who brought you the weekend

The party that causes the homeless tent populations, screams the loudest about the nasty homeless tent camps. :(

Hopefully your daughter will one day wake up from the "word drugs" tRump spreads around. And I sincerely congratulate you and your coping mechanisms, Kathryn. If that had happened to tRumpie, he would just cry and fill his diaper in a senior's home until someone fed him.

Who are you voting for?

In re: Your daughter. I'm sorry for your loss.

Your daughter has been poisoned by fascism. Such a shame.

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So true.

Bingo. I said the same thing. My only addition is that this has been in motion for decades. Look up Asimov's essay about the cult of ignorance.

This is why Republicans fight education funding so hard!

Yes it follows the old saying - keep them ignorant and keep them voting for you. Sadly it’s a repeat of the general situation that drove our ancestors to flee to the new world. Greed and indifference is lethal.

in the 90'S in Ga. was $ 4.25/hrs!

Spot on! 👌

Kansas still uses the federal minimum wage of $7.25, which was established in 2009. I feel your pain!

No....The minimum wage was $3.30 an hour in Ohio. I know, I was a teen then and made that!

Adjust it for time, and it's even worse. If they had just adjusted for inflation, even $5 would now be $24.91 per hour. So that is not an increase but a $17 loss. You CANNOT forget to adjust.

Better than the brainless ilk who support the walking cadaver!

I only agree with you on one half of your statement the ilk It is definitely about them and the ilk are individuals like Steve Bannon Mike Flynn Rudy Giuliani Sydney Powell and all those claiming that the 2020 election was a fraud and of course the illustrious Donald J Trump who still screams that he was cheated after being beaten by 7 million Americans who voted against him and no it wasn't illegal immigrants No it wasn't dead people Oh correction Yes for found by the Ninja turtles and investigating body of Republicans who said they were going to take 5 weeks to investigate the five deciding states and they were looking for bamboo shoots soy sauce Jewish lasers and satellites that changed the vote from Trump to Biden but it took him 5 months and you got to take your head off to them even if you are a Republican and even if you are a Democrat they could have lied but they didn't and because they're loyalty was to the Constitution and democracy they said in truth and they were sure they were going to find malfeasans they found nothing let me repeat that They found NOTHING... Supporting the claim of Donald Trump that there was voter fraud therefore Donald Trump and all the Republican corporations billionaires supporting the so-called right have been able to prove with one single shred of proof after 71 investigations 66 of them being done by the 66 quarts that Donald Trump petitioned for voter fraud where the 233 judiciaries Trump personally appointed and they all told him in 2021 Thank you for the appointment Mr former president former being the optimum word here for appointing us to preside in 66 Courts across the land But you failed to provide three essential pieces of facts in order for us to give you your day in court PROOF EVIDENCE AND TESTIMONY TO COOBERATE YOUR CLAIM! THEREFORE FAILING TO DO SO NOT EVEN AILEEN CANNON IN FLORIDA WAS ABLE TO GIVE HIM HIS DAY IN COURT ALL SHE'S DOING NOW IS TO STOP THE WHEELS OF JUSTICE TO POSTPONE ANY TRIAL OF DONALD TRUMP STEALING TOP SECRET AND SENSITIVE DOCUMENTS FROM WASHINGTON THAT HE CLAIMS WERE DECLASSIFIED IN HIS MIND AND NOT TO CLASSIFIED FOR THE DEPARTMENTS OF WHICH HE STOLE THEM FROM TRUST ME I AM NO LEGAL SCHOLAR BUT I'LL BET YOU ALL THE TEA IN CHINA NO PRESIDENT FROM WASHINGTON TO BIDEN CAN DECLASSIFY TOP SECRET DOCUMENTS SIMPLY IN YOUR MIND THE DEPARTMENT THAT CLASSIFIED THEM HAVE TO DECLASSIFIED THEM AND ONLY PERSONAL PRESIDENTIAL DOCUMENTS IS IT ONLY RELATE TO A PRESIDENT CAN HE DECLASSIFY AND EVEN THAT'S IFFY ... CAPICHE!

What about the Left being the New Nazis supporting and financing Antisemitism in America? The only Presidents in the 20th century acting like dictators, Fascista, were people like Woodrow Wilson, FDR, Teddy Roosevelt. Progressives ( today's Left) supported Nazis. They advocated Eugenics. The Left "ilk" is far scarier than Trump supporters. Like most Leftist leaders, losers like Reich sell this idea that Trump is seeking dictatorship and that his supporters are desperate. Hardly. Reich is also selling bullshit right now. Home ownership was up for years and has only ticked down slightly in recent years. Standard of living has improved vastly for decades. Riech is a conman Socialist pedaling Propaganda.

So true! I don't get it. My comment above, relates to this: "Reich is certainly a smart guy, but none of this explains why the people that feel so abused by the establishment are the very people who have benefited most from the status quo. I live in the one district in Colorado that supports Trump, and our average income here is probably one of the highest in the entire country. Why are these people passionately working to destroy the very system that gave them such enviable lives?"

It's Democrat programs that Democrats won't pay enough taxes for that is destroying us we have a debt so big it defies belief it's at record peacetime levels under Biden the imf just recently issued a warning about our debt our interest payments alone is nearly a trillion dollars our bond status was downgraded under Obama and Biden for the first time ever and all because you won't pay enough taxes for the handouts Democrats want vote out handout Democrats before it's to late our childrens future depend on it

Oh, stop blaming Adam Smith!

The death of the American middle class began with the election of Reagan. You all worship him, because after the soul-searching precipitated by the Vietnam war debacle, he came on the scene and loudly once again, proclaimed how wonderful America was.

1919, Dodge vs ford. The courts ruled that a company's purpose was to make the shareholders rich.

Thank you for pointing out the original sin that started the current cycle of impoverishment of the majority. You are 100% correct.

@@jj-sc1kq sure it has always been there. But Milton kicked off the current attempt to reverse the progressive gains of the 20th century.

When is the last time you heard him criticize Biden? If he hasn't, he is useless.

Given that everything I've heard him say for the last 5 years has been a flagrant lie he does not have my respect.

@@goazer2source?

@@sebastianlaplume461 You can compare his and Thomas Sowell's videos on minimum wage, then look at what is actually happening in California which just did a big minimum wage increase. A guy called mentiswave did a video about his video on greedflation. The debunkers video on Reich's video about getting rid of the electoral college. Not the most intellectually rigorus video but it doesn't really need to be if you understand anything about the electorial college you know that the idea it should be subverted or abolished is insane. There's more but those are what I have handy.

@@goazer2 the electoral college is a prototype that fails to represent, it was not well thought out. We can elect the president the same way we elect everyone else. Look at Germany’s election system if you need a perfect real world representation on how voting should be done. When the system was put in place there weren’t good alternatives so they spitballed something, we have alternatives now that simply are just better and should use them. I agree minimum wage is an effort to fight the symptoms, not the cause of the problem. Scandinavian countries mostly don’t have minimum wage because their labor sector is stacked with unions and if companies can’t glue themselves to the minimum wage, they’re forced to be competitive. Their heavy social programs also aid in that. If the US is going to be so interventionist that it can’t even call itself an open market anymore, we can at least implement the strong programs and labor protections other controlled economies enjoy.

A true patriot who stop the invasion on the Southern border and as a lawyer enforce immigration laws and antitrust issues to stop the corporate control of the country. He is a propagandist

Robert Reich is unable to comprehend DEMOCRACY. If we don’t stand together with positive ideals, we let the wolves into the fold.

If you’re trying to figure out how read the book Stolen Focus by Johann Hari. It helps explain why so many Americans are falling for the conman.

So true. People have stopped thinking for themselves.

As an American, when I look at other developed (and even some developing) countries, it seems that they are doing so much more for their people in regards to social safety nets, etc. Your comment surprises me, but I believe it.

I would like to hear more global situations, professor.

⁠Please elaborate.

A lot of Brits thought Margaret Thatcher was a financial savior but North Sea oil came on line as she took office. She had nothing to do with it any improvement.

F A C T !!!

Reagan's people'S actually tried to replicate the assassination of Kennedy.. yet the secret service ...Reagan was berated during office about great acting not.real journalists were already bought up. Nixon days. Can't win? Buy them.Those lazy heirs.Every heir was bought instead of protecting the family history.Shame on the future generations. YES I UNDERSTAND THE LAZINESS OF THE HEIRS JUST NOT GIVING A DAMN AND TALKING ABOUT I AM A BRAND.in name only.😂 All my oil clothes made r not going to be held for liability. 😂organization of labor is dead.Hey Reich what union do you belong too?

​@@lyndakaye5198you say that like life didn't get drastically better after Reagan

@@yourdaddy-mq4km It did not. Reagan / Trickle Down Economics accelerated this present divided wealth and increasing fascism.

I would never even consider buying a Tesla because I refuse to give any of my money to Elon Musk.

They have all had at least one recall... I'll reconsider when they get out of Beta testing on the public!

The prosperity and success of Tesla and it's owner are commendable. But the obscene wealth and craven greed of the owner is sickening.

Get a hybrid.

@@lovemakestheworldgoround6726 That seems to have become the definition of "success"... greed.

BECAUSE SURVIVAL IS INSUFFICIENT!

Weirdly, I can remember that we spent at least two decades of the 80s and the 90s WATCHING these people live in their mansions and sail their yachts on TV and in the papers, while we kept the roofs over our heads just barely, our unions and pensions went away, our health got worse as we could not afford the good food and medicine...we bought the lie! *(I didn't, you didn't, but as a culture, we bought the lie!)*

I disagree we are fine watching people do all those things what people are tired of is the inability for themselves to be that person.

Those are all very legitimate concerns. Trump can not and will not address any of them. He is about promoting his business interests and retribution to his stated enemies. He can not govern.

@@ace448 The physical Planet will not allow that.

Vote for who you want-----. But trying to tell others how to vote makes you seems pretty lame. Tell then to vote for who they want to have as their president. Or better yet----we will mostly all be voting agaisn't someone we really---really don't want. I think 80% of us----don't want either candidate. At least we have a 3rd party candidate or two out there.

If you're referring to jfk jr he's just a magat in disguise.​@@dennisplatte7506

Typo: 80 percent of Republicans. But, VOTE BLUE, AMERICAN! @dennisplatte7506 - One candidate, Trump, explicitly, wants to violate the Constitution, meaning that our rights will be evicerated. Dissidents will be locked up. Violence will be meted to quiet down the public. Bothsidesism is truly unwise.

It's far more than 40% of Republicans. It's probably 90% of Republicans. Republicans are perhaps 40% of Americans so that would put the hard core Trump MAGA base at 36% of the population or so. Maybe another 8-10% hold their noses and vote for Trump because they stupidly believe him to be the lesser of 2 evils.

​@@dennisplatte7506At this time your third party candidate is a throw away vote. President Biden isn't a god. He's an honorable man trying to take care of ALL Americans. Allowing your local government to be hijacked by these jackals is the start of your problems. President Biden is the obvious choice and the one we need now. Open your eyes. No one is telling you how to vote. It's their opinion. If a bad vote only affected you it wouldn't matter. VOTE BLUE!

Do you believe in a livable wage

Total NOT true.

@@fritzforsthoefel8031 A livable wage is what gave us the middle class in America, and unions are the only country wide organizations that are still fighting for a livable wage for the working class.

That's why whenever I see someone and get into a conversation, when we're done talking and say goodbye, I always say (for 40 years now) *_"Don't work too hard, nobody pays good enough for that..."_*

@@fritzforsthoefel8031 The point is you cannot have a livable wage with those figures.

Socialize heath care is very weak....Dr's only get payed a small amount. And because of that, nobody has any incentive to find a cure for anything.....if you need proof, just look at Canada.....they rely on American Dr's for cures...

@@randyellis9460 rolls eye's

@@4014Thugsy I know Buddy....the truth hurts...

@@randyellis9460 That's why what you said doesn't hurt at all

No, we would be a province of Russia under Putin/

No you helped murder innocent vietnamese people and crank up profits for the Fortune 500 . Dont kid yourself

The unfortunate truth is that the Republican Party could not have done this by themselves. The issue is that career politicians spending half of each day begging wall street for campaign contributions. What are these politicians expected to do for that money. We live in a transactional society, after all.

Welfare is bad no matter who

​@@yourdaddy-mq4kmthat is absolutely true... until situations change and you a hand.

@@kt798 I've been there and I don't want anything from the government

@@yourdaddy-mq4km Not if you need it.

@@yourdaddy-mq4km You don't like welfare, but you aspire to be rich like the Waltons who never paid their employees enough so that they weren't eligible for welfare and food stamps. If we thought fathers in the home would help we'd never have set up welfare so they couldn't be in the home. Do you know how much a mom with 3 kids collects when she's on welfare? Why do we think that the people who get the least are the one's who're getting the most?

Financial deregulation.

It's a reflection of the uniparty that is trying to jail Trump

We've all played the Game of Monopoly and seen how it ends. America is getting to the end of the Monopoly game.

I can just imagine Gorbachev sitting and listening to Ronald Reagan's plan for the country and thinking "You mean all I have to do is sit here and do nothing and this fool will destroy his own country? This has to be too good to be true."

When an election turns into a movement, like MAGA, the propaganda keeps the movement afloat. People believe, because they want to believe. Truth is pushed to the side.

And that weirdo Argentinian right-wing leader. Italy has a female Hitler in charge now but that country goes back & forth in elections.

orban is too small, he wants to be a Putin!

Better politicians start with better voters.

Trump is a creation of the media. Always has been. Bankrupt all the time, accused of crimes all the time, complete incompetent. The media stood Trump up, and keeps him up.

I agree Ned. The media has given Trump so many passes. By normalizing his abhorrent behavior, never asking hard questions, the media fueled the monster.

The Trump supporters that I know weren't involved or all that interested in the political process before Trump. Most of them don't understand or care how the government operates - for instance how a bill becomes law. They certainly don't understand ideology. "Liberal" to them is nothing more than an insult they throw around like "snow flake". They don't know what fascism is I've heard them use fascist, Communist and socialist interchangeably. They support Trump simply because he told them it was okay to be an asshole. They don't have to be "politically correct" or "woke". He promised to protect them from "the blacks" and the scary LGBT community. He promised to build a wall to keep the brown people out and keep the white people safe.

We’ve single handedly destroyed our home off the backs of our children for bread and entertainment. Guess we will go to mars or pandora before we even reflect on what we have done to ourselves. That explains the throw out “democracy” vote. Democracy for what?

read my comment elsewhere on this video if you want the answer.....

Tribalism, mostly.... but, also ignorance. Many fall for the siren song and just want to belong to the loudest - perceived as strongest - tribe, and at any cost. Thousands of years ago, they would not have made it and passed on their genes. Sadly, we are now stuck dealing with these lowlifes.

Most supporters are religious fundamentalists and therefore like worshipping an authoritative figure. However, most of what they engage with is surface level and performative. Therefore, they often have no strong conviction to their principles so long as they feel it gives them a better position over others.

It's not about "managing to live on a few million a year."

One of the many things I find frightening about all this? There are people on the right who are old enough to know that Biden simply *couldn’t* have caused a lot of the current problems. The border crisis is a case in point. Generally speaking, Trump is a symptom, not a cause, of a cancer that’s been growing for 40 years. Unfortunately, it has reached the brain.

Biden is complicit at best. He may have tried to do some good things in the past 3 years, but he also helped create this mess we are in...

Same here in Austria too, a majority of people always vote right wing parties since the eighties and there were a lot of scandals and corruption here too, but the right always blame the migrants for the problems and get reelected and can do politics for the rich. In the US also republicans made politics for the rich and massive tax cuts there, democrats were much more successful to reduce the deficit when they were in charge but republicans just lie and blame democrats for their poor economic performance without any facts behind these claims. So disgusting to see how this plays out and especially if you try to explain the facts to other people who are voting the political right, they don't even try to respond reasonable, they want to belief their claims and find the absurdest arguments to stay by these claims. I think we are mostly brainwashed by society and the corporations and media which influence it, to think in the way which is best suited for the people in power to become even more powerful, richer and criminal as they were.

He’s been a politician for what, 40 years? I don’t think did much to improve things. Problem is most federal politicians are bought and paid for. Look at some of their net worth on a government salary.

@@user-fe8yp1rb9m I “googled” Joe Biden’s net worth. According to Forbes, he owns two houses at a combined value of $10 million. He was elected to the Senate at age 29, so that gives him 52 years of unbroken government service. I agree that most of our “leaders” are corrupt as hell! That said, given that Comer (and anyone else) has spectacularly failed to tie him to anything, I have to conclude that Biden has done poor job of stealing and taking bribes…

You forgot money printing and devaluing currency

You said it, 1980 was the turning point.

@@user-df6mf9mb2l And Thatcher looked good because North Sea oil came on tap as she took power.

Tax cuts for the wealthy & big corporations by every Republican administration since Reagan. Effectively transferring US Wealth to the wealthiest and weakening the Middle Class and everyone else. Republicans hate for FDR New Deal & later expansion by Johnson.

Yup! I'm constantly sharing these vids, so ppl Understand the Facts. Trump supporters will still argue. It's funny. Jesus Himself could come to Earth (like they want & all), & they're so busy hunched over Trump Bibles, w/ their Trump Sneakers, & Trump Prison Wine (up & coming) that they wouldn't even notice

Agreed!

One thing you may have forgotten is Canada is financially dominated by the 1%'ers.

Fellow Canadian here, probably about the same age. What's your assessment of MAGA's influence on the state of Canadian politics?

I was living in Canada in the 70's and 80's and came back to the States for family. I look back and realize how much of a big mistake that was.

The CCP appreciates him as well.

@@LimitlessThinker I'm sorry to hear that. I don't want Canada to go down the MAGA path, but there's a good chance we might.

We have to get rid of Citizen’s United, the Electoral College, & the filibuster. VOTE 100% BLUE no 3rd party no Nikki voters

Yes but under the law they are treated like human beings.

@@user-yt3so4pk7u - No RFK Jr. voters, either!

The crooked SCOTUS says that judicial entities like Corporations and Unions are people and therefore have all rights that human persons have in the Bill of Rights. Though the SCOTUS ruled this nonsense in the 2010 Citizens United disaster, we have yet to see a CEO whose company went bankrupt be prosecuted for murder, or a startup Corporation that runs out of money and is aborted be prosecuted under Dobbs. The right-wing-nuts have weaponized the 1st Amendment to the detriment of our entire democratic system.

Ah, the SCOTUS disagrees. "Corporations are people."

No, Reich is an individual who has expertise in one topic and thinks it makes them an expert on other topics. Much like we see with Elon Musk, and so many others. The hubris is breathtaking. There's so much, from a political perspective, that he pretends aren't there. We have tens of millions of theocrats in this country, and they vote according to Eamon religious views elevated to rule of law. 32% of Americans. The percentage is less than half that in the other advanced western nations. The rise of the theocratic right has a lot to do with how we got here. I marvel at how many ex-Republicans have now spoken out about the problem of theocracy in the Republican party. They aren't afraid to use terms such as theocrat, theocracy, etc. And yet there's this wing on the left that runs from such terms. Won't acknowledge the problem. Won't acknowledge what a threat to freedom it is. And that in itself is a serious problem. If he's going to speak politics, he needs to include the major political forces in this country. The ideologies. The number one predictor of someone being a Trump supporter is being authoritarian minded. One can't get at the roots of that through talking economics. I knew a business professor who claimed that he could understand everything, including the movement of the planets, through liking at everything as business transactions. Fortunately, NASA didn't use him for guiding space flight. It's that same sort of hubris. An intelligent person having so much knowledge on one subject that they believe their willful ignorance in another topic doesn't get in the way of them being expert on that other subject. Like Musk thinking he has any clue whatsoever regarding what freedom of speech actually entails. Or Zuckerberg & Co. flailing about with concepts of ethics and standards. Utterly clueless. Which detracts in no way from their actual intelligence, or the actual range of knowledge that they have.

The Autoworkers negotiated a raise of approx. 25%!!! That's HUGE!

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Workers need a voice...unions give them that...

Trump hates unions ,trump hates everything and everyone except himself.

@@paddyholly2184 yea! Love to see that. There is so much wealth in this world that everyone should be able to prosper

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FOX LIES is a big part of the problem.

"...40-years of public education cuts..." What are you using to support this claim? If anything, spending on education has gone up even using constant dollars comparisons (96 mil in 1980 ; 794 mil in 2020). The sad part is that despite this, nothing has changed for the students -- their test scores have basically stayed the same for decades.

Actually it's 40 years of liberal indoctrination and teacher unions..😉

Spot on!

enzoitgoes8335 Typical. Avoid talking about issues like open borders, crime, inflation, China, antisemitism, debt, etc.--and just level personal attacks.

@@dennisweidner288 Justified when he's in court every day as the first ever President convicted and going to be convicted of more. Borders aren't "open" despite FOX lies, crime comes from decades of GOP driven stagnant wages, inflation comes from government capture by big business to where we have Socialism, but it's just for big business, not the people. Debt was EXPLODED by Trump tax cuts. But you don't care about facts, since your diet on FOX doesn't include such things.

​@@dennisweidner288..disrespected women and people with disabilities disregarded our allies while being meretricious to putin gave a tax cut to the wealthy 2017and lying about a election he won 2016popular vote and one he lost 2020or coddling racist nefarious organisms Charlottesville and d.c Jan 6th and lied about a pandemic and now stealing classified documents and lying about returning them!!! From trump !!!!!!!😊

@@dennisweidner288 open borders - Trump ordered Johnson to keep it that way. Crime = Trump Inflation - Outside of Presidents control China - They own Trump Antisemitism - Republican party - Most hate Palestine, the rest hate Israel. So 100% hate Semites Dept - from lowering taxes and borrowing - no president done more of this than Trump

Lets see now...... poor character, dishonor, lack of sound reasoning. Sounds like what we got now in the Biden admin. Oh don't forget a complete lack of mental awareness by the man in charge.

more like lack of both - culture and education

"Culture" doesn't even come close to the realization that Big Business was handed the keys, starting with Reagan tax cuts, and moving right on through Clinton's "age of Big Government is over" as government was slowly stripped of almost all power.

Especially poor education.

@@lindabalent2755 NEA and the devil who leads it.

And when you look at it, best foundation.😮

An apt compparison!👌

I'm not to sure ,but what does scare me is someone with more charisma than trump coming along ,because if people can fall for this decrepit old whale,so easily them I think the next one will trun the US into a dictatorship, DeSantis is could be that person in 4 yrs time 😢

Very interesting, and I see now that Satan does that too, 1John 5:19 says the whole world is lying in that beings power and that is a widespread 'cancer' for sure, and I see hatred as the catalyst for the growth process, it starts it growing worldwide, and so, the world is a cancer patient.... That really makes sense to put it the way you did, thank you......

Yeah, nicely said!

Love your handle. You're so right

My dream ticket: Reich/Warren or Sanders/Warren

Hitler not available?

@@user-tf1rq9vg1j Trump is another Hitler.

I second that motion.

SOMETHING trickled down...

What's crazy is thinking that that explains the theocratic right, fascist right, and white nationalist right.

@@lonpollard902 What a loon

Yes. And we knew that in the 80s when we were first offered this trickle down nonsense.

Sound like Reagan.,,trickle down economics

We won't!

FORCA PORTUGAL

Many of us are working hard to get out EVERY blue vote. 🗳 Our country can kiss democracy goodbye, if we don't win in November. The consequences of other will be horrible for the World!

The Don will never be elected to anything again unless his prison mates decide he should be in charge of lunch seating.

Looking from an objective pov; does it look that bleak to you that it could happen again? I'm concerned if he wins, but more concerned if he doesn't because of the possibility it would be deja vu all over again...God forbid!

lmao you're a CEO? L

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The same line the Dutch government took. As much as possible keep the employees employed so after the crisis you still have your qualified workforce. This strategy has worked out great, and employers still had their workers and did not have to put a lot of effort in building up a qualified staff from scratch.

@@asuka_the_void_witch It seems that at this moment a lot of Americans think that stupidity is a virtue. These folks have a club named the GOP. Seems you are a member.

Be careful, your fellow CEOs are going to have you committed.

We found out they were supporting our weakest candidates throughout that time. The only times we won were candidates they thought were weak

I still remember vividly the roar of jubilation throughout the neighborhood the moment Nixon resigned on TV.

​@@patland1762And we all thought then, our problems are over. They hadn't even begun. Took our eyes off the ball.

And only two of those won the popular vote.

Demonic? You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

Wages are behind because you still believe in the democrats.

Unions killed many cities with their greed.

Per democrats !!! What do you think comes from open borders?surely you are blind and deaf

@lynnjudd9036 Exactly right. Trump, as bad as he is, is not the problem, he is a symptom. As a scarily relevant example, Hitler came to power even though he was considered a bit of a joke at the time, (sound familiar?) because of the horrendous economic conditions imposed upon Germany after WWI.

You bet it does.

Blue team is the ones giving those handouts.

It's not teams. That's what's wrong with the rightwingers. To them it's a game. It's people's lives.

@@5amiann if it's not teams to you then why do you call them "right-wingers"

Ronald Reagan was the Antichrist

I am sorry for your losses due to the oligarchy in charge at the time. It's hard to forgive such blatant greed! I hope your kids can get help with their debt and find a good path. We cannot give up on making things better and not allowing greed and power to win--together the collective can and must unite.Thanks for sharing your story!

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Dick Cheney didn't hurt the 'cause' either - he's culpable.

Who was convicted?

The Top 1% of USA Federal Income Tax payers pay 50% of the revenue collected.

@@arturbello4213 That's not remotely responsive to what he commented.

Yes, it's very odd how many people vote against their own economic interests because their hatred of others is more important to them. The orange man thing has made it glaringly obvious that a huge % of people don't understand what an authoritarian / anti-democratic takeover looks like.

@@susanwhite7474 It IS directly to the comment.

@@arturbello4213 No, it's clearly not. The comment raised the issue of whether the 1% will "look out" for the poor idiots who support the orange felon, not what % of taxes the 1% pays.

the hollywood effect.

Panem et Circenses, except all we got was the Circenses, with extra clowns.

Neil Postman agreed with you many years ago in his book "Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Entertainment".

Ohhhhh.....so thats what we have now? Proper government ? LMAO. Ur clueless.

@@blue81blue81 Keeping laughing. You're a fool!

Considering that your comment describes 40-50% of the voting population (hopefully,less than that) what does that say about the U.S. ?

Keep calling me RACIST, MISOGYNIST and HOMOPHOBIC and know why I vote AGAINST YOU!

​@@myleslong5584it doesn't say anything because it's a lie.

@@yourdaddy-mq4km you may believe it's a lie if you want but then you would be denying reality.

@@myleslong5584 Just ask Bill Maher about American intelligence.

Reich speaks the same views as Marianne Williamson, who's on the ballot for president in about 40 states; yet, I am not aware of him ever mentioning her positions that are no different than his. Perhaps, he was too concerned about the fragmentation among voters that he feared would weaken the incumbent's chances and/or popularity still too frail.