Louder with Crowder - January 21, 2016


Bernie Sanders: Fascist for Mediocrity | Louder With Crowder


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The 1% will try to convince you that I don't like freedom. I like freedom as long as it's not for people who are too rich or are too poor. I want freedom for every one of the people in the middle. And it needs to be government mandated!

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00:00:00.000 The 1% will try to convince you that I don't like freedom.
00:00:06.000 I like freedom as long as it's not for people who are too rich or are too poor.
00:00:15.000 I want freedom for every one of the people in the middle.
00:00:21.000 And it needs to be government mandated! - What democratic socialism is about is having a government which reflects the interest of ordinary people rather than is currently the case of the billionaire class.
00:00:42.000 So the term fascism is thrown around so much nowadays.
00:00:46.000 It's a fun word.
00:00:47.000 What's a fun word, and you've heard it a lot in your college gender studies, I'm sure. 0.84
00:00:52.000 Oh, absolutely.
00:00:53.000 But it's lost all meaning.
00:00:54.000 People don't really know what it means.
00:00:56.000 And so I want to make the case, in looking at their policies and what they want to do and their world view, Bernie Sanders is the most fascist of all the candidates.
00:01:06.000 How dare you use that kind of incendiary language! 0.98
00:01:11.000 He's just a fascist for mediocrity. 1.00
00:01:14.000 He's a mediocre fascist. 1.00
00:01:16.000 Allow me to present my case. 0.99
00:01:19.000 And I know people complaining, Bernie Sanders sounds more like this, but for all intents and purposes...
00:01:29.000 Our Bernie Sanders sounds like he's portrayed by Gilbert Godfrey.
00:01:31.000 It's funnier that way.
00:01:33.000 The nerve!
00:01:34.000 So, um, first let's look at the definition of fascism.
00:01:37.000 It's important, by the way, I found, when I was looking this up, don't go by the first Google thing, Miriam Webster.
00:01:44.000 Google shows up right away, an authoritarian and nationalistic right-wing system of government and social organization.
00:01:50.000 Right-wing.
00:01:51.000 I was going, well, hold on a second.
00:01:52.000 Fascism is not right-wing.
00:01:55.000 I mean, Stalin, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Hitler, uh, I don't know.
00:02:26.000 It has no mention of left wing at all.
00:02:29.000 None.
00:02:30.000 So fascism, right wing, socialism, communism, which are actual left wing political systems of government.
00:02:39.000 We're just going to omit that.
00:02:40.000 So, let's look at the Merriam-Webster definition of fascism, okay?
00:02:43.000 It has a political philosophy, movement, or regime that exalts a nation or race above the individual and stands for centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition.
00:02:59.000 That's Bernie Sanders.
00:03:00.000 Okay?
00:03:01.000 Centralized government regimentation suppression of opposition.
00:03:06.000 So, what do I mean by this?
00:03:08.000 Um...
00:03:10.000 Let's look at a few, let's start with a few things.
00:03:13.000 So Bernie Sanders, right, he comes out and he says, Well, hold on a second.
00:03:32.000 The people will not have to pay for it.
00:03:35.000 The people.
00:03:36.000 So he said the people, right?
00:03:37.000 He's talking about the people signifying this group of people who matter, who will be affected.
00:03:41.000 Where's the money coming from?
00:03:43.000 It's not coming out of thin air.
00:03:45.000 Someone's paying for it.
00:03:46.000 You look at his tax plan, he wants to tax wealthier Americans more.
00:03:51.000 Specifically, any household joint over 250,000 household income, you're going to be paying, if you live in a moderately liberal state, over 60% in taxes.
00:03:59.000 Not to mention everything else.
00:04:01.000 So those don't count as the people.
00:04:03.000 Because he's saying the people won't have to pay.
00:04:05.000 What is he saying about the group of individuals?
00:04:09.000 They're basically subhuman.
00:04:11.000 They're not to be included in the people.
00:04:13.000 The wealthy, the successful, are not the people.
00:04:17.000 Only these folks count as the people.
00:04:21.000 That's a very limited definition of people.
00:04:24.000 Anyone above it, that's fascism.
00:04:27.000 So...
00:04:30.000 Let's go here.
00:04:31.000 While appearing in New Hampshire in September, okay, Sanders said that he had talked to a guy from Denmark.
00:04:36.000 And he told me that over there, it was very hard to be very poor, but also hard to be very rich!
00:04:46.000 And that made sense to me!
00:04:49.000 That's fascism for mediocrity, right?
00:04:52.000 We're talking about social regimentation, political, and forcible suppression of opposition.
00:04:58.000 So, It should be very, very hard to be very rich, very, very poor.
00:05:03.000 All of you have to be in the middle.
00:05:05.000 Otherwise, you're not part of the people, right?
00:05:07.000 The people won't pay for it.
00:05:08.000 So if you're rich, no, you're not part of the people.
00:05:10.000 If you're poor, no, you're not part of the people.
00:05:12.000 It should be hard to be very rich, and it should be hard to be very poor.
00:05:17.000 I want freedom for everyone of the people in the middle, and it needs to be government-mandated!
00:05:27.000 So how do you enforce that?
00:05:29.000 By taxing the wealthy an incredible amount and giving to people who are poor.
00:05:33.000 So if the poor people, maybe some of them deserve to be poor. 0.99
00:05:36.000 It's not popular to say.
00:05:37.000 Maybe poor people deserve to be poor, right? 1.00
00:05:39.000 Maybe they're lazy.
00:05:40.000 Maybe they don't employ people.
00:05:40.000 Maybe they don't work.
00:05:41.000 Maybe they don't start businesses.
00:05:42.000 No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
00:05:43.000 We need to make them part of the people by taking from the non-people, the wealthy, and making sure that everyone is in the middle. 0.98
00:05:51.000 From his own words, it should be very hard to be very rich or very poor.
00:05:54.000 Another example.
00:05:57.000 Good example, right?
00:05:58.000 Bernie Sanders believes...
00:05:59.000 In my view, anyone who works 40 hours a week deserves a living wage!
00:06:07.000 I don't agree.
00:06:08.000 That sounds mean.
00:06:10.000 I believe that you have the right to be paid an appropriate amount correlating exactly to the value added by your position or services.
00:06:10.000 No, I don't agree.
00:06:18.000 That's what I believe.
00:06:19.000 But I'm not a fascist.
00:06:21.000 See, I don't...
00:06:22.000 Let's, um...
00:06:23.000 It's like fast food, for example.
00:06:25.000 Okay?
00:06:25.000 So, everyone has a restaurant, right?
00:06:28.000 Like a fast food spot.
00:06:29.000 I don't know if it's McDonald's or if it's Wendy's.
00:06:31.000 You have one here, right?
00:06:32.000 Was it the KFC that's pretty bad?
00:06:34.000 Oh, it's terrible.
00:06:35.000 You're like, just don't go to that one on 28th Street because they never get the order right.
00:06:39.000 They're constantly screwing up.
00:06:41.000 So you actually, you'll reroute your...
00:06:43.000 I will drive way out of the way.
00:06:45.000 Right.
00:06:46.000 Exactly, right?
00:06:47.000 To get one that gets the right half the time.
00:06:49.000 Half the time.
00:06:49.000 Right.
00:06:50.000 Just half.
00:06:51.000 You just want a portion of your order to be right.
00:06:53.000 So, what is that fast food worker doing to that business? 1.00
00:06:58.000 Now, the fast food worker is the people.
00:07:00.000 The business owner, if he's successful above the tax price, is not the people.
00:07:03.000 He's costing that business owner money.
00:07:06.000 Because you have said, I'm going to go down the street, right?
00:07:09.000 But the business owner can't reflect that in the payment because he's not the people.
00:07:13.000 He has to pay him a minimum $15 an hour.
00:07:16.000 So what inevitably happens?
00:07:17.000 The business goes under because it's all about the interest of that person, not the value they add, not how good of a job they do.
00:07:25.000 It doesn't matter that you no longer want to go to that KFC because you get a rat anus instead of a white meat chicken breast, whatever it is that you order. 0.59
00:07:34.000 It doesn't matter.
00:07:35.000 You barely have to show up.
00:07:38.000 But that's fascism for mediocrity.
00:07:45.000 Somebody get that young man a living wage!
00:07:50.000 Because who does that affect?
00:07:51.000 People just think that helps people make a living wage.
00:07:54.000 No, but actually, disregarding the business owner, right?
00:07:57.000 We've established that people are successful who invest, who employ.
00:07:59.000 They're not the people.
00:08:01.000 They're not to be included.
00:08:02.000 But it also affects employees.
00:08:05.000 A $15 minimum wage.
00:08:07.000 Now, who do you think the $15...
00:08:09.000 I believe...
00:08:10.000 Because fascists, right?
00:08:12.000 I don't believe that people should be paid their service.
00:08:14.000 I believe that people should be paid this set amount.
00:08:15.000 And it should be hard to be rich.
00:08:16.000 And it should be hard to be poor.
00:08:17.000 You make this much.
00:08:18.000 Okay.
00:08:19.000 Who does that affect negatively as far as employees? 0.87
00:08:22.000 The crappy... 0.95
00:08:23.000 Do you think it's the crappy employee who causes you to go down the road? 0.78
00:08:26.000 Or do you think the really good employee...
00:08:30.000 Who do you think gets negatively affected?
00:08:32.000 I want to go with a good employee.
00:08:33.000 Because guess what happens when you pay someone $7 an hour or $8 an hour?
00:08:37.000 But there's an employee on the contrary, right?
00:08:39.000 Who has a report card where he's getting every order right.
00:08:43.000 He's smiling.
00:08:44.000 People, I have it.
00:08:45.000 There was a Dunkin' Donuts.
00:08:46.000 There was a lady who was so nice who became friends.
00:08:49.000 She had no teeth, but she was really, really sweet. 0.52
00:08:51.000 She was just always chipper and made sure to go above and beyond.
00:08:54.000 You remember those people.
00:08:56.000 And those people tend to move up pretty quickly.
00:08:58.000 And not to $15 an hour positions.
00:09:00.000 So, what happens? 0.92
00:09:02.000 The crappy person who can't put a cheese slice in a filet of fish gets $15 an hour. 0.91
00:09:08.000 No matter what. 0.77
00:09:09.000 The good employee who deserves $25 an hour, what do you think they probably get paid?
00:09:14.000 I'm gonna go with $15 an hour.
00:09:16.000 The crappy employee gets paid the exact same amount as the good employee.
00:09:19.000 Maybe your problem is going to the drive-thru in the first place with your carbon footprint. 0.93
00:09:27.000 You should be riding a bicycle!
00:09:31.000 So the business owner, they want to pay good employees more.
00:09:34.000 They want to do that.
00:09:35.000 Trust me, I'm a business owner.
00:09:37.000 They want to pay good employees more.
00:09:39.000 You don't want to pay me more.
00:09:40.000 I want to pay good employees more.
00:09:41.000 So they want to pay their good employees more, not ones who wake up at 10 o'clock and say their iPad didn't wake them up.
00:09:47.000 Not ones who forget to replace the breakers so the studio lights go out.
00:09:52.000 They want to pay their employees more because it reflects well on their business.
00:09:57.000 But since he can't, because he has to pay everyone $15 an hour...
00:10:04.000 Everyone's the same.
00:10:05.000 Here's the thing.
00:10:06.000 Bernie Sanders wants to legislatively enforce that everybody is paid the same regardless of performance.
00:10:14.000 And it's a huge irony.
00:10:15.000 We want big money out of politics.
00:10:17.000 We want big money out of influence.
00:10:19.000 You want more mediocre influence.
00:10:21.000 You want the people who are not contributing.
00:10:22.000 The people...
00:10:23.000 47% of them don't pay federal income tax.
00:10:25.000 Those are the only people because it's easy for you to buy their votes by legislating mediocrity.
00:10:32.000 We have to ensure there's no successful money in politics. 0.70
00:10:35.000 I'm not for crony capitalism.
00:10:36.000 I understand it.
00:10:37.000 So what do we want to inject? 0.86
00:10:39.000 The influence of the crappy employee who wants to vote in $15 an hour so he can screw the employee who deserves $25 an hour. 0.98
00:10:48.000 You're lying because you're not the people! 0.95
00:10:53.000 How much do you make?
00:10:55.000 $16.50. 1.00
00:10:56.000 Son of a bitch! 1.00
00:10:58.000 Steal his shit! 1.00
00:11:00.000 Steal his shit! 1.00
00:11:02.000 So the business owner is screwed. 1.00
00:11:04.000 It doesn't matter if his business is successful or not. 0.92
00:11:06.000 He's not allowed to pay based on performance. 0.57
00:11:08.000 And the good employees are screwed.
00:11:10.000 So that... 0.90
00:11:12.000 It's really hard to be rich and really hard to be poor.
00:11:16.000 Everyone has to be right in the middle.
00:11:21.000 Otherwise you're not part of the people.
00:11:24.000 That's mediocre fascism.
00:11:27.000 And that's Bernie Sanders.