Inequality is not a problem, it's a symptom of a broken political system. In this episode, I talk about how the Democratic primary system is broken and how we can fix it. I also talk about why Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are leading the charge against oligarchy and why we should all vote for them.
00:00:03.000And you don't have to live in the most expensive city in the country to have experienced that inequality because it's a national issue.
00:00:09.000And what Americans coast to coast are looking for are people who will fight for them, not just believe in the things that resonate with their lives, but actually fight and deliver on those very things.
00:00:19.000And part of how we got to this point was through the endorsements of Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Bernie Sanders, who've been leading this fight against oligarchy across the country.
00:00:29.000And I think that in focusing on working people and their struggles, we also return back to what makes so many of us proud to be Democrats in the first place.
00:00:50.000Across the rest of the country, in rural areas, like you talk about, for example, Oklahoma or Texas, you see far less inequality in those areas, to be clear.
00:00:59.000Inequality is not the problem we need to address if we are lifting more people out of poverty.
00:01:04.000You can have more equality and have far more poverty.
00:01:07.000Or you could have more inequality, but you can have rising wages, right?
00:01:16.000But what they do is they prey on greed.
00:01:19.000And this is something that's very important because when people say I'm a compassionate conservative, no, I think conservatism is already compassionate.
00:01:25.000I think that you work hard and you should be able to keep what you have earned for your family.
00:01:30.000To be clear, the left, their version of compassion is preying on this inequality.
00:01:35.000It doesn't matter if you're better off.
00:01:37.000It's, hey, they have something you don't.
00:01:39.000It's basically an entire platform that campaigns on human covetousness, on human greed, while gaslighting you into saying you're greedy for wanting to keep what you've created, what you've earned.
00:01:54.000You're not greedy for wanting to take that person's stuff.
00:02:24.000That's a policy that demands inequality.
00:02:27.000If there's a policy that says you're not too big to fail, even though you're a private business, but you are because you're big enough, you have now just created inequality.
00:02:36.000Inequality in variable outcomes for the average American.
00:02:40.000Maybe this person tried something on their own, took a risk and makes $80,000 a year.
00:03:36.000So what's the bigger problem, that inequality tends to widen under Barack, under George Bush, under Barack Obama, under Donald Trump, under Joe Biden, no matter what the policy is?
00:03:46.000Or would you rather address the issue of your wages?
00:03:50.000And part of that can be addressed by allowing you to keep more of your wages, as we see.
00:03:55.000They want you to vote for them out of covetousness while accusing the people who've worked their ass off and want to keep it of being greedy.
00:07:00.000You even have Democrats who are going like, oh, I think we're going a little too far.
00:07:04.000And then, of course, all the DNC, they go like, shut up.
00:07:07.000So Chicago mayor, former Chicago mayor and Obama advisor, chief of staff, Ram Emmanuel, and professional shower poker, he came out and he said, my party's future isn't Mabdani's New York.
00:07:17.000We won't realize the American dream by consulting the Democratic Socialists of America's playbook.
00:07:22.000Why do you think a Democrat like Rahm Emanuel is sounding the alarm bells?
00:07:28.000And people like James Carville, people who, you know, have actually won elections, have actually helped to win elections.
00:07:35.000Whether you agree with them or not, they are effective.
00:07:38.000I think we're seeing the disconnect between clickbait and X and social media.
00:07:45.000It can become real life, but to be clear, it doesn't always reflect real life.
00:07:49.000And if you look at Reddit, for example, if you were to go on Reddit and read Reddit politics and look at the comments, you would think that everyone in this country is a Democratic socialist and certainly everyone in the Democrat Party.
00:08:00.000Now, the little trick they pull on Reddit is they say it's politics and all voices are welcome.
00:08:03.000They ban you if you're a conservative, to be clear.
00:08:04.000And they certainly ban you if you're a Trump supporter.
00:08:09.000Then you go out in the real world and you realize that even with Democrats and certainly people who were like Hispanic Democrats, black Democrats, they're not on board with all of this and certainly not the gender bending fiat.
00:09:44.000I wanted to just, and then I want you to keep that point, but this is important because you need to know, here's how you know that it's unpopular.
00:09:50.000Because the baseline position that helped win Donald Trump the presidency is, okay, we all agree that America's big cities are failing, right?
00:10:53.000And today you walk down the street, you get mumbled or you get shot.
00:10:56.000Within the span of a few decades, Los Angeles has gone from being one of the cleanest, safest, and most beautiful cities on earth to being a trash heap with entire neighborhoods under the control of transnational gangs and criminal networks.
00:11:28.000You're never going, or you're very unlikely to win New York City.
00:11:33.000But what you saw as far as a really big shift, and a lot of people haven't spent enough time on it, was the popular vote.
00:11:41.000Donald Trump obviously had an electoral landslide, if you want to argue.
00:11:45.000Okay, he had a significant win with the Electoral College, but he won the popular vote.
00:11:51.000So even if more people leave New York City, the people who are leaving New York City are going to be leaving with the, in the back of their head, I don't want that.
00:11:59.000And that's what led to, in 2024, the biggest swing toward Donald Trump, urban voters.
00:12:05.000Doesn't mean he won them, but he won them by such a significantly, or sorry, he lost them while still getting a significantly higher margin, such a significantly higher margin in 2024 that he won the popular vote.
00:12:53.000Because you think it won't get that bad until you see neighbors ratting out neighbors and you see people losing their livelihoods because of policy that we now know was not based On science.
00:13:00.000So the urban voting swing in 2024, core urban votes swung to Donald Trump by eight points.
00:14:29.000Let the left do exactly what it is we know they're going to do in these big cities and do the opposite nationally.
00:14:38.000And since we all know that leftists, that Democrats are very covetous, as you can see by tax policy, people in Chicago, people in New York, people in Los Angeles are going to look to the rest of the country and go, but I want that.
00:15:11.000He's an actual communist, and he will fight Trump at every turn.
00:15:14.000So he will fight the decrease in inflation that we see throughout the country at every turn.
00:15:19.000He will fight the increase in wages, which you undoubtedly will see, calling it now, everywhere else across the country while his wages go down in his city.
00:15:28.000He will fight Donald Trump's agenda, which will lead to continuing decreasing crime stats while it goes up in his city.
00:15:36.000And at a certain point, selfish people in big cities are going to go, you know what?
00:16:10.000But at the same time, I want this to be so good.
00:16:13.000I want Trump's economy and his plan to work so well that it makes people like this irrelevant in the first place.
00:16:17.000We've got AOC and Bernie Sanders that are really going out there and just kind of throwing their lot in, full socialism, not even worrying about hiding it anymore.
00:16:24.000So is this guy, seizing the means of production?
00:17:22.000Yeah, it's like when you see your kid on the jungle gym doing something you know he can't do, but he insists on doing it over and over and over again.
00:17:34.000Yeah, they had to pad the ground like pussies.
00:17:36.000That's what they do in the city so the kids don't get to actually learn the error of their ways.
00:17:40.000Well, maybe New Yorkers will like the actual people that come out for the general election for this race and not just the primary.
00:17:46.000Maybe they'll go like, ugh, we maybe made a mistake.
00:17:49.000Like maybe this guy's policies are too radical and we just weren't paying attention because the fraction of the voting base that voted for this, you've got Democrats coming out.
00:17:57.000Like mainline Democrats don't support this vocally.
00:18:00.000They support a candidate that's popular, period.
00:19:07.000It's all this amalgamate of socialism and Marxism.
00:19:10.000I mean, you can't throw your lot in with Black Lives Matter who seek the destruction of the nuclear family because it's a byproduct of Western civilization, oppression, and patriarchy, and then go, I can't believe how radical this guy is.
00:21:17.000I always feel so bad for local news reporters because, you know, they went to school like journalism, then they realize they make no money and they have to cover horseshit.
00:28:33.000If Momdani drives people out of New York, how much do the rest of us, I guess, have to worry about New Yorkers screwing up our states and towns when they move in?
00:29:02.000But it's a lot of people that weren't Democrats in the first place or were very much on the fringe, right?
00:29:08.000So it's like, I think you see a lot of people moving from New York that have money, the people that have businesses that are like, okay, my margins are too thin now.
00:30:10.000I actually have to budget around an income that is sensible as opposed to the inflated incomes in New York that still don't get you by in the cost of living.
00:30:29.000I said, it took me 40 minutes to go two and a half miles because I had to wait for three subway cars that were full that passed me by, went back up above ground where I was no longer living like a sewer rat, and tried to hail down a cab, but because it was during rush hour, I couldn't get one and I had to walk, whatever it was, 30 blocks.
00:30:48.000It took me 40 something minutes to do something that would take maybe six anywhere else in the world.
00:30:55.000Call it 15 anywhere else in the world.
00:30:57.000The only reason it went so long is because you're relying on this subway and sometimes you just can't catch it and sometimes you can't get a cab.
00:31:05.000When I was up there for the New York Mayor thing, or not the New York Mayor thing, we were doing the COVID thing.
00:31:10.000I looked around and I saw parks just like filled with middle-aged, like ethnic guys just sitting there looking like they were waiting on something to go do.
00:31:20.000And a kid and their parents kind of playing on a separated park that was right next to it.
00:31:24.000It was like a little fence between it.
00:31:26.000And I was like, I would never feel safe.
00:32:22.000Like, if you can live other places, especially if you're raising a family, and I hope this doesn't sound like, you know, somebody who just lives in the suburbs and just doesn't Understand the city, like the grit or whatever it is.
00:32:32.000I'm just like, why would you choose to do that?
00:32:47.000With sharp knives, things that can poke holes in you.
00:32:50.000I don't want that cultural enrichment.
00:32:51.000No, I mean, you're just thinking, think about what it takes to maintain, you know, a home and your yard and these skills that you need to kind of learn that you just can't in New York.
00:33:00.000It's a totally, it's a totally different life experience.
00:33:03.000And they're very, you have people who go their entire lives who never get a driver's license, who never drive a car, who never have a piece of land at all to maintain.
00:33:11.000And it's just, I'm sorry, they don't have a common lived experience in New York City compared to 90-something percent of this country.
00:33:36.000And I think that this administration is at least taking the first step and just ignoring it.
00:33:40.000They're just like I said, I do think that we're kind of at a point in this country where the left wants you to get distracted with some issues that are actually non-ideas.
00:33:57.000Just like the guy going, the black community has to deal with obesity and diabetes because of the stress of being called the N-word at some point in their life.
00:34:05.000It's like, there's no way for me to refuse that.
00:35:52.000I can tell you this, whoever's mayor of New York is going to have to behave themselves, or the federal government is coming down very tough on them financially.
00:36:06.000Eric Adams, the current mayor of New York, is a very important part.
00:36:10.000He obviously was indicted, and then that indictment evaporated when Donald Trump became president.
00:36:17.000How do you see the general election here playing out?
00:36:21.000Confusingly, with a lot of reasons for almost everybody's in case the governor's races that we do and should care a lot about aren't giving us enough news on a day-to-day basis, we'll have plenty to go from.
00:36:35.000And this front, I think it's fascinating that there is a Republican nominee in that race that the president has not endorsed yet.
00:36:42.000And I think that's kind of funny, clear that the Adams element of this makes this all extremely wild.
00:36:47.000But Mark, I'm not sure Republican and MAGA are the same thing.
00:37:04.000Well, it is hard to understand for CNN because it's hard to understand anything other than blind party loyalty.
00:37:11.000But if you're going to try to get like, so let's just say that, you know, you hate Eric Adams and you're kind of a Democrat and this guy's a socialist.
00:37:17.000Are you going to go to the guy that Trump said to go to?
00:37:21.000Because you probably hate Trump too already.
00:37:49.000And I think that CNN just doesn't know how to think how U.S. counties shifted from 2000, 2,600 shifted more Republican, only 301 counties shifted more Democratic.
00:40:17.000That's why we have to spend so much time going through bills and kind of pulling out what it is that matters, that affects people, and they'll pay attention.
00:40:22.000No one's going to read a 900-page bill, just as surely no one's going to listen to someone reading a 900-something page bill.
00:40:50.000You're expecting there to be some kind of consistency where you're going, okay, so because you, right, you probably, I'm willing to bet that you probably have a very clear definition of what constitutes a life, as every biology textbook has had.
00:41:03.000And you're going, okay, an unborn person, this is still a life because there's unique DNA that's created at fertilization.
00:41:11.000So you're consistent and you're expecting to hold them to consistency.
00:41:29.000The ACLU is not about liberties at all.
00:41:32.000Sometimes they used to be a little more balanced, where it's like crazy libertarian, where they would protect the right for someone to have a burqa on their driver's license, and then they'd also protect the right of someone to say something that was like white supremacy.
00:41:43.000Now they pretty much just take the woke policy of the day and say, okay, how do we frame our lawsuits around sort of pandering to this group because that's their base?
00:42:54.000So I would say try and address the results.
00:42:56.000Try and address the results from the left because you're not trying to reach those people who are not making arguments in good faith.
00:43:01.000They're making these arguments in bad faith.
00:43:03.000You're trying to reach the people who may have voted for them, but who are negatively affected, negatively impacted.
00:43:10.000And I understand this because if you look at, and you see this a lot, if you look at debates on the right, and if you go to like libertarian think tanks or you look at, you know, people who are maybe like a traditional conservative debating a libertarian, they'll constantly try and trip each other up.
00:43:25.000And they go through, right, the rhetoric, usually using the Socratic method, and they'll defend it and go, no, no, no, actually, I'm not inconsistent because, right?
00:43:32.000You'll see that a lot amongst the right, because it's sort of an unwritten code.
00:43:37.000You have to be logically consistent or your position falls apart.
00:44:29.000But they have shifted away from the Democrat Party in droves, meaning people on the factory line, people who own small businesses, to people who own franchises and make a few million dollars a year.