00:09:38but I feel like it's almost like Palestinians0.99
00:09:43have are serving the function that blacks have for liberals for some time that is the uncriticizable0.97
00:09:52most wonderful victim group there is and I just find that rather ridiculous and I do find that0.99
00:10:05if you want to engage in some sort of third worldist coalition on behalf of Gazans that0.91
00:10:12you are going to allow so many trojan horses through the gate you are going to have to embrace
00:10:18so many bad opinions that it is just not even close to being worth it now i'm not also recommending
00:10:27that we link up with the hardcore israelis or the zionist but i am just saying that we should go our
00:10:34own way nick fuentes is saying this now although to be a little critical of nick fuentes he was
00:10:40the one pushing this before it was cool. I think we should also just come to terms with this
00:10:48reality, which is that not only the left, but normies have been one-shotted about Israel to a
00:10:57degree that I'm at a loss for words. They went from zero to 88 on the Israel question
00:11:10in like six months, and I don't think they can see straight due to that fact. And I think
00:11:20it's sort of a problem, actually. Let's watch a little bit of this interview.
00:11:34Okay, just first off, the face. I mean, wow.
00:11:41It really does give human resource manager or second grade principal
00:11:51i don't know wow okay let's go megan let's start with first principles
00:12:01what to your mind is democratic socialism yeah so just very simply it is people having a democratic
00:12:08say-so in all of the things that they need to survive so democratic control of their workplace
00:12:13democratic control of their housing and democracy in what we already know as democracy in the
00:12:18in the political process okay as i said they want democracy everywhere i can't imagine
00:12:25something worse than like turning all aspects of life into a committee meeting just saying
00:12:33i mad max you can jump in here yeah i just had a quick comment if you've ever had any type of
00:12:40shitty job like i moved furniture for a summer between semesters no no no you the last thing0.83
00:12:47you would want is your co-workers having a say over how everything is run like imagine all the0.99
00:12:56parole like shitheads running the place you have to work in yes i mean we live in a representative0.97
00:13:06democracy in the sense that you elect someone and then they've got two four maybe six years to get0.99
00:13:14or done. And how they represent you is sort of a philosophical question. Should they go and put
00:13:22everything to a vote constantly? Well, isn't that sort of defeating the whole purpose of being a
00:13:28representative? Maybe you should represent the best aspects of your community or state or nation.
00:13:36And maybe you have to disagree with your voters in order to do that. I mean,
00:13:41How you see representation is sort of up to you, but I just, I don't know. I've never really believed in democracy on multiple levels. First off, I don't believe that we're in a democracy.
00:13:57say we do have representation as I've just said but we also have lobbying groups and billions of
00:14:06dollars floating around and institutions the CIA the military being obvious examples where they
00:14:16must in fact keep secrets you can't handle the truth you don't know what is best for you you
00:14:24don't want to know what we did to keep you safe um I I guess have a bit of the authoritarian
00:14:33personality in the sense that I give my consent to all of those things
00:14:43um I won't ask too many questions about their methods when it comes to a whole heck of a lot
00:14:50in terms of law enforcement and geopolitics etc that's just who I am um I I accept that but I also
00:15:00don't believe in democracy in the sense that democracy is the best outcome you know it is0.98
00:15:07sort of like a kind of nihilistic view like it's just people voting on shit you know like is the0.95
00:15:15top the number one song on the billboard chart that has been voted for with money and radio0.97
00:15:22plays is that the greatest music do you think beethoven's ninth symphony would be number one
00:15:29on the billboard chart or do you think actually democracy tells us something different it maybe0.99
00:15:35tells us perhaps it's more likely to tell us the levels of stupidity of a work of art0.97
00:15:41than the levels of erudition or greatness in a work of art just saying i i don't believe in0.90
00:15:49democracy in any way i i have a sort of cynical understanding of the world we live in the
00:15:54democracy that we live in but i don't think democracy would create good outcomes and yeah as
00:16:01as the saying goes you know um what is the saying ben franklin a democracy is that two wolves
00:16:09decide how they're going to divvy up the lamb they just what what is doing i'm misquoting it
00:16:17here but it was something to that effect does anyone know it okay well just take my word for
00:16:24it um what is it oh someone tried to speak but um someone can look it up if you want to
00:17:30Okay, basically, the wolves aren't going to be eaten for dinner is sort of the outcome of that situation. Felix, do you want to jump in?
00:17:40yeah i actually wanted to add a tidbit that if you say that the that the united states is a
00:17:47democracy on the immigration test you fail you're supposed to say that it's the constitutional
00:17:53republic which is kind of a bit conservatory but i do feel like this entire like democratic
00:18:00socialist vibe it really reeks of millennialism where just democracy equals good making things
00:18:09more democratic make means making them more good like this woman i actually wonder if she has0.50
00:18:15children or a family but she's she proposed making a family democratic which is an even1.00
00:18:20more absurd proposal right any parent would tell you yes exactly do you really want to have the
00:18:27army be democratic like i i it's just we could go through example after it's obvious you know
00:18:35Yeah, I do think that I do agree with you. And I think I just said, like, said this, like, I think the DSA, which now apparently makes up 30% of the Democratic Party or someone clear, there's some remarkably high number. First off, they have like 120,000 dues paying members. And so that's money over the barrel every month, or every year, presumably, and a lot.
00:19:02and they also have um they take donations and so on like they are sitting pretty right now
00:19:10and they maybe that's the approval rating or maybe that there was some sort of question like how do
00:19:16you identify as a democrat do a democrat as a democratic socialist it's quite high and it's
00:19:22even higher among young people um so this is a real phenomenon and i do think it is like
00:19:30one-shotted millennials, basically, who went through this 2016 through COVID period and
00:19:41Okay. So that proposes about a million questions. What does democracy in the workplace mean? Does
00:19:49everybody get to vote on what we're going to do today, tomorrow, and the next day?
00:19:52The way we look at it is mostly probably pretty similar to how a unionized workplace would work
00:19:57today. You get to collectively decide with your co-workers what demands you want to make of your
00:20:02boss, what your schedule looks like, what your working environment looks like, and negotiate
00:20:09collectively with whoever the boss is. Okay, but that sounds like simple unionization, which we
00:20:15already have, even though unions are not in the best spot they've ever been in this country.
00:20:19That's true. So we'd like to see everybody have a union. Right now, it's quite low. It's in the
00:20:25teens, I think, percentage of unionized workplaces. We think everybody should have a union of some
00:20:31sort. And what does it mean for the larger economics of a country? For example, Google
00:20:38or Apple or the biggest corporations in the country, are they no longer privately owned
00:20:44under democratic socialism? Well, that's a good question. And we specifically say that the
00:20:51industries that um that you need right so so your necessary industries so power um i would say that
00:21:00the internet is is a necessity at this point you can't really function without it um water things
00:21:06things like this a lot of these things are public in some places right um we want them public
00:21:10everywhere do you believe in the owning isn't it interesting that food is not nationalized like
00:21:17doesn't that sort of tell you something i mean food is regulated by the government unquestionably
00:21:25uh but it's it's not nationalized by the government yet we have cheap eats everywhere
00:21:32you know if if that if there is a necessity in that like
00:21:37pyramid of needs like food is foundational uh american center
00:21:43yeah i was gonna say it's like sorry i was gonna say it's like an attack on popular kids almost
00:21:52you know it's all these high schoolers saying you know why don't we all decide what we want
00:21:56for lunch you know it doesn't have to just be like the the cheer captain or not not the cheer
00:22:01captain but the football captain you know let's all decide what we want yes i i think there is a
00:22:08a deep embedded resentment in this like people power type thing because it's actually an 80 20
00:22:15rule or a 98 2 rule in terms of who actually determines culture and society um means of
00:22:24production as the marxists used to say but she said the internet is a necessity of life and
00:22:32who can disagree with her exactly but i mean do they actually want to nationalize google
00:22:42you can just go to a library you know for free yeah definitely so but i mean i don't know it's
00:22:49like they they also seem to always be afraid of their shadow like they're these other these other
00:22:55um interviews where they're like abolish the police or abolish prisons defund the police like
00:23:01do you believe that they're like what we know right now is that like they never want to just
00:23:05say yes like if a tanky would be like yeah we're we're seizing apple i kind of respect that more
00:23:16than this like wishy-washy business going on i mean just say it if that's what you want
00:23:24i do yeah yeah but you speak for whom well i i speak for the democratic socialists of america
00:23:31and and i think that you will find uh the the demand long term uh for for the working class
00:23:39to be in in charge of the means of production is one that is pretty universally held again
00:23:44it's not even the people it's the working class in charge of google i mean okay
00:23:51no trying to flip a switch so that everything changes tomorrow we're we're thinking about
00:23:56ways you can incrementally uh you know make life better for starters but also um shift the balance
00:24:04of power from the billionaire class to the working class so this is a kind of fabian strategy now
00:24:10a real marxist thinks in terms of cataclysmic changes there are these deep contradictions that
00:24:19work themselves out and it might not even it might not necessarily be a political revolution but it's0.59
00:24:26some sort of tumult the democratic socialist i guess they can't help but being smirking millennials
00:24:34or something like uh uh actually this will make life better um they just want to improve things
00:24:43but don't you think that that's just smoothing the rough edges of capitalism do you think that
00:24:50we are more likely or less likely to to move to a stage of socialism and then communism
00:24:58if you improve capitalism it's an interesting question a non-rhetorical question i don't
00:25:03i don't know but i would i don't know for certain but i would tend to say that most likely the
00:25:10The impoverishment and immiserization, if I pronounce that correctly, of the working0.81
00:25:17class is more likely to create a revolt, just saying.0.73
00:25:23Okay, so what is the difference between democratic socialism and what exists in a lot of Europe,
00:25:29which I would call social democracy, which is to say a greater emphasis and maybe a higher
00:25:35higher tax rate in order to have things like what we would call Medicare for all or single payer
00:25:41or either free or radically less expensive higher education. And I think, and I'm going to take a
00:25:49wild guess here, if you were using that vocabulary instead of the socialism category, you might have
00:25:56more adherence. Yes, maybe. But the reality is that we do not think that we're not fighting for
00:26:04a kinder, gentler capitalism. We think that a democracy that's really controlled by the working
00:26:09class is the ultimate goal. When you say we, it is kind of crazy that they're like this. I mean,1.00
00:26:16this is getting that distinction I made earlier. They just want the working class in charge of1.00
00:26:22Google. When you say we, how has that stance arrived upon? Who's we? That's a great question
00:26:32and one that I love to talk about. So DSA is fundamentally and sometimes excruciatingly
00:26:41democratic. The highest decision-making body of the Democratic Socialists of America is our
00:26:46convention. It happens every two years. Chapters elect delegates. We come together, vote on a
00:26:50bunch of proposals that may or may not shift our overall strategies or our overall stances on some
00:26:57things. And this is, these are representatives from a base of how many people? Well, right now,
00:27:02I think we're at 129,000 people. But we have grown significantly since Zoran Mamdani's election,
00:27:10which came after our last convention. And then we're seeing a growth spurt recently with the
00:27:15recent congressional primary wins as well. It's very interesting to me that maybe the
00:27:20highest profile political race that we're now seeing nationally for the midterm elections
00:27:26on the left is the ascent in the state of Michigan. If Abdul El-Sayed, who when I asked
00:27:34him about democratic socialism said, no, no, no, no, I'm a capitalist. Disappointed?
00:27:40He's not a DSA candidate. If he was a DSA candidate, I would absolutely be disappointed.
00:27:44But I'm glad that there is a movement sort of across the board of people taking on some of
00:27:50these policies, because I do think they will improve life for the working class.
00:27:55What is the working class in this country? Because Zoran Mamdani, mayor of New York, just gave an interview, I believe, to the New York Times, and he was asked, please define the working class. And he said, anybody making under a million dollars a year, which I got to tell you was news to me.
00:28:09Yeah, that is not how I would define the working class.
00:34:11And so what does that tell you? It tells you that you're putting your faith in the wrong thing, which is in a political system, whereas there's got to be a real solution that begins with changing people's hearts. That's what I think.
00:34:27Does anyone honestly believe that elections don't matter?
00:34:34I mean, I sort of get it on some level, like it's not going to change everything about your life or whatever.
00:34:41But do you think that we would be at war with Iran right now if Kamala Harris were elected?
00:34:48And this is some just way of getting around people like myself and like Nick Fuentes and others who were directly telling you that Donald Trump is much more likely to create a war in the Middle East than Biden-Harris.
00:35:10and in fact things were pushing in that direction we can't be certain about anything but if you go
00:35:17beyond just bombastic rhetoric about no new wars or whatever and look at interest that that might
00:35:25very well happen we've discussed this I retweeted all of my tweets where in which I was saying this
00:35:32But just this, like, we, you know, Trump promised us this, and then he didn't get, like, we just, the Democrats might as well be in charge. No, the Democrats were in charge, this would be very different, actually. I don't believe in democracy, but I'm not this, like, sort of Gen X nihilist who's like, oh, it doesn't matter, nothing matters, man. No, it does actually matter.