00:01:59.960And this 65% is such a difference from where we were in 2017 at this point, when just 33% of Democrats say they should stay principled, compared to 59% who said they want to compromise.
00:02:11.040Democrats do not want compromise at this point.
00:07:23.480I think there are other, you know, policies that are floating around that I don't know that they're necessarily embodied in politicians yet.
00:10:28.120I, I thought it was going to be him, but a lot of Republicans were a little bit still staying safe and hesitant of whether they were going to go all in or not.
00:10:35.540The first time you and I spoke, but today when I said, who do you like, what policies you said, I like what AOC is doing.
00:10:43.280You said Sanders, anti-oligarchy, all that stuff, right?
00:10:46.000I have a different, I think, uh, way of looking at politics maybe than you do.
00:10:52.740Like I, you know, if a candidate emerges, uh, who embraces a wider set of my preferred policies, that's the one I'll support.
00:11:02.600I don't really get too involved in the, um, the, the, the individual, frankly.
00:11:10.780I mean, you know, Joe Biden was not, uh, my favorite candidate by a long shot, uh, in 2020.
00:11:17.480The fact that there were coalitions built out of Warren and, uh, Sanders supporters that ended up bringing us a much better, uh, set of labor policies than we've seen in my lifetime from my perspective, uh, with the National Labor Relations Board, with just the appointments of, of people like, uh, Abruzzo as the general counsel there.
00:11:42.920Um, the, the, the extension of unions' ability to unionize and helping working people in that way.
00:11:51.820And then the antitrust regime that, uh, was largely a function of, like, uh, the Warrenites putting in their people to, um, undermine big concentration of money and power.
00:12:10.380But I also know that if there are the right, uh, coalitions formed that, uh, that have, uh, uh, you know, influence within the context of an administration, that's good from my perspective.
00:12:26.580But to me, like running a business or politics, right, or it shifts when people all of a sudden look at you and they say, I don't like these ideas anymore.
00:12:37.980So, in the, in the Democratic Party, you have a lot of different people that would have different policies.
00:12:47.140Obviously, it didn't land November 5th, 2024, whether it was Kamala Harris, whether it was the policies, whether it's seven states you lose, battleground states you lose, whether it's the majority.
00:12:55.340It just, it was not, it was a bad loss.
00:13:10.740If someone has ideas that's producing results that people like, they want to continue that, right?
00:13:17.900And, and we watched, like, if I ask a Democrat, even right now, I ask you for 15 minutes, I still don't know if Democrats know what they're for.
00:14:00.520Well, who in the Democratic Party is for that?
00:14:03.460I don't know that there's, um, anybody who, in our party, who embraces all of those.
00:14:10.440I mean, that, that is a, you know, major political figure.
00:14:13.820I mean, I think I'm to the left of the Democratic Party.
00:14:17.080Um, but I think there are elements of what I want, uh, that are, are, are represented by people in the Democratic Party.
00:14:24.380Um, I mean, I think having a, uh, a, a very jaundiced eye to the overwhelming concentration of wealth and wealth disparity, I think is a fundamental problem that we have in this country.
00:14:39.920Um, I think too much of what happens in this country is a function of the concentration of wealth.
00:14:47.160I mean, that's, gets back to why I want a, to return back to the tax regime we had in the 50s and the 60s, uh, where the top marginal rate was 90% for every dollar above what, in what today's, uh, money would be about $4 million.
00:15:05.380So, and just to explain this, because I've seen so many people on the right not understand marginal tax rates, that it's almost disturbing.
00:15:16.780The first million dollars that you earn is taxed at 32%, whatever the, the prevailing rate is.
00:15:25.920The second $2 million, a million dollars you earn, 32%.
00:15:30.740The third, 32%, because I think that's the highest.
00:19:01.100You're an influencer in your community.
00:19:03.000And you actually have the ability to kind of go and help your community out, help your party out.
00:19:09.480There are certain policies that you keep pitching that is no longer popular.
00:19:15.220That's been exposed so many times because what we learned, like the biggest part why some of the conservatives like the Doge concept and some of the Democrats that like the Doge concept is it's government wasted expenditure.
00:19:50.440Well, that's not the premise of why I want to do that taxation.
00:19:55.740I mean, the government will redistribute the money.
00:20:01.100That's no longer a popular idea in America.
00:20:03.840I, I, I, I, I, that's the part where you see the young Turks kind of growing and evolving and seeing some of the ideas that kind of is not popular.
00:20:12.540I, I, listen, the fact of the matter is government always redistributes money.