Don't watch this
(unless you are ready for hard truths about the Democratic Party)
Faiz Shakir is on fire in this essential interview we ran this morning. DO NOT MISS IT. This is someone dropping fiery truths about the Democrats, and he is doing so even as he is running to lead the party.
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An interesting conversation. Two observations: The first is that working class needs to be redefined — it must become more inclusive. Anyone, regardless of credentials and occupation who works for someone else is working class in the sense that they exercise little to no control over their working lives. All Americans want a better work-life balance. The challenge for the Democrats is to craft policies that address that central issue and present them in ways that resonate with a range of voters rather than one constituency. If the Democratic Party actually changed to only focused on things that matter to non-college educated Americans, whatever that means, the Party isn’t going to get anywhere. It would be playing the political equivalent of musical chairs. This is what the GOP and Trump have done, though for all the wrong reasons, and as we’ve seen, it works. The second thing is that it may be time to consider forming a third party. I fully appreciate the implications of doing this in what will remain a binary electoral system,but progressives may have no other option and it has worked before. The Peoples’ Party of the 1890s despite its shortcomings, scared the hell out of the Democrats to the point the Party adopted much of its agenda. It is not beyond the pale to note that many Populist ideas were central to the politics of the Progressive era and came to fruition during the New Deal. This may be what we need now. Based on this interview, and what I have read elsewhere, it is unlikely given the sway the big donors have on the Democratic Party that anything fundamental is going to change. After all In the fall of 2020 Joe Biden promised the Party’s fat cats that that would be the case, and despite his achievements, most of which will be swept away or hopelessly compromised, he was right.
I appreciate your interviews and videos, but for the most part I don't have TIME to watch all of them and the similarly long interviews from other good sites. Is it possible to edit them after posting the long one, as a "best of" the interviews, in shorter chunks? For example, most interviews move from topic to topic. Could there be a series of short ones on each topic, so we can choose which parts are most pressing?