Progressives Prepare To Take On Corporate Dems Buying Into Trump

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Is the squad the answer? Is the new progressive, ultra progressive party the new answer? If you look at the election cycle, it's not. If you look at the election cycle, it's far from it. So where do you go with that? Is AOC really the new voice for the Democratic Party? She has a lot of great ideas, but the squad was a terrible, terrible failure in the last cycle.
They were and I think that is very unfortunate because I would like to say that yes, they are the future. Unfortunately, when you have the corporate takeover of the Democratic Party that has been slow, but kind of accelerated in recent years, then they push these people out and they, the insiders in the Democratic Party make their own members the enemy.
Right.
You know, it's bad enough the Republicans are out there attacking them, obviously, but when your own party joins in and tries to push you out and marginalize you, these are the only people that are out there consistently talking about working class issues. You're not seeing Nancy Pelosi go out there and say, oh, it's so horrible that people can't afford their milk and eggs and bread. Have you ever heard Nancy Pelosi in the last 10, 15 years, talk about a kitchen table issue?
No.
Because I haven't either.
It's identity politics and they're going back to the same place. And you hit it on the, nail on the head, whatever. You got it right. Here it is. The point being is that we saw what happened just weeks ago, or a week ago. And there's no change. There's no change. The Democrat corporatists are completely buying into Trump right now. They're not saying it, but they are. They're buying in, okay, we're gonna let him do this. We're gonna let him do that. You've got the left wing progressives out there saying, we can't do this. As a matter of fact, the progressives are talking about how we need to get better organized to defeat the corporate Dems. If they defeat the corporate Dems, they're killing the Democratic Party. There's gotta be something in between. That's my vision of this. It's not one extreme or the other. You gotta find something in between and I'm not seeing it develop. Maybe you are. You cover this day to day.
I don't. I see chaos. I see disarray. I see a group of people in the Democratic side that don't have any idea, they don't have any coherent messaging. They don't have any leaders. Biden has now signed with a talent agency.
I saw that.
So he's like, I'm outta here. I'm gonna Hollywood.
What's he going to do? I mean, what is Biden gonna do in Hollywood? Give me an idea.
Die. He's 80 something years old.
I mean, we're gonna watch a slow death
Like, just retire, man. You don't just need to give speeches.
It's Hollywood saying, look, we all got behind you, old man. We did our best. We tried to do everything we could. We failed. We're sorry. Here, here's a contract to come to Hollywood. And do what? I can't figure that out. I can't wait to see the first Hollywood production.
Well, the whole thing with the Democrats to me comes down to this. You guys are trying to become more corporate when the guy on the other side, when he was being inaugurated, the three richest men on the planet to have ever existed are behind him.
Yes.
So no matter how much you guys are cozying up to corporate America, they've got you beat. So that's not the route to go.
You know who's disappearing? George Soros. George Soros is yesterday's news. His son, oh my God. Have you seen the articles? They realize that he's so weak right now. He's one billionaire versus four billionaires. That's basically what's happening right here. George Soros is the money man for the Democratic Party. He becomes less and less effective as we go forward.
And any one of those people that were behind Trump that day, whether it's Musk, Bezos, or Zuckerberg.