WEBVTT - Democrats Don't Need White Voters 0:00:11.720 --> 0:00:14.560 Good morning, peeps, and welcome to ok F Daily with 0:00:14.680 --> 0:00:19.680 Meet Your Girl Daniel Moody recording from the Home Bunker, Folks. 0:00:20.320 --> 0:00:23.240 I looked at an article in the New York Times 0:00:24.040 --> 0:00:30.360 entitled Democrats Don't have an easy way out, and you 0:00:30.360 --> 0:00:36.240 know the subject matter this is written by Thomas Edsel, 0:00:37.120 --> 0:00:41.360 is about how the Democratic Party, which finds itself in 0:00:42.000 --> 0:00:48.320 quote unquote shambles, figures out how to bring the working 0:00:48.400 --> 0:00:55.240 class back into the party following Donald Trump's win with 0:00:55.400 --> 0:00:59.120 the working class. And I got to tell you that 0:00:59.680 --> 0:01:05.800 article like this, as well as watching clips of former 0:01:06.040 --> 0:01:11.080 President Bill Clinton on the View talking about what Democrats 0:01:11.160 --> 0:01:16.399 need to do, get on my fucking nerves because it 0:01:16.520 --> 0:01:23.039 is the same circle jerk bullshit that they do every 0:01:23.120 --> 0:01:27.520 time they lose. How do we go chase down white 0:01:27.520 --> 0:01:32.080 people and bring them back into our party, a party 0:01:32.120 --> 0:01:34.679 that they have not been a part of since the 0:01:34.760 --> 0:01:41.640 Civil rights movement? And the way in which writers use 0:01:41.760 --> 0:01:46.959 the word the phrasing working class as if we don't 0:01:47.000 --> 0:01:51.280 know that they're talking about white people. Bill Clinton on 0:01:51.360 --> 0:01:55.120 the View said, well, we have to understand that those 0:01:55.360 --> 0:01:59.560 rural voters are more conservative. People in rural areasm more 0:01:59.640 --> 0:02:04.640 concernedervative so we use conservative as a euphemism for racists. 0:02:05.240 --> 0:02:08.720 Oh well, the Democrats, they were too busy chasing the 0:02:08.760 --> 0:02:13.480 cultural elites. You mean, those that see the world as 0:02:13.480 --> 0:02:19.399 a place for inclusivity and diversity. I am so tired 0:02:20.240 --> 0:02:27.480 of corporate mainstream media tapping the very same fucking old 0:02:27.960 --> 0:02:31.680 white men to tell us what needs to be done 0:02:32.320 --> 0:02:37.760 with this country that is becoming more diverse by the day. 0:02:38.400 --> 0:02:43.639 The Democrats lost, frankly because seven million people sat home 0:02:44.200 --> 0:02:50.200 because they were uninspired by either party. The conversation is 0:02:50.240 --> 0:02:56.320 not about, oh, how do we convince white rural Americans 0:02:56.800 --> 0:03:01.000 that they're with the wrong party. I say, fuck around 0:03:01.040 --> 0:03:05.760 and find out. As Donald Trump appoints more billionaires to 0:03:05.919 --> 0:03:10.960 positions of power than they already have, they will see 0:03:11.160 --> 0:03:17.360 the truth. They will feel it. Because LBJ said it best. 0:03:17.760 --> 0:03:27.200 Lbjy's quote about picking a man's pockets right, is the 0:03:27.480 --> 0:03:32.320 most on point quote I've ever heard in my life. 0:03:32.360 --> 0:03:35.840 Because it doesn't matter when he said it, because it 0:03:35.920 --> 0:03:40.520 still resonates today. Here is the quote. If you can 0:03:40.600 --> 0:03:44.560 convince the lowest white man he is better than the 0:03:44.600 --> 0:03:49.440 best colored man, he won't notice your picking his pocket. Hell, 0:03:50.040 --> 0:03:53.200 give him somebody to look down on and he'll empty 0:03:53.280 --> 0:03:57.880 his pockets for you. These are the same people who 0:03:58.840 --> 0:04:03.760 will swear up and down make testimony about Donald Trump's 0:04:03.760 --> 0:04:10.040 wealth and his business acumen while buying his cheap sneakers 0:04:10.120 --> 0:04:14.880 and his Chinese made Bibles because they got to support 0:04:14.920 --> 0:04:18.720 their man. You are never going to convince these people 0:04:19.320 --> 0:04:23.039 that Donald Trump ain't their guy. And it has nothing 0:04:23.080 --> 0:04:26.840 to do with economics. It has everything to do with racism. 0:04:27.640 --> 0:04:32.640 But with every loss, every big blow that Democrats have, 0:04:33.160 --> 0:04:37.840 it is the same circle jerk back to what can 0:04:37.880 --> 0:04:42.160 we do, who can we abandon in our base in 0:04:42.279 --> 0:04:48.560 order to shore up the racist white voter folks. When 0:04:48.560 --> 0:04:52.359 we look at who is exactly a part of working 0:04:52.400 --> 0:04:56.000 class America, Lo and behold, it is not the white 0:04:56.080 --> 0:05:00.600 man in the hard hat with the lunch pale, kissing 0:05:00.640 --> 0:05:04.320 his wife at the door goodbye, and heading into work 0:05:04.880 --> 0:05:09.159 to build the buildings, to dig the tunnels. Those days 0:05:09.200 --> 0:05:13.920 are long fucking gone. The working class is largely filled 0:05:15.000 --> 0:05:21.920 with black people and brown people making hourly wages that 0:05:22.000 --> 0:05:26.240 barely have the ability to cover their basic needs. Now, 0:05:26.279 --> 0:05:31.920 I would argue that, yeah, Vice President Kamala Harris could 0:05:31.920 --> 0:05:38.120 have done more in talking to and with working class 0:05:38.600 --> 0:05:43.960 and middle class Americans to show the public who these 0:05:44.000 --> 0:05:49.960 people actually are. For a brief moment during COVID, we 0:05:50.240 --> 0:05:57.040 recognize that those that were considered essential, right, those that 0:05:57.200 --> 0:06:05.080 were bagging our groceries and delivering food and packages and 0:06:06.040 --> 0:06:10.640 essentially needing to put their lives at risk, Those were 0:06:10.680 --> 0:06:17.120 not the rural white folks or the white working class 0:06:17.880 --> 0:06:22.440 that the corporate mainstream media has painted as the only 0:06:22.480 --> 0:06:25.560 people that apparently are down and out and working in 0:06:25.560 --> 0:06:30.720 this country. It is a lie. And so could Democrats 0:06:30.760 --> 0:06:37.800 do a better job at actually cultivating community and connection 0:06:38.120 --> 0:06:42.880 within the Democratic Party? Absolutely, because you know whether or 0:06:42.960 --> 0:06:44.919 not we want to admit it, and I know that 0:06:45.000 --> 0:06:47.200 I sure as hell did not. But when it was 0:06:47.240 --> 0:06:49.159 brought to my attention and I said, you know what, 0:06:49.880 --> 0:06:54.719 you're right. The fact is that MAGA created more of 0:06:54.760 --> 0:06:59.560 a sense of belonging over the last decade than Democrats did. 0:07:00.480 --> 0:07:04.000 What do I mean by that? Mean that if you 0:07:04.040 --> 0:07:06.440 want to be your worst self, your most racist self, 0:07:06.480 --> 0:07:11.400 your most toxic masculine self, you're like your worst we 0:07:11.480 --> 0:07:14.920 have place for you. Right, society has told you that 0:07:15.000 --> 0:07:17.960 you need to be politically correct, you need to be inclusive, 0:07:18.000 --> 0:07:21.000 you need to use different pronouns, and here in this tent, 0:07:21.160 --> 0:07:23.560 I'm telling you, fuck it all. You can do what 0:07:23.600 --> 0:07:27.880 you want. And for those that found themselves struggling to 0:07:28.000 --> 0:07:31.960 really grapple with and understand this new world that they 0:07:31.960 --> 0:07:36.120 are living inside of, where they are not at the 0:07:36.160 --> 0:07:40.200 top of the pyramid, which again is a lie, right, 0:07:40.320 --> 0:07:44.840 It is only the perception thereof We've only made incremental 0:07:44.920 --> 0:07:51.120 progress in this country for black people, for people of color, 0:07:51.120 --> 0:07:54.960 for queer people, it's been incremental. But the way that 0:07:55.040 --> 0:07:57.480 MAGA has painted it is just like, oh my god, 0:07:57.520 --> 0:08:01.040 this DEI, this you know won't go most is everywhere, 0:08:01.600 --> 0:08:04.920 and so you don't have to change at all. I'm 0:08:04.960 --> 0:08:08.600 saying that you get to be yourself in our MAGA 0:08:08.680 --> 0:08:15.160 tent and Democrats are very different. If you misuse a pronoun, 0:08:15.640 --> 0:08:20.200 if you are not your most inclusive, most woke self, 0:08:20.800 --> 0:08:23.800 if you mess up in any way, we will kick 0:08:23.840 --> 0:08:26.920 you out. We will kick you out of the party, 0:08:27.560 --> 0:08:31.200 we will dismantle your character, and you will never be 0:08:31.280 --> 0:08:33.880 heard from again because you're either with us or you're 0:08:33.920 --> 0:08:37.440 against us. And those are the facts, whether we want 0:08:37.480 --> 0:08:40.959 to admit it or not. There has been no real 0:08:41.120 --> 0:08:45.200 room for us to bring people along and that's what 0:08:45.280 --> 0:08:49.000 I realize, Like, that's the honest truth. While the Democratic 0:08:49.040 --> 0:08:53.400 Party is made up of a lot of different communities, 0:08:54.120 --> 0:08:59.439 it is pretty much like a tossed salad as opposed 0:08:59.480 --> 0:09:05.280 to a blender. We're not all connected, right, There are 0:09:06.200 --> 0:09:11.800 frictions within each and every group, so we're not grounded 0:09:11.840 --> 0:09:15.680 in anything. And I have said on a number of 0:09:15.720 --> 0:09:22.160 occasions that Democrats need to reclaim patriotism, need to reclaim 0:09:22.240 --> 0:09:26.800 the family, need to reclaim what it means to be free, 0:09:27.480 --> 0:09:32.240 because we need something that grounds and connects us. I'm 0:09:32.240 --> 0:09:34.200 not saying that we need to all be the same, 0:09:34.280 --> 0:09:37.800 wearing the same fucking red hat and pledging our allegiance 0:09:37.920 --> 0:09:40.800 to mind Fewer or Trump. But what I am saying 0:09:40.840 --> 0:09:43.959 is that people need to be rooted in something. And 0:09:44.000 --> 0:09:47.720 this is where the Democratic Party falls short because they're 0:09:47.760 --> 0:09:50.760 not the party. They're not the anti capitalist party that's 0:09:50.760 --> 0:09:54.920 for fucking shore. Not when you're taking billions of dollars 0:09:55.800 --> 0:10:01.319 from pharmaceutical companies and billionaires and the like. So those 0:10:01.400 --> 0:10:05.760 that actually are doing us harm with their greed, the 0:10:05.840 --> 0:10:08.880 Democratic Party is not coming out and saying these are 0:10:08.920 --> 0:10:10.480 the things that need to get done. We are the 0:10:10.520 --> 0:10:13.280 party of the people, and this is what it means 0:10:13.320 --> 0:10:14.880 to be the party of the people. This is what 0:10:14.920 --> 0:10:18.839 we're offering because we recognize that you have been ripped off, 0:10:19.440 --> 0:10:22.120 whether it be our healthcare system, whether it be a 0:10:22.280 --> 0:10:27.920 secondary education system, like you are being ripped off so 0:10:27.960 --> 0:10:31.560 that CEOs and shareholders can buy their second, third, fourth, fifth, 0:10:31.559 --> 0:10:35.040 and sixth homes. But because we have so much money 0:10:35.080 --> 0:10:40.000 in politics, Democrats have never been able to situate themselves 0:10:40.000 --> 0:10:43.280 as a party of the people because they're beholden to 0:10:43.400 --> 0:10:46.400 the people that are holding the purse strings. You can't 0:10:46.400 --> 0:10:50.760 be the party of black folks and civil rights when 0:10:50.760 --> 0:10:54.680 you're tiptoeing around and putting yourself into condortion in order 0:10:54.720 --> 0:10:58.400 to appease racist white people and not to upset folks. 0:11:00.600 --> 0:11:07.600 As I continue to mourn the loss of poet and teacher, author, 0:11:08.320 --> 0:11:12.320 brilliant thought leader Nikki Giovanni, there's a video that I 0:11:12.360 --> 0:11:17.160 was watching where she's sitting down with Clint Smith, a 0:11:17.160 --> 0:11:21.200 young writer and poet, and she's talking about the fact 0:11:21.240 --> 0:11:26.360 that reflecting on because this interview happened in twenty sixteen, 0:11:26.520 --> 0:11:29.960 so Donald Trump was coming into office, and she reflects 0:11:30.040 --> 0:11:33.360 on the eight years of Barack Obama, and she says, 0:11:33.520 --> 0:11:37.240 what did he do for black people? He was so 0:11:37.520 --> 0:11:41.280 busy trying to appease those that did not agree with him. 0:11:41.320 --> 0:11:43.960 And then she paused and said, actually, those that hated him, 0:11:44.040 --> 0:11:47.360 that despised him, that he did very little to build 0:11:47.840 --> 0:11:51.640 the pipeline in the infrastructure of people who look like him. 0:11:52.160 --> 0:11:55.240 And that is the truth, whether we want to admit 0:11:55.280 --> 0:11:58.800 it or not. I love Barack Obama as a symbol 0:11:58.840 --> 0:12:03.280 of what him and his family symbolize about change in America. 0:12:03.480 --> 0:12:07.360 But what does it say that after eight years of him? 0:12:07.920 --> 0:12:12.439 She argued, then America opens its arms to a Nazi, right, 0:12:12.640 --> 0:12:16.800 a Nazi sympathizer. So we have to ask ourselves in 0:12:17.240 --> 0:12:22.679 our desire to showcase. Oh, we're the adults in the room, 0:12:22.720 --> 0:12:25.840 and you saw Vice President Kamala Harris going all around 0:12:25.880 --> 0:12:31.200 the country with Liz Cheney. Where were the linked arms 0:12:31.200 --> 0:12:36.079 with AOC right with the younger folks inside of the party, 0:12:36.080 --> 0:12:40.520 And we know that she was in fact a surrogate. 0:12:41.320 --> 0:12:45.840 But the reality is, folks, that there were missteps that 0:12:45.880 --> 0:12:48.440 are made. But it wasn't just made by Vice President 0:12:48.520 --> 0:12:52.280 Kamala Harris. It's been made by the Democratic Party for decades, 0:12:53.120 --> 0:12:56.520 always going after, always chasing who does not want to 0:12:56.640 --> 0:12:59.520 dance with you and leaving the people that are standing 0:12:59.559 --> 0:13:04.360 in front of you to dance alone. Donald Trump, for 0:13:04.440 --> 0:13:06.440 better or for worse, and we know that it is 0:13:06.520 --> 0:13:11.559 for worse built a community of like minded people. Democrats 0:13:11.559 --> 0:13:16.080 did not and do not, And so I'm struggling with, like, 0:13:16.800 --> 0:13:20.160 what does it mean to be a Democrat these days? 0:13:20.559 --> 0:13:25.079 What does that even symbolize? For a moment? Right for 0:13:25.480 --> 0:13:30.680 the three months of the Harris campaign, we could say 0:13:30.679 --> 0:13:34.280 we were about joy, We are about hope and possibility, 0:13:34.880 --> 0:13:38.000 but at the core hope and possibility for whom for 0:13:38.160 --> 0:13:44.760 what My problem with all of the conversation that is 0:13:44.800 --> 0:13:48.280 happening right now is that it is the same old, 0:13:48.360 --> 0:13:52.760 same old. Rather than working with the base of black 0:13:52.800 --> 0:13:55.920 people that you have, people of color, that you have, 0:13:56.720 --> 0:14:00.640 queer people that you have, Democrats continue to chase who 0:14:00.720 --> 0:14:05.479 doesn't want them, and in doing so continues to fracture 0:14:06.120 --> 0:14:10.040 the Democratic Party. And that's why I say, and have said, 0:14:10.880 --> 0:14:14.120 this is our time to really think about a viable 0:14:14.160 --> 0:14:18.640 third party option, because if we're real about it, our 0:14:18.679 --> 0:14:22.280 needs are not being met clearly. And if there is 0:14:22.400 --> 0:14:28.360 anything that this killing of the United Healthcare CEO shows 0:14:28.480 --> 0:14:31.400 us is that America is in a lot of pain, 0:14:31.960 --> 0:14:33.800 and there is a lot of despair, and there is 0:14:33.840 --> 0:14:36.720 a lot of suffering, and there is nearly an issue 0:14:36.760 --> 0:14:39.440 where I can't point to the billionaire class and say 0:14:39.480 --> 0:14:43.080 that they are at faull, that we continue to allow 0:14:43.240 --> 0:14:45.880 politicians to be bought and sold by them, that then 0:14:45.960 --> 0:14:50.480 create policies that only benefit that class of folk. So, 0:14:50.800 --> 0:14:54.840 as I've said, great harm is coming to America, Elon 0:14:55.000 --> 0:14:57.760 must said, oh, Americans are going to have to suffer. 0:14:58.040 --> 0:15:00.040 He's nearly a trillionaire. What the fuck does he? We 0:15:00.160 --> 0:15:05.840 know about suffering and pain? Nothing. But maybe when folks 0:15:05.920 --> 0:15:10.640 realize that now everything becomes more expensive, American life becomes 0:15:10.680 --> 0:15:14.400 harder because you've given over your power to the oligarchs, 0:15:15.040 --> 0:15:18.760 maybe that suffering will finally be what unites us because 0:15:18.800 --> 0:15:22.080 it will be shared suffering. Of course, black folks will 0:15:22.080 --> 0:15:27.440 suffer more, as they always say. When you know America 0:15:27.520 --> 0:15:31.120 catches a cold, black folks catch pneumonia. But this is 0:15:31.120 --> 0:15:34.440 why I say that maybe Donald Trump is necessary because 0:15:34.480 --> 0:15:38.800 he will fuck up, He will overreach. His people will 0:15:38.840 --> 0:15:40.880 turn on him. I don't know when, but they will, 0:15:41.400 --> 0:15:44.360 because that's what history tells us. But from what I 0:15:44.400 --> 0:15:47.680 can see right now, Democrats are certainly not using this 0:15:47.800 --> 0:15:51.600 as an opportunity to unite. They are too busy pointing 0:15:51.640 --> 0:15:56.280 fingers and telling us all the ways that we need 0:15:56.320 --> 0:15:58.960 to go and court people that hate us. That is 0:15:59.000 --> 0:16:03.080 not a winning strategy. So I agree with the title 0:16:03.480 --> 0:16:07.040 of this opinion piece. Democrats don't have an easy way out, 0:16:07.600 --> 0:16:10.280 because if you're gonna keep knocking on the same doors, 0:16:11.000 --> 0:16:16.520 you're never gonna find anything that is new. That is 0:16:16.560 --> 0:16:20.520 it for me today, Dear friends on woke app as always, 0:16:21.000 --> 0:16:24.120 power to the people and to all the people. Power, 0:16:24.520 --> 0:16:26.760 Get woke and stay woke as fuck.