Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to ok F Daily with
Speaker 1: Meet Your Girl Daniel Moody recording from the Home Bunker, Folks.
Speaker 1: I looked at an article in the New York Times
Speaker 1: entitled Democrats Don't have an easy way out, and you
Speaker 1: know the subject matter this is written by Thomas Edsel,
Speaker 1: is about how the Democratic Party, which finds itself in
Speaker 1: quote unquote shambles, figures out how to bring the working
Speaker 1: class back into the party following Donald Trump's win with
Speaker 1: the working class. And I got to tell you that
Speaker 1: article like this, as well as watching clips of former
Speaker 1: President Bill Clinton on the View talking about what Democrats
Speaker 1: need to do, get on my fucking nerves because it
Speaker 1: is the same circle jerk bullshit that they do every
Speaker 1: time they lose. How do we go chase down white
Speaker 1: people and bring them back into our party, a party
Speaker 1: that they have not been a part of since the
Speaker 1: Civil rights movement? And the way in which writers use
Speaker 1: the word the phrasing working class as if we don't
Speaker 1: know that they're talking about white people. Bill Clinton on
Speaker 1: the View said, well, we have to understand that those
Speaker 1: rural voters are more conservative. People in rural areasm more
Speaker 1: concernedervative so we use conservative as a euphemism for racists.
Speaker 1: Oh well, the Democrats, they were too busy chasing the
Speaker 1: cultural elites. You mean, those that see the world as
Speaker 1: a place for inclusivity and diversity. I am so tired
Speaker 1: of corporate mainstream media tapping the very same fucking old
Speaker 1: white men to tell us what needs to be done
Speaker 1: with this country that is becoming more diverse by the day.
Speaker 1: The Democrats lost, frankly because seven million people sat home
Speaker 1: because they were uninspired by either party. The conversation is
Speaker 1: not about, oh, how do we convince white rural Americans
Speaker 1: that they're with the wrong party. I say, fuck around
Speaker 1: and find out. As Donald Trump appoints more billionaires to
Speaker 1: positions of power than they already have, they will see
Speaker 1: the truth. They will feel it. Because LBJ said it best.
Speaker 1: Lbjy's quote about picking a man's pockets right, is the
Speaker 1: most on point quote I've ever heard in my life.
Speaker 1: Because it doesn't matter when he said it, because it
Speaker 1: still resonates today. Here is the quote. If you can
Speaker 1: convince the lowest white man he is better than the
Speaker 1: best colored man, he won't notice your picking his pocket. Hell,
Speaker 1: give him somebody to look down on and he'll empty
Speaker 1: his pockets for you. These are the same people who
Speaker 1: will swear up and down make testimony about Donald Trump's
Speaker 1: wealth and his business acumen while buying his cheap sneakers
Speaker 1: and his Chinese made Bibles because they got to support
Speaker 1: their man. You are never going to convince these people
Speaker 1: that Donald Trump ain't their guy. And it has nothing
Speaker 1: to do with economics. It has everything to do with racism.
Speaker 1: But with every loss, every big blow that Democrats have,
Speaker 1: it is the same circle jerk back to what can
Speaker 1: we do, who can we abandon in our base in
Speaker 1: order to shore up the racist white voter folks. When
Speaker 1: we look at who is exactly a part of working
Speaker 1: class America, Lo and behold, it is not the white
Speaker 1: man in the hard hat with the lunch pale, kissing
Speaker 1: his wife at the door goodbye, and heading into work
Speaker 1: to build the buildings, to dig the tunnels. Those days
Speaker 1: are long fucking gone. The working class is largely filled
Speaker 1: with black people and brown people making hourly wages that
Speaker 1: barely have the ability to cover their basic needs. Now,
Speaker 1: I would argue that, yeah, Vice President Kamala Harris could
Speaker 1: have done more in talking to and with working class
Speaker 1: and middle class Americans to show the public who these
Speaker 1: people actually are. For a brief moment during COVID, we
Speaker 1: recognize that those that were considered essential, right, those that
Speaker 1: were bagging our groceries and delivering food and packages and
Speaker 1: essentially needing to put their lives at risk, Those were
Speaker 1: not the rural white folks or the white working class
Speaker 1: that the corporate mainstream media has painted as the only
Speaker 1: people that apparently are down and out and working in
Speaker 1: this country. It is a lie. And so could Democrats
Speaker 1: do a better job at actually cultivating community and connection
Speaker 1: within the Democratic Party? Absolutely, because you know whether or
Speaker 1: not we want to admit it, and I know that
Speaker 1: I sure as hell did not. But when it was
Speaker 1: brought to my attention and I said, you know what,
Speaker 1: you're right. The fact is that MAGA created more of
Speaker 1: a sense of belonging over the last decade than Democrats did.
Speaker 1: What do I mean by that? Mean that if you
Speaker 1: want to be your worst self, your most racist self,
Speaker 1: your most toxic masculine self, you're like your worst we
Speaker 1: have place for you. Right, society has told you that
Speaker 1: you need to be politically correct, you need to be inclusive,
Speaker 1: you need to use different pronouns, and here in this tent,
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, fuck it all. You can do what
Speaker 1: you want. And for those that found themselves struggling to
Speaker 1: really grapple with and understand this new world that they
Speaker 1: are living inside of, where they are not at the
Speaker 1: top of the pyramid, which again is a lie, right,
Speaker 1: It is only the perception thereof We've only made incremental
Speaker 1: progress in this country for black people, for people of color,
Speaker 1: for queer people, it's been incremental. But the way that
Speaker 1: MAGA has painted it is just like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: this DEI, this you know won't go most is everywhere,
Speaker 1: and so you don't have to change at all. I'm
Speaker 1: saying that you get to be yourself in our MAGA
Speaker 1: tent and Democrats are very different. If you misuse a pronoun,
Speaker 1: if you are not your most inclusive, most woke self,
Speaker 1: if you mess up in any way, we will kick
Speaker 1: you out. We will kick you out of the party,
Speaker 1: we will dismantle your character, and you will never be
Speaker 1: heard from again because you're either with us or you're
Speaker 1: against us. And those are the facts, whether we want
Speaker 1: to admit it or not. There has been no real
Speaker 1: room for us to bring people along and that's what
Speaker 1: I realize, Like, that's the honest truth. While the Democratic
Speaker 1: Party is made up of a lot of different communities,
Speaker 1: it is pretty much like a tossed salad as opposed
Speaker 1: to a blender. We're not all connected, right, There are
Speaker 1: frictions within each and every group, so we're not grounded
Speaker 1: in anything. And I have said on a number of
Speaker 1: occasions that Democrats need to reclaim patriotism, need to reclaim
Speaker 1: the family, need to reclaim what it means to be free,
Speaker 1: because we need something that grounds and connects us. I'm
Speaker 1: not saying that we need to all be the same,
Speaker 1: wearing the same fucking red hat and pledging our allegiance
Speaker 1: to mind Fewer or Trump. But what I am saying
Speaker 1: is that people need to be rooted in something. And
Speaker 1: this is where the Democratic Party falls short because they're
Speaker 1: not the party. They're not the anti capitalist party that's
Speaker 1: for fucking shore. Not when you're taking billions of dollars
Speaker 1: from pharmaceutical companies and billionaires and the like. So those
Speaker 1: that actually are doing us harm with their greed, the
Speaker 1: Democratic Party is not coming out and saying these are
Speaker 1: the things that need to get done. We are the
Speaker 1: party of the people, and this is what it means
Speaker 1: to be the party of the people. This is what
Speaker 1: we're offering because we recognize that you have been ripped off,
Speaker 1: whether it be our healthcare system, whether it be a
Speaker 1: secondary education system, like you are being ripped off so
Speaker 1: that CEOs and shareholders can buy their second, third, fourth, fifth,
Speaker 1: and sixth homes. But because we have so much money
Speaker 1: in politics, Democrats have never been able to situate themselves
Speaker 1: as a party of the people because they're beholden to
Speaker 1: the people that are holding the purse strings. You can't
Speaker 1: be the party of black folks and civil rights when
Speaker 1: you're tiptoeing around and putting yourself into condortion in order
Speaker 1: to appease racist white people and not to upset folks.
Speaker 1: As I continue to mourn the loss of poet and teacher, author,
Speaker 1: brilliant thought leader Nikki Giovanni, there's a video that I
Speaker 1: was watching where she's sitting down with Clint Smith, a
Speaker 1: young writer and poet, and she's talking about the fact
Speaker 1: that reflecting on because this interview happened in twenty sixteen,
Speaker 1: so Donald Trump was coming into office, and she reflects
Speaker 1: on the eight years of Barack Obama, and she says,
Speaker 1: what did he do for black people? He was so
Speaker 1: busy trying to appease those that did not agree with him.
Speaker 1: And then she paused and said, actually, those that hated him,
Speaker 1: that despised him, that he did very little to build
Speaker 1: the pipeline in the infrastructure of people who look like him.
Speaker 1: And that is the truth, whether we want to admit
Speaker 1: it or not. I love Barack Obama as a symbol
Speaker 1: of what him and his family symbolize about change in America.
Speaker 1: But what does it say that after eight years of him?
Speaker 1: She argued, then America opens its arms to a Nazi, right,
Speaker 1: a Nazi sympathizer. So we have to ask ourselves in
Speaker 1: our desire to showcase. Oh, we're the adults in the room,
Speaker 1: and you saw Vice President Kamala Harris going all around
Speaker 1: the country with Liz Cheney. Where were the linked arms
Speaker 1: with AOC right with the younger folks inside of the party,
Speaker 1: And we know that she was in fact a surrogate.
Speaker 1: But the reality is, folks, that there were missteps that
Speaker 1: are made. But it wasn't just made by Vice President
Speaker 1: Kamala Harris. It's been made by the Democratic Party for decades,
Speaker 1: always going after, always chasing who does not want to
Speaker 1: dance with you and leaving the people that are standing
Speaker 1: in front of you to dance alone. Donald Trump, for
Speaker 1: better or for worse, and we know that it is
Speaker 1: for worse built a community of like minded people. Democrats
Speaker 1: did not and do not, And so I'm struggling with, like,
Speaker 1: what does it mean to be a Democrat these days?
Speaker 1: What does that even symbolize? For a moment? Right for
Speaker 1: the three months of the Harris campaign, we could say
Speaker 1: we were about joy, We are about hope and possibility,
Speaker 1: but at the core hope and possibility for whom for
Speaker 1: what My problem with all of the conversation that is
Speaker 1: happening right now is that it is the same old,
Speaker 1: same old. Rather than working with the base of black
Speaker 1: people that you have, people of color, that you have,
Speaker 1: queer people that you have, Democrats continue to chase who
Speaker 1: doesn't want them, and in doing so continues to fracture
Speaker 1: the Democratic Party. And that's why I say, and have said,
Speaker 1: this is our time to really think about a viable
Speaker 1: third party option, because if we're real about it, our
Speaker 1: needs are not being met clearly. And if there is
Speaker 1: anything that this killing of the United Healthcare CEO shows
Speaker 1: us is that America is in a lot of pain,
Speaker 1: and there is a lot of despair, and there is
Speaker 1: a lot of suffering, and there is nearly an issue
Speaker 1: where I can't point to the billionaire class and say
Speaker 1: that they are at faull, that we continue to allow
Speaker 1: politicians to be bought and sold by them, that then
Speaker 1: create policies that only benefit that class of folk. So,
Speaker 1: as I've said, great harm is coming to America, Elon
Speaker 1: must said, oh, Americans are going to have to suffer.
Speaker 1: He's nearly a trillionaire. What the fuck does he? We
Speaker 1: know about suffering and pain? Nothing. But maybe when folks
Speaker 1: realize that now everything becomes more expensive, American life becomes
Speaker 1: harder because you've given over your power to the oligarchs,
Speaker 1: maybe that suffering will finally be what unites us because
Speaker 1: it will be shared suffering. Of course, black folks will
Speaker 1: suffer more, as they always say. When you know America
Speaker 1: catches a cold, black folks catch pneumonia. But this is
Speaker 1: why I say that maybe Donald Trump is necessary because
Speaker 1: he will fuck up, He will overreach. His people will
Speaker 1: turn on him. I don't know when, but they will,
Speaker 1: because that's what history tells us. But from what I
Speaker 1: can see right now, Democrats are certainly not using this
Speaker 1: as an opportunity to unite. They are too busy pointing
Speaker 1: fingers and telling us all the ways that we need
Speaker 1: to go and court people that hate us. That is
Speaker 1: not a winning strategy. So I agree with the title
Speaker 1: of this opinion piece. Democrats don't have an easy way out,
Speaker 1: because if you're gonna keep knocking on the same doors,
Speaker 1: you're never gonna find anything that is new. That is
Speaker 1: it for me today, Dear friends on woke app as always,
Speaker 1: power to the people and to all the people. Power,
Speaker 1: Get woke and stay woke as fuck.