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Speaker 5: Next week, obviously we're gonna have the big debate show. Uh.
Speaker 5: But tonight we're gonna start.
Speaker 3: We're gonna get a quick state of play on this
Speaker 3: incredibly consequential presidential election. I guess the election is basically
Speaker 3: boiled down to each candidate accusing the other of having
Speaker 3: soup where there should be brain. There is plenty of
Speaker 3: fodder for the attacks. For instance, for President Biden, it
Speaker 3: is his habit of seemingly staring at what can only
Speaker 3: be considered ghosts or out of frame paratroopers, and then
Speaker 3: when he's pulled back into frame somehow, giving the impression
Speaker 3: someone has just quantum leaped into his body.
Speaker 1: Now, don't look.
Speaker 5: Directly at the sun, sir, that would.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 3: And as for Trump, basically it's Trump tripping over his
Speaker 3: own dick anytime he tries to capitalize on Biden's age,
Speaker 3: like this weekend, Trump appeared to the herbal life of
Speaker 3: political conventions, Turning Point, USA, where Trump articulated his case
Speaker 3: for having best brain full neurons smart.
Speaker 5: Joe bideny has no plan. He's got absolutely no plan.
Speaker 5: He doesn't even know what the word inflation means. Oh, oh,
Speaker 5: you did it. No, Oh, Joe Biden's so dumb.
Speaker 3: He thinks inflation has arived in the overall price level
Speaker 3: for goods and services in the economy, as measured by the.
Speaker 5: Consumer Price Index over time. Oh shit, Oh.
Speaker 3: All right, it turns out that is what it is.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry being told that is what inflation is.
Speaker 5: But still you tell him, Donna t.
Speaker 3: The case he's making to the American public is that
Speaker 3: he's the sharpest tool in the shed. See if you
Speaker 3: can find the flaw in his logic just one sentence later.
Speaker 5: I don't think if you gave him a quiz.
Speaker 6: I think he should take a cognitive test like I did.
Speaker 5: I took a cognitive test and I aced it.
Speaker 6: Doc Ronnie, doctor Ronnie Johnson. Does everyone know Ronnie Johnson,
Speaker 6: Congressman from Texas Ronnie Johnson.
Speaker 5: Anything? That cognitive test is a great point.
Speaker 3: If only his doctor was actually named Ronnie Johnson and
Speaker 3: not actually named Ronnie Jackson. He got the guy's name
Speaker 3: wrong on his cognitive test.
Speaker 5: I don't even know what to say. Well, here's the problem.
Speaker 5: The sad thing is under mag of law, his name
Speaker 5: is now Ronnie Johnson.
Speaker 3: This is the way. Those aren't the only comments. Trump
Speaker 3: seems to have spit the bid on. Just weeks before
Speaker 3: he heads to the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, he
Speaker 3: called Milwaukee quote a horrible city, forcing liberals around the
Speaker 3: country to defend Milwaukee, a city they then had to
Speaker 3: pretend to have been to. Oh, Milwaukee's the finest city
Speaker 3: in I want to say Indiana. But don't worry because
Speaker 3: Donald Trump cleared the whole thing up.
Speaker 6: Well, I think it was very clear what I meant.
Speaker 6: I said, We're very concerned with crime. I love Milwaukee.
Speaker 6: I have great friends in Milwaukee. But it's as you know,
Speaker 6: the crime numbers are terrible and we have to be
Speaker 6: very careful.
Speaker 3: Yeah, lots of criminals in milwau Haukee.
Speaker 5: Are you talking about now, sir?
Speaker 3: Or when you and your felonious friends come to town.
Speaker 3: The script that just says John turns and makes dumb face.
Speaker 5: That's what I did. I made a dumb.
Speaker 3: Anyway, it's a good save by former President Trump.
Speaker 5: The city's great. He loves Milwaukee.
Speaker 3: It's the dang Democrat encouraged crime. It's one of the
Speaker 3: right's favorite talking points, not just from Milwaukee, but for
Speaker 3: all Democratic run cities, that those cities are crime infested
Speaker 3: shitholes where life is miserable and everyone hates everybody. But
Speaker 3: people who live in the these cities know that this
Speaker 3: rhetoric is only kind of true now, and when people
Speaker 3: who don't live in these cities say it, it's very annoying.
Speaker 5: By the way, it does turn out the crime is
Speaker 5: actually down.
Speaker 3: The FBI reporting the nation's violent crime rate has dropped
Speaker 3: dramatically this year. Overall violent crime down fifteen percent from
Speaker 3: last year, murders down twenty six percent.
Speaker 5: By every national metric, crime is down, solid trend. Crime
Speaker 5: is down. It's all a misunderstanding.
Speaker 3: But now that the FBI numbers are out, I'm sure
Speaker 3: that the right wing media will adjust accordingly. Quality of
Speaker 3: life is not captured in any.
Speaker 1: Of the FBI numbers.
Speaker 3: And if you live in a blue city, walk outside
Speaker 3: and use your ez you should use your freaking eyes.
Speaker 3: Do you even see over your shoulder. They were doing
Speaker 3: double donuts in a.
Speaker 5: Parking lot, the so lay of automobiles, but not crime.
Speaker 5: That's art.
Speaker 3: Oh, but I'm sorry you were downplaying the crime statistics.
Speaker 5: Now they say there's no crime wave, but do you
Speaker 5: feel safe? Doesn't feel that way.
Speaker 6: It certainly doesn't feel that way for the average American today.
Speaker 5: Democrats will say, well, but crime is down, it's not
Speaker 5: how people feel. Yeah, as the.
Speaker 3: Right always famously says, feelings, don't care about your facts,
Speaker 3: your facts.
Speaker 5: Isn't that the slogan on the right now, you know?
Speaker 5: Very interesting? It doesn't bring up a good point though.
Speaker 3: If crime is down so much, why do people, especially
Speaker 3: on the right, feel like it's up.
Speaker 5: Oh, the crime graphic is.
Speaker 3: I hadn't really calculated slope in a while, but it
Speaker 3: seems like the X axis is moving into the nodes
Speaker 3: bleeds while the WHY axis is being tied down and sodomized.
Speaker 1: I'm sure.
Speaker 3: Sure that's just a one off and not your network's
Speaker 3: entire programming.
Speaker 5: Another day, another stream of brazen violent crimes.
Speaker 3: The havoc being wreaked upon America, undoubtedly coming to a
Speaker 3: town or city near you. Blatant and outrageous crimes occurring
Speaker 3: on a daily basis coast to coast. You're seeing that
Speaker 3: in Chicago and New York, you know, all these Democrat
Speaker 3: run cities.
Speaker 1: There's so much crime in the city. I can't I
Speaker 1: can't comprehend how people live there.
Speaker 3: New York is now this dystopian hellhole of crime and violence.
Speaker 3: Is now a dystopian hell you're just figuring that out, now,
Speaker 3: you big puss.
Speaker 5: Oh, I'm sorry. Is Time Square Elmo too scarey for you?
Speaker 3: Because Times Square Elmo he comes at you.
Speaker 5: Are you?
Speaker 3: Are you scared of Times Square Elmo because he punches back,
Speaker 3: unlike all the other Elmos who let you tickle them
Speaker 3: with no consequences. Yeah, New York's a dystopian hell hole.
Speaker 3: That and the bagels and pizza is why we move here.
Speaker 5: But of course.
Speaker 3: Worse, there is one particular type of crime the conservatives
Speaker 3: scene especially scared about.
Speaker 1: Mark.
Speaker 3: Why do I keep seeing people pushing other people onto
Speaker 3: the train tracks? Not that that's not a cry, That's okay,
Speaker 3: I get that. So the pushing out of the train tracks,
Speaker 3: that's just a misunderstanding.
Speaker 4: Here.
Speaker 5: Here's what's happening.
Speaker 3: So we do you have people in the subways who
Speaker 3: are there to try to help other passengers onto the train.
Speaker 3: But sometimes the train isn't there yet. It's it's not malevolent,
Speaker 3: it's just early. But I was actually talking about another
Speaker 3: type of crime.
Speaker 5: People are getting shot in the face every single day.
Speaker 5: You can literally get shot anywhere in the city. We
Speaker 5: have people getting shot in the subway. People are getting
Speaker 5: shot out on the street. Going for a loaf of bread.
Speaker 5: You end up getting shot. Yeah, you get shot. New
Speaker 5: Yorkers haven't had a sandwich in twelve He is just
Speaker 5: an egg palm loosen the hands.
Speaker 3: First of all, I'm surprised Trump is scared of guns
Speaker 3: at all, considering he thinks they sound like this.
Speaker 6: We had our beautiful marine standing there being the old
Speaker 6: days bing.
Speaker 1: Bong big Bom bo.
Speaker 3: I would I would pay good money to hear Trump
Speaker 3: describe the opening scene of saving Private Ryan big bing
Speaker 3: bing and then the Nazis of bang Bong Bang Bong.
Speaker 5: Nobody can get bread bang bang Bong Ming Ming.
Speaker 3: But the point is, if you leave your house in
Speaker 3: New York, you will be shot dead. To all of
Speaker 3: our audience members, I'm glad you chose to have your
Speaker 3: last moments with us.
Speaker 4: Have them.
Speaker 5: Sadly, I must bid you a melancholy a big bong
Speaker 5: bing bingbing.
Speaker 3: Now, all of this, by the way, is not to
Speaker 3: say that gun crime does not exist. Of course it does,
Speaker 3: and some cities are worse than others.
Speaker 5: But here's the thing, and I say this.
Speaker 3: With all due respect, the balls of these right wing
Speaker 3: mothers talking about how there's too much gun crime and
Speaker 3: chaos in our democratic cities when Republicans are the ones
Speaker 3: who've enabled the flood of illegal weaponry into our cities
Speaker 3: in the first place. That right, So don't get your
Speaker 3: little painties in a bunch.
Speaker 5: Here's something you want to know.
Speaker 3: Ninety three percent of the illegal guns used in crimes
Speaker 3: in New York City aren't from here. They, like theater majors,
Speaker 3: have come here to make a name for themselves. Uns
Speaker 3: come from states like Florida and Georgia and South Carolina
Speaker 3: where the gun laws relax. And trust me, Florida's not
Speaker 3: sending us their best guns. They're bringing guns for drugs
Speaker 3: and crime and rapists and semi assume a good guns
Speaker 3: and try as we might to put up some border
Speaker 3: controls to stem this invasion, this flood of literally undocumented
Speaker 3: weapons Republicans fight every attempt to bring some kind of
Speaker 3: order and even pass laws to increase the cast.
Speaker 5: Look at all the laws and things that they've done.
Speaker 3: In two thousand and five, they pass the law that
Speaker 3: effectively protects gun dealers and the gun manufacturers for being
Speaker 3: held liable for where their guns end up. They also
Speaker 3: try and make sure that terrorists and felons can still
Speaker 3: get guns, and just recently they made sure that they
Speaker 3: can turn those guns into machine guns with bump stocks.
Speaker 3: They make it impossible to study the effects of guns,
Speaker 3: They make it impossible to track the illegal guns. They
Speaker 3: fight fucking everything. You want to know how cynical it is.
Speaker 3: Remember this guy, This guy, Congressman Andrew Clyde from Georgia.
Speaker 5: He loves to go on.
Speaker 3: TV and talk about crime and democratic cities.
Speaker 5: Republicans have always been the party of law and order.
Speaker 1: And what you have seen is the massive increases in
Speaker 1: crime have been primarily at Democrat run cities.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it turns out while he was complaining about the
Speaker 3: uptick in gun crimes in New York City, he himself
Speaker 3: was fighting added scrutiny on gun stores like the two
Speaker 3: that he owns that have been implicated in over twenty
Speaker 3: five gun crimes since twenty twenty.
Speaker 5: Why would they do this?
Speaker 3: There must be a reason, right, because the right always
Speaker 3: tells us there's no coincidences. Right, Isn't that what we're
Speaker 3: told all the time. It's almost as though Republicans must
Speaker 3: have a secret plan for this, funded by their billionaires,
Speaker 3: to flood our cities with illegal, undocumented guns, pouring them
Speaker 3: over our state borders in the hopes of killing all
Speaker 3: off reliable Democratic voters.
Speaker 5: The great displacement theory.
Speaker 3: That is obviously what's happening, and no honest person would
Speaker 3: think otherwise. So there's only one real solution, unfortunately, for
Speaker 3: the borders of Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina.
Speaker 5: We have to what's the word by When we come back,
Speaker 5: Reverend William J. Barber will be joining me on the
Speaker 5: show Don't Go Right? What about Nadella show I got tonight.
Speaker 3: He is a Protestant minister, social activist, Yale Divinity School
Speaker 3: professor whose latest book is called White Poverty. How exposing
Speaker 3: myths about race and class can reconstruct American Democracy. Please
Speaker 3: welcome to the show, Reverend doctor William Barber, Sir.
Speaker 5: A job, A job, the booty is called white party holding. Enough,
Speaker 5: I don't mean he's that white poverty.
Speaker 3: You, sir, are famously not white, So why write white poverty?
Speaker 4: Well, actually, I come from Caucasian, Black and Tuscaro and descended.
Speaker 1: Oh wow.
Speaker 4: So and my people are free people in eastern North Carolina.
Speaker 4: That a lot of those communities. And so in some ways,
Speaker 4: this book is me, and so to deny any part
Speaker 4: of my reality would be to deny myself. But here's
Speaker 4: the problem. I'm concerned about the way we measure poverty
Speaker 4: in this country is not only a lie, but I
Speaker 4: can say on this show it's a damn lie.
Speaker 5: Sir. You can do more than that if you want.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, okay, we.
Speaker 5: Got plenty more roots for that.
Speaker 1: I only use the ones that are approved by the Bible.
Speaker 4: So, but we say we use official poverty measure says
Speaker 4: that poverty if you make above thirteen thousand dollars a year,
Speaker 4: you're not poor. If you make above about thirteen thousand
Speaker 4: dollars a year, you're not poor. You're kind of in
Speaker 4: the lower lower middle class.
Speaker 5: When was the last time they adjusted.
Speaker 4: Well, it's been since the sixties really in some ways,
Speaker 4: And so what happens with that is, we marginalize poverty
Speaker 4: and then we racialize it. Whenever we have a brief
Speaker 4: discussion about poverty, because we're very seldom have it in
Speaker 4: the news. In political arenas, we put up a black
Speaker 4: woman with on welfare, which racializes and demeans black people,
Speaker 4: but then it dismisses tens of millions of white poor people.
Speaker 5: You right, this, sixty six sixty six.
Speaker 4: Million of the one hundred and thirty five million poor
Speaker 4: and low wage people in this country, sixty percent of
Speaker 4: black people are poor low Well, that's twenty six million,
Speaker 4: thirty percent of white, but that's sixty six million, forty
Speaker 4: million more. This book says we need to face all
Speaker 4: of our poor and recognize that we have something what
Speaker 4: Desmond because Offer out of Princeton calls povertive by America,
Speaker 4: not the poverty in America, but the particular kind of
Speaker 4: poverty by America that's unnecessary and abolishable because it.
Speaker 1: Makes no sense.
Speaker 4: In the richest nation in the world, we have over
Speaker 4: one hundred and thirty five million poor, low wage people,
Speaker 4: over forty one percent of our population, and over fifty
Speaker 4: percent of our children, and it's unnecessary. So white poverty says,
Speaker 4: we're not playing the game any Let's not.
Speaker 3: Look at this through the prism of race. Let's look
Speaker 3: at it through class. And do you think that that
Speaker 3: division was a purposeful one?
Speaker 1: I think so.
Speaker 4: And to expand race, you have to deal with race
Speaker 4: in America. But what you cannot allow someone to do
Speaker 4: for something this serious, Where two hundred and ninety five
Speaker 4: thousand people are dying a year from poverty in low
Speaker 4: wage how many two hundred ninety five thousand, eight hundred
Speaker 4: people a.
Speaker 3: Day are dying are dying recently from what they would
Speaker 3: considered probably.
Speaker 4: Poverty is a fourth leading cause of death in the country,
Speaker 4: higher than in piratory disease.
Speaker 3: Higher it even impacts respiratory disease because if you're low
Speaker 3: wage and you're living in an area, chances are the
Speaker 3: pollution and the toxices is probably higher where you.
Speaker 1: Lift all of those things.
Speaker 4: And so here we have something that's the fourth leading
Speaker 4: cause of death eight hundred people a day. When seven
Speaker 4: people died from vaping, it was a congressional hearing. It
Speaker 4: was presidential level, right. Imagine if eight hundred politicians were
Speaker 4: dying a day.
Speaker 1: Oh I have well, I can't do that but.
Speaker 4: But my point is how everybody would be just up
Speaker 4: and o or eight hundred middle class.
Speaker 5: One hundred thousand people. That's clearly epidemic.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 1: You just talked about crime.
Speaker 4: That's a crime, that's a form of especially when it's unnecessary,
Speaker 4: it does not happen.
Speaker 3: And entrenched, it seems in a lot of communities. It's
Speaker 3: just it's a cloud that never lifts.
Speaker 4: Well, the thing about it is John is in every community. See,
Speaker 4: that's the point we're making in the book. Whether it's Appalachia,
Speaker 4: where I met women in West Virginia who have to
Speaker 4: sell tacos on Tuesdays, so they have a community fund
Speaker 4: to help women deal with their monthly issues.
Speaker 1: Or whether it's out in eastern Kentucky where.
Speaker 4: I met black and white coal miners who watched the
Speaker 4: mines be taken over by multinational companies that move the
Speaker 4: union rights out of it, or whether it's in the Delta.
Speaker 4: It's everywhere. There's not a counting in this country now
Speaker 4: where a person making seven twenty five that's what the
Speaker 4: minimum wage is, Federal minium wages seven twenty five. It's
Speaker 4: been like that for fourteen years. John has been raised
Speaker 4: for fourteen when.
Speaker 3: They're trying to raise it to even fifteen. I mean,
Speaker 3: the fight is everywhere you go. There's a huge fight
Speaker 3: about trying to bring it to fifteen, and it's going
Speaker 3: to kill all the jobs.
Speaker 4: Which is a lie. Three Nobel Peace Prize economists said
Speaker 4: it wouldn't kill jobs. In fact, we put more money
Speaker 4: in the economy and it would actually expand jobs.
Speaker 1: But here's the thing.
Speaker 4: We had fifteen in a union proposed in twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 4: Democrats and every Republican stood against fifty five million people,
Speaker 4: fifty five million people who make fifty two million people
Speaker 4: who make less than a living wage of fifteen dollars out.
Speaker 1: Now, here's the thing.
Speaker 4: In sixty three, the March on Washington called for a
Speaker 4: raise of the minimum waste to two dollars, which, index
Speaker 4: with inflation, would be over fifteen to day.
Speaker 3: Really, yeah, people forget The March on Washington in sixty
Speaker 3: three was titled for.
Speaker 1: Jobs and injustice and justice. It wasn't just about black
Speaker 1: civil rights.
Speaker 4: It was about a broad, inclusive, just feel democracy. And
Speaker 4: so here we are in this reality and people are
Speaker 4: hurting everywhere. There's not a county where you can work
Speaker 4: a minimuma'e job and before a basic two bedroom apartment
Speaker 4: and waiters and waitresses.
Speaker 1: On minimum minimum wage.
Speaker 3: Not a county in the country, not a count in
Speaker 3: the country couldn't if you had a minimum way's job.
Speaker 3: There's not a county in this country where you could
Speaker 3: afford it.
Speaker 1: You not a federal note, you couldn't.
Speaker 5: And this is the working pour. This isn't you know.
Speaker 3: I think in the country there's a sense of it's
Speaker 3: an entitlement mentality. That's why there's a certain character flaw
Speaker 3: that keeps you there.
Speaker 5: These are people that are working.
Speaker 4: The entitlement is and in the politicians that keep raising
Speaker 4: their wages and giving corporations tax breaks, but they won't
Speaker 4: help the working people. That's the entitlement ranks of the polity,
Speaker 4: you know, so so and we're talking about during COVID.
Speaker 4: COVID did not exacerbate poverty. It exposed it. And what
Speaker 4: we did a study called the death during COVID, and
Speaker 4: we found out whether you were in a poor county
Speaker 4: West Virginia or a poor count in the Delta, poor
Speaker 4: people died at the rate three to five times higher
Speaker 4: during COVID because of their poverty, not because the germ
Speaker 4: somehow discriminated, but we did.
Speaker 5: Access to good care.
Speaker 4: Well, three hundred and fifty thousand people died during COVID
Speaker 4: so far, one storey said study said from the lack
Speaker 4: of health care. And if you don't face this job,
Speaker 4: this is the point of the book. We have to
Speaker 4: face this, we have to look at it. We had
Speaker 4: fifteen presidential debates and the last election, forty percent of
Speaker 4: adult population in poverty, eight hundred people dying a day.
Speaker 4: Not one debate was focused on it. We've not had
Speaker 4: an oval or office discussion.
Speaker 3: I don't think why don't politicians value what is an
Speaker 3: incredibly large population in many different I'm sure in swing states,
Speaker 3: So why don't they do? Poor people need better lobbyists.
Speaker 3: What is it that can be done to get a
Speaker 3: politician to listen?
Speaker 4: Well, I think that what we're saying now is we
Speaker 4: just had a study. I asked her to be done
Speaker 4: as a part of our movement Waking the Sleeping Giant,
Speaker 4: and this is what we found out. That all of
Speaker 4: these numbers also tell us that poor and low waste
Speaker 4: people now represent thirty percent of the elector in the
Speaker 4: country and over forty percent in states where the margin
Speaker 4: of victory was less than three percent, and it's Texas
Speaker 4: where it's less than five percent. So what we're saying
Speaker 4: to poor and low wage people of every race is
Speaker 4: time to mobilize your vote. There's not a state where
Speaker 4: if twenty percent of poor and low wage voters that
Speaker 4: didn't vote, fifty seven million voted thirty million didn't in
Speaker 4: the last election, But if twenty percent that didn't vote moved,
Speaker 4: they could change every election. And in most states Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania,
Speaker 4: Florida is less than four percent. So what we're doing
Speaker 4: is organizing a massive movement. In fact, on June twenty
Speaker 4: ninth in washingt DC, there's gonna be a massive poor People,
Speaker 4: Low wage workers assembler in Marl mars On, DC and
Speaker 4: to the polls saying that poor and low wage people
Speaker 4: have to find themselves white, black, brown, Asian Native and
Speaker 4: unite around attacking what we call five interlocking injustice, systemic racism,
Speaker 4: systemic poverty, ecological devastation, denial healthcare of the war economy,
Speaker 4: and the false modinatial religious nationalism. Wow, and John, you
Speaker 4: know in our agenda, we're saying to Calton, if you
Speaker 4: want these votes, bring.
Speaker 1: Them in at the top level.
Speaker 4: President Biden bring a group of poor, low wage folks
Speaker 4: and religious leaders to the White House.
Speaker 3: If people even listen to them, do they even happen?
Speaker 3: What is the response been when you reach out to
Speaker 3: our political class, what's the response been.
Speaker 4: Well, because we've been lied to so much, you know,
Speaker 4: these at first they said, well, it's not that big,
Speaker 4: and then we prove that it's actually one hundred thirty
Speaker 4: five hundred fot many, and then they don't expect that
Speaker 4: people are going to organize. You know, in a democracy
Speaker 4: you have to engage in agitation, legislation, litigation, and voter participation.
Speaker 1: So what we're saying to poor and.
Speaker 4: Low waite folks, let's use this power, right And so
Speaker 4: we're having this gathering before the conventions.
Speaker 1: We're going to touch fifteen.
Speaker 4: Million poor and low wage voters with the facts on
Speaker 4: where people stay in a non part, where they stand
Speaker 4: on the issues, and say, let's mobilized and we.
Speaker 1: Because that's the true swing vote.
Speaker 4: So Linda Lake, who's a major poster, says, the truest,
Speaker 4: most powerful, biggest swing vote right now is poor and
Speaker 4: low waste people. And you know John Folk often asked, men,
Speaker 4: you and I've talked about this is does our current
Speaker 4: society required things be like this?
Speaker 5: This was the real Crux sedition.
Speaker 4: And what this book says is, well, it's kind of
Speaker 4: like putting your hand in an electric socket that's connected.
Speaker 4: It requires that you get shot because you put your
Speaker 4: finger down. You don't have to do it. But if
Speaker 4: you keep doing things the way you are doing it,
Speaker 4: you're gonna get shot. So if you keep paying less
Speaker 4: than a living wage, if you keep denying people health care,
Speaker 4: if you keep giving greedy, wealthy folk two trillion dollars
Speaker 4: tax cuts, but you won't even spend the money to
Speaker 4: fully fun public education. If we keep doing what we're doing,
Speaker 4: we're going to keep having the level of poverty that
Speaker 4: we're having and we don't have to do it.
Speaker 1: It is actually, I.
Speaker 4: Believe criminal a form of a policy violence to continue
Speaker 4: down the road.
Speaker 3: And doesn't it weaken the system as a whole? You know,
Speaker 3: you could almost make the case that if the system
Speaker 3: is requiring a permanent, entrenched underclass, and it makes itself
Speaker 3: ripe for instability. And I'm wondering, is there a way
Speaker 3: to change the mindset, because the mindset in America is
Speaker 3: there is a mouture class these poor people are mutures
Speaker 3: and they're taking resources from me.
Speaker 5: I work hard.
Speaker 3: They get poor people get healthcare, they get food, they
Speaker 3: get whatever they need.
Speaker 5: I don't get it.
Speaker 3: Is there a way to change the mentality to view
Speaker 3: things not as entitlements but investments, and maybe to get
Speaker 3: labor not to be viewed as shareholders. That corporations have
Speaker 3: to view labor not as a means to an ends,
Speaker 3: but as share holders in that and cannot change the dynamic.
Speaker 1: It can.
Speaker 4: But one of the first things we believe we have
Speaker 4: to do, and we talk about maral fusion organizing, is
Speaker 4: first of all, we should be examining every policy, not
Speaker 4: by the color of a president's hair, or how many
Speaker 4: porn stars he touched.
Speaker 1: Or how.
Speaker 4: Or what's the gate of his walk. Does the policies
Speaker 4: you propose do they line up with establishing justice? Do
Speaker 4: they line up with providing for the common defense and
Speaker 4: promoting the general welfare? Do they line up with our
Speaker 4: deepest marraligious right. Secondly, we must expose the level of
Speaker 4: death that's happening, because this is not benign. Thirdly, we
Speaker 4: must make sure that folks see at all that it's
Speaker 4: not one group of people. We've been lied to so
Speaker 4: much about this is an anomaly, This is just a
Speaker 4: small grid. We cannot allow this to be marginalizing anymore.
Speaker 4: And then we must have massive organization of poor and
Speaker 4: low of every place, every geographic, at every race, And
Speaker 4: in doing that we can put poverty and low wages
Speaker 4: at the center of our political discourse.
Speaker 3: And then yes, isn't isn't that America first? Isn't that
Speaker 3: making America great again? Like if you hollow out.
Speaker 5: The country, how can you expect it to be strong?
Speaker 3: Wouldn't that be the absolute acme of strengthening a country
Speaker 3: from the bottom up as opposed to the top down.
Speaker 1: You would think it would be.
Speaker 4: But if you've got people that are still living when
Speaker 4: they first wrote the constitution and said even poor white
Speaker 4: men that didn't own jobs or they didn't own land
Speaker 4: couldn't vote. If you have people with that kind of
Speaker 4: mentality that this should be an exclusive democracy, that an
Speaker 4: inclusive But listen, the numbers tell us though they're more
Speaker 4: of us. The thing is, you can't be lazy in
Speaker 4: a democracy. You got to fight like heaven.
Speaker 1: I mean.
Speaker 4: The countries, yeah, I mean, And what we're trying to
Speaker 4: show people the numbers are now listen. Wisconsin marginal victory
Speaker 4: twenty thousand vote number poor low Wais voters didn't vote
Speaker 4: over a million didn't vote, didn't vote. Michigan ten thousand votes.
Speaker 4: The number poor low WA's vote a million. Pennsylvania forty
Speaker 4: thousand votes determined the president. Number poor low Ways voted
Speaker 4: did about two million. North Carolina one hundred and sixty
Speaker 4: thousand over a million.
Speaker 1: So it's not a big lift.
Speaker 4: And the number one reason though, we did a study
Speaker 4: called Waking the Sleeping Giant, that poor low Wis people
Speaker 4: didn't vote. Nobody talks to them. Politicians don't go in
Speaker 4: those communities. I've gone in community and people literally cry
Speaker 4: and say, Red Barber, nobody comes back here. And so
Speaker 4: what I say to them is, we're back here now,
Speaker 4: but less mobilized, to make sure they never forget you again,
Speaker 4: that they never forget you ever again.
Speaker 5: White poverty available now.
Speaker 3: Reverend Barber will be leading the poor people's campaigns March on.
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Speaker 1: Oh?
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Speaker 3: What you hold?
Speaker 5: Never do that to the earth, because I thought you'd
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Speaker 4: I gotta stop you there, John, Okay, for us to
Speaker 4: cover that story now after accepting these wonderful gifts would
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Speaker 5: Sometimes I think we're almost too ethical. Definitely, Desie and
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Speaker 3: I know you do well.
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