1 00:00:11,760 --> 00:00:14,560 Speaker 1: Good morning, keeps, and welcome to WIKP Daily with me 2 00:00:14,720 --> 00:00:18,759 Speaker 1: your girl, Daniel Moody recording from the Home Bunker. Folks, 3 00:00:19,079 --> 00:00:24,000 Speaker 1: It's Tuesday, and I already needed to be a Friday 4 00:00:24,440 --> 00:00:30,080 Speaker 1: evening of a three day weekend because I'm exhausted, and 5 00:00:30,520 --> 00:00:33,760 Speaker 1: I know that if I feel this way, that other 6 00:00:33,800 --> 00:00:37,559 Speaker 1: people feel this way as well. On Monday morning, you 7 00:00:37,720 --> 00:00:40,800 Speaker 1: woke up to the news that the Supreme Court, in 8 00:00:40,840 --> 00:00:46,640 Speaker 1: a nine to zero decision, decided that Donald Trump must 9 00:00:46,720 --> 00:00:51,000 Speaker 1: be on the ballot in Colorado. If you remember, the 10 00:00:51,000 --> 00:00:55,800 Speaker 1: Colorado state removed him from the ballot. Other states began 11 00:00:55,840 --> 00:01:01,600 Speaker 1: to follow suit, citing violation of the fourteenth Amendment and 12 00:01:02,160 --> 00:01:10,000 Speaker 1: that anyone who participated in an insurrection cannot run for office. 13 00:01:10,200 --> 00:01:14,840 Speaker 1: And you know what pisces me off about this decision, 14 00:01:15,240 --> 00:01:18,640 Speaker 1: among every fucking decision that the Supreme Court has made 15 00:01:19,120 --> 00:01:24,360 Speaker 1: over the last few years, is that states rights are bullshit. 16 00:01:24,920 --> 00:01:28,880 Speaker 1: States rights only matter so long as it is a 17 00:01:28,920 --> 00:01:32,080 Speaker 1: red state governor making a decision to take away people's 18 00:01:32,120 --> 00:01:36,440 Speaker 1: bodily autonomy, flood their state with guns, remove books from 19 00:01:36,440 --> 00:01:40,680 Speaker 1: the bookshelves, or institute some type of draconian policy that 20 00:01:40,720 --> 00:01:43,400 Speaker 1: would have migrants drowned right in front of people that 21 00:01:43,440 --> 00:01:47,000 Speaker 1: can save them. That's what states' rights are about. But 22 00:01:47,120 --> 00:01:50,120 Speaker 1: when it pertains to the rights of let's say, a 23 00:01:50,200 --> 00:01:56,280 Speaker 1: blue state or purple state trying to institute pieces of 24 00:01:56,320 --> 00:02:03,760 Speaker 1: the Constitution or preserve what little bodily autonomy and rights 25 00:02:03,920 --> 00:02:08,800 Speaker 1: that people still have in this banana Republic United States, 26 00:02:09,440 --> 00:02:12,760 Speaker 1: that seemingly doesn't work. At the Supreme Court level. This 27 00:02:12,960 --> 00:02:20,160 Speaker 1: is the most corrupt, disgusting Supreme Court that I think 28 00:02:20,160 --> 00:02:23,440 Speaker 1: that this country has ever had since It's like, honestly, 29 00:02:23,639 --> 00:02:26,480 Speaker 1: I'm not a scholar, so you know, don't hold me 30 00:02:26,560 --> 00:02:29,799 Speaker 1: to it, But in my humble opinion, I can't imagine 31 00:02:29,800 --> 00:02:34,160 Speaker 1: a worse makeup of the Supreme Court, particularly when we 32 00:02:34,360 --> 00:02:40,680 Speaker 1: know that one of its members have been participating in 33 00:02:40,840 --> 00:02:45,760 Speaker 1: the ultimate grift over the last two decades, being whined 34 00:02:45,800 --> 00:02:49,200 Speaker 1: and dined by billionaires so that they can buy his 35 00:02:49,360 --> 00:02:53,640 Speaker 1: silence and his vote on issues that pertain to rolling 36 00:02:53,680 --> 00:02:56,440 Speaker 1: back rights in America and advancing the causes and the 37 00:02:56,480 --> 00:03:01,760 Speaker 1: needs of billionaires, Clarence Thomas. And so I'm just like, 38 00:03:02,160 --> 00:03:06,800 Speaker 1: I'm so like, every fucking day is something else that 39 00:03:06,880 --> 00:03:09,760 Speaker 1: is coming out of this Supreme Court. Every fucking day 40 00:03:11,360 --> 00:03:14,160 Speaker 1: and I'm just like, I'm at a point where I 41 00:03:14,280 --> 00:03:16,480 Speaker 1: just don't give a fuck, and like I know that 42 00:03:16,600 --> 00:03:19,440 Speaker 1: I need to and I know that I will rally 43 00:03:19,520 --> 00:03:24,080 Speaker 1: the strength, but today I just am at like a 44 00:03:24,120 --> 00:03:26,880 Speaker 1: point of exhaustion where I just don't care what the 45 00:03:26,919 --> 00:03:30,200 Speaker 1: rest of the week holds, Like it just doesn't matter. 46 00:03:31,520 --> 00:03:36,480 Speaker 1: You have nine people that are unelected by anyone, that 47 00:03:36,600 --> 00:03:41,400 Speaker 1: serve lifetime appointments, that apparently are above the law, above reproach, 48 00:03:41,480 --> 00:03:45,200 Speaker 1: can do whatever the fuck they want. They investigate themselves, 49 00:03:45,840 --> 00:03:51,080 Speaker 1: right if that, and get to make laws for the 50 00:03:51,120 --> 00:03:55,080 Speaker 1: rest of us. You know, at least when I point 51 00:03:55,120 --> 00:03:58,640 Speaker 1: out the representatives who are dumb as bricks like Tuberville 52 00:03:58,760 --> 00:04:02,120 Speaker 1: and Marjorie tail Green and Gates and the rest of them, 53 00:04:02,160 --> 00:04:04,560 Speaker 1: I can say, well, you know, they have some type 54 00:04:04,560 --> 00:04:08,680 Speaker 1: of constituency right that keeps putting these people back in office. 55 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:11,080 Speaker 1: But when I look at the decisions that the Supreme 56 00:04:11,120 --> 00:04:14,800 Speaker 1: Court is making to strip away our rights, to strip 57 00:04:14,840 --> 00:04:19,080 Speaker 1: away our democracy, no one elected these people. And so 58 00:04:19,120 --> 00:04:22,839 Speaker 1: it just goes back to when Hillary Clinton warned America 59 00:04:23,520 --> 00:04:28,000 Speaker 1: about voting for Donald Trump because you couldn't stand her, right, 60 00:04:28,080 --> 00:04:32,680 Speaker 1: and oh but her emails and she warned us, said, 61 00:04:32,720 --> 00:04:35,720 Speaker 1: Donald Trump and the Republicans would stack the Supreme Court, 62 00:04:35,839 --> 00:04:39,440 Speaker 1: and any rights that you thought that you had would 63 00:04:39,480 --> 00:04:45,360 Speaker 1: be gone. And so here we are, nine years or 64 00:04:45,400 --> 00:04:49,560 Speaker 1: so after that warning flare that Hillary Clinton put up, 65 00:04:51,200 --> 00:04:57,920 Speaker 1: and America is steps away from losing its democracy altogether. 66 00:04:59,279 --> 00:05:03,320 Speaker 1: On top of which, folks, you know, over the weekend, 67 00:05:04,080 --> 00:05:10,240 Speaker 1: Vice President Kamala Harris calls for a six weeks cease 68 00:05:10,279 --> 00:05:15,799 Speaker 1: fire in Israel. The United States, for whatever reason, wants 69 00:05:15,839 --> 00:05:19,880 Speaker 1: to be padded on the back for dropping aid into 70 00:05:20,080 --> 00:05:25,080 Speaker 1: a nation that is being starved to death, right by 71 00:05:25,200 --> 00:05:30,160 Speaker 1: people who they are supplying with the very bombs and 72 00:05:30,279 --> 00:05:35,960 Speaker 1: tools that are creating the devastation in the first fucking place. 73 00:05:36,320 --> 00:05:38,920 Speaker 1: What the fuck is six weeks going to I guess 74 00:05:38,920 --> 00:05:42,360 Speaker 1: it's going to buy what the Palestinians a few, you know, 75 00:05:42,640 --> 00:05:47,919 Speaker 1: a few weeks of life before you know they starve 76 00:05:48,080 --> 00:05:53,240 Speaker 1: or dehydrate. I mean, it's just like, I'm just so everything, everything, 77 00:05:58,560 --> 00:06:04,160 Speaker 1: everything is just too much, and every week it just 78 00:06:04,240 --> 00:06:09,320 Speaker 1: feels like we are just making decisions between you know, 79 00:06:12,440 --> 00:06:17,920 Speaker 1: the worst, and just playing bad, right the worst. The 80 00:06:18,000 --> 00:06:22,320 Speaker 1: final nail in the coffin is a Trump presidency that 81 00:06:22,400 --> 00:06:30,440 Speaker 1: will never end. Bad is a Biden administration that has 82 00:06:30,560 --> 00:06:37,320 Speaker 1: the ability to stop war, to stop an IDF caused 83 00:06:38,360 --> 00:06:46,760 Speaker 1: salmon humanitarian genocide, but not doing it. So I'm at 84 00:06:46,800 --> 00:06:52,000 Speaker 1: a loss on this Tuesday because I you know, it's 85 00:06:52,480 --> 00:06:54,440 Speaker 1: it's not a good place when you start the week 86 00:06:54,480 --> 00:06:57,280 Speaker 1: off with this kind of news. And I really don't 87 00:06:57,320 --> 00:06:59,920 Speaker 1: give a fuck. What oh all the legal experts said 88 00:07:00,040 --> 00:07:01,520 Speaker 1: that this is how they were going to decide, so 89 00:07:01,560 --> 00:07:05,279 Speaker 1: that makes it good. I also put out, you know, 90 00:07:05,640 --> 00:07:08,599 Speaker 1: a tweet where I was just like, look, I don't 91 00:07:08,640 --> 00:07:11,640 Speaker 1: need any more experts to be on TV, including myself, 92 00:07:12,520 --> 00:07:16,360 Speaker 1: legal experts, democratic strategists and the like. What we need 93 00:07:16,400 --> 00:07:21,280 Speaker 1: are experts in fascism and how to survive it, right, Like, 94 00:07:21,320 --> 00:07:25,440 Speaker 1: that's what we need expertise in and direction in, because 95 00:07:25,480 --> 00:07:30,440 Speaker 1: that's where we are. You know. It is a slow 96 00:07:30,520 --> 00:07:34,160 Speaker 1: death to the end of our democracy, to the final 97 00:07:35,120 --> 00:07:40,560 Speaker 1: fall of the one of the last great empires. And 98 00:07:40,640 --> 00:07:42,920 Speaker 1: I say great, and I don't mean great as in 99 00:07:43,040 --> 00:07:47,320 Speaker 1: like good, but I mean great as in big empires 100 00:07:47,800 --> 00:07:51,880 Speaker 1: in the world. The election of Donald Trump will just 101 00:07:52,000 --> 00:07:57,400 Speaker 1: expedite it. But I think that whether or not Donald 102 00:07:57,440 --> 00:08:02,320 Speaker 1: Trump becomes president, I think that America is done. I 103 00:08:02,360 --> 00:08:07,080 Speaker 1: think that this entire country is going to experience an 104 00:08:07,200 --> 00:08:13,520 Speaker 1: unprecedented brain drain, meaning that people with means, people with access, 105 00:08:13,640 --> 00:08:17,680 Speaker 1: people with the ability to flee this country over the 106 00:08:17,720 --> 00:08:24,320 Speaker 1: next decade will and they will go to other nations 107 00:08:24,400 --> 00:08:29,520 Speaker 1: that have laws that welcome their type of expertise, their 108 00:08:29,560 --> 00:08:34,160 Speaker 1: type of talent, their educational prowess. And what is going 109 00:08:34,200 --> 00:08:37,720 Speaker 1: to be left in America are the worker bees and 110 00:08:37,760 --> 00:08:47,720 Speaker 1: the overlords. That's what I foresee. So you know, I 111 00:08:47,760 --> 00:08:50,960 Speaker 1: will say this on today's show. I'm excited for you 112 00:08:51,000 --> 00:08:53,880 Speaker 1: guys to hear this interview because it is with a 113 00:08:53,920 --> 00:09:00,760 Speaker 1: young person, William He who founded Dream for America at 114 00:09:00,880 --> 00:09:04,800 Speaker 1: just sixteen years old, is a passionate leader and devoted 115 00:09:04,920 --> 00:09:11,360 Speaker 1: public servant, and he is still in high school and 116 00:09:11,880 --> 00:09:17,200 Speaker 1: is fighting for democracy. He founded Dream for America to 117 00:09:17,280 --> 00:09:19,800 Speaker 1: give young people of all walks of life a national 118 00:09:19,840 --> 00:09:23,960 Speaker 1: platform to make advocacy accessible from city hall to the 119 00:09:23,960 --> 00:09:27,240 Speaker 1: halls of Congress. And since the fall of last year, 120 00:09:27,320 --> 00:09:31,440 Speaker 1: William has been building up a team with the vision 121 00:09:31,520 --> 00:09:34,520 Speaker 1: to build a gen Z movement harnessing the power of 122 00:09:34,600 --> 00:09:38,400 Speaker 1: hope and love. And you know, I give it to 123 00:09:38,800 --> 00:09:43,000 Speaker 1: William to Generation Z, to his entire generation because I 124 00:09:43,040 --> 00:09:51,640 Speaker 1: hope that they have the fortitude and the faith and 125 00:09:51,679 --> 00:09:56,679 Speaker 1: the energy to power through where the rest of us 126 00:09:56,679 --> 00:09:59,360 Speaker 1: have been fighting for decades and have now reached a 127 00:09:59,360 --> 00:10:02,640 Speaker 1: point of a exhaustion. I'm excited because I think that 128 00:10:02,720 --> 00:10:05,960 Speaker 1: his generation can pick up the baton that I'm ready 129 00:10:05,960 --> 00:10:11,880 Speaker 1: to put down and hopefully reshape this country. Coming up next, 130 00:10:12,080 --> 00:10:21,439 Speaker 1: my conversation with William He, Folks, I am very excited 131 00:10:21,679 --> 00:10:26,960 Speaker 1: to be joined by William He, who at just sixteen 132 00:10:27,080 --> 00:10:31,880 Speaker 1: years old founded Dream for America. A passionate leader and 133 00:10:32,000 --> 00:10:36,280 Speaker 1: devoted public servant, William brings years and I say that 134 00:10:36,360 --> 00:10:39,079 Speaker 1: with a smile on my face of nonprofit and political 135 00:10:39,160 --> 00:10:44,680 Speaker 1: experience to the table. You, William, as I said, make 136 00:10:44,760 --> 00:10:49,000 Speaker 1: me feel lazy reading your bio, got into politics at 137 00:10:49,040 --> 00:10:52,040 Speaker 1: the age of eleven. Tell us what prompted that. 138 00:10:52,920 --> 00:10:58,240 Speaker 2: Sure, I got involved in politics right after the Parkland 139 00:10:58,280 --> 00:11:03,760 Speaker 2: school shootings. I started just really doing phone banks as 140 00:11:03,800 --> 00:11:06,960 Speaker 2: sort of my first foray. And like a lot of 141 00:11:06,960 --> 00:11:11,560 Speaker 2: other young people, entering politics after such a traumatic event 142 00:11:12,280 --> 00:11:15,040 Speaker 2: was not really a choice anymore, but a necessity. And 143 00:11:15,040 --> 00:11:17,000 Speaker 2: I think you'll see that across a lot of social 144 00:11:17,040 --> 00:11:18,680 Speaker 2: movements that have happened over the last couple of years 145 00:11:18,720 --> 00:11:20,839 Speaker 2: with that is with gun reform and March for Our 146 00:11:20,880 --> 00:11:25,839 Speaker 2: Lives or climate or the Women's March, or recently abortion right. 147 00:11:25,880 --> 00:11:30,520 Speaker 2: You see, all of these things that our leaders and 148 00:11:30,559 --> 00:11:33,280 Speaker 2: the people who are supposedly older than us and know 149 00:11:33,320 --> 00:11:37,040 Speaker 2: what they're doing, are letting our rights being eroded to 150 00:11:37,080 --> 00:11:41,760 Speaker 2: become eroded, are selling our future out to the highest bidder, 151 00:11:41,920 --> 00:11:45,960 Speaker 2: and it is literally leaving us a future that is 152 00:11:46,280 --> 00:11:51,360 Speaker 2: not only uninhabitable climate change also something that is going 153 00:11:51,400 --> 00:11:53,800 Speaker 2: to leave us worse off than our parents were fifty 154 00:11:53,880 --> 00:11:58,800 Speaker 2: years ago. Exactually speaking of young people now have less 155 00:11:58,800 --> 00:12:00,640 Speaker 2: than a fifty percent chance of being better off than 156 00:12:00,679 --> 00:12:03,720 Speaker 2: even our parents, when our parents and their parents had 157 00:12:03,720 --> 00:12:07,240 Speaker 2: the luxury of having an almost universally guaranteed chance of 158 00:12:07,280 --> 00:12:10,400 Speaker 2: having a better opportunity to succeed in this country when 159 00:12:10,400 --> 00:12:13,400 Speaker 2: they grew up. So it is a future that a 160 00:12:13,400 --> 00:12:15,440 Speaker 2: lot of young people aren't willing to accept. And I 161 00:12:15,480 --> 00:12:17,400 Speaker 2: am really proud of the fact that there are so 162 00:12:17,520 --> 00:12:20,640 Speaker 2: many young people my generation that are stepping up to 163 00:12:20,679 --> 00:12:22,000 Speaker 2: bed and taking this on. 164 00:12:22,840 --> 00:12:25,040 Speaker 1: You know, William I was on a panel a couple 165 00:12:25,080 --> 00:12:29,160 Speaker 1: of weeks back with other gen Z folks, and I 166 00:12:29,240 --> 00:12:32,800 Speaker 1: started off my you know, part of the conversation with 167 00:12:32,880 --> 00:12:37,600 Speaker 1: an apology, because I said, you know, my generation and 168 00:12:37,679 --> 00:12:41,840 Speaker 1: the generation that came before me failed yours, right, And 169 00:12:42,360 --> 00:12:46,640 Speaker 1: I think when I saw the reports come out that 170 00:12:46,760 --> 00:12:49,800 Speaker 1: Generation Z is going to be less likely to buy 171 00:12:49,800 --> 00:12:53,920 Speaker 1: a home, less likely to be financially stable, will be 172 00:12:54,040 --> 00:12:59,640 Speaker 1: drowning in college debt, my heart broke, right because not 173 00:12:59,720 --> 00:13:03,760 Speaker 1: only are we giving you an environment that is literally 174 00:13:03,840 --> 00:13:09,360 Speaker 1: on fire, that is, you know, wrecked with pandemics, right, 175 00:13:09,640 --> 00:13:14,320 Speaker 1: because we will experience others and I just it is 176 00:13:15,200 --> 00:13:18,640 Speaker 1: you just will not have the luxury right, the luxuries 177 00:13:18,679 --> 00:13:24,240 Speaker 1: that your parents and grandparents had. And I want to 178 00:13:24,280 --> 00:13:29,480 Speaker 1: ask you about the disappointment, but also the anger, like 179 00:13:29,559 --> 00:13:34,280 Speaker 1: the justified anger that your generation has. Do you feel 180 00:13:34,320 --> 00:13:39,959 Speaker 1: like the previous generations have failed you? And what responsibilities 181 00:13:40,080 --> 00:13:43,080 Speaker 1: do you think they have right now while they're still 182 00:13:43,080 --> 00:13:44,040 Speaker 1: clinging to power. 183 00:13:46,920 --> 00:13:51,800 Speaker 2: I think on some level they are failing us on 184 00:13:52,240 --> 00:13:59,880 Speaker 2: some levels, not on just policy, but also on everything else. 185 00:14:01,160 --> 00:14:04,200 Speaker 2: And so I think because right now, everything you mentioned, 186 00:14:04,240 --> 00:14:06,800 Speaker 2: right right now, the American dream is not something that 187 00:14:07,360 --> 00:14:12,320 Speaker 2: young people can literally even afford or buy into. And 188 00:14:12,360 --> 00:14:15,560 Speaker 2: that's really disappointed. By twenty thirty six, young people will 189 00:14:15,559 --> 00:14:17,960 Speaker 2: make up I think sixty percent of the American electorate, 190 00:14:18,040 --> 00:14:22,440 Speaker 2: and we're going to be a really, really powerful voice 191 00:14:22,720 --> 00:14:26,360 Speaker 2: in just a couple of years. And I think our leaders, 192 00:14:26,360 --> 00:14:30,960 Speaker 2: our politicians, ought to do a better job at listening 193 00:14:31,160 --> 00:14:33,880 Speaker 2: and trying to hear us. And that's really all we ask, 194 00:14:34,400 --> 00:14:38,000 Speaker 2: that we have somebody out there who's going to listen, 195 00:14:38,040 --> 00:14:40,800 Speaker 2: who's going to respond to our needs, because our needs 196 00:14:40,800 --> 00:14:43,360 Speaker 2: are not really any that much different from anybody else's. 197 00:14:43,440 --> 00:14:46,720 Speaker 2: Because we're angry about the assaultant civil rights, We're angry 198 00:14:46,720 --> 00:14:49,760 Speaker 2: about the surgeon cost of living, We're angry about the 199 00:14:49,800 --> 00:14:52,440 Speaker 2: whole promise of America, the promise of life, liberty, and 200 00:14:52,480 --> 00:14:56,720 Speaker 2: that pursuit of happiness that being hijacked by all these 201 00:14:56,800 --> 00:14:59,000 Speaker 2: extreme people. Right, Like, what are they doing down the 202 00:14:59,000 --> 00:15:02,360 Speaker 2: Florida They're banning books instead of banning school hunger? Right, 203 00:15:02,360 --> 00:15:04,880 Speaker 2: Why are we choosing to do that kind of thing 204 00:15:04,880 --> 00:15:07,600 Speaker 2: when we could be focusing on trying to uplift everybody. 205 00:15:07,680 --> 00:15:13,080 Speaker 2: And so I think recently our elected leaders are doing 206 00:15:13,200 --> 00:15:15,320 Speaker 2: a little better of a job of it. I think 207 00:15:15,480 --> 00:15:18,440 Speaker 2: the present is reaching out and engaging a lot of 208 00:15:18,440 --> 00:15:21,320 Speaker 2: young people in a really great way. I think there's 209 00:15:21,360 --> 00:15:23,680 Speaker 2: still more that can be done, And of course the 210 00:15:23,760 --> 00:15:27,800 Speaker 2: ultimate goal is obviously substantive actual policy change. That is 211 00:15:27,840 --> 00:15:31,880 Speaker 2: the ultimate goal, but any step to that begins with 212 00:15:32,000 --> 00:15:33,440 Speaker 2: lending a hand and listening. 213 00:15:34,240 --> 00:15:37,600 Speaker 1: What do you think that elected officials and maybe the 214 00:15:37,640 --> 00:15:40,600 Speaker 1: Democratic Party as a whole, What do you think that 215 00:15:40,640 --> 00:15:44,200 Speaker 1: they get wrong about generations? About your generation? 216 00:15:47,120 --> 00:15:50,800 Speaker 2: Well, I think one of the things that gets that 217 00:15:50,920 --> 00:15:56,880 Speaker 2: is perceived as wrong, I think is that young people 218 00:15:56,920 --> 00:16:01,680 Speaker 2: are pigeonholed into really any specific you know, stereotype or 219 00:16:01,720 --> 00:16:05,520 Speaker 2: demographic or any set of beliefs. Gen Z is a 220 00:16:05,760 --> 00:16:11,280 Speaker 2: very diverse group of people, not just ideology but also demographically. 221 00:16:11,320 --> 00:16:14,360 Speaker 2: We're going to be the most diverse generation in American history. 222 00:16:14,880 --> 00:16:17,080 Speaker 2: In fact, I think this will be the first generation 223 00:16:17,200 --> 00:16:21,200 Speaker 2: where non white people might actually be a majority of 224 00:16:21,200 --> 00:16:23,680 Speaker 2: that share, which is a really great thing to see 225 00:16:23,680 --> 00:16:26,840 Speaker 2: because America has always been a melting pot, not even 226 00:16:26,840 --> 00:16:29,280 Speaker 2: a melting pot, but a very beautiful mosaic of people 227 00:16:29,680 --> 00:16:32,760 Speaker 2: coming together. And so I think one of the things 228 00:16:32,760 --> 00:16:37,000 Speaker 2: that is that has gotten wrong is that you know, 229 00:16:37,200 --> 00:16:39,760 Speaker 2: there is a one size fit all solution for a 230 00:16:40,000 --> 00:16:42,480 Speaker 2: just reaching out to young people that you know, you 231 00:16:42,520 --> 00:16:47,280 Speaker 2: put a couple of tiktoks up. You know you you 232 00:16:47,280 --> 00:16:49,520 Speaker 2: you know, you put on some sunglasses or you know, 233 00:16:49,920 --> 00:16:53,280 Speaker 2: Starbucks and and you're posing with with some people. I'm 234 00:16:53,320 --> 00:16:55,520 Speaker 2: sure that's cool. But or you tried out a bunch 235 00:16:55,520 --> 00:17:00,440 Speaker 2: of celebrities, right, that's great. But I think one thing 236 00:17:00,480 --> 00:17:03,120 Speaker 2: that has gotten wrong about young people is that young 237 00:17:03,120 --> 00:17:06,640 Speaker 2: people care about any of that. Young people, in fact, 238 00:17:06,680 --> 00:17:10,160 Speaker 2: might be the generation that cares most about policy, most 239 00:17:10,240 --> 00:17:13,840 Speaker 2: about substance issues. And I think part of that, to 240 00:17:13,880 --> 00:17:16,960 Speaker 2: the credit is we have the Internet. We have a 241 00:17:17,000 --> 00:17:19,520 Speaker 2: supercomputer in our pocket, and we have a treasure trovee 242 00:17:19,520 --> 00:17:21,919 Speaker 2: of information that can be access at our fingertips, and 243 00:17:21,920 --> 00:17:24,080 Speaker 2: so we are the most informed and I think soon 244 00:17:24,119 --> 00:17:27,359 Speaker 2: to be most engaged generation in this country's history. I 245 00:17:27,400 --> 00:17:31,119 Speaker 2: think we'll see. And so I think if our elected 246 00:17:31,160 --> 00:17:34,520 Speaker 2: leaders understand that it's really at its core a policy 247 00:17:35,000 --> 00:17:38,200 Speaker 2: issue rather than anything visceral. I mean, the visceral stuff's cool, 248 00:17:38,240 --> 00:17:41,119 Speaker 2: you know, having Beyonce up there, that's cool. But you know, 249 00:17:41,280 --> 00:17:43,679 Speaker 2: policy is what at its core really matters. And I 250 00:17:43,680 --> 00:17:47,679 Speaker 2: think things like what the President's doing with partning marijuana, 251 00:17:47,840 --> 00:17:51,840 Speaker 2: with the climate, with student loan debt cancelation, all of 252 00:17:51,880 --> 00:17:54,439 Speaker 2: that is really great and a really really big step 253 00:17:54,560 --> 00:17:57,000 Speaker 2: in actually delivering for young people's needs. 254 00:17:57,359 --> 00:18:01,840 Speaker 1: When you think about the issues that are facing your generation, 255 00:18:02,680 --> 00:18:06,680 Speaker 1: what is of top priorities And I'm not trying to say, 256 00:18:06,840 --> 00:18:09,280 Speaker 1: you know, list them from one to five, but when 257 00:18:09,280 --> 00:18:13,919 Speaker 1: you're thinking about the things that you're you know, fellow 258 00:18:14,160 --> 00:18:17,919 Speaker 1: gen Zers, which range the gamut. You're unable to vote 259 00:18:17,960 --> 00:18:21,080 Speaker 1: in this upcoming election, but there are gen Zers that 260 00:18:21,280 --> 00:18:24,760 Speaker 1: will be voting for the first time in this upcoming election. 261 00:18:25,000 --> 00:18:26,719 Speaker 1: What do you think are some of the issues that 262 00:18:26,760 --> 00:18:27,800 Speaker 1: they are voting on? 263 00:18:29,200 --> 00:18:32,480 Speaker 2: Yeah, Which, actually this is interesting because one thing that 264 00:18:32,920 --> 00:18:34,960 Speaker 2: our organization Dream of America has been working on the 265 00:18:35,000 --> 00:18:38,199 Speaker 2: last couple of days is putting out this poll of 266 00:18:38,280 --> 00:18:41,159 Speaker 2: something that's our gen Z Pulse poll and trying to 267 00:18:41,680 --> 00:18:44,400 Speaker 2: really gather a lot of crucial data about what young 268 00:18:44,400 --> 00:18:48,240 Speaker 2: people are thinking, especially young people who are not politically engaged. Right, 269 00:18:48,280 --> 00:18:51,800 Speaker 2: Those are like, that's that's real America, right. So, you know, 270 00:18:52,080 --> 00:18:54,480 Speaker 2: you know, the people in DC and the media often 271 00:18:54,560 --> 00:18:57,119 Speaker 2: really love to have all these you know, gen Zers 272 00:18:57,119 --> 00:19:00,160 Speaker 2: who are in the ecosystem on there and that's really great, 273 00:18:59,840 --> 00:19:03,240 Speaker 2: But most gen z is really doesn't care about politics, 274 00:19:03,840 --> 00:19:07,680 Speaker 2: or if they do, they're really angry about everything that's happening. 275 00:19:08,280 --> 00:19:11,240 Speaker 2: And so one of our questions was, you know what 276 00:19:11,680 --> 00:19:14,360 Speaker 2: do people care about? Right, and the top five policy 277 00:19:14,400 --> 00:19:18,199 Speaker 2: issues that have been consistently ranked number one has always 278 00:19:18,200 --> 00:19:21,880 Speaker 2: been the economy. I think that's for every demographic because 279 00:19:22,440 --> 00:19:24,479 Speaker 2: I think it's even more so true for young people. Right, 280 00:19:24,600 --> 00:19:27,000 Speaker 2: going back to that aspect of the American dream, we 281 00:19:27,080 --> 00:19:29,880 Speaker 2: can't afford the American dream. It's not even a reality 282 00:19:29,920 --> 00:19:33,680 Speaker 2: for us. It frankly is broken for us. It is unachievable. 283 00:19:34,520 --> 00:19:36,919 Speaker 2: I think by taking the right steps and by doing 284 00:19:36,960 --> 00:19:38,720 Speaker 2: the right things, we can make the American dream a 285 00:19:38,800 --> 00:19:42,359 Speaker 2: reality again for people. But there is still a long 286 00:19:42,960 --> 00:19:45,600 Speaker 2: gap between that happening, and so the economy has always 287 00:19:45,640 --> 00:19:50,320 Speaker 2: been consistently ranked. Democracy and protecting our democracy came in 288 00:19:50,359 --> 00:19:54,879 Speaker 2: second place. You see now with all these rising threats, 289 00:19:54,920 --> 00:19:57,720 Speaker 2: not just the United States but around the world, of 290 00:19:57,760 --> 00:20:02,520 Speaker 2: all these you know, populists ap feeling to people's worst desires, 291 00:20:02,560 --> 00:20:04,840 Speaker 2: and all of these strong men and demogogues promising they 292 00:20:04,840 --> 00:20:08,000 Speaker 2: can fix everything that is really scary, and right here, 293 00:20:08,160 --> 00:20:10,320 Speaker 2: right at home, we have one of our very own 294 00:20:10,440 --> 00:20:12,680 Speaker 2: who is promising to be a dictator. On day one, 295 00:20:13,400 --> 00:20:17,640 Speaker 2: and that's really scary. And so democracy has always consistently 296 00:20:17,720 --> 00:20:22,040 Speaker 2: been ranked. Reproductive freedom for a lot of women young 297 00:20:22,119 --> 00:20:26,000 Speaker 2: voters has always been consistently ranked in our poll. And 298 00:20:26,040 --> 00:20:28,359 Speaker 2: of course with the recent events in Israel and Palestine 299 00:20:28,400 --> 00:20:30,879 Speaker 2: in the Middle East, foreign policy comes into mind for 300 00:20:30,880 --> 00:20:35,399 Speaker 2: a lot of young people, and of course how I 301 00:20:35,440 --> 00:20:37,720 Speaker 2: got my start in politics, gun. 302 00:20:37,480 --> 00:20:39,840 Speaker 1: Reform, the Yeah, five. 303 00:20:39,760 --> 00:20:41,520 Speaker 2: Issues that I think are top of mind for young 304 00:20:41,560 --> 00:20:45,160 Speaker 2: people because all those things are really existential sort of things, 305 00:20:45,200 --> 00:20:49,520 Speaker 2: whether we as a generation can continue our footing here 306 00:20:49,840 --> 00:20:51,080 Speaker 2: as a people going forward. 307 00:20:51,480 --> 00:20:54,680 Speaker 1: You know what's extraordinary, Like everything on the list is 308 00:20:55,119 --> 00:20:58,520 Speaker 1: you know, normal issues that I think have been on 309 00:20:58,800 --> 00:21:03,040 Speaker 1: the list of post polls when I was your age, 310 00:21:03,080 --> 00:21:06,240 Speaker 1: Saving democracy was not on that list, right, And so 311 00:21:06,560 --> 00:21:10,680 Speaker 1: just to think about you know, obviously the economy, the climate, 312 00:21:10,840 --> 00:21:14,520 Speaker 1: foreign affairs, these things, but saving democracy was a given. 313 00:21:15,240 --> 00:21:17,960 Speaker 1: And so, you know, just to think about the distance 314 00:21:18,000 --> 00:21:23,160 Speaker 1: in terms of between our generations. It's still very wild 315 00:21:23,240 --> 00:21:25,760 Speaker 1: to me that again, this is the country that we're 316 00:21:25,800 --> 00:21:34,440 Speaker 1: handing to all of you. Do you think that as 317 00:21:34,560 --> 00:21:40,480 Speaker 1: tapped in, as digitally native as your generation is, do 318 00:21:40,520 --> 00:21:45,840 Speaker 1: you think that they really understand the existential threat as 319 00:21:45,880 --> 00:21:49,080 Speaker 1: you named it that we are facing because when I 320 00:21:49,720 --> 00:21:52,399 Speaker 1: got to tell you, William and my comments sections on 321 00:21:52,440 --> 00:21:55,800 Speaker 1: social media have changed over the last several months where 322 00:21:55,840 --> 00:22:00,000 Speaker 1: people have started to say, I'm going to vote my value. 323 00:22:00,480 --> 00:22:03,199 Speaker 1: I'm not voting for Joe Biden. I can't vote for 324 00:22:03,320 --> 00:22:07,480 Speaker 1: him based on what is happening in Israel and Gaza. 325 00:22:07,840 --> 00:22:10,679 Speaker 1: The wool is being pulled back from people's eyes in 326 00:22:10,720 --> 00:22:13,840 Speaker 1: a lot of ways. And I wonder, again, we're far 327 00:22:13,880 --> 00:22:17,479 Speaker 1: out right now, still nine months away from the presidential election, 328 00:22:18,200 --> 00:22:20,720 Speaker 1: But do you think that your generation and people that 329 00:22:20,800 --> 00:22:26,199 Speaker 1: you talk to understand really grasp the existential threat of 330 00:22:26,280 --> 00:22:28,679 Speaker 1: this twenty twenty four presidential election. 331 00:22:31,760 --> 00:22:33,960 Speaker 2: I think yes, we do, but in a different way. 332 00:22:34,040 --> 00:22:36,560 Speaker 2: Right when people say they're voting their values, I think 333 00:22:36,760 --> 00:22:39,040 Speaker 2: it's because of the exisential threat that they want to 334 00:22:39,119 --> 00:22:42,040 Speaker 2: vote for their values, although I have a different perspective 335 00:22:42,080 --> 00:22:44,440 Speaker 2: on that, on why they should vote for Joe Biden instead. 336 00:22:44,880 --> 00:22:49,800 Speaker 2: But I think our generation does understand the threat, but 337 00:22:50,200 --> 00:22:52,840 Speaker 2: in a different way. But I think the goal is 338 00:22:52,880 --> 00:22:57,280 Speaker 2: to really shift that perspective in understanding really truly the 339 00:22:57,359 --> 00:23:01,280 Speaker 2: stakes immediate effects of what is going to happen in 340 00:23:01,320 --> 00:23:05,320 Speaker 2: this November and hopefully they'll make the right choice. Right. 341 00:23:05,320 --> 00:23:08,400 Speaker 2: And actually, on that note about you know, no other 342 00:23:08,480 --> 00:23:11,399 Speaker 2: generation has had to face this kind of reckoning. And 343 00:23:11,640 --> 00:23:13,920 Speaker 2: I have to point to January sixth as a really 344 00:23:14,080 --> 00:23:17,719 Speaker 2: police starting point, you know. And January six was not 345 00:23:17,840 --> 00:23:22,080 Speaker 2: America's first about with a cultural moment of crisis. You know, 346 00:23:22,160 --> 00:23:25,640 Speaker 2: generations before have experienced really traumatic things that have compelled 347 00:23:26,080 --> 00:23:28,040 Speaker 2: each and every one of them to serve and contribute, 348 00:23:28,200 --> 00:23:32,919 Speaker 2: right nine to eleven for millennials, Vietnam for boomers, but 349 00:23:33,080 --> 00:23:38,000 Speaker 2: not January sixth is really one of gen Z's most served, 350 00:23:38,040 --> 00:23:43,399 Speaker 2: gen Z's first foray with America's with the moent of 351 00:23:43,440 --> 00:23:48,359 Speaker 2: crisis in America. And I think it wasn't just a 352 00:23:48,400 --> 00:23:50,720 Speaker 2: wake up call for our country, but also a wake 353 00:23:50,800 --> 00:23:54,760 Speaker 2: up call for our generation, you know. And I think 354 00:23:54,840 --> 00:23:57,200 Speaker 2: we're strying to realize that our generation is trying to 355 00:23:57,240 --> 00:24:01,600 Speaker 2: realize that democracy is not self sustaining. Democracy at this 356 00:24:01,760 --> 00:24:06,000 Speaker 2: exact moment requires constant vigilance and participation. And I will 357 00:24:06,040 --> 00:24:11,760 Speaker 2: underscore participation in a moment and depending democracy is not 358 00:24:11,840 --> 00:24:15,680 Speaker 2: really some high level concept that we thought we were 359 00:24:15,680 --> 00:24:17,600 Speaker 2: going to read about in history class. It is now 360 00:24:17,680 --> 00:24:21,400 Speaker 2: part of our everyday reality. And I think the greatest 361 00:24:21,400 --> 00:24:25,159 Speaker 2: act of patriotism that my generation can do now is 362 00:24:25,200 --> 00:24:28,680 Speaker 2: to enhance our cific engagement, right, not cross our arms. 363 00:24:29,359 --> 00:24:33,280 Speaker 2: You know, say that the system is corrupt, politicians are corrupt, 364 00:24:33,320 --> 00:24:36,920 Speaker 2: and everything is going to hell. And I understand their anger. 365 00:24:36,960 --> 00:24:41,600 Speaker 2: I feel that same anger. But crossing our arms and 366 00:24:41,640 --> 00:24:44,239 Speaker 2: sitting out of the process will not do anything for 367 00:24:44,320 --> 00:24:46,760 Speaker 2: you or the values that we want to achieve. And 368 00:24:46,840 --> 00:24:49,679 Speaker 2: so standing up, speaking up, getting involved, because it's no 369 00:24:49,720 --> 00:24:53,440 Speaker 2: longer a choice, it is really a critical, critical necessity 370 00:24:53,920 --> 00:24:57,359 Speaker 2: to ensure our future, not just in this country, but 371 00:24:57,480 --> 00:25:02,280 Speaker 2: the survival of our country in history, and so on 372 00:25:02,320 --> 00:25:05,600 Speaker 2: that note, Actually, I think, right with all of the 373 00:25:05,640 --> 00:25:09,320 Speaker 2: anger that young people have with Joe Biden, with what's 374 00:25:09,359 --> 00:25:12,280 Speaker 2: happening in Israel and Palestine and all of those things, 375 00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:21,200 Speaker 2: my response would be that I understand, But really this 376 00:25:21,400 --> 00:25:25,520 Speaker 2: comes down to a choice between democracy and fascism, yep. 377 00:25:26,680 --> 00:25:31,280 Speaker 2: And if we don't turn out, if we don't speak up, 378 00:25:31,440 --> 00:25:35,159 Speaker 2: step up and engage, the alternative, let me tell you, 379 00:25:35,400 --> 00:25:38,359 Speaker 2: is going to be a lot worse. However angry you 380 00:25:38,400 --> 00:25:41,280 Speaker 2: are now, prepare for it to get a lot worse. 381 00:25:41,680 --> 00:25:43,479 Speaker 2: Prepare for it to get to a lot worse. And 382 00:25:43,520 --> 00:25:47,560 Speaker 2: look what the President is doing with Israel and Palestine, 383 00:25:47,600 --> 00:25:50,720 Speaker 2: I think is a sound policy. I think the distinction 384 00:25:50,800 --> 00:25:52,600 Speaker 2: to make, and I think the White House should genuinely 385 00:25:52,600 --> 00:25:55,480 Speaker 2: do a better job at making this distinction right. Because 386 00:25:55,480 --> 00:25:57,639 Speaker 2: the White House supports a two state solution, they support 387 00:25:57,680 --> 00:26:02,080 Speaker 2: recognizing Palestine right, everybody Palestinis relations should coexist peacefully. The 388 00:26:02,080 --> 00:26:04,360 Speaker 2: distinction to make is that this is not a war 389 00:26:04,400 --> 00:26:08,040 Speaker 2: against Palestinians, because they are a downtrodden people that have 390 00:26:08,080 --> 00:26:11,200 Speaker 2: suffered for decades, that deserve their own nation and freedom. 391 00:26:11,240 --> 00:26:15,359 Speaker 2: But this is a conflict against terrorism against a moss 392 00:26:16,680 --> 00:26:17,840 Speaker 2: and so I think the White How should do a 393 00:26:17,840 --> 00:26:21,119 Speaker 2: better job at differentiating that. But back to the democracy point, 394 00:26:21,160 --> 00:26:25,240 Speaker 2: I think, right, if people are angry about the treatment 395 00:26:25,240 --> 00:26:27,480 Speaker 2: of Muslims and Palestinians in this country and in the 396 00:26:27,480 --> 00:26:32,479 Speaker 2: Middle East, well the alternative literally try to institute a 397 00:26:32,560 --> 00:26:36,400 Speaker 2: ban on Muslims from entering this country. Is that going 398 00:26:36,440 --> 00:26:38,400 Speaker 2: to be any better than the policy we have now? 399 00:26:38,840 --> 00:26:43,119 Speaker 2: I don't think so. The alternative is proud of the 400 00:26:43,160 --> 00:26:45,560 Speaker 2: fact that he was able to strip women of their 401 00:26:45,560 --> 00:26:49,760 Speaker 2: reproductive freedom. I don't think that is a future that 402 00:26:49,800 --> 00:26:53,240 Speaker 2: we want to continue. The alternative said that the only 403 00:26:53,280 --> 00:26:56,560 Speaker 2: solution to a recent school shooting in Iowa was just 404 00:26:56,600 --> 00:26:59,680 Speaker 2: to get over it and to once again more thoughts 405 00:26:59,680 --> 00:27:05,000 Speaker 2: and pray. Right, if we think that Joe Biden is 406 00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:08,600 Speaker 2: the status quot candidate, the real status quo candidate in 407 00:27:08,600 --> 00:27:10,840 Speaker 2: this race is Donald Trump. It is not Joe Biden. 408 00:27:10,920 --> 00:27:14,560 Speaker 2: Joe Biden actually has a long list of accomplishments throughout 409 00:27:14,560 --> 00:27:17,480 Speaker 2: his time in office, right, I would say, right, for example, 410 00:27:17,920 --> 00:27:21,520 Speaker 2: student loan relief, No other present history has done that. Right, 411 00:27:21,720 --> 00:27:24,359 Speaker 2: capping the price of insulin, making sure that our climate, 412 00:27:24,400 --> 00:27:27,720 Speaker 2: the biggest investments in climate in American history, first major 413 00:27:27,720 --> 00:27:32,200 Speaker 2: gun safety legislation in thirty years, the most diverse courts 414 00:27:32,359 --> 00:27:36,080 Speaker 2: and administrations in history. All of these things are things 415 00:27:36,119 --> 00:27:38,600 Speaker 2: that young people deeply care. But I think another aspect, too, 416 00:27:38,760 --> 00:27:41,480 Speaker 2: is that a lot of young people just simply don't 417 00:27:41,520 --> 00:27:43,760 Speaker 2: know that any of these things have happened, because. 418 00:27:43,560 --> 00:27:45,400 Speaker 1: And I was going to say to you, you know, 419 00:27:45,560 --> 00:27:47,680 Speaker 1: the question that I have here is that the things 420 00:27:47,680 --> 00:27:50,360 Speaker 1: that you've listing off are all things that have happened, 421 00:27:50,440 --> 00:27:53,520 Speaker 1: are all things that no one knows anything about, not 422 00:27:53,720 --> 00:27:57,880 Speaker 1: just Generation Z, but all potential voters. They just they 423 00:27:57,920 --> 00:28:03,520 Speaker 1: don't know. How do you think then that this administration, 424 00:28:03,840 --> 00:28:08,160 Speaker 1: that the Biden Harris campaign, how should they change their 425 00:28:08,280 --> 00:28:12,200 Speaker 1: messaging to elevate the things that they have actually done 426 00:28:12,680 --> 00:28:16,240 Speaker 1: and what they plan to do to reach your generation? 427 00:28:17,520 --> 00:28:23,520 Speaker 2: I think I think right now, I think they have 428 00:28:23,600 --> 00:28:25,320 Speaker 2: put together a great plan on how to do that. 429 00:28:25,359 --> 00:28:28,080 Speaker 2: And I would say that, for example, a lot of 430 00:28:28,119 --> 00:28:30,040 Speaker 2: young people are not going to be tuned into an 431 00:28:30,080 --> 00:28:34,040 Speaker 2: election three years out like I would be, so and 432 00:28:34,320 --> 00:28:36,800 Speaker 2: I would say that I think that as we get 433 00:28:36,840 --> 00:28:39,080 Speaker 2: closer to the election, I think more people will find 434 00:28:39,080 --> 00:28:41,400 Speaker 2: out about these accomplishments, and more people will tune into 435 00:28:41,440 --> 00:28:44,800 Speaker 2: the election and will naturally pay more attention. And I 436 00:28:44,800 --> 00:28:47,440 Speaker 2: think the president's campaign has put together a great strategy 437 00:28:47,440 --> 00:28:51,200 Speaker 2: and how to reach young people. With trying to engage 438 00:28:51,240 --> 00:28:53,160 Speaker 2: young people, right, I think a lot of people have 439 00:28:53,560 --> 00:28:56,080 Speaker 2: spilled a lot of ink on, you know, panicking about 440 00:28:56,080 --> 00:28:58,880 Speaker 2: the polls and about how, you know, we need to 441 00:28:58,920 --> 00:29:02,040 Speaker 2: have this great you know, come to Jesus moment about 442 00:29:02,920 --> 00:29:05,400 Speaker 2: where the campaign is at with just young people and 443 00:29:05,480 --> 00:29:08,440 Speaker 2: voters in general. But I wouldn't be worried quite yet, 444 00:29:08,520 --> 00:29:13,320 Speaker 2: because I think a lot of what is happening is 445 00:29:13,400 --> 00:29:16,880 Speaker 2: just really media narratives trying to gin up clicks and views, 446 00:29:18,000 --> 00:29:20,280 Speaker 2: and so I think really the present is a lot 447 00:29:20,360 --> 00:29:22,160 Speaker 2: less in trouble than people may come out to be. 448 00:29:22,200 --> 00:29:24,400 Speaker 2: In fact, our poll reflects that an a head to 449 00:29:24,440 --> 00:29:29,200 Speaker 2: head matchup, over nearly seventy percent of our respondents would 450 00:29:29,200 --> 00:29:31,960 Speaker 2: say they would choose Joe Biden over Donald Trump. And 451 00:29:32,000 --> 00:29:33,920 Speaker 2: a lot of these people are seventeen year olds who 452 00:29:33,960 --> 00:29:37,320 Speaker 2: will be eligible to vote this coming November. And on 453 00:29:37,360 --> 00:29:40,640 Speaker 2: top of that, our poll also reflects the fact that 454 00:29:40,960 --> 00:29:44,640 Speaker 2: an overwhelmingly large number of young people have an unfavorable 455 00:29:44,680 --> 00:29:47,120 Speaker 2: view of Donald Trump. Our poll suggests that seventy seven 456 00:29:47,160 --> 00:29:49,520 Speaker 2: percent has that, and the same thing holds for Nicki Haley. 457 00:29:49,560 --> 00:29:51,680 Speaker 2: She's not that much better. Sixty eight percent say that 458 00:29:51,720 --> 00:29:54,760 Speaker 2: she's unfavorable. A majority of our respondents who are by 459 00:29:54,800 --> 00:29:57,160 Speaker 2: the way, almost all of them are eighteen to twenty 460 00:29:57,200 --> 00:29:59,200 Speaker 2: four year old twenty four year olds, a lot of 461 00:29:59,200 --> 00:30:01,160 Speaker 2: them are actually under in high schoolers who will be 462 00:30:01,160 --> 00:30:03,680 Speaker 2: eligible to vote this November or in twenty twenty eight. 463 00:30:04,560 --> 00:30:07,600 Speaker 2: Most people don't support a primary challenge to the president. 464 00:30:07,920 --> 00:30:10,560 Speaker 2: Most people have a favorable view of the Democratic Party, 465 00:30:11,040 --> 00:30:13,920 Speaker 2: and in a head to head matchup, right everybody says 466 00:30:14,120 --> 00:30:16,840 Speaker 2: Joe Biden's too old, and our own poll reflects that 467 00:30:16,920 --> 00:30:19,080 Speaker 2: people say that Joe Biden is too old. But in 468 00:30:19,120 --> 00:30:22,360 Speaker 2: a matchup with Donald Trump, most people would agree that 469 00:30:22,480 --> 00:30:26,040 Speaker 2: age simply does not matter because Donald Trump is not 470 00:30:26,040 --> 00:30:28,760 Speaker 2: a spring chicken himself either. And I would think that 471 00:30:29,320 --> 00:30:34,080 Speaker 2: Joe Biden, who has gotten all this stuff done, who 472 00:30:34,120 --> 00:30:38,200 Speaker 2: actually does, who goes on runs, goes biking, keeps himself fit, 473 00:30:38,880 --> 00:30:43,120 Speaker 2: and he's healthy compared to well, the other guy. I 474 00:30:43,160 --> 00:30:45,760 Speaker 2: think he's a lot better of a physical shape than 475 00:30:46,320 --> 00:30:50,760 Speaker 2: Donald Trump is. And I think I think that will 476 00:30:50,760 --> 00:30:53,280 Speaker 2: be a clear discrepancy as people start to tune in. 477 00:30:54,200 --> 00:30:57,320 Speaker 1: William, thank you so much for making the time for 478 00:30:57,400 --> 00:30:59,880 Speaker 1: WOKF for all of the work that you were doing. 479 00:31:00,120 --> 00:31:02,640 Speaker 1: And for folks that are listening, tell them how they 480 00:31:02,680 --> 00:31:06,920 Speaker 1: can connect with your organization, Dream for America. 481 00:31:07,520 --> 00:31:11,560 Speaker 2: Sure. Yeah, And for anybody who's not familiar Dream from America. 482 00:31:11,680 --> 00:31:14,920 Speaker 2: We are a gen Z led group that is focused 483 00:31:14,960 --> 00:31:18,560 Speaker 2: on offering a progressive alternative to Turning Point USA, and 484 00:31:18,600 --> 00:31:20,720 Speaker 2: we've had a lot of great success so far. We've 485 00:31:20,720 --> 00:31:23,840 Speaker 2: got volunteers now in forty states. We have outraised Turning 486 00:31:23,880 --> 00:31:26,160 Speaker 2: Point two to one in just the first six months 487 00:31:26,200 --> 00:31:29,200 Speaker 2: compared to their first year in existence. And right now 488 00:31:29,200 --> 00:31:32,560 Speaker 2: we're ramping up to organize, engage, and get young people 489 00:31:32,600 --> 00:31:35,080 Speaker 2: involved in the progressive movement as we ramp up to 490 00:31:35,160 --> 00:31:37,360 Speaker 2: election day. And so the best way to get involved 491 00:31:37,560 --> 00:31:39,400 Speaker 2: if you're a student, if you're a college kid, you're 492 00:31:39,400 --> 00:31:41,120 Speaker 2: a high school kid, if you're just a young person 493 00:31:41,160 --> 00:31:43,960 Speaker 2: in general, please come and volunteer join the team. We 494 00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:46,520 Speaker 2: will make room for you. We want to build coalitions. 495 00:31:46,840 --> 00:31:50,000 Speaker 2: Politics is a game of addition, not subtraction, and so 496 00:31:50,120 --> 00:31:53,040 Speaker 2: please join us. We will happy, be happy to take you, 497 00:31:53,160 --> 00:31:55,320 Speaker 2: whether that's starting a chapter or joining our national team. 498 00:31:55,800 --> 00:31:58,120 Speaker 2: Please join us so you can go to Dreamfromerica dot 499 00:31:58,240 --> 00:32:01,880 Speaker 2: org and press volunteer, tell us your information and we'll 500 00:32:01,880 --> 00:32:04,320 Speaker 2: get your set up. If you're anybody older than that, 501 00:32:04,840 --> 00:32:07,200 Speaker 2: well the best way to get involved is give us 502 00:32:07,200 --> 00:32:10,200 Speaker 2: a follow, help amplify our message, and whatever you're able 503 00:32:10,240 --> 00:32:14,280 Speaker 2: to chip in, please consider making contribution. Every dollar counts. 504 00:32:15,280 --> 00:32:17,840 Speaker 2: We don't have We don't rely on billionaire donors like 505 00:32:17,840 --> 00:32:20,640 Speaker 2: Turning Point does, and we rely on people like you. 506 00:32:20,800 --> 00:32:25,120 Speaker 2: And so once again, Dream the number four America dot org. 507 00:32:25,440 --> 00:32:25,960 Speaker 2: Check it out. 508 00:32:26,560 --> 00:32:30,080 Speaker 1: Well. I am incredible, Thank you so much. Really appreciate 509 00:32:30,120 --> 00:32:32,560 Speaker 1: you and all the work that you're doing and hope 510 00:32:32,600 --> 00:32:33,440 Speaker 1: to talk to you again. 511 00:32:33,760 --> 00:32:35,320 Speaker 2: Thanks for having me on appreciate it. 512 00:32:40,400 --> 00:32:43,520 Speaker 1: That is it for me today. Dear friends on wokef 513 00:32:43,720 --> 00:32:46,960 Speaker 1: as always, Power to the people and to all the 514 00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:50,240 Speaker 1: people power, get woke and stay woke as fuck.