Corporate Democrats Have a Vested Interest in Not Listening to Workers - RAI with Thomas Frank (1/9)

[@brianarps8756]

The unofficial campaign slogan for Hillary was "Its my Turn".

[@JohnWick-ds4mn]

Pretty much. I hate political dynasties.

[@Cussy69_420]

And "How dare you?"

[@elizabethferrari1837]

Thomas Frank is so good at this I hope you have him on more often.

[@ranger14809]

Good interview both men are sincere with Jay more willing to see the class issues at play now and in the recent and not so recent past. That this system is not sustainable by any measure has always been understood best by those who benefit most and continue to delay, distract and deny the truth at their and everyone's peril.

[@searose6192]

Democrats ARE NOT comfortable talking about INCOME INEQUALITY, they are only comfortable talking about race and gender...two variables that do not effect the oligarchs WHATSOEVER.

[@aleaiactaest8354]

Excellent interview and discussion!

[@RipTheJackR]

Wow, this just got uploaded, cant wait for the remaining 3 parts :)

[@gyro4250]

somehow i doubt the other three will materialize

[@petealtomare3913]

Google, Facebook and the rest of the even "alternative" Media will characterize this as so- called "fake news" and censor it.

[@theincog-negro7091]

RipTheJackR ... what a great name !!!

[@AaronAox]

Brilliant, thanks for having Thomas Frank on, love that guy

[@stevep5408]

Damn them for telling the truth!

[@charleskesner1302]

Thanks for this report.

[@pf782]

America is an oligarchy not a republic...

[@Terradiva]

Bring on parts 2-4!

[@michaelberta3153]

Mr. Frank, It was obvious to me when the Democratic party took it's sharp turn to the right. Right after the Citizen's United decision, things started to change more dramatically. I think what happened was there was a meeting at Dem HQ and they decided they could not and would not take the grass roots road. Instead they chose to go corporate full bore and so here we are.

[@progressholistic7126]

I love affirmation.

[@gyro4250]

always better than cognitive dissonance

[@Dawt_Calm]

What do we want? Platitudes!!! When do we want them? Good things come to those that wait!!!

[@annip5573]

The Reality Assert Itself is a great series.

[@ritabutler1951]

"Liberals" who don't listen are not really liberals now are they? Also, Hillary was not required to go after my vote and every other progressive like myself. As comedian Jimmy Dore accurately pointed out, Hillary was the first candidate who was not expected to campaign for the vote. Voters were expected to turn up because the alternative in Trump was awful. Instead, these voters stayed home. Some of us voted for Jill Stein. Some wrote in Bernie Sanders knowing full well it would not be counted.

[@ianhesford]

Real News makes me proud to be from Baltimore.

[@drewhunkins7192]

At the 13:52 mark he really nails it. Guys like John Lewis, Walter Reuther, Henry Bridges and a few others I'm forgetting at the moment were revered and held in high esteem by vast swaths of the working and middle classes. John Lewis would give an annual address and much of the nation was riveted to his every word. It's all scarcely imaginable today.

[@werocktheplanet]

Hello TRN and thanks for a great interview and waking up about the Russia Scam! Looking forward to the next 3 segments - when will you be uploading them? Thanks again!

[@brucemarmy8500]

As contribution limits rose the parties caved to the convenience of large donations. Large donors typically made their money from labor, yet greed blinds. The wealthy rarely share.

[@kmeccat]

Always enjoy Thomas Frank!

[@LownarYouKnowMe]

You should release these all at once!

[@oneeyedmonster9827]

Yeah, but what about the DNC "Better Platitudes Deal"?

[@bumpty9830]

Excellent.

[@justgivemethetruth]

Thomas Frank is such an amazing intellect, he is amazing in his historical analysis and it seems to go way back and very much more coherent that what we hear from the media or other pundits. The whole Russia thing is like the Kennedy assassination in that neither side of the government and no one else either wants this to be cleared up or understood.

[@Kallindril]

Really hope to see Parts 2, 3 and 4 soon.

[@brucemarmy8500]

Thomas mentions Kansas City(Mo). I am a union electrician. We travel a lot to find work. I thought I had died and gone to Wireman's Heaven when I step inside the Kansas City local #124 Union Hall. The Grounds reminded me of Arlington National Cemetary. Truly I wished to be interned there. It wasn't a long visit, decades have passed now. Perhaps where I lay is not as important as where I stand.

[@Frobscottles]

just starting the video, but here because Listen Liberal was fantastic

[@MtnGalPal]

Where's the rest of this great interview please?

[@MrIzzyDizzy]

please cover the peoples convergence conference. maybe just maybe bernie will lead a new peoples party. the conference is 9/8 in d.c.

[@MrIzzyDizzy]

that is a goal of a peoples party and the justice dems, and the greens. we are shooting ourselves in the head if we think the democrats or republicans will ever work for proportonal representation. in essence if we get the dems or republicans to do that we have already "re"created more parties. election reforms are at least as tough if not tougher to accomplish through an entrenced main party that is one of the two main. it is probably easier to create a third party with election reform being one of its policy platforms. and win seats. at least in a new party run as ademocracy the people can compete. if you look at the california dnc. the progressives elected a sizable majority of delegates. but were thwarted by non democratic rules including super state level delegates from taking control of the party and making any changes at all. if anything it may have gotten worse a big pharma lobbyist was installed as the california dnc chairman, and the officers were yelling at many progressive delegates to get the fuck out. do you think its easier to enact the people will in a party who is able to aintain control depite having a minority of the delegates. -i dont. i think a third party is the easier way to election reform not the other way around. though neither is easy. so i support all efforts at election reform - we should try both internal main party reforms and a new party as vigourously as we can.

[@JAFFAWIRE]

For once I'm going to enjoy an interview on TRNN. This is a one of the more intelligent guests I've seen here.

[@65minimom]

bold like a leopard, I have seen many great interviews on TRNN

[@brucemarmy8500]

I am 60, I am not stupid, I do not agree with you in the least.

[@JuliusGalacki]

I'm curious - what "poison pill" did you hear? I noticed some sympathy to Clinton in having to deal with Obama's TPP stance (which I thought it was absurd to sympathize with her since she obviously agreed with Obama's stance) but that sympathy toward her is not to the level of a poison pill since he's overall critical of the Clinton's politics as is the point of his book.

[@robingaura2922]

She helped write the TTP, which would undermine any sovereign government.

[@arain9465]

Chuck Schumer made the comment, "for every blue collar worker we lose we will pick up 2 or 3 upper middle class white collar Moderate Republicans". If you are trying to get Republicans to vote for you what does that make you?

[@Barbara-cp6zx]

Remember OBama explaining that debt was a good thing as he doubled the national debt? But I could never vote for a Clinton because of NAFTA. So Bill cost Hilliary my vote. NO, I could never vote for her contradictions anyway. Why would anyone vote for someone who really should be in jail? No one ever denied that the DNC and Hilliary's history was sleazy. For his part, Trump made a lot of questionable statements because air time was more valuable than content.

[@theodoreruleoflaw2277]

Divide & impera…

[@SJ-oi7tk]

"You and I know there's plenty of Democrats who DO care..." - Thomas Frank. Name one. Specifically, name one statewide or big-city elected Democrat who cares about income and wealth redistribution, peace, and the environment. Thomas Frank has been saying this in all the interviews: "there are a lot of GOOD Democrats"... but he doesn't name any. I'm really hoping to be corrected here.

[@Cussy69_420]

Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, Ocasio - Cortez, Katie Porter, Bernie Sanders, Keith Ellison just to name a few...

[@Jamesbrowntv]

i wish they released the full segment and split segments.

[@LongTomH]

After the 2016 debacle, I was actually reading online comments like: " We don't need to talk to the white working class."

[@65minimom]

thomas huffman & they could always lock up the black ones

[@CaliforniaGirl-qk5kq]

I voted for Hilary, not because I thought she would be a good president, but because I did not want to vote for Trump. Hilary won in California by close to 3 Million votes, but she blew it all, by not establishing rapport with Rust Belt states voters. As a result she lost election by loosing by 72,000 votes in three states - Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Michigan. States that routinely voted democratic. She also was unable to handle stress and in last days of the election she was not able to speak or even walk. Wiener sending photos of his crotch to the underaged girls also did not help since it triggered second FBI investigation.

[@CaliforniaGirl-qk5kq]

This investigation of so called Russian influence is I believe a smoke screen to justify democratic loss. If indeed they had so much influence, then Russian hackers knew US electoral system more than Hilary did. Also, didn't she used foreign power (Great Britain) to help per discredit Trump? Wasn't it agent of the British security that provided her with the damaging dossier about Trump? Dossier that now is being investigated by Mueller? As a taxpayer, I hate to think that I'm paying for the Mueller investigation.

[@justgivemethetruth]

WRF is wrong with TRN .... they have this labelled as 1 of 4, and no other videos by the same name or next up? Part of the conspiracy maybe?

[@dereksimenac8844]

who cares who did it, they deserve a medal

[@CaliforniaGirl-qk5kq]

In 2016 election, Clinton beat Donald Trump by nearly five percentage points, or 39,000 votes, in the county, which is a national symbol for the GOP - the home to Richard Nixon and the cradle of Ronald Reagan’s conservatism. The last time a Democrat won the county was 1936. For decades, it was a GOP stronghold, with Republican presidential candidates routinely beating their Democratic rivals by double-digit margins. That changed in 2016. Trump was too much to stomach for Orange County voters.

[@jjd112777]

where's part 2-4?

[@Frisbieinstein]

Democrats? Listen to workers? Not since 1993.

[@gemeinschaftsgeful]

Americans are by far culturally conservative and, and pro working class. The corporations that pay for and therefore run our politics are not pro working class and have figured out how to divide and conquer the citizens' political unity by dividing the citizen voter through culture war topics. The democrats are completely complicit in doing this dividing us intentionally for the corporate interests. They are not for the average voter.

[@wesleymercer7496]

This Robert Mercer is NOT related to me. A true Democrat speak with the Poor, feable, disabilities, as well as the middle Class at the Labor market conditions. These guys explain it well. Thank you, Gentleman.

[@thetawaves48]

It's hard to say who was more smug - Hillary or Trump.

[@CaliforniaGirl-qk5kq]

Yes Hilary won Orange County in 2016. For the very first time since 1935 Democrat candidate won Orange County.

[@spindlecitysister]

Paul, w all due respect to Mr. Frank, it would behoove you to interview Thomas Ferguson of BU on RAI. He is a political scientist who has developed an intricate theory on US campaigns and would give a much more sophisticated analysis of how our political system functions and the outcome of the last election. To be honest, i was pretty disappointed by Frank's superficial and limited understanding of political history and party dynamics.

[@robjk]

Hillary did win Orange County, CA. 50.9% vs. 42.3 for Trump.

[@melissareiter2962]

I tuned into this site/program to listen to Thomas Frank, but the interviewer was too interested in hearing his own voice. So far, no subscription.

[@phelanmarkj]

takes one to know one? "..thomas frank ..i voted for hillary ..loyal to the democratic party ..like i'm talking to serpico ..telling me how good the new york police department is..": kzbin.info/www/bejne/m6DEcqOXrKtqa68

[@icgantshat]

Paul Jay, seriously, I love you man, but shut up. You're the interviewer. You're interviewing an extremely knowledgeable expert. Let him talk. Don't interrupt. Only object if it's necessary. Your ego is of no interest to us.

[@sarka74]

truman really?

[@godkingofspace]

*totally emotionless face* "I am extremely happy" *continues to unsmiling stare at the camera*

[@Brofessor_Oak]

Dismisses Russia influence, not dismiss the dnc for favoring Hillary Clinton over bernie. I never liked Bernie and he doesnt talk about social issues. I'd rather vote for Hillary again

[@psycleen9087]

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