Economic Update: Is The US Facing Another Civil War?

[@jeorge1153]

"If you're hungry, you're not free; if you're homeless, you're not free, if you don't have a job that pays a decent salary, you're not free" - a good definition of freedom. Democracy should not be just the right to carry guns or right to "choose" (an illusion of choice - as if people are given a wide selection of candidates to choose from) their leader.

[@scruffylee]

and if you are Elon Musk you are not free

[@davidschlessinger9945]

sounds like socialism

[@jeorge1153]

@@davidschlessinger9945 i would rather see the majority doing well than a few ultra rich enjoy life while the majority suffers.

[@mikelloyd520]

Brilliant. Thank you.

[@acegikm]

Ending pain is more important than creating happiness. If someone is suffering greatly, another person's joy doesn't make up for that. If even one person is miserable their entire life, a billion happy people don't counter that. If humans don't find a way to stop the agony and misery of every single person, it's better humanity doesn't exist at all. Anyone who disagrees, consider if you or someone you love had to be that one tortured person - would you still disagree with me? Yet here we are, millions of people suffering and in agony, so some little punks at the top can be super comfortable and feel important.

[@treefrog3349]

The American People in general are consumed with an overwhelming anxiety about their own viability in contemporary America.They rightly feel very insecure and vulnerable. But instead of confronting America's political dysfunction, the source of ALL their concerns, they take their frustrations out on each other! EXACTLY like our "representatives" on Capitol Hill would prefer. "Divide and conquer" has been a successful strategy for them all, Democrat and Republican alike. In fact, our artificial two-party electoral process is the most blatant artificial division of all. A united "voice" of the People is what they fear most. We the People have nullified ourselves through our own internal divisiveness.

[@chriscourtney7369]

Maybe instead of venting our frustration at the hill. We need to start solving issue at the local level. D.C. does care about us we have seen this during Covid. Time to start thinking locally and act locally too down approach from the left and the right is not working.

[@chriscourtney7369]

@Gretchen K. the general government does not care about us as a whole we have seen this through the Covid policies example stimulus package largest transfer from poor working and middle class to the rich. Another example destroying small businesses while allowing big box retailers to operate. The Proffessor and his quest believe in a top down approach a progressive approach democratic socialism or whatever ever you want to label it. 320 million people in this country in different regions with different cultures. Democratic socialism might be what blue states want and that culture might reflect those views, but that idea does not reflect well with some red states. Decentralization is the only path and we have seen that with different state reaction to COVID policies. I understand people have different beliefs then me along with their out look in life running to the middle the general government again to force my way of thinking would not go over well with left leaning people.

[@The.world.has.gone.crazy...]

@@chriscourtney7369 yeah, thats why you dont have a descent medical care system or social system for that mather.

[@peace7394]

The American people were robbed and fooled by Democratic Party politicians. It was related to their cunning work in Ukraine. with WEAPONS from America and NATO.... THE NEO NAZI KYIV regime did not hesitate to destroy VILLAGES and TOWNS in EASTERN UKRAINE.... Neo Nazi terrorists of the Kyiv regime have been carrying out massacres of EASTERN UKRAINIAN PEOPLE / RUSSIAN SPEAKERS since 2014. At least pre-arrival of the special military operation of the Russian federation, the neo-nazi terrorists of the Kyiv regime had committed GENOCIDE or ETHNIC CLEANSING against 15000 people of EASTERN UKRAINE / RUSSIAN SPEAKERS. From the testimony and confessions of the people of Mariupol, Donestk, Luhanks and others, collected by independent journalists from various countries we can know that THE NEO NAZI TERRORISTS OF THE KYIV REGIME have increasingly gone crazy about killing Ukrainians speaking Russian speakers and also destroying various facilities and houses that exist in cities and villages inhabited by Russian-speaking Ukrainians. Since 2014 various attempts at negotiations to get THE NEO NAZI TERRORISTS OF THE KYIV REGIME to stop GENOCIDE against the Russian-speaking Ukrainian people have been pursued. But the neo-nazi terrorists of the Kyiv regime backed by politicians of the American Democratic party and NATO have never stopped killing. February 2022 in the end the russian federation provided assistance to the fighters of Donetsk, Luhanks, Mariupol and other urban cities to FREE them from the abominations and cunning of the neo-nazi terrorists of the Kyiv regime. To understand the existing conflicts. It is mandatory that you learn slowly by listening to some documentaries and reports of humanitarian journalists. Of course, you can also compare it to manipulative reportage carried out by American media corporations and NATO. By comparing you will be able to judge which is right and which is wrong... HUMANITY is the MAIN VALUE.... THE PEOPLE WERE FOOLED AND FORCED TO SUPPORT Neo Nazi Ukraine. U.S. Democrats designed THE DESTRUCTION OF UKRAINE. Buy and install Ukrainian politicians to be in the control of American politics. Making provocations through the work of secret agents in the events of Maidan 2014. Raising neo-nazi groups and then including them in Ukrainian military units to find out the beginnings of the UKRAINIAN CONFLICT and the growth of Ukrainian Neo Nazis who then for 8 years COMMITTED GENOCIDE or ETHNIC CLEANSING against the people of eastern Ukraine (russian language) More than 15,000 eastern Ukrainians have been killed by Ukrainian neo-nazis. Please learn UKRAINE ON FIRE by Oliver Stone (USA) kzbin.info/www/bejne/pnzGnoF9q8Z3i9U Compare with this sub video Ukrainian neo-nazi child training camp by The Guardian. kzbin.info/www/bejne/oJqliaCYoNycidk INSIDE A WHITE SUPREMACIST MILITIA IN UKRAINE by TIME kzbin.info/www/bejne/nKqcYmN8fJlpeZY Coverage BBC NEWS 7 years ago. kzbin.info/www/bejne/f5Oadp6AeZVrm5Y Coverage DEMOCRACY NOW 8 years ago. kzbin.info/www/bejne/iIC3qKyGatOiZpo The provocation of black American groups by carrying out hidden shootings of the people can be seen on BBC NEWSNIGHT in the coverage 7 years ago kzbin.info/www/bejne/o3vLe2meoNhjgMk NEO-NAZI THREAT can be seen in BBC NEWSNIGHT coverage 8 years ago kzbin.info/www/bejne/a4SloGOXoMp3g7s Because of the brutality of ukrainian neo-nazis, the people of eastern Ukraine are victims. This coverage was made by the BBC 8 years ago kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZoKqd42bq8Sbbck There are many documentaries of independent journalists since 8 years ago that can be studied. From there we will be able to know how American and NATO politicians must be held accountable for the overlap of UKRAINIAN NEO NAZIS in the crimes of ethnic cleansing or genocide against the people of eastern Ukraine. For a daily report on the state of eastern Ukraine you can see in the reportage of independent journalists such as PATRICK LANCASTER (USA) on the KZbin channel. Or.... Eva K Bartlett (Canada), Graham Phillips (UK), VN Rangeloni (Italy), Ruben Gisbert (Spain), John Mark Dougan (USA) Their reprotase is on their respective youtube channels And.... Cristelle (FRANCE) On youtube channel : Donbass Insiders .................. May the civilians of western Ukraine and from the east soon find peace. And rotten politicians and fascist mobs must be eradicated for a better future for Ukraine. Mark Bartalmai (German) Title : ukraine agony the concealed war Made in 2014 And I really appreciate LIVRE NOIR (FRANCE) journalistic work. And I also advise all of us to look intellectually at the work ANNE LAURE BONNEL. I suggest you learn a little from the discussion on The Duran (KZbin) and The New Atlas. And... Richard Medhrutst (UK) Jackson Hinkle (USA) Scott Ritter (USA) Gonzalo Lira (Kharkov Ukraina) The Hill (USA) Redacted (USA)

[@chriscourtney7369]

@@The.world.has.gone.crazy... articulate rebutle

[@veronicaancrum4871]

Tom Hartman you lost me when you mentioned Russia responsible for this mess and never mentioning the democratic party role.

[@geraldcheves6436]

He lost me when he tried to make a comparison between the ante-bellum period and now, only considering the white people, as if the threat of slavery spreading was not a factor in the war. Hartman thinks the cause of the war was the unequal distribution of slave ownership and the concentration of slave ownership amongst the big plantation owners.

[@davidotness6199]

Hartmann lost me years ago. He's all glib and schtick, as likely to defend Adam Schiff and even Pelosi, but never would lift a finger for Julian Assange. The guy is a DNC / HRC poseur, i.e. a garden variety 'shitlib.' He wallows in his own shit.

[@veronicaancrum4871]

@@davidotness6199 I couldn’t agree with you more. I don’t even like the term liberal anymore or democracy. Malcolm warned us about them.

[@mousc460]

I became a fan of Hartmann from his show on RT. It was disgusting how quickly he threw RT under the bus to keep his blue credibility. He is weak and not to be taken seriously.

[@l.w.paradis2108]

You beat me to it.

[@supercommie]

When you "raise" wages below inflation rate, people shouldn't call it a "raise" because it's a pay cut.

[@michaelandrews4783]

Funny how people only talk about inflation when the it's proposed the poor get a pay rise and rail against it, while ignoring the rich and politicians giving themselves massive pay rises and tax cuts on a whim.

[@wheelie642]

He is a lying schmuck. He doesn’t know diddly.

[@adventureswithlils4331]

It’s not a pay cut…. It’s falling behind

[@gwills9337]

@@adventureswithlils4331 It is a pay cut. You can buy less than you did the previous year. That's a pay cut, just because it's abstract doesn't change the facts on the ground

[@adventureswithlils4331]

@@gwills9337 No a pay cut is when your employer pays you less When you can buy less with same money… it is called inflation

[@svensebastiana2491]

A very sad interview with Hartmann who completely misses the boat that both parties are culpable for the steady decline. By blaming one side while ignoring the fascist elements of the other, we carry on the downward spiral.

[@AbtinX]

That man is, well I've no nice words. He's a product of his system

[@davepetrovich9851]

Hartmann wants to keep his audience.

[@peteroneil592]

Thanks

[@kathiduran9583]

What a disappoint to be calling Hartmann a progressive as he promotes the duopoly. There is no progressive movement in DC. JFC they support the same donors!!!

[@SolidAir54321]

I believe Hartmann is a pro-capitalist though he doesn't talk about it a lot. I have heard him say something along the lines of, "If I want to start a company I need to borrow money and that money is capital. that's capitalism. So I don't see any other way to do it." He also like to quote Adam Smith even though we're not in Adam Smith's capitalism anymore. If you consider that looking for alternatives to capitalism as a part of being progressive then I think he's not progressive that way. He's more of a Keynesian capitalist.

[@SolidAir54321]

@Russ Ingram Oh no. I can see why you might think that if you've only listened to Wolff on the Hartmann show. But he rails against capitalism normally. He says the biggest problem with capitalism is that it has the same class divisions as slavery (master and slave) and feudalism (lord and serf). Capitalism just continues this with employer and employee. Co-ops do not follow this structure. Capitalist companies are not democratic while worker owned co-ops are.

[@laserbrain7774]

Guest is firmly in the "push biden to the left", "Blue no matter who" crowd.

[@jimcarrington6744]

No, Thom is a Bernie supporter. You should learn how to listen, kid.

[@unreliablenarratorz2772]

Yeah, cuz he is correct

[@laserbrain7774]

@@unreliablenarratorz2772 Pure delusion.

[@unreliablenarratorz2772]

@@laserbrain7774 the only delusion is thinking that liberal democrats are no different than fascist republicans.

[@Camcolito]

@@jimcarrington6744 Bernie is in the blue no matter who / push Biden left crowd also.

[@douglaskay9959]

It really doesn't matter whether they are Democrats or Republican because history proves there is very little difference, both have been warmongers and still are.

[@s0515033]

Democrats are bad, but there definitely is a real difference. Republicans are overtly evil and their endgame is to fuck you over. Democrats are milquetoast and incompetent, settling for letting the GOP to go half way to fucking you, but never fully. Democrats at least aren't in your face raging fascist.

[@jeffmurray1681]

Thom Hartmann is a progressive? Could've fooled me.

[@cev12]

EXACTLY! I didn't know who he was, so I watched some videos of his from the past week. Chatted warmly with Pramila Jayapal, the Progressive Caucus chair, who's repeatedly failed progressives. Completely supported the $40 billion in war and fossil fuel industry sales to Ukraine. **gag** NOT a progressive.

[@robp4074]

Progressive's are progressive in name only.

[@GregoryWonderwheel]

My reaction too!. Hartmann is a Pied Piper for the Democratic Party. There are no progressives in the Democratic Party other than those being put to sleep by being in the Party.

[@dinopanteloukas6868]

He’s just a democrat. He thinks there’s a fundamental difference between the dems and republicans. I can’t stand the liberals anymore. The democrats are the war party now. It’s only the divisive social issues that separate them.

[@cev12]

@@dinopanteloukas6868 You took the words right out of my mouth… the democrats are just corporate and about identity politics. And I’m ashamed I ever was in the party (been green party for years now).

[@PoliticalEconomy101]

Replace monopoly, competition, and freedom with cooperation, public ownership and solidarity pls

[@sylviam6535]

That is called socialism and it has failed every single time, but I guess it will be different next time…

[@s0515033]

How do you replace it? Take everyone's shit? I never really understood this. I am fine with cooperative and public goods. But uh, the problem is we are not starting from scratch. There is a pre-existing system and no one is going to be okay with their property being made a coop.

[@sylviam6535]

@@s0515033 - That’s why they always do it by force.

[@indricotherium4802]

Progressivism can stay inside the Democratic Party and not be smothered? I find that very, very doubtful. Conspicuous absence of mention of Third Party.

[@greorbowlfinder7078]

Democrats are corporate tools. Progressives have to divorce them based on irreconcilable differences. Worse, people like Kamala Harris and Lloyd Austin represent the Washington DC dirt bag meritocracy perfectly. Our government is ran by a divisive, racist, dirt bag, meritocracy that can't be trusted based on their own measurable results. The current dirt bags running our government scream racism as cover for their own corruption. America has no shared sense of purpose other than looking at your skin color and genitals to figure out who you are. Absurd government.

[@f_youtubecensorshipf_nazis]

tell me how you accomplish that in under 30 years. You folks are uninformed reacitonaries that would rather fight the dems and the republicans at the same time than just take back the democratic party and use that infrastructure tell me how what you call for happens The issue is you probably voted 1 time in your life, didn't win, then started this "3rd party" nonsense

[@rogersmith7396]

Biden is taking non progressive Dems down the toilet. He only looks good when Trump is running. There is a reason he is so f ing old, thats who voted for him. Trump is no spring chicken himself.

[@indricotherium4802]

@@f_youtubecensorshipf_nazis : one would expect an intelligently led Thrid Party to set itself realistic and achievable goals. It would certainly have to taget one or two states where it picks up the minimum number of electoral college seats to give itself real leverage. I'm sure your informed political insight enables you to judge what the minimum might be. Perhaps it shouldn't set its hopes too high in whatever state you live in.

[@transsylvanian9100]

The Democratic Party is where progressive politics goes to die. It is and always will be a dead end.

[@3001st]

The Titanic is going down, but the passengers think everything is fine because the band is still playing.

[@slee4039]

It was the giant echo chamber reverberating the band have long stopped playing

[@kelsonhampton439]

Great update Professor Wolff, thank you for doing these and providing your comments and analysis. Very informative.

[@boi9842]

Did Democracy At Work went full liberal ? gun bans, saying Russia and China wants to install authoritarian governaments around the world, saying USA is a democracy, endorsing neoliberal crap like AOC and Bernie, wtf is wrong with them ?

[@duggydugg3937]

bullsmoke,.... proff yelps about KAPATALIZM.. ignores deficate SPENDING.. die falscher LENDS government SPENDS makes IRS extract to pay the loanshark back

[@chazbennett8676]

Honestly, the only person thats let me down more than Thom Hartman is Bernie Sanders. Both refuse to blame the Dems.

[@Letkharable]

I like Tom, smart guy, but it seems like the only solution he ever proposes is voting for the Democrats again.

[@nolitetebastardescarborund9761]

Voting for Democraps ain't smart.

[@acegikm]

We need more grass roots activism, and progressives need to get involved in their local politics. After the Squad let us down, I'm convinced the system is never gonna change til the populations drastically changes some things. We should prolly still vote for the lesser of two evils president, but most the work needs to be done outside of federal politics.

[@FleetaFleegalBuckFut]

“Vote for your oppressors!” said the dude with a library in his house

[@christinepeach8213]

@@acegikm Voting for the 'lesser of 2 evils' is not a 'real' choice. Imagine that when the people vote they vote for the person who they think will do the best job. Now, we in America vote for the 'lesser of 2 evils';;; something is Wrong with that. Thank You.

[@nasaihyana]

Facts...the Dems control all three levers of power and what have done with it???

[@kevintewey1157]

Professor Chris Hedges will tell you the only real Progressive is Ralph Nader Thom Hartmann would not know a real Progressive if Ralph slapped him in the face

[@l.w.paradis2108]

"With help from autocratic governments including _Russia"_ Now we know how bright Thom Hartmann is.

[@lilithstarchild5098]

He's a bottom feeder sh*tliberal.

[@MathUDX]

Glad I wasn't the only one to laugh out loud at that nonsense. I have no idea how anyone can think he's some sort of intellectual anymore, he's just another useful partisan for the Democrats.

[@nicholasszegho6768]

Exactly…. What is this 💩 he babbling on about. America overthrows a government with the help of neo Nazi fascists, Russia liberates people being murdered and oppressed by these fascists. Maybe “progressives” should focus less on Russia and more on their own lack of democracy and even more they should focus on how America dictates to every other nation what kind of economic system they must have and who will own and what will be done with the natural resources and labour surplus of every other country. Don’t ever lecture any other country and if you are how about you start with your good buddies in Saudi Arabia and Israel.

[@AxiomBlurr]

Thank you so much Prof Wolff, you are a light in my life and I sincerely appreciate you spreading this knowledge and awareness. From Australia with eternal respect.

[@IosuamacaMhadaidh]

Voting for Democrats out of fear has led us here to begin with, Tom is insane.

[@transsylvanian9100]

In a bourgeois dictatorship, voting is merely a theatric ritual performed every two to four years to choose which side of the same coin gets to enforce the interests of capital.

[@peace7394]

The American people were robbed and fooled by Democratic Party politicians. It was related to their cunning work in Ukraine. with WEAPONS from America and NATO.... THE NEO NAZI KYIV regime did not hesitate to destroy VILLAGES and TOWNS in EASTERN UKRAINE.... Neo Nazi terrorists of the Kyiv regime have been carrying out massacres of EASTERN UKRAINIAN PEOPLE / RUSSIAN SPEAKERS since 2014. At least pre-arrival of the special military operation of the Russian federation, the neo-nazi terrorists of the Kyiv regime had committed GENOCIDE or ETHNIC CLEANSING against 15000 people of EASTERN UKRAINE / RUSSIAN SPEAKERS. From the testimony and confessions of the people of Mariupol, Donestk, Luhanks and others, collected by independent journalists from various countries we can know that THE NEO NAZI TERRORISTS OF THE KYIV REGIME have increasingly gone crazy about killing Ukrainians speaking Russian speakers and also destroying various facilities and houses that exist in cities and villages inhabited by Russian-speaking Ukrainians. Since 2014 various attempts at negotiations to get THE NEO NAZI TERRORISTS OF THE KYIV REGIME to stop GENOCIDE against the Russian-speaking Ukrainian people have been pursued. But the neo-nazi terrorists of the Kyiv regime backed by politicians of the American Democratic party and NATO have never stopped killing. February 2022 in the end the russian federation provided assistance to the fighters of Donetsk, Luhanks, Mariupol and other urban cities to FREE them from the abominations and cunning of the neo-nazi terrorists of the Kyiv regime. To understand the existing conflicts. It is mandatory that you learn slowly by listening to some documentaries and reports of humanitarian journalists. Of course, you can also compare it to manipulative reportage carried out by American media corporations and NATO. By comparing you will be able to judge which is right and which is wrong... HUMANITY is the MAIN VALUE.... THE PEOPLE WERE FOOLED AND FORCED TO SUPPORT Neo Nazi Ukraine. U.S. Democrats designed THE DESTRUCTION OF UKRAINE. Buy and install Ukrainian politicians to be in the control of American politics. Making provocations through the work of secret agents in the events of Maidan 2014. Raising neo-nazi groups and then including them in Ukrainian military units to find out the beginnings of the UKRAINIAN CONFLICT and the growth of Ukrainian Neo Nazis who then for 8 years COMMITTED GENOCIDE or ETHNIC CLEANSING against the people of eastern Ukraine (russian language) More than 15,000 eastern Ukrainians have been killed by Ukrainian neo-nazis. Please learn UKRAINE ON FIRE by Oliver Stone (USA) kzbin.info/www/bejne/pnzGnoF9q8Z3i9U Compare with this sub video Ukrainian neo-nazi child training camp by The Guardian. kzbin.info/www/bejne/oJqliaCYoNycidk INSIDE A WHITE SUPREMACIST MILITIA IN UKRAINE by TIME kzbin.info/www/bejne/nKqcYmN8fJlpeZY Coverage BBC NEWS 7 years ago. kzbin.info/www/bejne/f5Oadp6AeZVrm5Y Coverage DEMOCRACY NOW 8 years ago. kzbin.info/www/bejne/iIC3qKyGatOiZpo The provocation of black American groups by carrying out hidden shootings of the people can be seen on BBC NEWSNIGHT in the coverage 7 years ago kzbin.info/www/bejne/o3vLe2meoNhjgMk NEO-NAZI THREAT can be seen in BBC NEWSNIGHT coverage 8 years ago kzbin.info/www/bejne/a4SloGOXoMp3g7s Because of the brutality of ukrainian neo-nazis, the people of eastern Ukraine are victims. This coverage was made by the BBC 8 years ago kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZoKqd42bq8Sbbck There are many documentaries of independent journalists since 8 years ago that can be studied. From there we will be able to know how American and NATO politicians must be held accountable for the overlap of UKRAINIAN NEO NAZIS in the crimes of ethnic cleansing or genocide against the people of eastern Ukraine. For a daily report on the state of eastern Ukraine you can see in the reportage of independent journalists such as PATRICK LANCASTER (USA) on the KZbin channel. Or.... Eva K Bartlett (Canada), Graham Phillips (UK), VN Rangeloni (Italy), Ruben Gisbert (Spain), John Mark Dougan (USA) Their reprotase is on their respective youtube channels And.... Cristelle (FRANCE) On youtube channel : Donbass Insiders .................. May the civilians of western Ukraine and from the east soon find peace. And rotten politicians and fascist mobs must be eradicated for a better future for Ukraine. Mark Bartalmai (German) Title : ukraine agony the concealed war Made in 2014 And I really appreciate LIVRE NOIR (FRANCE) journalistic work. And I also advise all of us to look intellectually at the work ANNE LAURE BONNEL. I suggest you learn a little from the discussion on The Duran (KZbin) and The New Atlas. And... Richard Medhrutst (UK) Jackson Hinkle (USA) Scott Ritter (USA) Gonzalo Lira (Kharkov Ukraina) The Hill (USA) Redacted (USA)

[@leanysealvarado7499]

@@transsylvanian9100 💯

[@ryanosterman2651]

At this point the only hope we have is to take over the Democratic Party from within. We basically live in a capitalist vanguard party system.

[@transsylvanian9100]

@@ryanosterman2651 Never gonna happen. The Democratic Party is where progressive politics goes to die. Anyone attempting to "change it from within" is co-opted and made part of the swamp. Happened to the so-called "Squad" who all voted in unison to fund a proxy war (in which the US is arming literal neonazis btw) with $40 billion dollars. Traitors to the working class the lot of them and they wouldn't even force a Med4All vote.

[@charleskesner1302]

Thanks, Professor Wolff.

[@mr.cosmos5199]

Nowadays it’s difficult to know who to trust and time is so precious with so much happening around us at increased pace. Professor Wolff is one voice I trust , that’s worth the time listening to.

[@justgivemethetruth]

Wolff is a clown. He tells fairy tales about economics at the left of a second grader. While I agree with him on so much, he doesn't teach anyone anything useless and I think he is in the empty of the other side.

[@Kelvin-b3j]

Give the world great news Speaking the truth about American and the world Thank you 😊 💓

[@markstuckey6225]

Much as I admire Mr. Hartmann, I think it a bit rich (pun intended) that he accuses the Russian Federation of being authoritarian and then goes on to list the intrenched authoritarianism of the USA typified by money controlling elections. A simple example: in the USA you can be evicted on the whim of your landlord, in Russia evictions are illegal (except for criminal conduct); if your apartment block is to be destroyed and a new built to replace it, this can only be done if a majority of residents vote for it, if your apartment block is to be replaced it must be replaced by one of a higher standard, _at no rent increase_ USAians think that they aren't living under a tyrant when all the time they are one illness away from financial catastrophe. Democracy is the people having a say on their conditions of living, not once every four years deciding (from a very limited group of incompetents, determined by a tyrannical _elite_ ) who your leader will be. USA has a very distorted view of freedom, democracy, wealth, purpose etc. Its citizens are badly educated, technically and morally. Mr. Hartmann described it perfectly at 23:30 when he described USA religion as what's in it for me (pie in the sky and wealth now) rather than following the example of costly way of life espoused by the religions founder.

[@peternyc]

@Mark Stuckey, You hit the nail on the head. He's a rodent dressed as a human.

[@markstuckey6225]

@@peternyc I don't believe that for a moment; I think he's a decent, honest man who shows great insight despite growing up in USA. I am sorry I gave you that impression.

[@peternyc]

@@markstuckey6225 I apologize for attaching my anger to your comment. If you want me to delete it, I will. But first, I’ll explain. I use to be a liberal Democrat, like you I suppose. When I saw how the Democratic Party always let the Republicans bully them, I was depressed. Same story, year after year. The D’s never fought for regular people, yet always had high rhetoric and lofty ideals. It wasn’t until the beginning of 2009 that I really understood what was happening when Obama announced who would be in his cabinet: former Clinton administration members Robert Rubin and Larry Summers. Obama had the fate of American people in his hand. He was set to be the next FDR, yet it was clear he never intended to fight for us. He was elected to be the clean up man for Wall Street. His speech at the Democratic National Convention in 2004 was fake. His campaign in 2008 and 2012 was fake. After learning that all those years of feeling suspicious of the Democratic Party were well founded, I realized the actual enemy wasn’t the Republicans. They are who they have always been - laissez faire capitalists in the tradition of 19th century England. For them people give assets value. They are pro capital and want labor to be as close to free as possible. The GOP is as evil as they have ever been. They haven’t changed one bit. The reason that the Republicans have dominated politics for so long is that the Democrats let them. It’s really that simple. The Republicans give Democrats plausible deniability. Thom Hartman is a cheerleader for the Democratic Party, just as Bernie is. They sheepdog. I refuse to place my hopes in people who are going to stab me in the back. Luckily for me, people in America are waking up to the good cop/bad cop game of red vs blue. Don’t put your faith in heroes and leaders. They are all liars. We need bottom up grass roots organizing across party lines. It’s class war, not culture war.

[@Zhicano]

I couldn't have disagreed more with Hartmans analysis. The system has always been autocratic and under Atlanticist neoliberalism that shares nothing with China and Russia. The American Reich has always been this way. Confederacy or not.

[@blvckvv999]

That's because Hartman blows

[@justgivemethetruth]

Tell it!

[@newforestpixie5297]

In England our Gas Electricity & Water were Nationalised until the mid 1980s when Mrs Thatcher proclaimed that de regulation would allow competition which would somehow be better for customers. Since then , one supplier announces that a price increase is necessary for some reason or other - which then gets followed by every other competing company and the exact opposite effect that we were promised is the reality. Bunch of Devils I tell you ! 😃🏴❤️

[@itzenormous]

Oh boy, Mr. Liberal - Thom Hartmann. Thom means well, I guess, but he refuses to level any criticism at the Democratic Party ... the same party that, these days, is probably the most Right-Wing of our two bourgeois parties.

[@MutualistSoc]

In this country. It's easier to get a gun. Than to form a union.

[@zofiajaneczek184]

And easier to use that gun on the innocent than actually get a good job with decent pay! Yes unions are likened to Communism and we can't have any happy workers left! ALL must parish and buckle under this crap system! It wouldn't be the good old USA if you didn't hate your job, it would probably be.... Europe! I just finished a wonderful day in over 100 degree heat on the job, my employer doesn't give a shift, but I'm 100% sure a union would!

[@MutualistSoc]

@@zofiajaneczek184 I work in a Union shop. They have what's called a (wet bulb test). It's reads like the relative humidity to temperature. If it's like 70% humid with a relative temp of like 86 degrees they start passing out water. After 90 degrees we get Gatorade. And an hour after that if it doesn't drop off we get a 15 minute break every hour.

[@MutualistSoc]

@@zofiajaneczek184 Also these 15 minute heat breaks do not take away from our normal breaks. So one a day of excess heat my day could look like this. Work (6:00 -8:30am) On break (8:30-9:00 norm pass out water) Work (9:00 -11:30) Break (11:30- 12:00 Recieve Gatorade) Heat break (12:00-12:15) Work ( 12:15 - 1:15) Heat break ( 1:15 - 1:30) Work ( 1:30 - 2:00) Break (2:00 - 2:30) Heat break (2:30-2:45) The heat breaks do add to alot more leisure time to rest from the heat. But as members we don't feel the wet bulb is always implemented like it should be. So we are gonna be asking to have a new practice done to were our heat breaks are based off the temperature outside. To make it more transparent.

[@MrBreeze66]

It’s odd that people here are consumed with working for a Union while people coming here through immigration are wanting to start a business of their own. Owning is the American dream, but it seems people have forgotten that.

[@MutualistSoc]

@@MrBreeze66 I fully support Individual / Family Ran businesses. Only area where I don't agree is if that individual businesses workload becomes to high and they hire someone, but pay the person less than what the market value of their labor created so to profit off the individual.

[@espositomatthew]

"Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary" -Karl Marx

[@empofxeno]

Nobody wants to take your gum -Joe Biden

[@dennisyoung4631]

Orwell says much the same. *”A disarmed populace is far more susceptible to coercion,* hence one of the first things the current leadership did long ago was make the possession of *anything that could be used as a weapon* a matter of summary execution, this done in public by means of the most cruel and vicious torture they could manage so as to terrorize the populace into becoming slaves.” Original Fiction.

[@iansanford6544]

Note that, much like the Founding Fathers, 'arms and ammunition' were a different concept back then from today - Marx's 1850s world still had not experienced repeating rifles, machine guns, tanks, jets or rocket artillery. He was concerned with tyranny from the government, and wanted the populace to be able to match the governments' power of the day, massed line infantry with muskets or rifles. Marx was not expecting every household have its own Anti-tank gun, every community to own a tank, every town to own a fighter jet. In their day, an 'active shooter incident' took at minimum for a well trained shooter 20 seconds between shots, whereas these days it's 20 seconds between emptying your extra-capacity mags and loading the next banana into your AR. As such, "defending yourself against the guv'mint" is such a ridiculous and worthless position that it has no merit. The tools, bearing no other capacity than to harm, aught not be so overwhelmingly abundant that these killing events just keep happening apace thrice daily.

[@john.premose]

That’s rubbish. Don’t quote people who are dead. I’m more interested in the living family of all those dead kids. Marx is not a deity and he’s not infallible and he never lived in 21st century America

[@rettro6578]

@@iansanford6544 The Taliban and Viet Cong would like a word about this notion that the US fights guerilla warfare well. It would be chaos and implode the US economy. The ruling elite would think twice before unleashing the American military on US soil.

[@TerryTappArt]

I prefer "dead billionaire" or "gunned-down billionaire" to "billionaire." It's a moral preference but I guess in a way I'm agreeing with Musk on this; "billionaire" is just too plain.

[@Skull322Bones]

"'No way to prevent this,' says the only nation where this regularly happens"....I love The Onion! LOL

[@adambrock7692]

Kinda completely stupid that we let basic needs food housing medicine be about most profit that can be made

[@Eliminator5555]

Yep. Nothing more important than allowing endless speculation in every aspect of society, including housing.

[@joycesvarvar]

What kind of government " by and for the people" would allow a social, economic or political situation" where the situation is completely opposite of " for and by the people" when basic needs like food, clothes, shelter and health care and education, become the domain of only those who can afford it, and there is no cap on that either, as everything related to cost keeps rising. The whole economic system which prioritizes Profit over People is evil within itself. America is quickly becoming Third World in it's looks and operation of Government. Dominated by two sides of the same coin. Republicans are extreme Capitalist, but so are Democrats, they all get elected, comfortable and become third rate actors with no moral guard rails, whatever the script call for, they become.

[@jsmandrake]

most excellent in content & tempo perfect for Thanksgiving conversation among family & friends

[@carinalundstrom7684]

Wolff is outstanding, I am so impressed with his transferability, idolization has never been close to my heart but now I am trapped, Wolff has become my sainted icon❤️

[@revolutionishere]

Idolization is always an error. We need to be critical of everything someone says, even an individual we agree with or admire.

[@carinalundstrom7684]

@@revolutionishere As true as can be said😊 But a person of experienced age, enriched by knowledge-treasures and other valuables, such as being open minded ... has the critical ability. It is a difference between being open minded and downright gullible. Being open minded means assessing each new piece of evidence objectively, and trying to see the wider picture. This mean accepting possibility, but evaluating probability. It does not mean believe everything. Humor is life-affirming🌞 "Even before man got a language, humor was a part of everyday life. Anthropologists believe that laughter developed from the grunts that prehistoric people gave off, when they had fun with family members. During the Stone Age - just like today - humor was a sign of intelligence. If you could make the others in the cave laugh, you raised your own status in the herd. But humor also improved your chances of survival. If you could smile and laugh with the others, you automatically became popular in the group - and thus ran less risk of being killed, if you competed for the same food or the same woman. Humor also increased your chances of finding a partner. Then, just like today, women are often attracted to intelligent men, who can protect them and who are smart enough to see the fun in difficult situations, "says Don Nilsen, Professor of Linguistics ,USA. He has been researching humor for decades and has published the book The Language of Humor.

[@akeleven]

In Russia abortion is legal ( insurance pays) but they also have two years family paid leave, child care and free health care. Our greatest enemy has better health care coverage than we do.

[@ZubairAhmad-yj9et]

Suppressed people have nothing to loose except their life of misery. Eliminate your suppressors from their wicked existence.

[@rettro6578]

And then what?

[@CatastrophicNewEngland]

It's like they are conducting a mass social experiment, where they are seeing how bad things can get before people snap. You see it a bit with these young people shooting up places. And instead of attempting to make a better society for everyone, their response is to really anger, divide and suppress the people even more. The solutions do not need to be violent.

[@zofiajaneczek184]

Not enough are uncomfortable yet! Things must get far worse for actual change to happen, I fear it. I don't think people are willing to unite in order for real concrete change to happen. You must be ALL in and not afraid to loose everything for ultimate change. Too many want everything but are also unwilling to part with anything. Ask someone to possibly loose their life for freedom, few will go there....

[@미향주-j4s]

Richard Wolff means Jeung just young in Korea of people because of its accent in his English. Thanks a lot. Iove corn.

[@gos4343]

If Sanders and AOC is the best you have, then the “hope” talked about is a faint one.

[@stephenyang2844]

Mr. Hartman's bookshelves look wellstocked; I like to believe they demonstrate amount and quality of knowledge in Mr. Hartman.

[@oldsesalt8496]

Actually, monopolies CAN reduce the cost of producing things. At the same time, they can (and do) increase the cost of you buying them.

[@miketheyunggod2534]

Not all the time. No many people care if someone has a monopoly on pigs feet.

[@jimcarrington6744]

Monopolies do not usually create competition.

[@oldsesalt8496]

@@jimcarrington6744 But they do create economy of scale. They just don't pass on the lower costs.

[@jimcarrington6744]

@@oldsesalt8496 Agreed, and they do not create jobs, as only the consumer does that.

[@AllenOoflynn]

Richard Wolff said the increased unionisation in the US in inspiring in the US , it is also inspiring to me here in the UK , I imagine it's inspiring through out the world 🤗

[@petersepall2590]

Swimming in the shallow end with "keep voting Democrat" Thom Hartman.

[@ZealothPL]

What else are you going to do? It's actually easier to infiltrate an existing party than its to make a viable 3rd party...

[@alfmeister13]

I used to like Hartman years ago but when he said on his show 'I think Hillary Clinton would be a very good President' he lost me for good.

[@petersepall2590]

@@ZealothPL Except the infiltration isn't happening because everybody who gets elected to that gets co-opted by the wealthy donors of the party. A third party is probably the only solution and the more people realize that the more that it will become possible.

[@petersepall2590]

@@alfmeister13 Yes me too. He's either dangerously naive or more concerned with his social connections and income than with being honest about the political situation, not that the two are mutually exclusive.

[@s0515033]

@@alfmeister13 Had she been president we wouldn't have a supreme court we got now. So, she could have been shit and still been better than what we got. All the Hillary hate lead to abortion getting canned, migrant worker rights being revoked, and a slew of other insanely conservative decisions that will ruin your life for decades to come. Baghdad bob and crazy Amy the Handmaid's Tale would not be on the bench. We are objectively worse off because Hillary lost. And yes, Hillary is not good. But I will always take less good vs actual evil.

[@basfinnis]

It’s the same here in the UK. Get people polarised and fighting each other rather than tackling the big companies and establishments.

[@Inspector-Chisholm]

And what's your answer to that? Cancel the side you don't like?

[@kellykizer6718]

We live in a national and international oligarchy with controlled opposition and useful idiot's on all side's. Coke or Pepsi it's all Cola. Audi Vide Tace.

[@lawrenceralph7481]

We been through this many times before 1770s, 1840s, 1890s, 1910s, 1930s, 1970s. All readjustments.

[@MutualistSoc]

In this country. It's easier to get a gun. Than to get Healthcare.

[@subramaniamapplanaidu8026]

I love to hear your analysis of US history. Keep it up. Until then

[@proy7248]

OMG… I’m Chinese. Born and raised in Beijing. Authentic Chinese. My American friends, we really don’t care what you do in your country. We don’t give a shit if you’re a “democracy” or not. You do you. Stop mentioning us in every argument you make. Not everything is about you. This guy is considered “progressive” in your country?

[@donnathedead7554]

Not sure which one you're asking about. Wolf is progressive but, like most on the internet, falls into the trap of thinking he has to defend every so-called progressive thing there is. He's also pretty pro-Chinese government based on the fact that they call themselves communist even though he knows they aren't really. Hartman is.... just a buzzword junky, like a lefty version of Trump.

[@proy7248]

@@donnathedead7554 respect dr. Wolf a great deal. Not because he’s “pro China”. He doesn’t hold typical western bias and respects facts. It’s the other guy.

[@geoffreynhill2833]

America is so macho. Thom Hartmann is great.

[@goodwifeweaver]

I think Thom has decent intentions, but fail to see the value of interviewing an individual who is clearly invested in the idea that Russia is remotely to blame for our situation. Not to mention his consistent take that our only option in the end is to vote for corrupt neoliberals. Unless you were going to push back against all that. We need urgency, not more of the crap that got us here.

[@davidluckens3479]

I live about 20 miles from EKU,which is one of the major employers in the area-folks who live in the chronically poverty stricken eastern and southeastern areas of Ky.People commute long distances to EKU,as there are few private sector gigs in the area.These employees are proud of their work ethic,and grateful for the opportunity to support their families,The administration's "raise" is an insult to these hardworking people.Its an expression of the banal economic cruelty prof Wolff discussed with RJ Escow on the latter's show,Its small wonder the EKU employees are looking at the union option.

[@MutualistSoc]

In this country. It's easier to get a gun. Than a living and sustainable job.

[@angelamoore8161]

Applause 👏

[@donnathedead7554]

True. That gunman in Uvalde had thousands in guns and ammo but no job and his family wasn't well-off so how did he get all that? I want to know where he bought it and where he got all that money for it.

[@CatastrophicNewEngland]

@@donnathedead7554 CV19 stimulus checks & those massive unemployment bonuses?

[@donnathedead7554]

@@CatastrophicNewEngland He was 18 and never had a job that would allow him to collect unemployment. CV19 stimulus was only given to business owners and households with children. He was neither. Media claims he purchased the guns legally. Perhaps he did, but the money for the guns had to involve some shady, if not criminal activity.

[@CatastrophicNewEngland]

@@donnathedead7554 I was just guessing. Maybe he was working under the table so Uncle Sam wouldn't garnish his wages? I'm pretty certain there were 2 stimulus checks given to every adult citizen, you just had to return a form to the IRS.

[@nabiamiri8794]

The king 👑 Mr.Wolf

[@chongleebnw]

"If you are hungry you're not free if you're homeless you are not free"... Exactly the main society improvement topic on-going over here since 80s on the other side of the ocean, although we probably don't share the same definitions of a few concepts but somehow the purpose is the same: for the benefit of the most people. Civil war is a much closer concept over here since it was only over about 70 years ago, so we (as a society) remember a lot about how the country slided into such a situation and how long it took to get out. The good news is, looks like you won't have that at your current position, far from it. But the problems are at such large scale that they don't go easily, never did, sometime 1 or 2 generations, sometime half a century, if the problems are really foundamental, they won't get fixed within the system. Harsh fixing or soft landing, history has its own momentum, and it all comes down to the collective wisdom of the society.

[@donnathedead7554]

Freer than the wage-slave living in his bank-owned house he'll probably never pay off.

[@matthewingerson]

Thom? Progressive? If by progressive, you mean: 'Thom, the capitulator to the right-wing Democrat-party which capitulates to the right-wing Repubocrat-party, both of which parties are bought, owned, bribed, and controlled by wealthy-class right-wingers." I suppose if that's what you mean, then, sure, Thom's "progressive." *winkwinknudgenudge (I doubt that Wolff really finds Thom to be "progressive" -- perhaps progressive in word but center-right in action.)

[@boristabareag3598]

I will never forget Tom Hartman´s "The Big Picture" on RT America. As matter of fact, I will never forget RT America, the best (the only real) news service in USA for a decade.

[@tupacamaru9627]

RIP RT news

[@s0515033]

RT was literally a foreign state media dressed up for a western audience....The best domestic news is actually PBS.

[@boristabareag3598]

@@s0515033 RT America did offered a platform to real journalists as Chris Hedges or Tom Hartmann, and honorable americans as Jesse Ventura otherwise banned anywhere else. PBS is as shity as any other USA warmonger propaganda outlet.

[@livondiramerian6999]

Believing in something will make things materialize.

[@AlternativeMediaJointCenter]

Dear Richard, I have followed Tom since 2015 until 2020 and am following you since 5 years ago. I know many comrades who follow you and even translated your articles to Persian. I couldn't disagree more with dear Tom about his view of Democracy vs Authoritarianism: - we live in a much bigger world than only US - world order affects US as US affects the whole world to the worst during last 77 years and the new emerging multipolar order will make US to decline even more for every week. We are in the middle of most consequential transition in mankind history. - Liberal democracy is almost dead and to differentiate Trumpism from D party and not seeing the Establishment regime has been our biggest failure during the last decade! Real Democracy comes, as you teach us, from grassroots organizations, participatory democracy is socialistic democracy in which common Prosperity is the very first priority! - And I believe our first priority as socialists is to dissolve NATO and pass US hegemony in the world. Thank you for all very good job you and other comrades do🙏💐 Good luck

[@michael511128]

I moved China from California since 1997. Business has been good and so the prolonged stay. 25 years later all thing reversed. 1997 Beijing was a city of 12 million, 8 million locals and 4 million inbound labour, 1.2 million bicycles, combination of Motorola brick phones, Nokia sandwich phones and pagers. Salary for an senior engineer was 200 dollars a month. Only a rare breed of people owned cars. 25 years later, China split the Forbes billionaire list with the US almost down the middle, topped the US in Fortune 500 companies. Every third Mercedes made in Germany comes to China. For a decade their students occupy as the largest foreign group in every Ivy League and top university in the world. Silicon Valley employs 100,000 Chinese graduates. They used to like it in California like every one else but now the majority of new graduates seek to return to China for better jobs and opportunities. Trump and Covid captured the attention of foreign expats in like us, by the way there are some 80,000 Americans in China among a million foreigners, to compare things that we haven’t thought of much before. China does not have racism, shootings, looting, border camps, gang lands, legal drugs and weed, strikes, mass evictions, live in tents, live under bridge, double digit inflation, 17 million? hungry children, million Covid deaths. Wuhan Covid started in January and ended in May. Then for 20 months China had zero cases almost entirely. For a few months we didn’t even need to wear masks. They have done it again to even the Omicron, Shanghai is already back to normal. Foreign mothers with kids have to worry about not getting their new visas and have to leave this sanctuary. Watching KZbin discussion on US politics from our position is a little like Martians watching what human do with gold bars, as per the famous joke of Warren Buffet’s.

[@justgivemethetruth]

And you still do not know how to spell Thom?

[@thepaillardreaction6982]

I mean it IS easier to get baby formula than a gun....1. it's much cheaper 2. You don't have to wait 72 hours.

[@lynnwood7205]

Oligarchies seek to limit competition.

[@dennisyoung4631]

If not eliminate it…

[@TuberRose333]

Respect to two of the best in America. Many Thanks for your insights and patient instruction.

[@pattirockgarden4423]

Love Pro Wolff!

[@johntrojan9653]

A Civil War ? Nah. SUCCESSION ! 🇺🇲 🇨🇱

[@sherriinolywa]

Yeah. Not a fan of Hartmann.

[@winglo1697]

With guns and other weapons available freely, wars are what the gun manufacturers desires. Bottom line? The mighty dollars!

[@carlopoy1251]

Weakest guest in a long time. I get clearer and more stimulating insights talking to teenagers. At least they generally get the sense that "reducing the power of great wealth" is neither a goal nor a solution, but more like an ideal next step in the struggle to save humanity and the planet.

[@egg64]

Hartmann is a neoliberal shill posing as a lefty/progressive.

[@westernciviccapital3075]

Yellow Vest Proverb: Anyone punching down on regular folks while billionaires still walk the Earth needs to be slapped. 😐

[@ashtangaxashtangapranayama8526]

Bruh u turnt 😂😂

[@blrrich1051]

Nothing like waking up to an excellent video from the Dr. Monday is off to a great start.

[@pacoguerilla3097]

Thanks for your wise opinions

[@gloriouse4458]

YOU’RE ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS 💗

[@josho6038]

1) it's not capitalism when taxpayers are bailing out monopolies...no competitors can survive because they don't get the bailouts 2) banning guns is not the answer

[@rackett8655]

That was a great way to describe the relationship between monoply and competition. They're opposites but one always lead to the other

[@clarestucki5151]

That's ridiculous. Competition DESTROYS monopoly, by definition. You cannot have it both ways.

[@rackett8655]

@@clarestucki5151 Not really. It's the story of all mega corporations. The goal is to maximize profit and you can't do that if someone else is taking your possible buyers. So in the process of competing, you improve your production and distribution techniques to sell more goods, open up new stores or merge or aquire others, hire more workers to win. Your original competitors who couldn't keep up will be forced to close down and/or be bought out, giving you a monopoly on the good or service. Competition led to monopoly

[@donnathedead7554]

@@clarestucki5151 I can empathize with your confusion. Maybe it makes more sense to say, the goal of capitalism is monopoly. Keep in mind that the world capitalism was invented by Marx and this is how he defined it, in a nutshell. You are using an alternative definition of capitalism = free market. This is a phase of capitalism the system itself does not sustain. The true goal of communism (also invented by Marx) was a sustained free-market (fair competition).

[@benangel3268]

@Donna Thedead As I understand it Karl Marx wanted a system where the people doing the hard work received the profits.

[@benangel3268]

@Clare Stucki The people who hate competition most are the capitalists themselves. By knocking out the completion they gain customers. They can buy out companies that are better at innovation, another that is better at technology and another that is tops at design. By merging with other companies they can expand to other places, increase their custom base, economise their costs, increase their prices and maximise their profits.

[@bentrider]

I have become mostly a spectator in life and the shitshow gets more entertaining every day.

[@oldsesalt8496]

The Onion has a way of cutting to the chase. It is the best fake/real/funny news around. My favorite Onion headline was on January 20th, 2001. "America's Long Nightmare of Peace and Prosperity Comes to an End." (Bush was inaugurated.) 2nd favorite was after 9/11. "Twin Towers Fall. America Briefly Feels Affection for New York."

[@grahamwelsh4258]

Excellent as usual

[@Vienticus]

Everyone talks about the country splitting, but no one asks the question: if we split, who keeps the constitution and all the rights within? Answer: No one. Now you know why all the division is being sown.

[@sylviam6535]

The right will keep the Bill of Rights. The left will do away with it, as they have been trying to do for years now, if not for decades.

[@packrat-y7j]

Bigger concern: what happens to the Nukes.

[@laserbrain7774]

I would not call the guest a "progressive". Liberal, yes. Democrat, Yes. Progressive? Maybe Incrementally.

[@PonyTrotsky]

Actually, I'm kind of surprised Wolff would interview Hartmann, who always feels a day late and a dollar short on pretty much everything. Do we really need more blather about the Republicans being "fascist" and Donald Trump being the end of the world? This isn't "the Left." It's just more middlebrow pablum.

[@mrmeow2297]

"Do we really need more blather about the Republicans being "fascist" and Donald Trump being the end of the world? This isn't "the Left." It's just more middlebrow pablum." => Yes. Yes we do. Republicans are morons at the end of the day.

[@alan2102X]

Shill for the DP.

[@TheAmericanAmerican]

Curious that you would put fascist in quotes when referring to the current GOP 🤔 But then again, you are subbed to Dimmy Dore so guess we can just skip the all the BS and assume that you don't think for yourself and just regurgitate what some jack-off "comedian" screams into his microphone 🤣 Seriously though, as a former Jimmy fan from 2015, forget about that grifting POS and move on to smarter content creators. I called his grift to the right-wing dipshits 6 years ago and he's done nothing but proved me right.

[@lsowner10]

Sounds more like you are a trumplican here to troll!

[@f_youtubecensorshipf_nazis]

you sound incredibly uninformed and reactionary

[@westernciviccapital3075]

Real solutions. Yellow Vests. The 3 tacks: 1) micro decentralized voluntary direct democracy assemblies, denying any outside authority; 2) destroy surveillance apparatus; and 3) publicly name, collectively locate and attack individual billionaires one at a time.

[@philosophicsblog]

Love the Tom Hartmann. Thanks, professor.

[@mariaavery1212]

Wow, it's about time. Education is the most important thing in life but education is also something that some people.....(complete).

[@veronicaancrum4871]

If you’re going to accuse the Republicans of being fascist then what about the democratic party? So for Biden hasn’t change one policy that Donald Trump implemented, not one.

[@euroclyde]

And everyone knows the well meaning, honor-bound GOP will NEVER deploy Democratic Party strengthened police forces, military, or spy agencies against left wing organizations, protesters, and movements.

[@rettro6578]

Not to mention the arbitrary mandates in the name of “public health” which would not have “stopped the spread” whatsoever.

[@TommyStovall-g6y]

United campus workers, kentucky is a prime example on how the welfare flows the opposite way up toward the top 10%

[@genoveseLLB]

Thom Hartmann no1. I doubt that!!!

[@lilithstarchild5098]

Thom Hartmann "a progressive." I highly doubt that!!!

[@knight2163]

You know what you are talking about sir!!

[@zalamander8]

Good labor developments as long as Unions can remain free of corporate control.

[@judithgrace9850]

Thank you

[@bonepyre]

RW just let a guest blame Russia and China for the US's problems unchallenged, two countries that actually have control of their business sector. Disappointing.

[@mrmeow2297]

No. Disappointing is your lack of attention. Have you even watched the video?

[@f_youtubecensorshipf_nazis]

Russia soent a decades and helped turmp get elected specifically to cause chaos and folks like you want to ignore it to suit your ridicuoous perspectivs

[@emanuelneagu14]

Kinda true, although not confronting literally every single one of the stupid ideas that you hear can be a strategy to make people listen to you more to stuff easier to prove or more important to be understood. In this case, RW does unfortunately have some uninformed takes on those two countries.

[@elizabethbennet4791]

Great, great, great interview!!!!

[@jeff__w]

3:49 “The Onion headline covering the shooting of the schoolchildren in Texas went like this: ‘“There is no way to prevent this,” says the only nation where this regularly happens.’” Prof. Wolff misses the forest for the trees a bit. That was the _21st time_ that headline appeared in _The Onion_ up to that time-the headline was first written back in 2014-and, on the day that piece was posted (25 May), _The Onion_ posted _all_ 21 pieces on its front page. Since that day, _The Onion_ has posted a story with that identical headline three more times (for shootings in Tulsa, Chattanooga, and Philadelphia).

[@justmenotyou3151]

Ready made headline. Bet they'll use that several more times.

[@vivalaleta]

@@justmenotyou3151 Because they're making a point that it still applies.

[@justmenotyou3151]

@@vivalaleta and there will be a whole lot more shootings. That's the unfortunate reality and that was my point.

[@vivalaleta]

@@justmenotyou3151 It's difficult to perceive the trees in a forest of moronic comments. Forgive me.

[@juliorubido6336]

As usual EXCELENTE, everywere we need this information and enlightened for the goods of the huma race.

[@GradiusGhost1]

Fantastic as always, but I was dying of laughter when he started talking about the rotisserie chickenomics with that condemning tone.

[@belladonna8425]

Rotisserie Chickenomics😂😂 Definitely rolls off the tongue a lot better than neo-feudalism.

[@mad_cat_1st]

5:48 - Hopefully, you're not too late. Sign me up. I live in Wyoming. Teton County - maybe the only "left of center" area of the entire state. Nobody lives here, and the federal government owns or leases 97% of the land in the whole state. It's almost impossible to get a job here and make enough money to scratch out an existence, let alone raise a family or own a home. The NIMBY attitude and gentrification policies are insurmountable without some kind of organization effort, and hopefully the ACLU can get involved. Bring it!

[@singingway]

I highly recommend David Pepper's book Laboratories of Autocracy, which shows how the anti-democracy forces are concentrating their long game on our Statehouses, winning legislation and taking over the levers of power, such as courts and gerrymandered districts.

[@Oldienow]

Describing California.

[@lindascanlan6317]

Your morality is correct .

[@frankcolumbus3330]

What progressive movement there is none.

[@alfred-vz8ti]

if mr hartman is the best 'progressive' voice, the immobile state of usa politics is more understandable. che guevara couldn't raise a smile in that land.

[@reverenceforall]

Billionaires are abhorrent, ya hear that Elon?

[@rogersmith7396]

They are just misunderstood sweethearts.

[@etHero]

Without realizing it, my mouse was over another video of his on he side bar. So it started silently playing out. And as Richard tilted his head to the left, so did mini Richard. and as big Richard moved his head down, again, so did mini Richard. He is like an NPC where his talking animation is just looped

[@consciouseffortmedia]

Prof Wolff I just want you to know that your message is reaching and inspiring the right people. Thank you for this priceless information and thank you for your consistent efforts.