Thomas Frank "What's the Matter With Kansas?"

[@nlsupernovaable]

thomas frank has become one of my favorite people

[@blairschirmerx1711]

He's extraordinarily good. How people like Frank and Molly Ivins maintain their sense of humor is beyond me.

[@hschsc1300]

He speaks the truth and is not a bore to listen to whatsoever. His hair is getting better over time tho

[@glm4054]

Me too😊💓💓

[@BadWolf-]

I love this guy! He does great interviews.

[@chibobird482]

Reading starts at 2:24

[@TedApelt]

What I want to know is why when I have a meeting about getting money out of politics and returning control to the people only four people show up.

[@justgivemethetruth]

Because Americans do not really seem to get the idea of democracy .... maybe they think or know they will be killed or destroyed in some way if they ever really try to exercise it.

[@markspeeps]

I think the room was full. Furthermore if there were only 1 person in the room it does not change the FACTS.

[@lovelygirl2141]

I loved Mondale. I was only a kid when he ran, but he just seemed to be such a decent, sincere man going against an extreme fight.

[@measl]

*And Schriver?*

[@JasonRoggasch]

THANKS!!!

[@prieztus]

Where is Thomas Frank in 2021? We need you...

[@belindagagelman7281]

Must be a Kansas thing. No sidewalks in Great Bend KS either. And some creeps pulled up behind me, swung open their passenger door -- trying to hit me from behind, trying to knock me off my bicycle as I travelled to work at local hospital.

[@fzgn]

Its crazy how this all applies to the 2016 election to the T, and the Democrat establishment still hasn't caught on. Amazing thoughts as always from Thomas Frank!

[@williamjameslehy1341]

I bring you unpleasant news from the future, the 2020 election is fucking déjà vu from 2016.

[@christinetrzcinski4561]

excellent....only problem is at the end you can't hear the questions being asked

[@greedyfirstalgorithmlast26]

Oh Me! I was Born in Wichita, 1949. I have never been to Wichita since. I was in a Psychiatric Hospital in Topeka that was famous, but they only contuined Electric Shocks and Thorazine Stelazine Prolixin.....But I survived, good Kansas Stoic, I are.

[@Kinkle_Z]

Amazing 2004 event. At the end Frank states things will just get worse and worse until it snap backs. We're at the worst point and now we're snapping back.

[@scowlistic]

Still waiting on that snapback.

[@stefanniemiec8727]

Sorry. Still getting worse now in 2022

[@obbzerver]

Lol you hadn't seen the Biden stock market yet - lol.

[@JasonRoggasch]

Ignorance is the only way Grover Norquist exists...

[@JasonRoggasch]

Americas not a country its a business

[@calio99]

Jason Roggasch and my business is good baby

[@greedyfirstalgorithmlast26]

In Kansas City by the Kaw river in 2016 I met a Leprechaun..on St Patrick's Day. I shared Pipe Tobacco with him.

[@donaldwhittaker7987]

Excellent book. I remember a review of his book in the NYT or other paper that said people vote for a candidate based on policies other than those that benefit one's own interests. I thought those reviewers were condescending to the great unwashed. And I was right. The pundits who support or ignore Trump's bizarre nonsense are the same. They know Trump is not in the best interest of the nation. But it does not matter. Wealthy candidates who win elections don't work for the interest of the majority. They talk religion and family values. They acquire money at the expense of the poor and doltish majority. The education system is a disaster.

[@williamjameslehy1341]

Thomas Frank is like a slightly less pessimistic version of Chris Hedges. Or rather, Chris Heges is like the Doomer Thomas Frank.

[@RadioMartyT1B]

Hedges can't grill.

[@theriversexitsense]

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[@justicetruth5456]

The speaker needs to study Bacon's Rebellion. "If you don't understand the system of Racism, which is White Supremacy, everything else you think you understand will only confuse you". Neely Fuller, Jr.

[@kathrynstewart-mcdonald]

View What is the Matter with Kansas, but people are saying something is the matter with Kathryn,... "She has taken to writing reviews and commenting on You Tube."

[@theriversexitsense]

OH MY GOD! he just referred to the Koch brothers as two businessmen from Wichita who helped found the John Birch Society. This is old! people don't know who the Koch brothers are.

[@profd65]

No shit, dumbass. It was taped it 2004.

[@michaelnelson9328]

Yeah, we do

[@RadioMartyT1B]

Stunning....

[@bobdavis9727]

"I watch CNN all the time..."

[@williamjameslehy1341]

Tell me Bob, what unbiased news sources do you recommend? InfoWars? Daily Stormer? Chain emails, and bumper stickers found on pickup trucks?

[@williamjameslehy1341]

Also Frank is a progressive and therefore reviled by CNN, which is a 24/7 echo chamber in defence of the status quo.

[@DougGrinbergs]

2:26 Thomas Frank

[@this1wisechic]

is that Freddie Armisen?

[@mgietzen]

The election of Donald Trump in 2016, is the first real evidence of meaningful progress for the Social Conservatives who were so aptly lampooned in Thomas Frank's prophetic book, "What's the Matter With Kansas?" The untold truth is that these exact same ProLife Social Conservatives faithfully attended Trump Rallies, and helped Trump with his many Primary Season victories, sometimes openly in opposition to their own entrenched Republican Party leadership in 2015 and 2016, giving Trump his unanticipated (by most) General Election Victory in November. I am writing this in June of 2016, and I am still on cloud-9 over Trump's win! Thomas Frank needs a new chapter in his book!

[@malcolmsherwood19]

At 31m Frank laughs at Bill O'Reilly for getting upset about NAMBLA.

[@Miguel_El_Chileno]

Rebellion for Popular Democracy ?

[@justgivemethetruth]

The problem with Conservative politicians is that they do not care about the working class and seek to exploit them, but at least they are honest and the working class can believe them. The problem with Liberal politicians is that they pretend to be something that the working class does not believe even exists ... a politicians that will represent the working class. Liberal politicians need to be watched and vetted more, and the working class is afraid they will give away their tax money to people who do not deserve it. The working class is righteously mad because they pay too much taxes since they are making up for the upper classes who do not really pay taxes - the richer they are the less tax they pay. So the majority of those who do pay taxes are mad because they are hit with the deficit/debt. We have something like 18 trillion debt and add to that every year, and the money that the very rich do not pay in taxes goes into their rainy day fund for when it call collapses so they can buy everything up. The working class don't seem to realize or do not believe that they rich or anyone else has any responsiblity to the country and the people. Americans hate and disrespect each other. They don't realize that if the rich paid their taxes they would not feel over-burdened and would have health care and education benefits that would lead to growth. The Conservatives want to make sure that is never proven to the working class or else they will always vote Liberal ... and so both parties must be taken over in addition to the media so the people never learn the truth and keep paying and feeling miserable for it until they demand government shut down and the rich elite oligarchs run everything ... yes, we are that stupid apparently.

[@JasonRoggasch]

How many lies does it take for you to become part of the lie?

[@danishaffer2673]

It’s true there really did used to be liberals wild in the world. For some one so aghast about ‘Stalinism’ he sure sounds like a ‘Stalinist’ too frightened to suggest revolution.

[@ricardodsavant2965]

why don't they think like me?

[@theriversexitsense]

this guy named sam brownback.... oooooh!

[@tommench4848]

i didnt know there are people in kansas that read books

[@RadioMartyT1B]

Were you Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign advisor?

[@tommench4848]

@@RadioMartyT1B If I were her advisor she wouldnt have lost

[@kchennessey8781]

I think progressives and libertarians need to join forces to get someone elected to get the corruption out of our two parties. Then, both democrat and republican parties will represent us and we can have real political discussion in this country again and argue the merits of free markets vs social capitalism

[@RickCarroll-j5n]

You stole this!!! William Allen White is where you stole it from

[@calio99]

so somebody please make me understand why the estate tax is good.

[@thetigerking2613]

Because it only applies to rich people. You don't pay the estate tax unless you die with over 5.3 Million dollars in your pocket.

[@profd65]

Because the rich get the most from government, and should pay for it.

[@RadioMartyT1B]

America craves an aristocratic class. Born into privilege.

[@craigsmith441]

Just so everyone knows! This author grew up in one of the most liberal counties in Kansas and went to the most liberal college in Kansas which happens to be the other liberal county and the only two counties to vote for Hillary in Kansas in the 2016 presidential election. He does not to have a clue about what the people in the other 103 of the 105 counties stand for. He seems to think we're idiots for not taking other people's money to support ourselves. We believe you should leave us alone and we'll leave you alone. We want our land grant colleges to study how to raise the best crops we can without polluting the land and water, we pay them for that! By the way most of the farmers and rancher in kansas have a college degree! We believe in personal choice and right to life! If we make bad decisions we expect you to take responsibility for that choice, if we make a good choice we expect to reap the rewards for that choice and not be penalized for it ! We judge a man or woman based on their character not their color or their sexial choice. There are a few, very few, racist in Kansas but they are very old for the most part and no amount of arguing is going to change their mind so we try to get the younger ones around them to see how wrong and backwards they are. As for the old racists we'll just have to wait for them to die on their own. There are many women that own and operate farms and ranches in Kansas and we are proud of them. My grandmother farmed and ranched on her own for 25 years after my grandfather died, and even while fighting skin cancer she never asked for shit, she was one tough woman! Years after she'd beaten skin cancer she got cancer in her neck and the day after all her cattle were sold and on my grandfathers birthday she died from it. I only heard her curse once in her life, i was 12 at the time, it was on July 3 1988 while watching the 6pm news on CBS,one of the 3 tv channels she had. On the tv were protests in Iran and in America over Iran Air Flight 655 passenger plane being shot down by the missile cruiser USS Vincennes. Both the Iranian people and American protester were burning the american flag! She said "they'll never get it"meaning both protesters in Iran and America. I asked her what she meant? She said that" we could be beating the shit out of each other, brother to brother, neighbor to neighbor, friend to friend, enemy to enemy and that we were all Americans and if we were attacked no matter what our battles were about the same Americans fighting each other would turn shoulder to shoulder and fight alongside each other and for each other as Americans" She said "the Americans burning their own countries flag were a bunch liberal pussies who would never understand or respect their own country". I think she was right! IF YOU ASK WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH KANSAS? I ASK WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH YOU!

[@RadioMartyT1B]

Okey-dokey.

[@SatyricalWidget]

Hence the whole thesis of his book.

[@misselainaous3159]

Look into Katherine Cramer Walsh's study "Putting Inequality in its Place: Rural Consciousness and the Power of Perspective" -- she offers a really interesting rebuttal to Frank's argument.

[@SatyricalWidget]

@@misselainaous3159 If it's anti socialist rhetoric I'm not interested.

[@corylarsen5788]

From 1995 - 2020; Kansas farm subsidies were over $24 billion

[@janettucker1235]

This guy doesn't get the world at all....

[@thebuddhasmiles]

How so?