Has US Liberal Democracy Reached The End?
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The side against democracy and civil rights is very motivated and keeps hammering away.
The side that's supposed to oppose them does nothing. Nothing.
They are also corrupt.
Because they benefit just as much, if not more, under authoritarianism
Capitalists own both sides. It's effectively theatre at this stage. Manufactured consent via impression of population input, while they they overtly ignore the population lol.
You were correct in saying "supposed to".
It's Kabuki Theater.
WWE: The Democrats are the "Babyfaces" and the GOP are the "Heels," but they both work for the sane boss.
History has shown the capital class thrives under facism.
@@cassiusdhami9215 Interesting I just had my comment deleted for saying effectively the same thing.
Millions of people mistakenly think that voting for Trump will take us back to pre-pandemic prices. And that's mostly all they care about.
Even though it’s Trump’s policies that caused those high prices. Anyone who thinks prices will go back down is a moron that doesn’t understand capitalism.
The Majority Report wants people to think that voting for Biden will solve all the problems in the country 😉
You're a lost cause. I can only imagine what it's like to look into those dead freak eyes of yours. @@QuilishWammy
@@QuilishWammy People who follow MR think for themselves.
I think you are confusing MR with Meidas Touch anyway.
MR fans know that a puddle of puke would be better than any Republican in any election.
@@QuilishWammy Some of them, some are scared.
Pack the court, immediately. Before it's too late.
The Democratic Party had *decades* to pack the court, yet they didn't. When will you realise that they don't want to pack the court ? 😉
The do nothing dems will do nothing.
It's too late 🤠👍
Way too late and they have no intention of doing anything to save this country
How many times and things do you need to see that the democrats are paid to lose.
In what world is “Bernie was already sliding down” true in any sense of the word? This is why the so-called “left” fucking sucks in this country. Bernie was winning and the DNC panicked about the possibility of an actual LEFT-leaning candidate winning the nomination so all the other candidates lined up behind Biden specifically to defeat Bernie. I’m disgusted by this take. Gross as fuck.
How are you disgusted? This is what happened! This wasn't a take. Bernie should have stood up to his 'friend'.
The Majority Report is not a part of 'the left'. They have always been a cheerleader for the corporate centrists.
@@toronaldarisno he means he's disgusted by Emma's take that Bernie was already sliding down. Bernie would have won and would have mopped the floor with Trump so hard that Trump would have been too embarrassed to run again.
I was all in for Bernie then gladly Voted for Hillary, Anyone who didn’t Vote for Her, real simple - The Supreme Court
Np
The game went from trying to be the party which offers slightly more, to trying to be the party which hurts slightly less
I'm convinced at this point that we just need to accept that the US sucks at democracy, and in fact always has, as well as that democracy simply does not work when the populace has no long-term political memory and no real understanding of how their government even works (which is undeniably the case for this country), to say nothing of how appallingly disengaged most eligible voters are that they never do more than vote.
Yep. America may have ushered democracy into the mainstream, it was never the best or most free.
It's a democratic Republic. You don't have ANY understanding but you are lecturing?
@@timbrown9305 What word do you think "democratic" is derived from...?
@@redsilversnake OMG your dumber than I thought
The problem is that the authoritarian playbook is pretty simple in this regard: make the legislature dysfunctional. If nothing gets done, there space to move the narrative towards "this isn't working, we need a STRONG LEADER" and eventually people will fall for it. The liberals will just have lukewarm executives who will willingly stay within their boundaries and the authoritarian leaders push as far and as hard as they can for now power.
We should mandate a functioning legislature if they don’t do their jobs they should get China like punishment as in jail time
Australian here and that summation is exactly what I see as an outside observer.
I'm actually an engineer and have been trying to figure out why economists are driving all our economies into the ground. That story swings around to the Milton Friedman inspired, Ronald Reagan Reaganomics and Margret Thatcher Thatcherism revolution in the 1970s. Friedman was an absolute free market advocate. He believed that governments were inherently corrupt and incompetent and hos free market was the solution.
Also out of the same University of Chicago mentality came the Neoconservative movement who also believed that governments were the problem not the solution which was also another thing adopted by Reagan.
So there's been both a political and economic movement to push governments out of the way so that the business community could run everything. Margret Thatcher also introduced the world to external consultants effectively running government departments. YES - governments had always hired outside consultants but Thatcher jacked that through the roof. Here in Australia (right now) all of our government departments are effectively run by consultants (KPMG, EY, PwC,.......) and its a major problem. Go look up the PwC scandal.
So you are SPOT ON that this is a huge problem in America, but its also a problem that America has exported to the rest of the world and we have all been stupid to accept it.
You progressives can't seem to get many of your uber mench candidates elected either buddy
Almsot every squad backed or endorsed canddiate in thenlast few elections failed to be elected
Maybe dyong on the "glass israel and down with dirty jew money"
Wasn't the winning slogan you thought it was.
Ratchet effect in full force
I mean its partly that, but mainly capitalism is failing. Or suceeding again but only for the rich.
And liberals all prefer the fascist over the socialists.
I'm sorry but we can't talk about western liberal democracies anymore, we are living in liberal oligarchies
It certainly feels like we're standing on an edge
We're over the edge unfortunately
lol speak for yourself. TRUMP 2024
@@lawrence208how does it feel to be room temperature IQ?
@@lawrence208 It ain't over yet dude
😎🇺🇸😎🇺🇸......@@lawrence208
Are we now accepting the claim that Biden was more electable than Bernie? No way. And we never got the chance to find out.
They are absolutely full of shit. Biden was forced on us to keep corporations in charge and not risk losing the White House to someone that wanted to clean that up and put things more back in control of the people.
Oh, some people still are. Biden's fanbase is as cultlike as Trump's now.
Just stop. Sanders is a good guy but not a good campaigner; his campaign made some major mistakes in 2016, and didn't learn from those mistakes in 2020.
He's also older than Biden and had a heart attack during the 2020 campaign, which was surprisingly glossed over.
And it's long over, there's no reason to keep beating this dead horse.
@@soundmindny You just stop. I was responding to something specific that they said in this video. (And two days later, I now no longer remember what that was.) I am not even advocating for anything, just making a factual point. Talking about history is not beating a dead horse - especially after somebody misstates it.
As to who was a good campaigner, Bernie was on the cusp of sweeping all the primaries before Obama pulled strings. Meanwhile, Biden was on the cusp of coming in 5th or something like that; he could not have been nominated on his own. And Biden didn't beat Trump because of anything Biden did, but because of everything Trump did; Biden just got lucky. Those are just facts.
I don't see the Democratic Party in the role of defending democracy. This is the party that is selecting their presidential candidate without allowing the voters a meaningful participation in the process for the third election in a row. Normally Sam and Emma don't say things I consider naive, but here we are.
Agree. "Saving Democracy" is not a good strategy. Most don't understand what it really means to be under a dictatorship. Biden should be running on economic populism. I dont have student debts but student debt forgiveness is a good idea. There are other good ideas. 🤠
They had primaries. Wtf are you talking about?
In Florida?@@BadOompaloompa79
As a Florida voter, I get a primary ballot with only one candidate on it. And there were no public debates between Biden and his challengers.
@@seanlawler6668 I live in Alaska. None of my presidential ballot votes really count for much, in a sense. Even if we were a swing state our 1 electorial vote wouldn't be worth paying attention to. As far as Florida this year I think his few challengers had dropped out by then. He had it locked up before super Tuesday. Count on democratic primary voters to pick the most center right boring candidate possible. Then suddenly realize he is terrible at some later date.
There are two ways to look at things. Either A, we are so F’ed or B we just haven’t hit rock bottom yet.
It totally depends what people think is "rock bottom". What's rock bottom for some is a money making business for others.
Rock bottom for Republicans is if Biden wins again and rock bottom for Democrats is if Trump wins again.
For some rock bottom means not being able to go out to eat, for others it means not being able to fly their private jet and for others again it means actually starving.
...precisely. nations - like people - sometimes need to hit rock bottom before they decide to turn things around, and the u.s. has not hit rock bottom yet......yet
Maybe democracy has a shelf life. Once capital accumulates enough power, nothing can stand against it.
Oh,really?
Democracy is ultimately doomed to fail when you start saying “ya we want democracy but these people shouldn’t vote cause they are dumber” the United States at the start said black people, the poor and women shouldn’t vote and we should have a thumb on the scale to make sure the president stays conservative. That put America on a ticking clock
That’s not democracy having a shelf life, that’s just democracy being incompatible with capitalism.
Nothing can stand against the climate crisis - all of these discussions should be in that context.
Surely in the industrial revolution, capital had more power, relatively?
"We live in a Dying Empire run by Bad People"
Dying empire?
@@TheEvolver311 America is an empire and it is dying.
Cápítàlì$m ruins everything.
@@TheEvolver311yep. The US Empire is collapsing before our eyes
I wouldn't call it dying, but it's definitely declining which means rough times ahead; The US will start flailing in a attempt to keep it's head above the water, while other's, like sharks, circle around in a attempt to get a piece. It's really scary thou since the sharks have lasers on top of their head and the one who's about to drown is armed to the teeth.
Bernie would’ve beaten Trump in 2016. And 2020.
You can't have THAT though! An actual leftist in office is just not done! We need another corporatist old billionaire!
T---- won because of Interstate Crosscheck. There's no proving that Bernie would've won.
@@MarquisLeary34 exactly
You have got to be joking. Have any of you thought about reality vs. your universe in your little head? MY EDIT: 🤡
@@timbrown9305this was factually true in 2016 based on polling
The slow creep of fascism is now galloping.
Biden could assure his Presidency by garroting Justice Alito whilst screaming "This is an official act" while the court was in session. No TV cameras in the court so you'd only see those artist renditions but a wide eyed Biden and a purple faced Alito would certainly show he's still spry enough to run for office.
I want to commission a courtroom sketch artist to paint that!
Dems are too weak
The artist asking both of them to hold that pose so he could finish.
that my friend will never happen those rich democrats get what they want (doner money and republicunt policy) and will say it's the fault of the voters and republicunts. People have done shit like that already.
Ngl I’d be way more enthusiastic to vote for him after that
To be a liberal democracy, you need three things. 1) Equal protection of fundamental liberties, 2) The right of all adult citizens to participate meaningfully in the political process and 3) Respect for the rule of law. In what sense do we have ANY of those things, particularly since July 1?
Isn't that the point, that we no longer live in a liberal democracy
We don't
@@TorbinDidNothingWrong
The constitution of the United States clearly mandated a liberal democracy, it isn't odd or even unique that the USA is Democratic Republic as most all democracies in history were in fact a constitutional democracy like ours.
@@TorbinDidNothingWrongdefine republic.
Another precondition: the wealthy either have to be restrained or not exist to such an extent that they can override your conditions. But that's barely ever existed in the US, in addition to the US' chronic and potentially terminal presence of an unaddressed and viciously racist caste system which also means that several of these conditions you mention were barely taken seriously too.
The donor class will decide. There is no such thing as a gracious ceding of power, never has been, never will be.
Democracy!
George Washington, Cincinnatus
1:30 correction: The "safest candidate" was chosen, in 2016 and 2020 by the CBC SuperPac.
Clyburn is a disgrace and Lewis didn't do us any favors in 2016.
Fact
Bernie was NOT "sliding down" when "Obama made a call," as Emma says. That's not true.
What was he doing?
@@Acanthophis
Bernie was ascending and showing staying power. Obama wouldn't have felt the need to make that proverbial "call" if that weren't the case.
It's actually a pretty glaring fact about Emma that she misspeaks and misstates quite frequently.
Indeed
Yup the Dem establishment conspired to lift Biden into the nomination. 🤠
I was following fivethirtyeight's projections very closely because I was campaigning for Bernie. After those first couple of primaries, and just before Obama intervened, there was a moment when they were predicting a clean sweep of ALL the remaining primaries for Bernie. I could barely contain my excitement. That moment lasted maybe a few hours, then it tumbled as everything started to fall apart. Most demoralizing thing I've ever seen. Bernie was most definitely ascendant. The people's choice was taken from us.
Has anyone here taken a poll????? I’ll start….. No.
No
Nope
No and depending on polls is ridiculous at this point
Never answer unknown numbers. So no. 🤠
You never had a democracy to begin with lol.
And no, I'm not talking about the republic vs democracy bullsht.
Talk about the huge amount of people who didn’t vote FOR Biden/Harris and instead voted AGAINST Trump. I’m in that camp and many, many of my friends are as well. My preference is neither Biden or Harris should be on the 2024 ticket. We need a change!
It’s pretty binary. Not voting for Biden or Harris improves the possibility of a Trump win. And you and your friends will regret it big time if that happens.
Your 'preference' is irrelevant, since you're obviously gonna have a big smile on your face when you *vote for Biden* again 😉 If you don't have the fortitude to _potentially_ change your vote, they won't change their candidate(s).
I agree completely.
Racist.
@@cheesecake6945 🙄 No, they’re both moderate establishment puppets who would be considered Republicans back in the 90’s. We need true progressives, not the same ol shit.
Ya it feels like that. It’s gonna be dark times if Trump gets in. Liberalism always wants to work in the status quo when the status quo sucks and conservatives keep moving the status quo to the right.
Too late for most 🤓 🖕
Dark Times...more like end times
They openly brag thatcthey sill accelrate climate change by forcing the world back onto fossil fuels and will kill all green energy
Yeah but atleast people who got radicalized by facebook tier frog memes will be happy.
This feels like cosmic karma. The democrats kept saying Bernie was too old when he ran…. Both times…. And now we have this… :-(
Really, Bernie was sliding down vs Hillary?
That’s not how I remember it. I’m not saying for sure - but Emma, are you saying it wasn’t the DNC’s talons messing with the primaries?
Sliding down as in... the corpos slid him down the hill to loser town lol. Happened twice ffs lol.
we have 2 parties both right of center with no legitimate opposite on the left, democracy cannot survive in this environment and it isn't.
we're not a democracy....we're a republic.
In a democracy, the people hold the power over how they are governed. In a republic, we have a set of laws that protect the minority from being unfairly abused by the majority. that doesn't happen in a Democracy. "Democracy" means If you have a christian country and muslims overtake the population where they are now the majority, the country is no longer christian--it is now a muslim country. In a "Republic", the same situation can happen where Muslims overtake the population and represent a majority of the people, but the country remains christian. That is the key difference between the two.
The republicans are far right, Attila the Hun white nationalist right, not a mere right of center party.
@@bklyntonw3187 yes and all the dems have done for decades is stay just to the left of their republican friends so they look better than them. as biden says republicans are his friends, the left is not, people like you fall for the propaganda as america drifts slowly right and embraces fascism with a clear ignorant conscience.
@@bklyntonw3187 yes & all the dems have done is stay just left of their republican friends so †hey look better than them. you fall for the propaganda as america drifts slowly right into fascism and the uninformed embrace fascism with a smile on their face. as biden says republicans are his friends that should disturb you but it doesn't.
Same in the UK. Labor is not left.
13:10 - The problem with the logic that Kamala's numbers might increase if she got more media attention is that this was exactly the opposite during the 2020 primaries. The more visible Kamala is, the more people seem to dislike her. Maybe that has changed since then or will play differently for a general audience than for democratic primary voters, but I am just not necessarily convinced her numbers would rise rather than stay the same or even fall over time if she became the nominee. I agree she'd be the most likely pick if Biden dropped out, but really I think the convention should select someone else. We can talk about what's more "democratic" here but the simple fact of the matter is that the DNC already put its thumb on the scale for the primary anyway to make sure Biden had no viable opposition. I don't see the convention selecting someone as particularly less democratic than this year's primary was.
☝️☝️THIS!!!☝️☝️
YUP.. the fact that you put up Biden and Trump as the two options means your nation is already a joke.
You ain’t wrong.
Bigger pic is capitalism is a joke. Tons of world leaders are monsters and cap is what put em into power
That’s what it seems like.
You have been told to *Vote Blue No Matter Who* , and look at what happened to your country 😉
Sam said it right there he said people voted for Biden so the only solution is that Biden steps out and Kamala steps in because she was on the ticket that is only way to listen to the people while also respecting the voters that voted for him and her to back him up.
I want whitmer but the logic of Kamala getting the money and also respecting the voters who voted for her as VP is the ONLY SOLUITON.
It will give us Emma’s argument that we listened to the people and respected the actual votes
any thoughts?
There wasn't an actual primary, so all that is bs. No one legitimately voted for Kamala for president, and she's not entitled to anything.
Where it comes to the money, all biden needs to do is put that money into the next candidates account and call it a presidential act. 100% legal.
A moldy dog turd would be a better potus than trump. I will vote for whomever the dems run. I fear that Biden can not win.
Correct. Kamala is the only one that can make the step up at this stage.
@@asdusty4372HARRIS 2024 (con una "caucasian" mujer "vp") 🇺🇲
I agree, I also think she has the most credibility as an option. Or rather that moving on from her further invalidates that Dems are competent enough. Not that they aren’t but that’s the rhetoric we’re battling
It wasn’t just Wilson. The British wanted to maintain a Germany strong enough to keep France in check. Among a host of other competing interests.
It's baffling to me how the right has been so inept, incompetent and easy to call out as liars...and yet the left is struggling to counter them with the very real chance of falling to them.
Imagine a world where our political opposition was even remotely competent....the left would fold instantly.
This is like an adult intermediate chess player (the left) struggling to beat a bunch of 4 year olds who barely know the rules. We're about to lose to them.
I wish I could say this only applies to the U.S.....but in Canada we're seeing similar things and of course elsewhere in the world as well. Why can't we win against total incompetence that you've called out in literal thousands of videos by now?
Republicans are adept at cheating and such.
“Democracy by combat?”
It’s called “Thunderdome” folks!
Bernie was not "already sliding down". That's a really bad read of the situation from Emma. Bernie was winning in an election that actually provided fairly robust choice, and a bunch of candidates dropped out of the primary specifically to stop Bernie. And Bernie isn't even actually leftist, he just leans a little bit further left than rank and file Dems.
Just say it.
Biden's ego will not let him quit.
@butchgriggs6325 He's an arrogant old fool who's out of touch with reality.
As a Brit, may i humbly suggest those in America who care about liberal democracy spend less time hand wringing and actually mobilise to maximise the chance Trump doesn't get in?
That’s what I’ve been waiting to see or hear about and it’s past time.
Shapiro + Whitmer. Lock in Michigan and Pennsylvania!
I'd be down with that.
@@LinkRocks Well that would be good for '28 or after. It's too late in the game now.
@@LinkRocksbut Ben never would 😜
That's got to be a different Shapiro than the one I'm thinkning
@@MajorHickE Josh Shapiro
I‘m beginning to think the US is doomed. Biden is your only other choice, so get behind him or risk another Trump term with all its consequences. And frankly changing candidates at this point is not going to save you. If the undecided are still contemplating voting for the convicted felon or not voting at all in decisive numbers, then it doesn‘t matter who the Democratic candidate is.
We’re going through some trying times, and things look really, really bleak. But we will prevail, and a better, more just society will come out of it. It has to.
Why am I not hearing any comparisons to the Enabling Act of 1933? That's where we're at.
I would like to know more about that, too.
@@07Flash11MRCThe Enabling Act of 1933 was a law that gave the German Cabinet - most importantly, the Chancellor (Hitler) - the power to make and enforce laws without the involvement of the Reichstag (their parliament) or Weimar President Paul von Hindenburg, leading to the rise of Nazi Germany. Critically, the Enabling Act allowed the Chancellor to bypass the system of checks and balances in the government.
@@TonyAncom Oh, you mean the German one. I knew about that, but still: Thank you for the explanation.
I thought there was such an act in the US.
See this kind if video would come off much more genuine if folks like you didn't push for this kind of problem in the first place by snuffing others; Whether you meant for it or not is irrelevant. Ya gave even the THOUGHT of taking any other candidates seriously months ago in discussions about trying to keep a healthy democracy and then complain that our democracy is in such a stagnant place. Using the "Lesser of two evils" to avoid the INEVITABLE so long as evil IS in power is why we're in this mess now, because ALL that does is delay worse outcomes, not sling us back to where we need to be any time soon.
We are living in a different series - The Worst Wing.
No amount of Lin-Manuel Miranda cringe-rapping about how hip and cool the slave-owning founding fathers were can salvage this.
The liberal re-write of history that is Hamilton sucks so hard.
@@spanqueluv9er That and having actors of colour unironically portray notorious slaveowners... Not even Yakub himself could have come up with something so twisted.
The absolute failure of the DSA to not have a candidate known to the public by this point. Completely missed their opportunity to make history.
do you...know anything about the DSA?
Rfk is the 3rd party candidate this time. Anybody else is 4th party at this point.
DSA was founded to organize leftists within the democratic party. the socialist party is a different entity.
The infrastructure for a third-party is not there the duopoly requires electoral reform to nullify
The DSA has focused on local campaigns and they've been great at it
We don't have 20, 50, 70 years in the future, TMR! Why do you talk as if we do?
As much as I love Sam, he's no revolutionary
Climate change is likely not giving us 50, 70 years into the future. 20 we get with a whole lot of suffering.
@@bklyntonw3187 Somewhat comforting that global warming will take out the fascists too
Nuclear war could take us out any day, and the Biden administration is pushing hard for nuclear war.
Maybe 20, long odds on much more than that.
A huge problem is that recent SCOTUS decisions and Project 2025 just aren't breaking through to most people. They don't understand the impact, or they deny it.
It’s starting a little with the general public. We’ve got four month to keep hammering it home to a mush brained slow learning electorate.
P25 is q-anon for the left
@cjohnson3836 Nice try, Liar. It was put together by the Heritage Foundation, along with a bunch of other right wing nut job groups. Unfortunately, it's very real.
@cjohnson3836 it's literally a document published and openly endorsed by conservative think tanks and politicians. you don't understand Q Anon if you think Project 2025 is anything remotely similar.
Because all that anyone seems to care about is "biDeN iS oLd", and the media is feeding that narrative hook, line, and sinker because it gives them ratings. It's despicable. They talk about old guy being old while the right is very conspicuously and blatantly doing everything it can to destroy the system of government in this country. Pathetic.
No, liberal democracy is simply reaching its final form.
Personally I'm not 100% in replacing Biden in a very undemocratic way. However if we were to replace him either we do it all the way or go home in all honesty. Replacing him with Kamala will be pointless she will inherit Biden's war chest and his baggage as well.
We need a person who is not just popular but also a track record of success and political capital. I like bernie but no doubt the donor class will never accept it and would rather have Trump. If that's the case I'm all for Big Gretch popular in her state and will lock up WI, PA and MI.
Do it all the way or go home.😑
THIS!
are the chest and baggage part of a matching set? asking for a friend
I don’t think we’re getting Gretchen if there is no open primary, and I doubt there will be one.
Why? Biden was put in place undemocratically when the DNC canceled debates and primaries.
Why not?
Biden's position there At ALL wasn't done in a particularly democratic way, we didn't even get a real Primary to decide.
Why is getting rid of him suddenly a concern of "democratic imaging" when "Screw you all, Biden Or Else!" was the whole campaign for Biden?
It WOULD NOT HURT BLACK TURN-OUT!! EVERY FOCUS GROUP DISPROVES THAT. BLACKS WANT TO WIN!
Its not going to be like the murder of MLK if she gets passed over here.
him losing the immunity would b part of the point
He doesn't care. He is just like Trump. He says if he loses, he will tell himself that he did his best and that is all that matters.
Trump isn't a pathetic loser like that, lol. Trump came back, even after losing to Biden, Biden might be dead in 2028.
If the DNC truly cared they would do a snap primary maybe one debate before the election then that would settle it. Biden should step down, don’t get me wrong I’ll pick him over Trump every day but if Trump begins the election it’s all over
You have decided to unconditionally *vote for Biden* . That's why the DNC *doesn't care* . They know that you'll support 'the blue candidate' unconditionally, no matter who it is.
Modern bourgeois liberal humanism is based in the idea of progress. But the current dominant way of thinking was always fragile and almost instantly reversible - Foucault warned of this decades ago. For a mass of Americans - of westerners - the meaning of the word democracy has experienced extreme slippage. You notice it in those annoying 'look at the freaks' interviews of extreme MAGAs, but more worryingly in the pseudo-liberal mainstream too. Liberals are putting the word liberal inside ironic quotation marks when they speak it, as if it embarrasses them. Meanwhile, leaders of the American liberal democracy refuse to act as if democracy is under urgent threat. Use it or lose it, before you all forget how it works.
Speaking as an Elder Millennial: Unless it's someone like Dick Cheney, no one gives a F who the VP name is on either ticket.
The thing history will remember giving us Trump is that moment Obama extended an invitation to Trump just to insult him publicly.
I think it’s largely unproductive to just assume it’s all over and that there’s nothing more we can do, and that we should always focus on minimizing whatever harm we can. But also, it really does feel like things are hurtling towards a conclusion of some kind. If the democrats don’t change course, I think the world as we know it now will most certainly change in a way that we may not be able to recover from. But at least we can all rest easy knowing that Biden “did the best he could”, lol.
Its over. America deserves the government it continuously votes for. Look after your loved ones and try to ride out this time frame.
Yeah, that was infuriating.
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I mean, Germany went from the Weimar Republic to Nazi Germany rather quickly in 1933. One should not assume that it can't happen anywhere else today. While there is such a thing as an overly nihilistic outlook, to reject the possibility of a descent into fascism in the US and retreating into a fantasy world to reassure oneself is just as, if not more unproductive imo. At some point, you have to recognise the reality you're in. That also does not mean that you can't do anything to minimise harm even if your society becomes more overtly authoritarian.
@@user-vg8ht2fe8c I was gonna say just this, maybe america deserves this after how far right its been moving since the 80's, its not fair to majority of us that the boomers moved us into the bad timeline, but its up to the Millenials on down to try and recover the nation once its Fascist dictatorship inevitably fails
Harris might not be the best choice if there were a whole campaign season to look forward to, but she's the most able to take over the campaign right now. If the Dems get their messaging right (for once) she could pull the female and minority vote with Roe on the line.
If Taylor finally mobilizes the Swifties we could win this thing.
A four month stretch to the general election doesn’t give the opposition as much time to damage her as much and we’ve got the old age bugaboo of Biden that the press can’t stop focusing on out of the way.
Imo, there is no way Harris loses to Trump. She can easily annihilate him on abortion, and if Biden gets removed due to old age, Trump is next in line. Many people who switched to uncommitted due to Gaza are willing to give Harris the benefit of the doubt (according to the Intercept). Trump is very unpopular and barely lucid. Harris also has the advantage of a functioning brain, which could be used to hammer home exactly what the SCOTUS has just ruled regarding presidents. The idea of the dnc switching things up entirely before November is unrealistic, they have the inertia of a tectonic plate. Biden will likely lose to Trump, Harris will win.
Nonsense.🤡
Why do we need a President?????
1. "Liberalism" preexisted civil rights, thats part of the problem with liberalism.
2. Yes.
The Biden team need to immediately flip the script for the campaign and slide Biden into the VP spot. It assuages people's fears about his age without fundamentally changing the ticket. Messaging is simple, too. "He's got decades of experience and is a proven leader, so he'll be with Harris every step of the way." You get both, while acknowledging that he just isn't capable of the communication side of the role.
Communication isn't necessarily Harris' strong suit either.
She has (understandably) been largely invisible in the Biden administration.
And I worry Kamala has too much resemblance with Hillary. She just isn't a crowd pleaser.
@@oscargr_the issue with Hillary wasn’t that she was unlikable, although she was, it’s that she had 30 years worth of demonization clinging to her. Kamala is a charisma void but she doesn’t have 30 years of resentment ready to pounce on her. Being a boring middle of the road democrat might be a good thing for kamala as it was for Joe in 2020.
@@maximeteppe7627 Considering Harris couldn't even win her own State and had to beg Biden for the VP spot in the first place, pretty sure the fact Harris is wildly unlikable IS a main issue for her.
Biden is done. Switching him to VP doesn't change that.
I just can't understand why these two were propped up in the first place. CNN perpetuated this idea that this could happen, and it seems like they got their wish.
Well, Trump got into prominence because Clinton actively bankrolled his campaign in the egotistical delusion of "having an easier opponent to beat" because she didn't want to have to actually do anything polciywise in order to win, then when Trump won the DNC's been spending the rest of the time bankrolling the candidates most likely to lose to Trump on purpose.
Why? Because as long as "but Trump" is there as an excuse, the Dems can just get away with campaigning on nothing but fear of Trump. If there's no Trump threat the DNC might have to actually "do something" in order to get elected.
It's because you continue to *Vote Blue No Matter Who* . The DNC knows that you'll keep voting for them, so they _prop up_ the crappiest candidate ever 😉
Bernie is the most popular politician in America.
Thanks yallins, I needed this today
theoretically, I didn't have a choice other than Harris that wasn't Trump, like I get that this has the best optics but gosh a fucking primary would have solved this
You have already decided to *Vote Blue No Matter Who* . That's why they didn't have a primary.
@@QuilishWammy no, I was yelling about a primary the whole time because if we don't have a primary I don't get a vote because I live in California. So yes, I'll be voting blue no matter who if I want to or not.
@@levig7042 Why do you care about a primary if you're voting for the 'blue candidate' no matter what ? You don't seem to care about any particular candidate or any specific policies. They could put Benito Mussolini on the ballot as the 'blue candidate', and you'll have a big smile on your face when you vote for him.
@@QuilishWammy its called an electoral college, my state always goes blue? I think your reading comp is bad because I'm trying to tell you this is why I care. The primary is the only time I feel like I get any kind of influence on the election. I wish we had one. I'm mad about that, I hope you understand. This conversation hasn't INCLUDED any policies or positions so idk where you're getting that I don't care about that but go off I guess!
@@levig7042 The whole point of a Primary election is to choose the 'best' candidate among the party. But, you have already decided to *Vote Blue No Matter Who* . So, there's literally no incentive for the Democratic Party to hold a Primary. Why would they waste time to choose the 'best' candidate, when you're guaranteed to vote for _any_ candidate that they put forth ? 😉 They can put Benito Mussolini on the ballot in the General election as the Democratic candidate, and you'll have a big smile on your face while voting for Mussolini since he is the 'blue candidate'. If Trump ran as a Democrat in the 2016 General election, you'd have a big smile on your face while voting for Trump. You have unconditional support for any candidate with a D next to their name, and that's why the Democratic Party won't conduct a Primary election. Is your reading comp good enough to understand what I'm saying ? The Democratic Party doesn't care about you, because you have pledged your unconditional loyalty to them.
You *have* an influence in the general election. You merely refuse to use it, since you have _surrendered_ your vote to the corporate centrist warmongering zionists.
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Democrats should reject putting in Harris to replace Biden on the ticket unless she also replaces him in the Oval.
I'd say it was mortally wounded when SCOTUS selected George Bush as President in 2000.
One issue is that nothing really affects the politicians negatively. It doesnt matter who the president is, who's in Congress, etc, because they won't be hurt by the decisions they make or actions they don't take.
An open convention to choose a dynamic candidate would be the best thing here. Trump is actually very vulnerable if the Democrats had a great leader to face him. Biden ain’t it. Neither is Kamala. But there are options, and this is a huge OPPORTUNITY.
There are no options, genius.🤡💩🤦♂️
Only if we all refuse to vote in every election that we can. It’s hard to build and it’s easy to break. We can’t let project2025 happen. Let’s make this an overwhelming loss for republicans and then keep fighting and voting for who we are.
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I want to start by saying I have been truly impressed by the knowledge and intelligence of the young people who represent the progressive party on social media. That being said I feel they don’t have enough lived experience to see just how radicalized the Republican Party has become since the trump presidency. I do agree though that the democrats have been slow to react and when they do it always backfires . I hope for all our sakes they figure it out soon. ✌️🇺🇸💙
good shit guys
There has to be a Congressional intervention.
Congress is too busy with their stock market trading 😉 They don't care about who the president is gonna be.
Biden would go down in history much better if he stepped aside.
He doesn't care. He wants to be in power so desperately. We're lucky this is his last legal term, otherwise he'd want to be FDR and we wouldn't have primaries until he dies.
@@PuppetzWitAttitudez I'm not convinced of that.
@@CB-wq9wp If he doesn't step down than his legacy is going to be "The man who handed America Trump for no greater reason than spiteful old man ego."
@patchwurk6652 Step down for who? Nobody they could replace him with, has a better chance of winning. His biggest mistake was picking Kamala for VP.
@@CB-wq9wp "Nobody they could replace him with, has a better chance of winning.": Lmao, installing the braindead geezer as the Dems candidate will hand the election to Trump on a platinum platter.
"His biggest mistake was picking Kamala for VP.": Why are you bringing her into this? Without her he wouldn't have won the first time around. She was the reason women and minorities got behind the Dem party.
I don't listen to polling, I have been alive for some time and have had the same phone number for almost 20 years and no one has ever polled me.
If the president dies/resigns/is impeached and convicted, the VP moves up and names a new VP, subject to confirmation by a joint vote of Congress.
Hey MR, Please talk more about Project 2025.
Yeah, like way I hear it, more people are talking about it. Beau of the 5th colum did.
They'd rather talk about Dave Rubin and Tim Pool 😜
They do kind of have to stay with Harris, but I def think she is a horrible choice. I don't know if there is a gas leak in the Whitehouse but every single interview I've seen of her has been hard to watch. Obviously not as bad as Biden or Trump but she also seems to get confused a lot
Politics girl had a good rant on Harris. I learned a lot. Check it out it was refreshing. Seems there’s a concerted effort to keep her off the radar.
She’s the best choice given the lousy process the party has used to select their leaders. HRC is a non-starter and the others lack the name recognition and institutional support Harris has
"The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union
a Republican Form Of Government, and shall protect each
of them against Invasion
It’s gotten so bad that I am starting to see a lot of RFK jr. yard signs. Grim indeed
the ‘great’ USA legally has a King now 🤥
Not my king
Not my king.
Yes it's joever. Strap up
I wouldn't take the statements from a TYT show too seriously as not only did Cenk Uyghur admit to taking millions of dollars from a corporation to help the show, he constantly talks about how the show needs money even though he and Ana Kasparian can fund the show themselves through book sales.
I get Emma’s frustration but the reality is that there is currently no single Democrat the base can seem to get behind. Whether it’s Biden, Harris, Bernie, Whitmer, Newsom, some Democrats are not going to like them, and the general election is likely to be close, at least in terms of the electoral college. I am fine with any of them, because they are all far better than Trump, but Democrats have a history of being unable to get together behind one candidate, with 2020 being a rare exception that seems difficult to replicate this year. My concern is that Democrats won’t be able to settle on a replacement for Biden without permanent division.
why don't kamala and joe just switch places, w/joe being vice?
Still lose. They painted themselves into a corner. They went too far left and could have won with a moderate.
@@uraigroves7898what in the low information voter are you talking about
@@uraigroves7898shut up.
@@uraigroves7898define “too far left”.
@@uraigroves7898 They never went “too far left”, what the fuck are you talking about?
I really hope y'all never get the government y'all deserve. You all are too lame. Like that time Reagan kicked off his campaign in Philadelphia, MS, we gonna act like we don't understand what's at stake. By the way, can someone talk about how LBJ second term transformed America. Never-mind.
Oh we're getting it regardless. No need to hope.
00:30 Why are we here? neo-liberalism
Bernie was not sliding down at that point. Pre covid. He expectedly lost in South Carolina and was still exceeding the others in momentum and outlook. "And it worked out" What did Emma? Beating trump on a prayer? Was that all that was on the table as people poured their hearts into that campaign?
Don't forget Emma was constantly a mouth piece for that faux progressive when convenient Elizabeth Warren and helped encourage people AWAY FROM BERNIE AND SPLIT THE VOTES. Emma is still tearing down Biden when like it or not is our only shot to stopping fascism right now. She is a know it all that needs to stop helping the enemy because she isn't half as clever as she thinks she is. Can't stand her and her nasty terf friend on TYT.
The Majority Report have ALWAYS been a cheerleader for the corporate centrists. Deep down, they hated Bernie.
you elected the squad and proceeded to squander the power you had by not FORCING THE VOTE and caving on every issue
The squad has too little members to have real power.
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they had enough power to FORCE THE VOTE putting pelosi on notice that if you want something you got to bring something
@@scottheathco7323 Okay, yes. That one time was a failure. Still, there are not enough progressives in any public office and the numbers just aren't there.
Kamala would get less black votes than Biden. She's literally the police😂😂😂
^*fewer, not less🤦♂️🤡
There's an argument that endorsing someone over Harris might be seen as a more positive affirmation of a candidate than "picking the default" with Harris. It might energize more voters.
Weimar territory
like a 1-hit wonder from my youth sang- every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end... let's not all be bleak and fatalistic- that's what fascists depend on
🎶"I know who I want to take me home..."🎵
If LBJ wanted to end the US invasion of Vietnam, all he had to do was withdraw. This person is a dunce.
Remarkable show. Thank you. Historic times.
STOP TOUTING POLL NUMBERS. THEY Don't MEAN SHIT AND NEVER HAVE MEANT SHIT.
EXACTLY!! This is just doomerism and apathy! The Majority Report are quitters!!!
Right! They have not been accurate since 2012!
@@historywatchdog2923 exactly! Nothing’s set in stone, and nothing’s over while we’re breathing!! 😤😤✊🏻✊🏻
So vote for the better & more left candidate (Jill Stein)? Or do polls matter until it comes for the blue maga undead lich king?
@@ananousous Jill Stein is a spoiler. I also recommend you watch John Oliver's third parties story from 2016 which focused on her and Gary Johnson. She's not an ideal candidate in the slightest.
That’s what it seems like
Well, that really sucks
Was about to comment that as well. "Feels like it."
I agree. It's probably over.
wtf is up with this pessimism and nihilism rn?! We’re 4 months out from the election, and y’all are throwing in the towel?! Need I remind people here that the lgbtq community, for instance, will be butchered under Trump?! Need I remind people that Gaza will be razed to the ground UNDER TRUMP?! So, what’re u gonna do if he gets re-elected, bow down to him?! Sure sounds like it! Y’all gonna be ok with being forced to become Christian Nationalists?! SURE SOUNDS LIKE IT!!!! Y’all sicken me. Truly.
Anyone who thinks Biden has done well can't be very old.
I don't know who would be the best candidate to replace President Biden, but the optics and the outrage from large chunks of the political left if Harris, a woman of color, were pushed aside for another White male could be disastrous.
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Biden the Best President of your lifetime?? WTF buddy....I can think of 2 easily better
The best president in Joe Biden’s lifetime was Abraham Lincoln
I've been around since JFK- name those two with supporting evidence.
I'm not going to call Biden THE best, but he's been THE most effective in the past 60 years, closely trailed by LBJ who I despised with so many of my generation- but we couldn't argue he was ineffective.
They'll keep cheerleading the 'blue candidate' _no matter what_ 😉