You do know kamala spent 3 times more than Trump. Second how do take money out of it. Because when was promising student loan forgiveness. Isn't that just buying people's vote
We need to repeal Citizens United. That has been the biggest problem, donations from huge, rich corporate donors. They have been buying our elections, and their candidates do whatever the corporations want. Unfortunately, this is not going to happen with the republicans in charge because they represent all the rich people in our country.
Wow. Didn't expect this take from you, but I agree 100%! Republican Theodore Roosevelt and Democrat Franklin D Roosevelt took on the super rich on behalf of working people in their days. And we desperately need that kind of realignment today. Otherwise, revolution is inevitable....
The Roosevelts took on a different type of wealthy. They were Republicans, actually cash rich, and while yes anti union and treated employees unfairly. The wealthy of that time hired Americans and practiced philanthropy on a local level, sponsered/ funded parks, schools, colleges,theaters, and public services. Today's wealthy are predominantly Democrats, stock rich, and import their employees. There isn't a politician who is going after them.
While Robert Reich makes valid policy suggestions; it will not help unless we get the message to voters in an effective manner! Democrats can & have always (in the past 40 years) done far more for working citizens than Republicans. Biden was particularly effective at this! But none of this matters if the vast majority of voters heard Trump and his accomplices false narrative and lies ten to one hundred times more than they heard an accurate message from Harris and her campaign. This has the effect of brainwashing, not just persuasion. While Robert Reich makes valid policy suggestions; it will not help unless we get the message to voters in an effective manner! The size and reach of the Democrats megaphone is where we failed this election - with catastrophic results for our nation! We are still failing, and until we fix this, we will continue to fail. A Rogan audience alone reached over 70 M views of 3 hour Trump propaganda interviews just on RUclips (hundreds of millions of total views) in the last week before the election. RUclips Views are not typically measured in tens of millions. This clearly tipped the election across the country with proof in the last minute surge of male voters and the odd polling shifts regarding concern for our democracy. The concern for our democracy was, and is, a major legitimate concern of the Biden/Harris campaign; but it was turned upside down by the Trump's accomplices' lying megaphone in the last week. Democrats may have lost a couple swing states prior to this, but the nation wide sweep was after this surge. There is plenty of evidence, this should not be a mystery! This, combined with right wing media, paid entities and foreign trolls, ownership of social media and other news outlets, AI and bots, and massive threats and intimidation were all used to influence and magnify Trump's lies. In spite of all this - it was still a close election - less than 2.5 million in a low turn out vote. We have nearly 336 million citizens; 245 M eligible to vote; about 150 M voted.The majority of citizens are Not converted; and Trump has no mandate! But the momentum - especially when news outlets falsely legitimize the myth of a landslide election - is frightening. It is difficult to know how to counter this, especially in a coming repressive regime. But citizens need to be aware of the cause to begin to address it effectively! A free and fair election is more than counting votes. Please bolster your communities this next month by networking on streets and neighborhoods, and with local groups. Free speech = Free press In hopes of a future free & fair election. We all must be active if we want to save our Democracy.
The New New Deal was what we could have had with Biden, and he made a good start … maybe too good. Greedy corporate media made sure that FDR’s upgraded dreams and improved social contracts would never be fulfilled. We should have fought the politicized media conglomerates. It’s always a fight over money. Some can’t get enough and others don’t care enough to fight that hard for it. As long as the greedy control the means of survival, their psychopathy will dominate everything. Global economic systems and rules must be redrawn.
If you have not lived within the middle class limits you will never comprehend the depths of the struggle and the ongoing heartache. The distance and $$$ difference are too vast for the upper limit to feel the heartache and drsin of the never ending struggle.
I'm a straight white man in the Ohio River Valley who didn't go to college. I have never voted for a republicant and I don't agree with 99.999% of what republicants believe. I'm not racist, I know that immigrants aren't the problem, and I believe that everyone should have the right to do whatever they want with their own bodies, practice whatever religion they want, and I know that the greed of the rich and corporations are the reason prices are so high. Sadly I'm a minority. Everyone around me, besides my family, believe all the lies. Because it fits with their feelings. Racism and bigotry are everywhere. Also ignorance. If we don't fix our education system, get money out of politics, regulate who can call themselves 'news', and stop corporate greed. We will continue to suffer
They like trump bc trump will be cruel to the people they hate. Republicans and rightwing media created the hate and turned around and promised to fix it for them. They lie about crime and they lie about immigrants. Truth: Crime has been going down, and immigrants commit less crime than US citizens.
Trump gave voice to anger. Harris offered solutions: help buying a home and starting a small business, investments in child and eldercare, solutions to the climate crisis, and expanding Social Security and Medicare. For me, it was an obvious choice. I am devastated by the outcome.
Harris lost because of a failed vibe check. I am furious. Trump acted like he was angry about the issues facing the average voter and won over the candidate _who actually offered solutions to many of those issues._ Harris was the one proposing price controls on food, she was the actual "cheaper eggs" candidate. But the vibe was wrong. So Trump won. And now we're all going to be stuck with the consequences.
@@srsmopar3808She did. One candidate offered to lower the price of groceries via price controls, the other proposed policies that would massively _increase_ prices, and they voted for the second guy because they wanted cheaper groceries. It's so frustrating. Harris wouldn't have been an amazing, transformative president, there were definitely things about her that I didn't like, but she was the one who actually offered economic policy solutions to the problem, while Trump promised an immediate economic boom and somehow plans to achieve this via rampant stagflation. You had the choice between an unexceptional candidate who offered practical economic assistance and a snake oil salesman and you went snake oil.
He is a fraud, wages are low because illegals reduce the wages. Tarries will move jobs back to US. Tax breaks to corporations will encourage them to move jobs to US.Low energy prices will reduce inflation
Love that cartoon of the rich guy standing on a pile of money blaming the minimum wage worker. Despite all evidence, so many people think they’ll be the rich person, some day.
That’s the problem, too many people see themselves where they want to be, as opposed to where they actually are. You middle and working class, not RICH and the rich couldn’t care less about you.
Minimum wage doesn't have to do smth around poverty. Scandinavia, the paradise of equality, doesn't mandate employers to pay minimum by law, labour unions can gain more power and negotiate this in certain sector.
So true that "so many people THINK they'll be the rich person some day". What's troubling to me is that another graphic shown helps to also fuel that idea: the one that showed how much the middle class has shrunk showed a larger increase in the % of those at the top than of the increase in those at the very bottom. Seeing that makes it understandable why people believe that what the Trump-licans are peddling makes sense/will work/is good. Is it possible that "trickle down" actually does work but just not to the wide degree that has always been promised? What should not be forgotten is the pain suffered by those who don't make that transition or worse move down not up. What happened to the idea that the sign of a great nation (as well as a basic Bible/Christian tenent) is how well a society takes care of those who have the least in it? Are we instead destined to live in a "Hunger Games" style future? It's hard to sell "greater taxes on the rich and corporations" and sell the idea that "capitalism is good". Most of what is called for at the end suggest a move toward socialism which has already been proven not to work many times over mostly because those behind enforcing it eventually get corrupted --- which is exactly what the Democrats have been accused of all along! Sigh, we are in a very strange place in history indeed......
most changes are brought on by relatively few people while others nod along. The people aren't gonna pay more attention or get smarter, but we can be the few that bring on the change
When those tariffs kick in, they will finally start to see it. And when that day comes, DO NOT let them complain about it. Tell them that this is exactly what they voted for, they need to own it pride, that they have no room to complain about any of it.
@dera6347 The tariffs are a threat. You are assuming the demands behind them will not be conceded. Largely because you want to see the country punished for voting incorrectly.
One note. We already have a massive debt problem. $36T. So, saying somehow Trump is going to make something this bad worse, well, he might, but no one has done anything about it in the last 4 years. Just a thought. It’s a big, big problem. America is bankrupt. And that does not give anyone in the political realm of either party room for change.
@@newstroll982 And they will call you WOKE and hate you for it. ps. This is actually the true meaning of the word WOKE coined during the great depression. It has nothing to do with trans rights or CRT or whatever the trumpians hate at the moment. Woke is literally waking up from the "American Dream" and realizing its a lie.
That whole notion was NOT created out of any concern for your happiness, but rather to drive people toward a lifestyle that happens to maximize consumption (and thus corporate revenue). It's a marketing construct. I didn't realize that until I started traveling internationally on tight budgets.
@GregoryLester-vd8iy because politics should be about reaching people and lifting them up. That's why Obama did well and is looked back with skepticism because there needs to be meaningful progress which didn't happen.
Ain't that the truth. We can speak about the economic inequalities that affect the majority of Americans. We can speak about solutions and what needs to be done to make lives and the country as a whole better. But most Americans will be like "Yeah, but what's in for ME??" That mindset screws us all over.
@bluegold1026 kinda hard when the working class as explained is already ruined when a significant portion is living paycheck to paycheck. There's a huge swath of people who don't vote because things haven't been done to improve lives in keeping up with GDP growth for them.
It's pretty simple. The democrats are in power. People aren't happy with their current situation so they voted for change. We don't know if that's going to be better or worse, but we do know it will be different and that's what matters to them.
Put a 1% federal property tax on homes bigger than 5000 square feet to reduce home builders focus on the luxury market. Also ban corporations, hedge funds etc from owning single family homes.
Home builders may be focusing on the luxury market because the price of building supplies is so high no one except the rich could barely even afford the cost of the material alone.
What's really needed is for the government to pay homebuilders to build affordable homes, either through tax cuts or outright subsidies, like the government gives industries like oil and agriculture. But on the other hand, those voters benefitting most from skyrocketing home values and likely to vote against any politician who might reverse the value of homes, are existing homeowners, especially those who benefitted the most: boomers. Who happen to be a much larger voting block than people who want but can't afford homes.
This is an absolute must. Only individuals and families should be permitted to purchase single-family homes. Letting hedge funds and corporations snarf up single-family homes so they can rent them out for more than most people can afford or sell them at a ridiculous profit margin has been a big component of why housing costs have outstripped the purchasing power of a majority of working class folks who want a home. Absolutely.
Jan 6th is conspiracy. Like Reichstag fire in 1933. It was set to destroy opponents. Why Jan 6th did not left so much destruction as BLM and Antifa peaceful protests?😂😂😂
The bottom line- the justice system failed miserably. Trump’s crimes were not prosecuted. He should at the very least been disqualified from office. He is a criminal and traitor to the United States of America. Full stop. It is unfathomable how we got here.
@ if you watched the Jan 6th hearings you’d hear the Capitol police radio transmissions reporting guys in trees with long guns. But watching that would be like grating your own dick off with a cheese grater for you idiots.
Corporate media and corporate misinformation campaigns are a huge problem, that's why I'm so grateful for you. But not forgetting that all of those lies were wrapped in destructive bigotry and misogyny, worked so well. Folks who voted trump don't get a pass. Don't blame anyone for this mess except them.
I agree with you, but so many people who are "centrist" don't see how they're part of the problem and won't learn by being confronted harshly. If the Democratic Party is supposedly right, moral, and best, they need to do better to message that properly because otherwise they'll also be stupid. Full disclosure, though, the party has great members but averages toward Republican Lite in terms of policy and ethics. Rob Reich and Bernie Sanders are doing a lot to propose better, but the old guard certainly haven't listened to either of them ever. If you've got a baby boomer representing your state or district at the federal level, consider running against them or voting for someone who will.
Truth! In 2000 I was getting my Ph.D. in the SF Bay area and my dissertation was on Wealth and Spirituality. It was then that I realized my research was showing we were becoming a plutocracy -- government by the rich for the benefit of the rich. Robert Reich was one of the rare people I found who was voicing these concerns decades ago. For the last 25 years I have watched this problem get worse and worse. Only a radical change and the mobilized masses can take power away from the plutocrats. Thank you Robert for continuing to be the voice you are in this wilderness like a prophet trying to warn the masses of what is really going on.
That started with Reagan and his partner in crime, Margaret Thatcher. Like all things, the seed that they planted took time to grow. By the time that anyone realised what had happened, it was too late. I highly recommend listening carefully to Neil Young's '89 release "Keep On Rockin' in the Free World".
And this is why intelligent people have increased anxiety. When you can see the problems in the world but have no power to stop or change it. Its like watching 2 trains on the same track slowly drive into each other.
That's because they have the same attitude as this guy on the video - 'It has nothing to do with their policies. They don't need to be more moderate. They can stay as far left as they are.'
@@TodaysDante right or left, they're both shite. commies and fashies r shite too. that's why they put that gay guy in the libertarian party so that the dudebros give up and vote trump rfk elon. Anything to keep the uniparty. Which party do you think is the lesser evil?
In theory, the most intelligent and honest people should be in leadership positions. In reality, the most charismatic and manipulative people get into leadership positions.
Your theory is total bs, you don’t need to be smart to win a election you need a clear message and Trump has consistently done this Kamala didn’t. This is the problem people on the left think they’re smart when they aren’t, the left needs to get their head out their own asses and live in the real world not their bubble. The left constantly thinks they’re smart know what’s best for everyone when they don’t and people are sick of it, plus demonising white men constantly and then thinking they’ll vote for them is so stupid
"Highly educated" means highly indoctrinated in today's universities. Your premise is faulty, because your mind is a manifestation of this system. Intelligence = logic, pragmatic problem solving, adaptability, flexibility and, at times, iron will.
Yes that's generally been the case. Occasionally we get someone who's both intelligent, reasonably well qualified and charismatic (Obama, Bill Clinton, etc.) but usually demagogues win.
@@larriveeman If by educated you mean addressing the fact that politicians (school boards) and for profit college and charter school executives currently set and control education standards rather that actual educators and evidence based policies then yeah otherwise I caution you that common sense is not a well defined term it is a constantly evolving set of cultural norms. Reason and logic with evidence to keep them grounded are what we need.
The underlying reasons are - we live in an entertainment society. Americans would rather vote for an entertaining politician than a quiet one who does the job well. Our attention spans are so short, very few do any research on who they vote for. People look up to the rich thinking that they are better because they have more money. Money and success are far more admired than kindness and caring. Plus, the majority of people simply don't care about anything outside of their inner circle.
You are right. I never cared about politics before now, but when Trump stepped on the scene I immediately saw him as a hitler-esque figure. At that point I started to pay attention and fact checked any statements. I would never vote for him. One of the main reasons: climate change and the environment, among many others.
The stuff people were searching the day of the election is alarming. People asking if Joe Biden dropped out of the race on Google means we are so cooked 😂
It is understandable that people who are feeling financial distress will vote for the opposite party as a means to shaking things up. But, especially when contrasted with Kamala's policy proposals that would've addressed price gouging and helped the middle class thrive, it is very unfortunate that they settled on Trump, a person who has absolutely zero desire to help anyone other than the wealthy and elite.
Campaign messaging didn't talk about how Harris would improve the economy. It mostly promised to secure the southern border and "will not go back". The thesis of Rob's video is that the messaging needs to address people's economic woes, and he's right that it didn't do that. The party is too busy playing nice with Republicans and corporations to properly serve the American people. Notice how the parties are red and blue? We basically have Budweiser and Bud Lite out of the two-party system anymore. Given the messaging, it's not surprising people went with Trump. He pretended to care about people's concerns and said he'd take bigly measures to address them. People don't embrace fascism because they want the hard times, they embrace it because it looks like a solution to the hard times they're in.
Start by outlawing all forms and methods and styles of lobbying at all government levels, both federal and state levels. Start there. Get big money out of politics once and for all. From there, we long-since-ignored and long-since-forgotten little folks in America will finally have a chance to succeed and be happy.
I am now old and retired. But all of my working life I was an employer and relatively liberal Democrat. I have never understood why the Democrats, but more inexplicably the working class, have not raised hell to make the minimum wage a truly living wage. The only national political figure I ever hear promoting a significant increase is Bernie Sanders. The rest of the damned Congress and pretty much everyone else simply ignores the issue. Bernie says it should be increased at least to $15 per hour. It has been $7.25 since 2009! That is an outrage!!
As an Australian, I was stunned when I heard these figures. In Australia the minimum wage is $24 au which is $15 in your money going by the exchange rate. Plus we have universal health care. I do hope that the US can sort it's troubles out because not only is it not fair for the average American, but it is dragging the rest of the world with it.
@@deebee4575Not everyone has opportunities. My nephew and his wife have Bachelor's degree in social work. They live in Western PA and make minimum wage in their respective fields. Stop making blanket statements. It makes you look poorly educated.
It’s funny. I didn’t like Bernie for exactly the same reason I didn’t like trump. He was going to break the system more than I felt the system can take. Every institution gets corrupt over time. I equate it to cleaning a house. If you set about to clean the entire house in 4 days after years of letting the mess accumulate you might get it done but you’re more likely to get a divorce. Same is true now. The thing is I think Bernie would have gotten himself killed. Trump will have others killed. Definitely Bernie would have been better.
But I don't agree with Bernie raising minimum wages especially at this time. What caused prices to skyrocket you fix that, not oh things are expensive now raise wages and things will get even more expensive and root cause intact.
@@goyam2981 If minimum wages aren't raised, you condemn working people to hunger and deprivation. That can never be the sign of a system that works, right? Prices increase because of supply issues due to the pandemic, war in Europe, the US-China confrontation and Trump's trade wars. They will continue to rise structurally because of climate change, even if it doesn't cause more pandemics and wars. Trump is set to escalate the trade wars, mainly with US allies but also with China. A fair economic system can adapt better, and that will be needed because irresponsible policies in the past half century have made things much harder and far less stable.
I used to respect Robert Reich for his intelligence but no more. Completely incorrect analysis and not a single original idea. The dems lost because of Biden’s poor stewardship of just about everything and Kamala’s failure to position herself as anything different as well as her mendacity on the subject of Biden’s cognitive state. And as long as the dems keep thinking this way they’ll keep losing elections.
This is all lies. People dont want Communism in any way at all. We dont want more red tape or a bigger government, and we want to see a unified country, not a bunch of foreigners from everywhere with no unifying culture. Asylum seekers are not supposed to alter the culture. They are supposed to assimilate.
Never thought of the stock market crash as a result of a gambling addiction. As someone in recovery from a gambling addiction, that's powerful. Thank you!
Yes, the stock market has always been a gambling scam for the rich to get richer while robbing the poor. Remember they even wanted the average worker to gamble their safety net Social Security money in the market.
Don't you get it? Many voted for Trump because they wanted to destroy the system that was destroying them if only to get even--come what may. They were throwing a brick through the windows of those who were gaslighting and ignoring them.
Thank you Robert Reich for explaining this perfectly. All the "reasons" I've seen I've just sighed. This is how the Democrats needed to explain things. Being able to say "the economy is doing great" is pointless when people aren't able to afford both food and rent. The democrats have had Bernie Sanders alongside them as an independent who SURGED in popularity when he ran for President, but they never learned WHY he was popular, preferring to stick to how things were. They need more like him to join the party and shake things up if they ever want to 1) regain power, 2) hold on to power and 3) actually make a difference to people's lives. Bowing to the rich so they fund your campaigns and then doing their bidding is never going to work out well when it's the rich that are the problem with society.
Most Americans without college degrees thought Trump would be better for the economy the 2nd time around with harsher rhetoric and dozens of Nobel-prize winning economists sayong his plans spell utter disaster and that Harris' don't. This is why the GOP and Trump want more people less educated.
"Without College Degrees" lol. You mean normal Americans who work hard every day at their essential jobs to feed their families and build a better life for themselves while dealing with taxes, inflation, rising prices, and anti-business policies brought on by the democrats? Wow, you really learned nothing from this election which proved the elite "degree holders" are completely out of touch with what this country needs. (BTW I have multiple degrees but would never look down on those who dont).
@fedvvvv The point of Trump's tariffs is not to impose tariffs. The point of his tariffs is to get other people to drop THEIR tariffs. World leaders are already lining up to do this and Justin Trudeau is at the front of the pack. 😆
The one big lesson from the election is that people didn’t bother to do their research. Not just about what exactly each candidate was promising to do but also about their past to see if there is any credibility to how they portray themselves.
Research involves looking at several sources for consistency. Not stopping at the first thing you find (like CNN for example). Research requires neutrality! All I see here is extreme bias! I can understand a preference, but when you judge somebody for exercising their right to choose, you, well. You know! You also have the right to bow out too. Just sayin'.
True and it’s sad because all they have to do is go look at the congressional voting record, which is public , to see how their senators vote on important matters. Can we all count how many times the Republicans voted against the infrastructure act but then later took credit when the money came to their states?
While I agree with what you are saying about a person right to choose. I personally will never stop dunking on idiots who support a man who portrays himself as a savior but is just the devil in disguise who speaks like he has all the answers but he doesn’t. Mainly the idiots whose racism their “savior” supports. Or those who believe his lies that are sprinkled with bravado that he is for the working class when it is public knowledge that he has nominated very wealthy individuals, whose morals and values are extremely questionable, into his cabinet. As well as the people who supported him until they are hit by the consequences of his actions which negatively impacted them. So it doesn’t matter if you tell me to bow out or how many times you do. It won’t erase the glaringly obvious fact that the moral decline of this country is staggering. And I personally don’t care if I have to verbally bitch slap everyone who thinks that the moron they elected back into office will make this country better because frankly we need someone who can actually stand up for this nation and bring it in the right direction. Not some man baby in his seventies who gets pissy when things don’t go his way.
If Trump bothered to do his then maybe he wouldn’t have been slapped with so many felony convictions. But then again he hasn’t had the best track record of not doing what he shouldn’t be doing.
I think an important point is lost in the noise - it's not just neoliberalism, inequality, etc. It's ALSO that everywhere citizens turn, we face exploitative, faceless corporations and feel swindled. From the price of college, to health care, to car insurance, and beyond. And just try talking to customer service - you'll be directed to a bot or someone out of the country. So when people say it's 'the economy', they don't only mean their bottom line. They mean the way we feel swindled and exploited at every turn by faceless corporations who show us they don't care about us and just want our money.
Hmmm, sounds exactly what the Republican party has created in my lifetime?? Corporations that don’t care about employees or customers, they only care about shareholders and manipulating their profits through stock buybacks and walking away with massive market gains for shareholders and bonuses for CEO’s. They have outsourced everything to accomplish this and now we build nothing in entirety, nothing.
Well put, and I can sense the anger, disappointment, and frustration in your words. Today's realities including AI are forming an iron cage around individuals and the whole of society. Max Weber writing philosophy in the 19th century warned us. Completely ignored, of course....
You clearly don’t comprehend what happened. All of the legacy media is almost dead. The internet rules now. Dems can’t compete there because their idiocy and lies are too exposed. I love it. Dems have a huge problem now.
Trump's entire foray into politics was because America had a black president and a certain portion of the population went absolutely crazy to the point of buying into conspiracy theories about him not being born in the US (which most Republicans still believe). And America voted for this person twice. So yes, while the economy is important, I think racism (and sexism) really were the biggest factors even if they're uncomfortable to talk about. Lot of people want to take "their" country back.
A half white president. Melanin expression is a dominant trait. Those who have not lived in a multiracial state - Hawaii, which is overwhelmingly Democrat - make a significant cognitive error in living their lives in a simplistic ignorant delusion of "either it looks exactly like me, or it is in the bin "opposite of me."
Republicans voted for their guy. Obama was terrible for the country. If you voted for him because of the color of his skin then you are racist. Same with Kamala. Many black and white woman did not vote for Kamala in 2020. Were they racist then but not now. Many voted just to see a woman president. Thats sexist. Many just because she had brown skin. Thats racist. Many voted for her out of hatred for Trump. That’s dangerous.
thank you. i am so goddamn tired of the pundit class ignoring the women - and especially women of color - who have been screaming that it is RACISM & MISOGYNY. always has been. biden beat trump. was biden anti-establishment? hell no. he was a MAN. and i'm fully convinced that even if we had run a black man against trump, we would've won. but not a woman. america has made it abundantly clear it will not elect a woman, it does not view the presidency as "a woman's job," it does not want to listen to women or take orders from women or be represented by women. if biden wanted to ensure we had a female president he should have resigned halfway through his first term, because the only way we're getting one is by force.
Second this opinion. I grew up in the South, and was taught in school that the Civil War was about taxes. It was only until I was an undergraduate that I realized how much slave labor was required to make the textile industry in the South work, how much slaves made poor whites feel they were higher in the hierarchy. Now that the unpaid labor of women is slipping away due to higher education and jobs for women, it's bound to elicit an even greater reactionary response. "It's the economy" is a foil for their racism and sexism.
@vc6984 What's the point of a voice giving lies and bullshit.?? And I don't recall President or Vice president calling anybody stupid. If you voted for a criminal and expect help from him, your going to be very disappointed.
@@whathuhreally Oh you sweet summer child. Politics are all about V I B E S. Trump offered "solutions." He had the aesthetic of wanting to fix things. Meanwhile, tell any democrat that things suck for the working class rn and they'll laugh in your face and talk about how the economy's rebounding and shit like that. It doesn't matter if the economy's rebounding. The workers don't feel it and you're ignoring them. Harris ran an awful campaign.
@astropoliticalhyperfixation Bless your heart, you'all voted for a convicted felon for angels sake.... He's not going to come through for you. I'm so sorry, eggs are still gonna cost six dollars in 2028, probably more.
what you just said is one of the primary reasons TRump elected: Disrespect for other peoples priorities, perspective, and views and belittling them when they try to voice them to you! Keep it up friend, and the maga's will be in office a very very long time.
While I agree with much of the problems being caused by corporate greed and power wielding, as a retired middle class blue collar guy, I am concerned about making corporate profits the enemy. Like many retirees in my demographic I am now living off pensions, and IRA investments which rely to a great extent on the stock market. I would have voted for Bernie had he not pulled out, but I was concerned that he and other members of the left never address this. I wonder how many boomer votes are lost over retirement security which is largely based on the stock market gains . I do believe my 60+ age group has shifted to the right to some extent. Harris didn't do a great job of addressing the economy in a concise plan. Trump didn't either, but his vagueness was more convincing. I remember Ross Perot with his charts and dumbed down solutions that were easy for all to understand. I didn't agree with all his plans but at least he had a plan and communicated it clearly.
When your only choices are a far-right billionaire's party, and a center-right billionaire's party, people keep bouncing from one to the other hoping for change from a system that is built to obstruct any real change.
In nearly every election for the last 20 years, people have voted less and less for the incumbent party that they voted for overwhelmingly the first time. Things have gotten worse and worse for the poor and middle class for 40 years, both sides promise to fix it, and both sides cave to corporate interests once they get in power.
0:53 Though Biden had a more restrictive immigration policy than Trump did. So the whole immigration thing is a complete fabrication. Not to mention when they wanted to crack down on the border even harsher Trump was the main one that blocked it. The economy one has some basis on reality on at least a few levels but the immigration one does not. The whole narrative of Biden having "open borders" or being soft on migrants is just a complete falsehood.
Good synopsis of the dysfunctional political duopoly in the US. All so the funders of that duopoly can horde even more wealth and pay less taxes. As long as buying politicians is a good & legal investment, we can expect it to continue.
Damned Right...! 😊👍 The "choice" as I see it is, Choose The Corporate-Fascist Party Candidate or The Corporate-Authoritarian Party Candidate. Either way the Billionaires run this country for THEIR Benefit at the expense of the VAST MAJORITY of those who Work For Living - And WE KNOW IT...!!! : ( -70SomethingGuy
So many more people need to see this, even plenty of people on the left, this so succinctly and articulately lays out the political memo of the current age! Great job Robert, appreciate the work you do!
Maybe don't put a cackling maniac as a candidate? r@cism? Really? Obama was elected twice...and that wouldn't have happened if many huwite people voted against him. Weak sauce, weak sauce. Biden actually had a documented history of r@cism.
The true lesson of the 2024 election is "You can't fix stupid" but you can identify them by their red hats. The next four years are going to be difficult and the folks on the lower end of the pay scale are going to suffer the most. But this is what they voted for in November. The best way to get even with someone is to let them have their way. There's a 90% chance they will screw it up. The only problem is we are all along for the ride. Buckle up folks.
Blaming the election simply on stupidity and racism and misogyny should not be used as a shield to ignore or excuse the Democrats' neoliberalism problem. The Democrats jumped on board with these policies in the Reagan era. That and meaningless wars is what the population hates. Trump, even if he's a big liar, at least claims to be against both. That is why he won. If Democrats continue to hide behind claims of stupidity/racism/misogyny and not change their policies, it is a sure recipe for more losses.
Earlier I was watching a video of a man solo-camping out in Alaska that had 11 million subscribers and found this video with less than a million subscribers. Let that sink in and tell you what really matters to the public.
Maybe don't put a cackling maniac as a candidate? r@cism? Really? Obama was elected twice...and that wouldn't have happened if many huwite people voted against him. Weak sauce, weak sauce. Biden actually had a documented history of r@cism.
Harris didn't attack trump on his record!! She lost!! We need a stand up combative candidate if we want to fill the office! Most Americans can't see beond the end of their nose !! America will pay in tears these next 4 years!! Our children will pay the most! I grew up in the 50s during the recession. It had a remarkable effect on me! I'm in my 70s now and I vote for my children!
Why? No laws can be passed respecting an establishment of religion. Its not a bad thing that religion can be respected and acknowledged by our politicians. It has significant social value.
@@txkevin3467 But it can further be employed as an opiate for the masses. I have no problem with a higher power being acknowledged but an issue with it when used to make politics and controlling what people are creating in their own image if it's true we were created in God's. So if man does not live by bread alone then I shouldn't have to be on breadlines to do it.
Even this guy (RR) is making excuses! As an African-American man, even I knew that the DNC should've fielded a white guy! America didn't even vote for a white woman for president and Harris should've known this!
sure....................... Had nothing to do with how unlikeable she is. How much the White House kept undermining her. "we're not gonna run for re-election"...the next day statement from the White House, "uhh, actually". I voted for her cause duh. But it still pissed me of she didn't have to go though a primary, fuck democracy i guess. The reason they didn't primary her is cause anyone with half a brain would know she would lose.
AND NEOLIBERALISM. Get rid of the Clintonite Rahm Emanuels, etc. It's the rampant money in politics. It's the Democrats turning away from the working class. We can walk and chew gum at the same time. People can be stupid and misogynistic and racist AND rightly believe that the rich ran away with the country and worked the system in their favor. This is an actual fact based on reams and reams of statistics and our own life experiences. Quit hiding behind misogyny and prejudice as an excuse to keep neoliberalism.
The Citizens United decision, to allow dark money to control politics, has to be overturned. That can only happen if the Supreme Court composition changes, which can only happen through a long-term period of sanity and independence from corporate power.
At this point, Trump is going to replace Thomas and Alito with young right wingers. I don't know if I'll live to see a Supreme Court with a different composition.
Maybe don't put a cackling maniac as a candidate? r@cism? Really? Obama was elected twice...and that wouldn't have happened if many huwite people voted against him. Weak sauce, weak sauce.
Robert, you give too much credit to the 90% to use critical thinking and patience to reverse 40 years of racing to the bottom. They want it fixed in the snap of one's fingers and it don't work that way. In fact, they inflict much of the pain on themselves. I worked in a Union shop and many of my brothers and sisters would buy from non-union competition and not even support their own jobs. America has gone off the rails and you can't fix stupid. The change must start with the attitude and awareness of workforce first.
@@vickiroadman6741 I agree with you in principle, but I wouldn't wish that job on my worst enemy and I LIKE Mr. Reich. Ironically this is also why I am a Never-Trumper. I don't think I have ever despised a person more thoroughly in my life before him.
I agree with the people saying that he shouldn't but I'd love it if he can become a campaign advisor for one of the future elections or even work in the DNC as a strategist. He'd be great!
She should have. The right would have called her commie/socialist, but if the next candidate can say things with enough vitriol etc, and bluntness and not cave to the commie/socialist labels thrown at them, it could work. A younger probably male Bernie Sanders.
She's tone deaf like the rest, then has the nerve to ask people for handouts. Relied on celebrity endorsements, squandered money. That's only a few of the cracks in her campaign. I don't care either way since millionaires and billionaires rule the country. I'm just going to lesson their impact of the control.
Both are poor choices with Trump getting the edge.. Racism? Are you saying African Americans were against her because many voted for Trump. Also Harris did run a terrible campaign. She went on SNL instead taking her position and her campaign serious. We don’t want losers like that. To add, us Michigan Democrats don’t like California democrats!! The national democrats still haven’t figured this out. Michigan Democrats are in the middle where California democrats are way way to the one side. To add, California natives always advocate for their state at the expense of rest of the nation. And yes, tariffs will increase prices because more jobs will return to the USA and the wages will go back up. When citizens wages raise they will be able to buy those made in the USA products again
@@briseboy Here's a excerpt from a report, " Finally, the Special Counsel investigated a number of “links” or “contacts” between Trump Campaign officials and individuals connected with the Russian government during the 2016 presidential campaign. After reviewing those contacts, the Special Counsel did not find any conspiracy to violate U.S. law involving Russia-linked persons and any persons associated with the Trump campaign. So that is the bottom line. After nearly two years of investigation, thousands of subpoenas, and hundreds of warrants and witness interviews, the Special Counsel confirmed that the Russian government sponsored efforts to illegally interfere with the 2016 presidential election but did not find that the Trump campaign or other Americans colluded in those schemes." That was from a speech dated Thursday, April 18, 2019. Source; Office of Public Affairs, given by the attorney general.
Damn! You did it Dr Reich! You made it clear as a bell. God bless you. You are a true patriot. We pray this anti establishment, fair share and reason prevails.
It won't. Democrats are still part of the same ecosystem which created Republicans - capitalism. All structural incentives nudge politicians towards corruption. You cannot dismantle the master's house with the master's tools.
A rich guy, a middle-class guy, and an immigrant are at a table having lunch. Once they’ve finished, the waiter brings a plate of 6 cookies for them to share. The rich guy immediately grabs 5 of the cookies, then says to the middle-class guy: “You’d better watch out, that immigrant is eyeing your cookie.”
The main lesson from the 2024 Presidential Election is something I learned long ago. "Some people are really fucking stupid!" - George Carlin in Doin' It Again (1990)
Yes, I agree! Unfortunately, All the things that Harris would have done for working people were turned upside down by the Trump campaign and fed back to the public in negative adds. Reich's concept was attempted this election, but it failed to reach people without Trump's distortion. People in certain circles only heard Trump's demonic portrayal of Harris - or heard his negative interpretation/misinformation 10 or 100 to one. If we just needed a pro-working class message - Harris had that. The problem is democrats message did not reach enough people! There is a far right media network that most of us are not even familiar with. I think it is what keeps red states red. Fox news is just the fringe - it goes deep and wide - and it just grew significantly with Trumps message seeping out to Rogan's viewership in the last week of the election (reaching 70 views just on RUclips - this was likely actual views of hundreds of millions - more than the number of people who voted!) People should also be aware that Trump scapegoated government "giveaways" as Communist. Harris' proposal for housing may have fallen flat for this reason - as there is a scene that privilege should be earned (in spite of the huge inequality in our society that is generally inherited). But there are alternative approaches that could work better.
I remember when OBAMA was President having to work with a Republican Majority in The Senate AND Congress that couldn't care less about strengthening the Middle Class/Working Class population of this nation. Flash forward to Trump and he gave corporations and the rich OUTRAGEOUS tax breaks undermining the little bit of relief Obama Could get accomplished AND TRUMP TRIED TO TAKE CREDIT FOR THAT!!!!!! Everything that could have helped working people the Republicans have vetoed or refused to pass.
American voter ignorance, indifference, and/or gullibility have been on display since I first noticed during the 1968 Nixon/Agnew campaign. I turned 13 years old then. I thought the resignations of Agnew and then Nixon would lead to more Americans taking time to really look at candidates and their respective party's goals and policies. That lasted a few years. Then came Reagan and his cronies, including the right-wing reactionaries and the religious right. Here we are.
Ok, I can accept that. Harris should have had better policies about the economy, but then Trump should too. Most Americans and economists agree that mass deportations and high tariffs will wreck the economy. I'm still convinced that Kamala Harris is still willing to work for the American people more than Trump. No, I really believe that Trump supporters simply hate Democrats and blame them for when the sun goes down AND Republicans just don't want a female president just yet. That's why she lost. Harris lost for all the wrong reasons.
Harris lost because Democrats suck at marketing. What is in the infrastructure law? Does anyone even know? People think Democrats aren't helping middle class Americans because as far as they can see, they've done nothing for them.
Kamala was pretty ignorant. She couldn't articulate her policies. All she gave were generalities and regurgitation of her "I Was raised a middle class person" LIE
It is not the spending itself, it is for-profit corporations that run it from behind. Military runs on contracts for no reason, but to profit the largest shareholders of defense contractors
I disagree with Robert Reid. There were college kids that voted for Trump. People with college degrees didn't see the benefits of degrees in the early 2000s, and once the recession hit in '09, degrees were useless for simply getting a job at all. The only reason college students would have voted for Harris (which a number of them opted out of voting altogether b/c of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict) is b/c they have critical thinking and understood what Trump meant when he said "dictator", as well as knew (or actually looked up before voting) what tariffs meant, as well as a slew of other regards, e.g. not fans of racism and misogyny and knew what Trump's associations meant...and/or they had been following Trump for a long time and knew he was full of it. Please don't say people with college degrees haven't felt the effects of a bad economy. A lot of people have been saddled with debt b/c of degrees and haven't seen the monetary benefits of what was promised with those degrees, which is why college enrollment is down. The whole economic situation is a shame. At the end of the day, those who have the most money and were born into luck (and possibly a disregard for people) are the ones riding nice. We do not live in a meritocracy and, as you DO rightfully state, that meritocracy left long ago thanks to Reagan's policies, which both the Republicans and the Democrats (particularly a certain Clinton) in power have continued to foster. Unfortunately (or fortunately) Biden had been effectively working on combating that and Harris was set to continue that work (with her words alone compelling businesses to stop gouging prices), but that work will likely go to shambles once Trump gets into office :-/
He neither said, nor implied, that things were good for college graduates. He simply focused on those without college degrees because they have been hit even harder and constitute the majority of the country
Healthcare coverage is standard in Europe, regardless of the job status or even income until a certain income limit is reached. Yes, the doctors are in shortage, there are wait times, but if you go private - it is way better than American healthcare. Some of the poorest European countries actually offer way better private healthcare. But the average American will never know this and the MAGA crowd has no clue other countries even exist.
@ yes, but Americans think it is worse in other countries because they have no idea. Most Americans in flyover states had never traveled outside of their state and they overwhelmingly voted MAGA. Uneducated frozen pizza, church on Sundays people that have no curiosity in life.
Anyone with the opportunity to engage the American healthcare delivery system has also experienced wait times. Except we get to be personally bankrupted by medical bills for the privilege.
@@timmaloney6441 but not the US. But Americans just deny this and don’t want to admit this is a problem. 🤦 The argument is about gun control while American people cannot afford to get medical help. I don’t understand how is this even real?
@@laz0rama well we did before. What are you not a working class person. Or maybe like many elites it matters not who is in office because you are financially above politics.
@@vc6984 Oh babel on, I saw the rich get richer, stop, period, end of story. Oh, sorry no, not the end, now the rich can get even richer and the rest of us, poorer
@@vc6984 we didn't see ANY benefit from Trump's policies before. He made it harder for the middle class to itemize deductions on their taxes, he "cut taxes" for everyone, but somehow my income taxes went up in a state that has no income taxes. Stockholders made bank on the Trump policies because the money the corporations got, they tossed into stock buybacks.
The problem is neither side has the answer. One side thinks everything should be free and those few thousand rich should pay for it and the other side thinks there should be no taxes. I'm all for raising taxes on those making over $400,000 but not to 50%or more. Any increased revenue from that group should be used to pay down the national debt. I would lower taxes on Social Security benefits. The trigger amount to where you start paying tax on more than 50% of your benefits is $44,000 which was established in 1993. $44,000 in today's dollars in over $93,000. Meanwhile, seniors trying to stay in their homes are getting it from all sides, increased Federal Income taxes, increased real estate taxes and increased insurance premiums on the house. If something doesn't change, this real estate bubble will burst big time.
Private equity firms are to blame for that along with the cost of everything else; food, health care, cars, gasoline,etc. 10 large companies own everything and control the prices of everything. If the government tries to regulate them, the lobbyists will pay off the politicians and nothing happens. Don’t believe me...do the research.
Not one GOP member of the House voted for anti-price-gouging legislation. Trump went to the Saudis to turn off the spigots to protect US oil companies' profits. Biden went there to turn them back on. The Chinese boycott of wheat after Trump's indiscriminate tariffs bankrupted thousands of farmers and cost American taxpayers $28B to bail out the rest. Manufacturing was shrinking BEFORE the pandemic began. See "How the GOP lies to us: The Trump economy" and Patrick Boyle's "The Truth About the US Economy."
@@simondesmond3574 the last time we had deflation of any kind for more than a month was just after the housing crash of 2008, before that was the Great Depression.
The Harris campaign spent over a billion dollars on a candidate that could barely string 3 words together without a teleprompter. The public is not that stupid.
Robert! You nailed this. The instability in the lives of most citizens has become absolutely insane. This has deteriorated exponentially since the early 90's. No stability in job security, home security medical care, vehicle ownership, debt, etc ...the powers behind the government, have found ways to get every nickel a person owns, by exploiting every dynamic of a persons lifestyle, for profit. The monopolies have destroyed free enterprise. We need very strong government and regulations on so many things, in the process, we need to remove regulations that enable the rape, pillage and plunder mentality of the ruling class. On the working class.
This is why it is insane how the democrats salivate over millions of migrants coming to this country. Its bad for the workers who are here . How can you possibly think it would be great to bring millions of uneducated and often unskilled people here. Kamala stated we have a housing shortage. Going to build 3 million. Yet over 10 million people entered the country in 3 years. Want to reduce our fossil fuel use yet all these new people will now need to drive when before they did not drive. Heat their homes. Complain corporations mistreat workers yet double the amount of people needing work. Many will work illegally under cutting american workers.
He totally missed the fact that the Democrats have ignored the working class since they rejected Bernie in 2016, and instead went full-woke on identity politics and neocon foreign policy. the Dems lied about Biden’s senility, chose a DEI ‘veep’ instead of having a primary, and ran on a campaign of “Trump is a bad man” and “abortion abortion abortion” (despite abortion now being a state’s rights issue). Dems proved their incompetence and elitism. And they had fare more money and billionaires than Trump. Last thing big corporations want to see are tariffs. The final nail in the coffin is Biden giving Hunter a pardon, going back on his promise not to. The Dems are ruined and need a complete rehaul. Now all of a sudden Reich is echoing what Bernie was saying 40 years ago. While Reich was outside Clinton’s Oval Office waiting for slick Willie to finish diddling Monica. What a clown and part of the problem.
At what point has this "Country" really ever changed? You may cite a couple of short periods when the ruling Caste threw the citizens a bone, but the fact we do not want to accept is the ruling Caste has _Always_ been the ruling Caste in America. "Change" is a pipe dream of hope sold to suckers.
@@xbubblehead At one point in my home state of Ohio, there were four recognized parties, then the Republican led government ratcheted up the qualifications. Now-surprise, surprise there are only two again!
Most Americans with college degrees have not felt any improvement over several decades. Especially if you include us IT people who, like the minimum wage people, got screwed over by congress. I love my subcontinent people but I know where my money went.
While Robert Reich makes valid policy suggestions; it will not help unless we get the message to voters in an effective manner! Democrats can & have always (in the past 40 years) done far more for working citizens than Republicans. But none of this matters if the vast majority of voters heard Trump and his accomplices false narrative and lies ten to one hundred times more than they heard an accurate message from Harris and her campaign. This has the effect of brainwashing, not just persuasion. It is the size and reach of the Democrats megaphone that failed us this election - with catastrophic results for our nation! We are still failing, and until we fix this, we will continue to fail. A Rogan audience alone reached over 70 M views of 3 hour Trump propaganda interviews just on RUclips (hundreds of millions of total views) in the last week before the election. RUclips Views are not typically measured in tens of millions. This clearly tipped the election across the country with proof in the last minute surge of male voters and the odd polling shifts regarding concern for our democracy. The concern for our democracy was, and is, a major legitimate concern of the Biden/Harris campaign; but it was turned upside down by the Trump's accomplices' lying megaphone in the last week. Democrats may have lost a couple swing states prior to this, but the nation wide sweep was after this surge. There is plenty of evidence, this should not be a mystery! This, combined with right wing media, paid entities and foreign trolls, ownership of social media and other news outlets, AI and bots, and massive threats and intimidation were all used to influence and magnify Trump's lies. In spite of all this - it was still a close election - less than 2.5 million in a low turn out vote. We have nearly 336 million citizens; 245 M eligible to vote; about 150 M voted. The majority of citizens are Not converted; and Trump has no mandate! But the momentum - especially when news outlets falsely legitimize the myth of a landslide election - is frightening. It is difficult to know how to counter this, especially in a coming repressive regime. But citizens need to be aware of the cause to begin to address it effectively! A free and fair election is more than counting votes. Please bolster your communities this next month by networking on streets and neighborhoods, and with local groups. Free speech = Free press In hopes of a future free & fair election. We all must be active if we want to save our Democracy.
Both parties have gotten addicted to corporate money, good luck changing that fact. It is time for another option to the long standing political duopoly.
@@srsmopar3808 I mean, .. yeah. I don't know how people miss this. To be clear, I hate Trump. I hate him a lot. Not that I like Harris, .. I do not. But on the issue of billionaire support: do people not remember the entirety of 2019? Harris was for a long time being propped up by mainstream media, and more pointedly by so-called "liberal" media, as the favorite to be the Democratic candidate in 2020. Part of that was the fact that she was the absolute darling of the billionaire class. Funny thing happened, though, on the way to the election ... most of America just did not like her. As the debates for 2020 rolled out, Harris was struggling to maintain 2% favorability in polls -- again, despite being adored by the media and the billionaires. She ended up dropping out early (which turned out to be a sound tactical decision for her). It should have been a surprise to nobody when she was able to raise $1 billion in short order leading up to the 2024 election. A decent candidate with her media and billionaire support should have been able to runaway, not just with the '24 race but also the '20 race. Which of course folds into the point that she was just a lousy candidate. Despite all of the advantages she had, America still rejected her. She was awful. And running an awful candidate against another awful candidate (and, to be clear, Trump is awful) is not a great strategy. But money talks.
Don’t forget about Bushes’ “No child left behind “ meaning nobody gets an education until the stupid people learn and memorize things their brains will never comprehend. Oops, kinda like they planned it!
Wrong, lefty. Unions have been on steady decline since the 1950s and the dems made Reagan a convienent scapegoat. If you really think the dems care about the working class, I have a nice summer resort for you in Anarctica.
Democrats corporate transparency act is worse for the working class and small businesses while giving exemptions to LARGE business making over $5mil. The Democrats are not for the working class. They are the biggest beneficiaries of billionaires and corporations for a reason, not the GOP
It is simple, populism is in right now because of the two tiered system with live in. Republicans ran on populism and democrats ran on institutionalism and identity politics.
"Populism" sounds like doing stuff that's popular, but it really means anti-establishment and anti-political, or even demagoguery and simplistic solutions blaming minorities. However, many of those policies Robert suggested have been shown in polls to be supported by the majority. Although whether that translates to a majority of voters or even eligible voters, I'm not sure. The Democratic platform had a number of policies that majorities in polls say they favor like abortion rights, but if the majority don't vote Democratic, then it must not be as important as the reasons they have for voting for Trump, or not voting. In the past people left president box on the ballot blank in protest of Hillary or Trump. Some people in the U.K. may have voted "Leave" in the Brexit vote of 2016 as a protest vote on the current administration, not realizing that "Leave" could win.
how does trump give voice to working class anger when he talks nonsense whenever he opens his mouth? Now Musk who supported trump wants a 56B salary. wtf?
Wow, congratulations on your impressive investment success! Your discipline and focus on delayed gratification is truly inspiring. I'm curious, what are some of the key factors that you consider when making investment decisions? Do you have any tips for those of us who are just starting to dip our toes into the world of investing? Thanks for sharing your story!
Spot on, Robert!! A few more things: Eliminate the Electoral College. Make Voting Day a national holiday. Outlaw red state voter purging. End gerrymandering.
If you don't take money out of politics, nothing will change.
Money didn't win in 2024
You do know kamala spent 3 times more than Trump. Second how do take money out of it. Because when was promising student loan forgiveness. Isn't that just buying people's vote
@@censorship_cant_stop_truth2 Actually it did. I'm pretty sure Elon Musk is sitting next to Trump right now.
We need to repeal Citizens United. That has been the biggest problem, donations from huge, rich corporate donors. They have been buying our elections, and their candidates do whatever the corporations want. Unfortunately, this is not going to happen with the republicans in charge because they represent all the rich people in our country.
@@censorship_cant_stop_truth2it absolutely did!
Bernie Sanders has been screaming this stuff in congress for over 30 years...
Yeah and he was a Marxist then tooo, MAGA
and look what good that's done.....
Yeah and now he supports elon Musk 😂
@@censorship_cant_stop_truth2 more so the idea that government agencies need to keep up with audits though Elon would never actually do that.
@@StarlordStavanger And look at how the Party proves him right over and over by suppressing and containing class warfare candidates and messaging.
Wow. Didn't expect this take from you, but I agree 100%! Republican Theodore Roosevelt and Democrat Franklin D Roosevelt took on the super rich on behalf of working people in their days. And we desperately need that kind of realignment today. Otherwise, revolution is inevitable....
An ACTUAL leftist act unlike whatever Kamala Harris and democrats tried to do in the 2024 campaign.
We're watching the cement dry on a conservative counterrevolution.
The Roosevelts took on a different type of wealthy. They were Republicans, actually cash rich, and while yes anti union and treated employees unfairly. The wealthy of that time hired Americans and practiced philanthropy on a local level, sponsered/ funded parks, schools, colleges,theaters, and public services.
Today's wealthy are predominantly Democrats, stock rich, and import their employees. There isn't a politician who is going after them.
While Robert Reich makes valid policy suggestions; it will not help unless we get the message to voters in an effective manner!
Democrats can & have always (in the past 40 years) done far more for working citizens than Republicans. Biden was particularly effective at this! But none of this matters if the vast majority of voters heard Trump and his accomplices false narrative and lies ten to one hundred times more than they heard an accurate message from Harris and her campaign. This has the effect of brainwashing, not just persuasion.
While Robert Reich makes valid policy suggestions; it will not help unless we get the message to voters in an effective manner!
The size and reach of the Democrats megaphone is where we failed this election - with catastrophic results for our nation! We are still failing, and until we fix this, we will continue to fail.
A Rogan audience alone reached over 70 M views of 3 hour Trump propaganda interviews just on RUclips (hundreds of millions of total views) in the last week before the election. RUclips Views are not typically measured in tens of millions. This clearly tipped the election across the country with proof in the last minute surge of male voters and the odd polling shifts regarding concern for our democracy. The concern for our democracy was, and is, a major legitimate concern of the Biden/Harris campaign; but it was turned upside down by the Trump's accomplices' lying megaphone in the last week. Democrats may have lost a couple swing states prior to this, but the nation wide sweep was after this surge. There is plenty of evidence, this should not be a mystery! This, combined with right wing media, paid entities and foreign trolls, ownership of social media and other news outlets, AI and bots, and massive threats and intimidation were all used to influence and magnify Trump's lies. In spite of all this - it was still a close election - less than 2.5 million in a low turn out vote. We have nearly 336 million citizens; 245 M eligible to vote; about 150 M voted.The majority of citizens are Not converted; and Trump has no mandate! But the momentum - especially when news outlets falsely legitimize the myth of a landslide election - is frightening.
It is difficult to know how to counter this, especially in a coming repressive regime. But citizens need to be aware of the cause to begin to address it effectively! A free and fair election is more than counting votes.
Please bolster your communities this next month by networking on streets and neighborhoods, and with local groups.
Free speech = Free press In hopes of a future free & fair election.
We all must be active if we want to save our Democracy.
The New New Deal was what we could have had with Biden, and he made a good start … maybe too good. Greedy corporate media made sure that FDR’s upgraded dreams and improved social contracts would never be fulfilled. We should have fought the politicized media conglomerates. It’s always a fight over money. Some can’t get enough and others don’t care enough to fight that hard for it. As long as the greedy control the means of survival, their psychopathy will dominate everything. Global economic systems and rules must be redrawn.
If you have not lived within the middle class limits you will never comprehend the depths of the struggle and the ongoing heartache. The distance and $$$ difference are too vast for the upper limit to feel the heartache and drsin of the never ending struggle.
I'm a straight white man in the Ohio River Valley who didn't go to college. I have never voted for a republicant and I don't agree with 99.999% of what republicants believe. I'm not racist, I know that immigrants aren't the problem, and I believe that everyone should have the right to do whatever they want with their own bodies, practice whatever religion they want, and I know that the greed of the rich and corporations are the reason prices are so high.
Sadly I'm a minority. Everyone around me, besides my family, believe all the lies. Because it fits with their feelings. Racism and bigotry are everywhere. Also ignorance.
If we don't fix our education system, get money out of politics, regulate who can call themselves 'news', and stop corporate greed. We will continue to suffer
Yes yes and yes
I totally agree!
They like trump bc trump will be cruel to the people they hate. Republicans and rightwing media created the hate and turned around and promised to fix it for them. They lie about crime and they lie about immigrants. Truth: Crime has been going down, and immigrants commit less crime than US citizens.
We don’t need choice vouchers. Education is fine.
I'm a 61 year old straight Male --- Couldn't have said it better..... Greed and ignorance run the US.
1. Make Gerrymandering Illegal
2. Repeal Citizens United
3. Term Limits
expand the supreme court
Sadly - the Right will never allow this to happen...
@@nick_john Thank you!!
@@nathanlevesque7812 Okay. Yup. That should be number four.
OMG! An American citizen understands repealing Citizens United! This must be done
Trump gave voice to anger. Harris offered solutions: help buying a home and starting a small business, investments in child and eldercare, solutions to the climate crisis, and expanding Social Security and Medicare. For me, it was an obvious choice. I am devastated by the outcome.
"Harris offered solutions" HAHAHAHAHAHAAA!!!!!
Harris lost because of a failed vibe check. I am furious. Trump acted like he was angry about the issues facing the average voter and won over the candidate _who actually offered solutions to many of those issues._ Harris was the one proposing price controls on food, she was the actual "cheaper eggs" candidate. But the vibe was wrong. So Trump won. And now we're all going to be stuck with the consequences.
@@srsmopar3808Yes, yes she did.
People don’t vote for policies, they vote for narratives.
@@srsmopar3808She did. One candidate offered to lower the price of groceries via price controls, the other proposed policies that would massively _increase_ prices, and they voted for the second guy because they wanted cheaper groceries. It's so frustrating.
Harris wouldn't have been an amazing, transformative president, there were definitely things about her that I didn't like, but she was the one who actually offered economic policy solutions to the problem, while Trump promised an immediate economic boom and somehow plans to achieve this via rampant stagflation. You had the choice between an unexceptional candidate who offered practical economic assistance and a snake oil salesman and you went snake oil.
You are the spokesman of truth and social justice. Thanks and long live Bob!
He is a fraud, wages are low because illegals reduce the wages. Tarries will move jobs back to US. Tax breaks to corporations will encourage them to move jobs to US.Low energy prices will reduce inflation
What's maddening is how these people actually believe that a person like Donald Trump is going to fix the problem.
So true and unbelievable!
More to the point that a person like Harris would make things worst
@@vc6984worse, but yes
@@vc6984 At least that is what they think. It's like the rule: Inflation = "vote for other side" is hardcoded in the political psyche of America.
Well, that's MAGA for you.
Love that cartoon of the rich guy standing on a pile of money blaming the minimum wage worker. Despite all evidence, so many people think they’ll be the rich person, some day.
One of the best political cartoons I've seen in a long while!
That’s the problem, too many people see themselves where they want to be, as opposed to where they actually are. You middle and working class, not RICH and the rich couldn’t care less about you.
Minimum wage doesn't have to do smth around poverty. Scandinavia, the paradise of equality, doesn't mandate employers to pay minimum by law, labour unions can gain more power and negotiate this in certain sector.
So true that "so many people THINK they'll be the rich person some day". What's troubling to me is that another graphic shown helps to also fuel that idea: the one that showed how much the middle class has shrunk showed a larger increase in the % of those at the top than of the increase in those at the very bottom.
Seeing that makes it understandable why people believe that what the Trump-licans are peddling makes sense/will work/is good. Is it possible that "trickle down" actually does work but just not to the wide degree that has always been promised?
What should not be forgotten is the pain suffered by those who don't make that transition or worse move down not up. What happened to the idea that the sign of a great nation (as well as a basic Bible/Christian tenent) is how well a society takes care of those who have the least in it? Are we instead destined to live in a "Hunger Games" style future?
It's hard to sell "greater taxes on the rich and corporations" and sell the idea that "capitalism is good". Most of what is called for at the end suggest a move toward socialism which has already been proven not to work many times over mostly because those behind enforcing it eventually get corrupted --- which is exactly what the Democrats have been accused of all along!
Sigh, we are in a very strange place in history indeed......
It’s not that hard to become a millionaire, if they make themselves valuable and are disciplined, they will be.
Nothing changes until people are smart enough to know why it must. They aren't.
most changes are brought on by relatively few people while others nod along. The people aren't gonna pay more attention or get smarter, but we can be the few that bring on the change
"Everyone who disagrees with me is just stupid."
When those tariffs kick in, they will finally start to see it. And when that day comes, DO NOT let them complain about it. Tell them that this is exactly what they voted for, they need to own it pride, that they have no room to complain about any of it.
@@tcorourke2007 Not everyone, you are though.
@dera6347 The tariffs are a threat. You are assuming the demands behind them will not be conceded. Largely because you want to see the country punished for voting incorrectly.
One note. We already have a massive debt problem. $36T. So, saying somehow Trump is going to make something this bad worse, well, he might, but no one has done anything about it in the last 4 years. Just a thought. It’s a big, big problem. America is bankrupt. And that does not give anyone in the political realm of either party room for change.
"They call it the American dream because you have to be asleep to believe it." George Carlin
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I had the American dream once then I woke up.
@@newstroll982 And they will call you WOKE and hate you for it.
ps. This is actually the true meaning of the word WOKE coined during the great depression. It has nothing to do with trans rights or CRT or whatever the trumpians hate at the moment. Woke is literally waking up from the "American Dream" and realizing its a lie.
That’s right George Carlin the funny comedian everything he said 20-30 years ago he was right 😅
That whole notion was NOT created out of any concern for your happiness, but rather to drive people toward a lifestyle that happens to maximize consumption (and thus corporate revenue). It's a marketing construct. I didn't realize that until I started traveling internationally on tight budgets.
The lesson...selfish people are the ruin of us all.
@GregoryLester-vd8iy because politics should be about reaching people and lifting them up. That's why Obama did well and is looked back with skepticism because there needs to be meaningful progress which didn't happen.
How are you ruined?
Ain't that the truth. We can speak about the economic inequalities that affect the majority of Americans. We can speak about solutions and what needs to be done to make lives and the country as a whole better.
But most Americans will be like "Yeah, but what's in for ME??"
That mindset screws us all over.
@bluegold1026 kinda hard when the working class as explained is already ruined when a significant portion is living paycheck to paycheck. There's a huge swath of people who don't vote because things haven't been done to improve lives in keeping up with GDP growth for them.
Family over identity politics. Sorry pal
I understand that people felt neglected. But how does voting for a party that will make things WORSE make them feel better?
They are either racist, sexist, stupid, or a combination.
Because it punishes the party in power
Disinformation has been very effective.
It's pretty simple. The democrats are in power. People aren't happy with their current situation so they voted for change. We don't know if that's going to be better or worse, but we do know it will be different and that's what matters to them.
You're overlooking how purposely misinformed these people are and the role their media echo chambers play
Reich said Harris ran a good campaign. But then he said she didn't even give voice to the issue people are most mad about, the economic inequality.
Reich says free trade hurt Americans but Trump Tariffs will also hurt Americans. This guy is a walking contradiction.
Just not convincing at all. There's a need for a new set of ideas, this is re-hashing the way that led to hell in the first place.
Equality before the law is the only equality we care about.
Harris was given a billion dollar budget for her campaign, she’s now reportedly 20 million in debt. That’s not a good campaign.
Reich is a hardcore Democrat simp that is incapable of criticizing them.
Put a 1% federal property tax on homes bigger than 5000 square feet to reduce home builders focus on the luxury market. Also ban corporations, hedge funds etc from owning single family homes.
Why? Thats just stupid.
Home builders may be focusing on the luxury market because the price of building supplies is so high no one except the rich could barely even afford the cost of the material alone.
What's really needed is for the government to pay homebuilders to build affordable homes, either through tax cuts or outright subsidies, like the government gives industries like oil and agriculture.
But on the other hand, those voters benefitting most from skyrocketing home values and likely to vote against any politician who might reverse the value of homes, are existing homeowners, especially those who benefitted the most: boomers.
Who happen to be a much larger voting block than people who want but can't afford homes.
will you also ban them from building single family, most builders are large corporations, thats why they build large developments at once
This is an absolute must. Only individuals and families should be permitted to purchase single-family homes. Letting hedge funds and corporations snarf up single-family homes so they can rent them out for more than most people can afford or sell them at a ridiculous profit margin has been a big component of why housing costs have outstripped the purchasing power of a majority of working class folks who want a home. Absolutely.
How Jan 6th alone didn’t disqualify him is beyond perplexing. So many misinformed people out there 😖😖😖
Jan 6th is conspiracy. Like Reichstag fire in 1933. It was set to destroy opponents. Why Jan 6th did not left so much destruction as BLM and Antifa peaceful protests?😂😂😂
The bottom line- the justice system failed miserably. Trump’s crimes were not prosecuted. He should at the very least been disqualified from office. He is a criminal and traitor to the United States of America. Full stop. It is unfathomable how we got here.
Ahhh,yes. The day all the gun nuts forgot their guns at home 😂
@ if you watched the Jan 6th hearings you’d hear the Capitol police radio transmissions reporting guys in trees with long guns. But watching that would be like grating your own dick off with a cheese grater for you idiots.
When he said, "Russia if you're listening..." while campaigning should have disqualified him.
Corporate media and corporate misinformation campaigns are a huge problem, that's why I'm so grateful for you. But not forgetting that all of those lies were wrapped in destructive bigotry and misogyny, worked so well. Folks who voted trump don't get a pass. Don't blame anyone for this mess except them.
trust me, I don't blame anyone but them.
many were infiltrated by the russians
Robert is misinformation
I agree with you, but so many people who are "centrist" don't see how they're part of the problem and won't learn by being confronted harshly. If the Democratic Party is supposedly right, moral, and best, they need to do better to message that properly because otherwise they'll also be stupid. Full disclosure, though, the party has great members but averages toward Republican Lite in terms of policy and ethics. Rob Reich and Bernie Sanders are doing a lot to propose better, but the old guard certainly haven't listened to either of them ever. If you've got a baby boomer representing your state or district at the federal level, consider running against them or voting for someone who will.
Elon made Twitter into a right wing disinformation machine. He played a huge part in
I am barely middle class, maybe I’m the working poor but A Poor Man Has Never Given Me A Job.
But surely a rich person has already exploited you...?
Truth! In 2000 I was getting my Ph.D. in the SF Bay area and my dissertation was on Wealth and Spirituality. It was then that I realized my research was showing we were becoming a plutocracy -- government by the rich for the benefit of the rich. Robert Reich was one of the rare people I found who was voicing these concerns decades ago. For the last 25 years I have watched this problem get worse and worse. Only a radical change and the mobilized masses can take power away from the plutocrats. Thank you Robert for continuing to be the voice you are in this wilderness like a prophet trying to warn the masses of what is really going on.
By 2000, we already had 20 years of defeating the working class and shifting wealth upward.
That started with Reagan and his partner in crime, Margaret Thatcher. Like all things, the seed that they planted took time to grow. By the time that anyone realised what had happened, it was too late. I highly recommend listening carefully to Neil Young's '89 release "Keep On Rockin' in the Free World".
And this is why intelligent people have increased anxiety. When you can see the problems in the world but have no power to stop or change it. Its like watching 2 trains on the same track slowly drive into each other.
Spirituality? 💀
Oh damn, that's a really cool PhD topic, and very in line with my own research interests! What's your book called?
I have zero faith that the Democratic Party is capable of learning this lesson.
Their owner-donors ensure they're paid to not learn the lesson
That's because they have the same attitude as this guy on the video - 'It has nothing to do with their policies. They don't need to be more moderate. They can stay as far left as they are.'
@@TodaysDante right or left, they're both shite. commies and fashies r shite too. that's why they put that gay guy in the libertarian party so that the dudebros give up and vote trump rfk elon. Anything to keep the uniparty. Which party do you think is the lesser evil?
I have zero faith that Trump voters will be able to accept the lesson that's coming for them. Somehow it'll all be the fault of the democrats again.
In theory, the most intelligent and honest people should be in leadership positions. In reality, the most charismatic and manipulative people get into leadership positions.
Your theory is total bs, you don’t need to be smart to win a election you need a clear message and Trump has consistently done this Kamala didn’t.
This is the problem people on the left think they’re smart when they aren’t, the left needs to get their head out their own asses and live in the real world not their bubble. The left constantly thinks they’re smart know what’s best for everyone when they don’t and people are sick of it, plus demonising white men constantly and then thinking they’ll vote for them is so stupid
nope we don't need the "educated", we need common sense
"Highly educated" means highly indoctrinated in today's universities. Your premise is faulty, because your mind is a manifestation of this system. Intelligence = logic, pragmatic problem solving, adaptability, flexibility and, at times, iron will.
Yes that's generally been the case. Occasionally we get someone who's both intelligent, reasonably well qualified and charismatic (Obama, Bill Clinton, etc.) but usually demagogues win.
@@larriveeman If by educated you mean addressing the fact that politicians (school boards) and for profit college and charter school executives currently set and control education standards rather that actual educators and evidence based policies then yeah otherwise I caution you that common sense is not a well defined term it is a constantly evolving set of cultural norms.
Reason and logic with evidence to keep them grounded are what we need.
Big business must step aside from politics
The underlying reasons are - we live in an entertainment society. Americans would rather vote for an entertaining politician than a quiet one who does the job well. Our attention spans are so short, very few do any research on who they vote for. People look up to the rich thinking that they are better because they have more money. Money and success are far more admired than kindness and caring. Plus, the majority of people simply don't care about anything outside of their inner circle.
I've been realizing the same thing. The virtuous and knowledgeable person, that might have won in the past, is losing now, to entertainers.
You are right. I never cared about politics before now, but when Trump stepped on the scene I immediately saw him as a hitler-esque figure. At that point I started to pay attention and fact checked any statements. I would never vote for him. One of the main reasons: climate change and the environment, among many others.
If entertainment is hate, yes.
The stuff people were searching the day of the election is alarming. People asking if Joe Biden dropped out of the race on Google means we are so cooked 😂
So let's make our next President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho. Of course, Idiocracy, the Movie, has become a Documentary.
THIS clear explanation needs to be more widely heard! Thank you Robert Reich. Now let's spread the message.
It is understandable that people who are feeling financial distress will vote for the opposite party as a means to shaking things up.
But, especially when contrasted with Kamala's policy proposals that would've addressed price gouging and helped the middle class thrive, it is very unfortunate that they settled on Trump, a person who has absolutely zero desire to help anyone other than the wealthy and elite.
Campaign messaging didn't talk about how Harris would improve the economy. It mostly promised to secure the southern border and "will not go back". The thesis of Rob's video is that the messaging needs to address people's economic woes, and he's right that it didn't do that. The party is too busy playing nice with Republicans and corporations to properly serve the American people. Notice how the parties are red and blue? We basically have Budweiser and Bud Lite out of the two-party system anymore.
Given the messaging, it's not surprising people went with Trump. He pretended to care about people's concerns and said he'd take bigly measures to address them. People don't embrace fascism because they want the hard times, they embrace it because it looks like a solution to the hard times they're in.
The Democratic Party suppressed anti-establishment rhetoric.
They need to be told the House controls the purse strings.
Especially when that's so blindingly obvious! 😳 It's infuriating 😡
Nothing understandable about it at all.
Start by outlawing all forms and methods and styles of lobbying at all government levels, both federal and state levels. Start there. Get big money out of politics once and for all. From there, we long-since-ignored and long-since-forgotten little folks in America will finally have a chance to succeed and be happy.
I am now old and retired. But all of my working life I was an employer and relatively liberal Democrat. I have never understood why the Democrats, but more inexplicably the working class, have not raised hell to make the minimum wage a truly living wage. The only national political figure I ever hear promoting a significant increase is Bernie Sanders. The rest of the damned Congress and pretty much everyone else simply ignores the issue. Bernie says it should be increased at least to $15 per hour. It has been $7.25 since 2009! That is an outrage!!
As an Australian, I was stunned when I heard these figures. In Australia the minimum wage is $24 au which is $15 in your money going by the exchange rate. Plus we have universal health care. I do hope that the US can sort it's troubles out because not only is it not fair for the average American, but it is dragging the rest of the world with it.
If you're entire aspiration in life is to work at minimum wage, you've not properly applied yourself to life.
@@tomnewham1269 nobody cares about anybody an adorable little Australia thinks.
Actually longer than that.
@@deebee4575Not everyone has opportunities. My nephew and his wife have Bachelor's degree in social work. They live in Western PA and make minimum wage in their respective fields. Stop making blanket statements. It makes you look poorly educated.
the lessons Bernie was preaching almost 10 years ago
Americans haven’t learned?
Bernie's been preaching this for decades. Deep state (chamber of commerce) no like...
It’s funny. I didn’t like Bernie for exactly the same reason I didn’t like trump. He was going to break the system more than I felt the system can take.
Every institution gets corrupt over time. I equate it to cleaning a house. If you set about to clean the entire house in 4 days after years of letting the mess accumulate you might get it done but you’re more likely to get a divorce. Same is true now. The thing is I think Bernie would have gotten himself killed. Trump will have others killed. Definitely Bernie would have been better.
But I don't agree with Bernie raising minimum wages especially at this time. What caused prices to skyrocket you fix that, not oh things are expensive now raise wages and things will get even more expensive and root cause intact.
@@goyam2981 If minimum wages aren't raised, you condemn working people to hunger and deprivation. That can never be the sign of a system that works, right?
Prices increase because of supply issues due to the pandemic, war in Europe, the US-China confrontation and Trump's trade wars. They will continue to rise structurally because of climate change, even if it doesn't cause more pandemics and wars. Trump is set to escalate the trade wars, mainly with US allies but also with China.
A fair economic system can adapt better, and that will be needed because irresponsible policies in the past half century have made things much harder and far less stable.
Thank you for never giving up or slowing down Robert Reich!!!
I came to say this, as well.
I used to respect Robert Reich for his intelligence but no more. Completely incorrect analysis and not a single original idea. The dems lost because of Biden’s poor stewardship of just about everything and Kamala’s failure to position herself as anything different as well as her mendacity on the subject of Biden’s cognitive state. And as long as the dems keep thinking this way they’ll keep losing elections.
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Please Robert never change! It will ensure progressives will never win another election ! Thank you !
Signed "Anonymous uneducated"
This is all lies. People dont want Communism in any way at all. We dont want more red tape or a bigger government, and we want to see a unified country, not a bunch of foreigners from everywhere with no unifying culture. Asylum seekers are not supposed to alter the culture. They are supposed to assimilate.
Not why we failed, but how we failed.... Each other.
Never thought of the stock market crash as a result of a gambling addiction. As someone in recovery from a gambling addiction, that's powerful. Thank you!
Yes, the stock market has always been a gambling scam for the rich to get richer while robbing the poor.
Remember they even wanted the average worker to gamble their safety net Social Security money in the market.
Yea. Staying broke sounds lots better.
Shut up and put it all on black
So they voted against their own interest by believing the lies of a con man ?
Don't you get it? Many voted for Trump because they wanted to destroy the system that was destroying them if only to get even--come what may. They were throwing a brick through the windows of those who were gaslighting and ignoring them.
Story of the world
Yep, sure looks like it!
No, they decided not to vote for a continuation of the way things are.
No u dense one, you have no damn clue what my best interests are. That was your first mistake. The absolute arrogance like this is why you lost.
Thank you Robert Reich for explaining this perfectly. All the "reasons" I've seen I've just sighed. This is how the Democrats needed to explain things. Being able to say "the economy is doing great" is pointless when people aren't able to afford both food and rent. The democrats have had Bernie Sanders alongside them as an independent who SURGED in popularity when he ran for President, but they never learned WHY he was popular, preferring to stick to how things were. They need more like him to join the party and shake things up if they ever want to 1) regain power, 2) hold on to power and 3) actually make a difference to people's lives.
Bowing to the rich so they fund your campaigns and then doing their bidding is never going to work out well when it's the rich that are the problem with society.
It's almost correct, but no, there are other issues that democrats got wrong.
Most Americans without college degrees thought Trump would be better for the economy the 2nd time around with harsher rhetoric and dozens of Nobel-prize winning economists sayong his plans spell utter disaster and that Harris' don't.
This is why the GOP and Trump want more people less educated.
OOOORRR...more educated people tend to be more affluent and they don't really have to worry about how much shit costs at Safeway? 🤔🤔
"Without College Degrees" lol. You mean normal Americans who work hard every day at their essential jobs to feed their families and build a better life for themselves while dealing with taxes, inflation, rising prices, and anti-business policies brought on by the democrats? Wow, you really learned nothing from this election which proved the elite "degree holders" are completely out of touch with what this country needs. (BTW I have multiple degrees but would never look down on those who dont).
When his imposed tarifs backfires, they will all be out of work or won't be able to afford anything. They fell for the con.
@fedvvvv The point of Trump's tariffs is not to impose tariffs. The point of his tariffs is to get other people to drop THEIR tariffs. World leaders are already lining up to do this and Justin Trudeau is at the front of the pack. 😆
i am a college educated blue collar worker. there are millions of me. ''that is why the DEMS and harris will never get us''.
The one big lesson from the election is that people didn’t bother to do their research. Not just about what exactly each candidate was promising to do but also about their past to see if there is any credibility to how they portray themselves.
Research??? Kamala couldn’t even do hers Jesus Christ
Research involves looking at several sources for consistency. Not stopping at the first thing you find (like CNN for example). Research requires neutrality! All I see here is extreme bias! I can understand a preference, but when you judge somebody for exercising their right to choose, you, well. You know! You also have the right to bow out too. Just sayin'.
True and it’s sad because all they have to do is go look at the congressional voting record, which is public , to see how their senators vote on important matters. Can we all count how many times the Republicans voted against the infrastructure act but then later took credit when the money came to their states?
While I agree with what you are saying about a person right to choose. I personally will never stop dunking on idiots who support a man who portrays himself as a savior but is just the devil in disguise who speaks like he has all the answers but he doesn’t. Mainly the idiots whose racism their “savior” supports. Or those who believe his lies that are sprinkled with bravado that he is for the working class when it is public knowledge that he has nominated very wealthy individuals, whose morals and values are extremely questionable, into his cabinet. As well as the people who supported him until they are hit by the consequences of his actions which negatively impacted them. So it doesn’t matter if you tell me to bow out or how many times you do. It won’t erase the glaringly obvious fact that the moral decline of this country is staggering. And I personally don’t care if I have to verbally bitch slap everyone who thinks that the moron they elected back into office will make this country better because frankly we need someone who can actually stand up for this nation and bring it in the right direction. Not some man baby in his seventies who gets pissy when things don’t go his way.
If Trump bothered to do his then maybe he wouldn’t have been slapped with so many felony convictions. But then again he hasn’t had the best track record of not doing what he shouldn’t be doing.
I think an important point is lost in the noise - it's not just neoliberalism, inequality, etc. It's ALSO that everywhere citizens turn, we face exploitative, faceless corporations and feel swindled. From the price of college, to health care, to car insurance, and beyond. And just try talking to customer service - you'll be directed to a bot or someone out of the country. So when people say it's 'the economy', they don't only mean their bottom line. They mean the way we feel swindled and exploited at every turn by faceless corporations who show us they don't care about us and just want our money.
Hmmm, sounds exactly what the Republican party has created in my lifetime?? Corporations that don’t care about employees or customers, they only care about shareholders and manipulating their profits through stock buybacks and walking away with massive market gains for shareholders and bonuses for CEO’s. They have outsourced everything to accomplish this and now we build nothing in entirety, nothing.
True and that would not change no matter who is in office. I am glad that I have lived most of my life already.
So they voted for a man who spent his whole life swindling and exploiting people.
Must everything be profitable? Education, health care, PRISONS?
Well put, and I can sense the anger, disappointment, and frustration in your words.
Today's realities including AI are forming an iron cage around individuals and the whole of society.
Max Weber writing philosophy in the 19th century warned us.
Completely ignored, of course....
No Fox News = no Trump.
You clearly don’t comprehend what happened. All of the legacy media is almost dead. The internet rules now. Dems can’t compete there because their idiocy and lies are too exposed. I love it. Dems have a huge problem now.
Trump's entire foray into politics was because America had a black president and a certain portion of the population went absolutely crazy to the point of buying into conspiracy theories about him not being born in the US (which most Republicans still believe). And America voted for this person twice.
So yes, while the economy is important, I think racism (and sexism) really were the biggest factors even if they're uncomfortable to talk about. Lot of people want to take "their" country back.
Correct
A half white president. Melanin expression is a dominant trait. Those who have not lived in a multiracial state - Hawaii, which is overwhelmingly Democrat - make a significant cognitive error in living their lives in a simplistic ignorant delusion of "either it looks exactly like me, or it is in the bin "opposite of me."
Republicans voted for their guy. Obama was terrible for the country. If you voted for him because of the color of his skin then you are racist. Same with Kamala. Many black and white woman did not vote for Kamala in 2020. Were they racist then but not now. Many voted just to see a woman president. Thats sexist. Many just because she had brown skin. Thats racist. Many voted for her out of hatred for Trump. That’s dangerous.
thank you. i am so goddamn tired of the pundit class ignoring the women - and especially women of color - who have been screaming that it is RACISM & MISOGYNY. always has been. biden beat trump. was biden anti-establishment? hell no. he was a MAN. and i'm fully convinced that even if we had run a black man against trump, we would've won. but not a woman. america has made it abundantly clear it will not elect a woman, it does not view the presidency as "a woman's job," it does not want to listen to women or take orders from women or be represented by women. if biden wanted to ensure we had a female president he should have resigned halfway through his first term, because the only way we're getting one is by force.
Second this opinion. I grew up in the South, and was taught in school that the Civil War was about taxes. It was only until I was an undergraduate that I realized how much slave labor was required to make the textile industry in the South work, how much slaves made poor whites feel they were higher in the hierarchy. Now that the unpaid labor of women is slipping away due to higher education and jobs for women, it's bound to elicit an even greater reactionary response. "It's the economy" is a foil for their racism and sexism.
He gave voice to that anger expertly. But he's not going to do a dam thing for any of us.
At least he gave voice. Kamala and Biden just called us stupid.
@vc6984 What's the point of a voice giving lies and bullshit.?? And I don't recall President or Vice president calling anybody stupid. If you voted for a criminal and expect help from him, your going to be very disappointed.
@@whathuhreally Oh you sweet summer child. Politics are all about V I B E S. Trump offered "solutions." He had the aesthetic of wanting to fix things. Meanwhile, tell any democrat that things suck for the working class rn and they'll laugh in your face and talk about how the economy's rebounding and shit like that. It doesn't matter if the economy's rebounding. The workers don't feel it and you're ignoring them. Harris ran an awful campaign.
@@vc6984 Did they? I don't remember that.
@astropoliticalhyperfixation Bless your heart, you'all voted for a convicted felon for angels sake.... He's not going to come through for you. I'm so sorry, eggs are still gonna cost six dollars in 2028, probably more.
The lesson is never underestimate the stupidity of the average American voter. Tr**p never did.
what you just said is one of the primary reasons TRump elected: Disrespect for other peoples priorities, perspective, and views and belittling them when they try to voice them to you! Keep it up friend, and the maga's will be in office a very very long time.
Trump didn't underestimate it he benefited from it
Lmfao have fun losing the election in 2028 with that moronic take. The complete lack of self awareness is astounding.
@@RockSolitudeyour lack of self awareness is astounding! You voted for racism, misogyny and bigotry. We did not. So shut up.
"I love the poorly educated!"
While I agree with much of the problems being caused by corporate greed and power wielding, as a retired middle class blue collar guy, I am concerned about making corporate profits the enemy. Like many retirees in my demographic I am now living off pensions, and IRA investments which rely to a great extent on the stock market. I would have voted for Bernie had he not pulled out, but I was concerned that he and other members of the left never address this. I wonder how many boomer votes are lost over retirement security which is largely based on the stock market gains . I do believe my 60+ age group has shifted to the right to some extent. Harris didn't do a great job of addressing the economy in a concise plan. Trump didn't either, but his vagueness was more convincing. I remember Ross Perot with his charts and dumbed down solutions that were easy for all to understand. I didn't agree with all his plans but at least he had a plan and communicated it clearly.
When your only choices are a far-right billionaire's party, and a center-right billionaire's party, people keep bouncing from one to the other hoping for change from a system that is built to obstruct any real change.
In nearly every election for the last 20 years, people have voted less and less for the incumbent party that they voted for overwhelmingly the first time. Things have gotten worse and worse for the poor and middle class for 40 years, both sides promise to fix it, and both sides cave to corporate interests once they get in power.
auerstad: Your post reads like that of an IRA drone for that most obvious reason.
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Though Biden had a more restrictive immigration policy than Trump did. So the whole immigration thing is a complete fabrication. Not to mention when they wanted to crack down on the border even harsher Trump was the main one that blocked it.
The economy one has some basis on reality on at least a few levels but the immigration one does not. The whole narrative of Biden having "open borders" or being soft on migrants is just a complete falsehood.
Good synopsis of the dysfunctional political duopoly in the US. All so the funders of that duopoly can horde even more wealth and pay less taxes.
As long as buying politicians is a good & legal investment, we can expect it to continue.
Damned Right...! 😊👍 The "choice" as I see it is, Choose The Corporate-Fascist Party Candidate or The Corporate-Authoritarian Party Candidate.
Either way the Billionaires run this country for THEIR Benefit at the expense of the VAST MAJORITY of those who Work For Living - And WE KNOW IT...!!!
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So many more people need to see this, even plenty of people on the left, this so succinctly and articulately lays out the political memo of the current age! Great job Robert, appreciate the work you do!
Maybe don't put a cackling maniac as a candidate?
r@cism? Really? Obama was elected twice...and that wouldn't have happened if many huwite people voted against him. Weak sauce, weak sauce. Biden actually had a documented history of r@cism.
The true lesson of the 2024 election is "You can't fix stupid" but you can identify them by their red hats. The next four years are going to be difficult and the folks on the lower end of the pay scale are going to suffer the most. But this is what they voted for in November. The best way to get even with someone is to let them have their way. There's a 90% chance they will screw it up. The only problem is we are all along for the ride. Buckle up folks.
Blaming the election simply on stupidity and racism and misogyny should not be used as a shield to ignore or excuse the Democrats' neoliberalism problem. The Democrats jumped on board with these policies in the Reagan era. That and meaningless wars is what the population hates. Trump, even if he's a big liar, at least claims to be against both. That is why he won. If Democrats continue to hide behind claims of stupidity/racism/misogyny and not change their policies, it is a sure recipe for more losses.
100% agree. Schadenfreude isn't really a good look, but this is gonna be the longest 4 year "I told ya so" in history.
Cult victims don’t often deprogram themselves. When things get worse they will keep blaming Others, all the way down, until they too get Othered.
name calling wins elections , ask kamala harris and clinton
Totally agree. Things are getting worse in the next 4 years but as you said that what's they voted in last November.
So many truths, so concisely put. Thank you.
It would also help to overturn Citizens United and GET MONEY OUT OF POLITICS.
Samuel Alito said it wouldn't, which means it would.
Not with SC of this nation presently!!!!
And sadly, Americans would rather have anger than an adult in the room.
Wow, that's quite the hot take from the people who have been raging against Donald Trump for the last 10 years. 😂😂
@@aaroncostello8812 That's enough Fox for you, young man. Time to read a memoir by someone who was on his cabinet.
@@cdorman11 Maybe someday I'll read one of the memoirs written by somebody who was part of his cabinet during his SECOND TERM. 🖕😎
@@aaroncostello8812 You give off "I flip my right signal while turning left take THAT fucking liberals" energy
@@aaroncostello8812 you mean the one where we enter a second great depression?
Let me say instead of being a Democrat, I’m a Robert Reich Democrat 🎉
Me too
Name one political candidate for president that’s a Reich democrat….. there’s your answer. The party is gone.
Oh so a imbecile! 😂 glad you let everyone know
@@cantobelbbb So in this thread, I guess, that makes me the third Rei...hold up.
So you’re basically a social democrat
Earlier I was watching a video of a man solo-camping out in Alaska that had 11 million subscribers and found this video with less than a million subscribers. Let that sink in and tell you what really matters to the public.
Thank you Robert. You nailed it!!!
Nailed what?? Seriously?
Maybe don't put a cackling maniac as a candidate?
r@cism? Really? Obama was elected twice...and that wouldn't have happened if many huwite people voted against him. Weak sauce, weak sauce. Biden actually had a documented history of r@cism.
Harris didn't attack trump on his record!! She lost!! We need a stand up combative candidate if we want to fill the office! Most Americans can't see beond the end of their nose !! America
will pay in tears these next 4 years!! Our children will pay the most! I grew up in the 50s during the recession. It had a remarkable effect on me! I'm in my 70s now and I vote for my children!
Absolutely! But ... also need to take religion out of politics, as well!
Why? No laws can be passed respecting an establishment of religion. Its not a bad thing that religion can be respected and acknowledged by our politicians. It has significant social value.
@@txkevin3467
But it can further be employed as an opiate for the masses. I have no problem with a higher power being acknowledged but an issue with it when used to make politics and controlling what people are creating in their own image if it's true we were created in God's. So if man does not live by bread alone then I shouldn't have to be on breadlines to do it.
@@txkevin3467 So does the Easter Bunny!
@@jonbigg7385 what's your point? Did you actually have one?
@@txkevin3467 Yes, but it's more than likely wasted on you.
Middle income isn’t quite what I’d automatically describe as middle class. Wealth more than income, accounting for the cost of living.
Misogyny and Prejudice.
@@DeTAYL. and intolerance and idiocy
Even this guy (RR) is making excuses! As an African-American man, even I knew that the DNC should've fielded a white guy! America didn't even vote for a white woman for president and Harris should've known this!
sure.......................
Had nothing to do with how unlikeable she is. How much the White House kept undermining her. "we're not gonna run for re-election"...the next day statement from the White House, "uhh, actually".
I voted for her cause duh. But it still pissed me of she didn't have to go though a primary, fuck democracy i guess. The reason they didn't primary her is cause anyone with half a brain would know she would lose.
AND NEOLIBERALISM. Get rid of the Clintonite Rahm Emanuels, etc. It's the rampant money in politics. It's the Democrats turning away from the working class. We can walk and chew gum at the same time. People can be stupid and misogynistic and racist AND rightly believe that the rich ran away with the country and worked the system in their favor. This is an actual fact based on reams and reams of statistics and our own life experiences. Quit hiding behind misogyny and prejudice as an excuse to keep neoliberalism.
Apathy (on the left) and ignorance on the right
Fueled by media who wants to make money
The Citizens United decision, to allow dark money to control politics, has to be overturned. That can only happen if the Supreme Court composition changes, which can only happen through a long-term period of sanity and independence from corporate power.
At this point, Trump is going to replace Thomas and Alito with young right wingers. I don't know if I'll live to see a Supreme Court with a different composition.
When you put it that way - Good luck grandkids!
Corporations controlled politicians long before Citizens United.
@@adamgordon6435 He'll replace them with moderates, like the three he appointed.
The story never changes: people voting against their own interests.
And that describes Democrats perfectly.
Maybe don't put a cackling maniac as a candidate?
r@cism? Really? Obama was elected twice...and that wouldn't have happened if many huwite people voted against him. Weak sauce, weak sauce.
Rich White liberals always think that they know what's in everybody's best interests.
Keep believing that. Conservatives love you.
Robert, you give too much credit to the 90% to use critical thinking and patience to reverse 40 years of racing to the bottom. They want it fixed in the snap of one's fingers and it don't work that way. In fact, they inflict much of the pain on themselves. I worked in a Union shop and many of my brothers and sisters would buy from non-union competition and not even support their own jobs. America has gone off the rails and you can't fix stupid. The change must start with the attitude and awareness of workforce first.
Robert Reich for President ASAP!!
@@vickiroadman6741 I agree with you in principle, but I wouldn't wish that job on my worst enemy and I LIKE Mr. Reich. Ironically this is also why I am a Never-Trumper. I don't think I have ever despised a person more thoroughly in my life before him.
Fact is that most people don’t know/understand how the economy works…….”I love the uneducated/uniformed”-DT……& then blame the Democrats,period😂
He's already done his time. We're very fortunate that he chooses to continue to serve the way he does.
I agree with the people saying that he shouldn't but I'd love it if he can become a campaign advisor for one of the future elections or even work in the DNC as a strategist. He'd be great!
@@SarahPepperfur why, he got this one totally wrong.
Kamala did give voice to why wages haven’t changed. She just didn’t give the kind of vitriol, hate speech, and crudeness to drive home her point.
She should have. The right would have called her commie/socialist, but if the next candidate can say things with enough vitriol etc, and bluntness and not cave to the commie/socialist labels thrown at them, it could work. A younger probably male Bernie Sanders.
she had no point,,Trump crushed her
Wages didn't change and inflation stole what didn't change, under four years of her and Joe.
She's tone deaf like the rest, then has the nerve to ask people for handouts. Relied on celebrity endorsements, squandered money. That's only a few of the cracks in her campaign. I don't care either way since millionaires and billionaires rule the country. I'm just going to lesson their impact of the control.
Both are poor choices with Trump getting the edge.. Racism? Are you saying African Americans were against her because many voted for Trump. Also Harris did run a terrible campaign. She went on SNL instead taking her position and her campaign serious. We don’t want losers like that. To add, us Michigan Democrats don’t like California democrats!! The national democrats still haven’t figured this out. Michigan Democrats are in the middle where California democrats are way way to the one side. To add, California natives always advocate for their state at the expense of rest of the nation. And yes, tariffs will increase prices because more jobs will return to the USA and the wages will go back up. When citizens wages raise they will be able to buy those made in the USA products again
This was the fight the Professional Managerial Caste wanted with the working class. France wanted Dien Bien Phu.
Corruption and interference
corruption, interference, AND SOCIAL MEDIA PROPAGANDA
😂❤️
We are not going back to 2016 "Russian interference."
@@le_encirclement Strongly documented. Learn to read.
@@briseboy Here's a excerpt from a report, " Finally, the Special Counsel investigated a number of “links” or “contacts” between Trump Campaign officials and individuals connected with the Russian government during the 2016 presidential campaign. After reviewing those contacts, the Special Counsel did not find any conspiracy to violate U.S. law involving Russia-linked persons and any persons associated with the Trump campaign.
So that is the bottom line. After nearly two years of investigation, thousands of subpoenas, and hundreds of warrants and witness interviews, the Special Counsel confirmed that the Russian government sponsored efforts to illegally interfere with the 2016 presidential election but did not find that the Trump campaign or other Americans colluded in those schemes."
That was from a speech dated Thursday, April 18, 2019. Source; Office of Public Affairs, given by the attorney general.
Damn! You did it Dr Reich! You made it clear as a bell. God bless you. You are a true patriot. We pray this anti establishment, fair share and reason prevails.
It won't. Democrats are still part of the same ecosystem which created Republicans - capitalism. All structural incentives nudge politicians towards corruption. You cannot dismantle the master's house with the master's tools.
How is it clear? Please explain
A rich guy, a middle-class guy, and an immigrant are at a table having lunch. Once they’ve finished, the waiter brings a plate of 6 cookies for them to share. The rich guy immediately grabs 5 of the cookies, then says to the middle-class guy: “You’d better watch out, that immigrant is eyeing your cookie.”
lol so dumb.
This is a great analogy.
The main lesson from the 2024 Presidential Election is something I learned long ago.
"Some people are really fucking stupid!" - George Carlin in Doin' It Again (1990)
Harris/Walz campaign was amazing!!! 💙🇺🇸💙
And still Trump won!
We amazingly lost. We will never see Walzo in the White House 😢
Yes, I agree!
Unfortunately, All the things that Harris would have done for working people were turned upside down by the Trump campaign and fed back to the public in negative adds. Reich's concept was attempted this election, but it failed to reach people without Trump's distortion.
People in certain circles only heard Trump's demonic portrayal of Harris - or heard his negative interpretation/misinformation 10 or 100 to one.
If we just needed a pro-working class message - Harris had that.
The problem is democrats message did not reach enough people! There is a far right media network that most of us are not even familiar with. I think it is what keeps red states red. Fox news is just the fringe - it goes deep and wide - and it just grew significantly with Trumps message seeping out to Rogan's viewership in the last week of the election (reaching 70 views just on RUclips - this was likely actual views of hundreds of millions - more than the number of people who voted!)
People should also be aware that Trump scapegoated government "giveaways" as Communist. Harris' proposal for housing may have fallen flat for this reason - as there is a scene that privilege should be earned (in spite of the huge inequality in our society that is generally inherited). But there are alternative approaches that could work better.
Yes but we lost which I'm still sad about 😞
No it was trash
I remember when OBAMA was President having to work with a Republican Majority in The Senate AND Congress that couldn't care less about strengthening the Middle Class/Working Class population of this nation. Flash forward to Trump and he gave corporations and the rich OUTRAGEOUS tax breaks undermining the little bit of relief Obama Could get accomplished AND TRUMP TRIED TO TAKE CREDIT FOR THAT!!!!!! Everything that could have helped working people the Republicans have vetoed or refused to pass.
Obama and the Dems had total control from 2009-2011.
But Biden fixed all of the right?
American voter ignorance, indifference, and/or gullibility have been on display since I first noticed during the 1968 Nixon/Agnew campaign. I turned 13 years old then. I thought the resignations of Agnew and then Nixon would lead to more Americans taking time to really look at candidates and their respective party's goals and policies. That lasted a few years. Then came Reagan and his cronies, including the right-wing reactionaries and the religious right.
Here we are.
Everyone gets the same campaign money. No more lobbying. Congress is no place to get rich.
Funny. Pelosi, Clinton, Obama, and Biden didn’t get rich. They got wealthy.
Ok, I can accept that. Harris should have had better policies about the economy, but then Trump should too.
Most Americans and economists agree that mass deportations and high tariffs will wreck the economy.
I'm still convinced that Kamala Harris is still willing to work for the American people more than Trump.
No, I really believe that Trump supporters simply hate Democrats and blame them for when the sun goes down AND
Republicans just don't want a female president just yet. That's why she lost. Harris lost for all the wrong reasons.
I 100% agree with the idea that Harris lost because of Trump, lolz.
Harris lost because Democrats suck at marketing. What is in the infrastructure law? Does anyone even know? People think Democrats aren't helping middle class Americans because as far as they can see, they've done nothing for them.
@tcorourke2007
Yes but for the wrong reasons.
Ignorant Trump supporters will soon realize their mistake
Kamala was pretty ignorant. She couldn't articulate her policies. All she gave were generalities and regurgitation of her "I Was raised a middle class person" LIE
Keep thinking that and you’ll never fix the problems of the Democratic Party.
We also must demand an end to insane military spending
And eternal wars that dimocrats support in Ukraine and Gaza.
@venivelovici the Military Industrial Complex will never willingly allow it
It is not the spending itself, it is for-profit corporations that run it from behind. Military runs on contracts for no reason, but to profit the largest shareholders of defense contractors
Elon Musk and Bernie Sanders agree.
Putin and Xi would agree with you. Are you enrolled in selective service?
The ones who voted for liar trump just didn't know who and what the HELL they were voting for. That's the bottom line...
They knew. That's why they voted for him
@@williambrown319Bunk.
True. So dumb they couldn't see the simplistic con
Donald Trump was already President and did a fine. Job. That is why U.S. Citizens voted overwhelmingly for President Trump.
But they knew the SECOND time, and they chose that
I disagree with Robert Reid. There were college kids that voted for Trump. People with college degrees didn't see the benefits of degrees in the early 2000s, and once the recession hit in '09, degrees were useless for simply getting a job at all. The only reason college students would have voted for Harris (which a number of them opted out of voting altogether b/c of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict) is b/c they have critical thinking and understood what Trump meant when he said "dictator", as well as knew (or actually looked up before voting) what tariffs meant, as well as a slew of other regards, e.g. not fans of racism and misogyny and knew what Trump's associations meant...and/or they had been following Trump for a long time and knew he was full of it. Please don't say people with college degrees haven't felt the effects of a bad economy. A lot of people have been saddled with debt b/c of degrees and haven't seen the monetary benefits of what was promised with those degrees, which is why college enrollment is down. The whole economic situation is a shame. At the end of the day, those who have the most money and were born into luck (and possibly a disregard for people) are the ones riding nice. We do not live in a meritocracy and, as you DO rightfully state, that meritocracy left long ago thanks to Reagan's policies, which both the Republicans and the Democrats (particularly a certain Clinton) in power have continued to foster. Unfortunately (or fortunately) Biden had been effectively working on combating that and Harris was set to continue that work (with her words alone compelling businesses to stop gouging prices), but that work will likely go to shambles once Trump gets into office :-/
Everyone felt it except the oligarchs
He neither said, nor implied, that things were good for college graduates. He simply focused on those without college degrees because they have been hit even harder and constitute the majority of the country
Healthcare coverage is standard in Europe, regardless of the job status or even income until a certain income limit is reached. Yes, the doctors are in shortage, there are wait times, but if you go private - it is way better than American healthcare. Some of the poorest European countries actually offer way better private healthcare. But the average American will never know this and the MAGA crowd has no clue other countries even exist.
There's a doctor shortage and wait times here, too.
@ yes, but Americans think it is worse in other countries because they have no idea. Most Americans in flyover states had never traveled outside of their state and they overwhelmingly voted MAGA. Uneducated frozen pizza, church on Sundays people that have no curiosity in life.
This is true all over the World . Asia , Central and South America also have Great and affordable Health Care .
Anyone with the opportunity to engage the American healthcare delivery system has also experienced wait times. Except we get to be personally bankrupted by medical bills for the privilege.
@@timmaloney6441 but not the US. But Americans just deny this and don’t want to admit this is a problem. 🤦 The argument is about gun control while American people cannot afford to get medical help. I don’t understand how is this even real?
Totally agree. Greed has warped both parties.
But Donald Trump is forcing it to become the party of 'working people', (lower, middle and upper class), and no longer the 'country club' party alone.
@@CarlGerhardt1 as if working people will see one iota of benefit from trump's policies?
@@laz0rama well we did before. What are you not a working class person. Or maybe like many elites it matters not who is in office because you are financially above politics.
@@vc6984 Oh babel on, I saw the rich get richer, stop, period, end of story. Oh, sorry no, not the end, now the rich can get even richer and the rest of us, poorer
@@vc6984 we didn't see ANY benefit from Trump's policies before. He made it harder for the middle class to itemize deductions on their taxes, he "cut taxes" for everyone, but somehow my income taxes went up in a state that has no income taxes.
Stockholders made bank on the Trump policies because the money the corporations got, they tossed into stock buybacks.
The lesson is plain and simple, go after the millions of non-voters, not the 4 Liz Chaney voters.
You can't get people to sign up with woke
Liz totally needs a realist show
@@censorship_cant_stop_truth2woke thoughts living rent free in ur head
@@censorship_cant_stop_truth2 But you can with racism?
@@cyclopentadiol2923 Clearly the racist were the Democrat voters who refuse to turn out for Harris.
The problem is neither side has the answer. One side thinks everything should be free and those few thousand rich should pay for it and the other side thinks there should be no taxes. I'm all for raising taxes on those making over $400,000 but not to 50%or more. Any increased revenue from that group should be used to pay down the national debt. I would lower taxes on Social Security benefits. The trigger amount to where you start paying tax on more than 50% of your benefits is $44,000 which was established in 1993. $44,000 in today's dollars in over $93,000. Meanwhile, seniors trying to stay in their homes are getting it from all sides, increased Federal Income taxes, increased real estate taxes and increased insurance premiums on the house. If something doesn't change, this real estate bubble will burst big time.
Social Security is just an interest free loan that the government takes from us. And then when you retire you'll get back some of the principal.
Housing and rent prices are out of control.
And NO president CONTROLS OR SETS those prices.
Kamala would have solved that by making it easier for illegals to buy houses. 3BR ranch should hold about 30 amigos.
@@skyboy1956oh be quit with ur blame game
Trump gave u guys a scapgoat
Private equity firms are to blame for that along with the cost of everything else; food, health care, cars, gasoline,etc. 10 large companies own everything and control the prices of everything. If the government tries to regulate them, the lobbyists will pay off the politicians and nothing happens. Don’t believe me...do the research.
Houses are bought up by private enterprises, then either flipped or rented. That is why rents are going up.
Prices are never going to be the same going forward. No matter who is in office.
Well almost, they will be going up and whenever they do, they don't come back down
False. A big recession, mass unemployment and deflation will follow. Just putting out the scenario... :)
Not one GOP member of the House voted for anti-price-gouging legislation.
Trump went to the Saudis to turn off the spigots to protect US oil companies' profits. Biden went there to turn them back on.
The Chinese boycott of wheat after Trump's indiscriminate tariffs bankrupted thousands of farmers and cost American taxpayers $28B to bail out the rest.
Manufacturing was shrinking BEFORE the pandemic began.
See "How the GOP lies to us: The Trump economy" and Patrick Boyle's "The Truth About the US Economy."
@@pranavid Deflation is good, too much is bad.
@@simondesmond3574 the last time we had deflation of any kind for more than a month was just after the housing crash of 2008, before that was the Great Depression.
Trump's appeal to the less educated and informed among us has always made total sense, unfortunately.
Imagine calling someone less educated and then telling them to vote for your candidate. Are you kidding me??
@@jonnyfendi2003 Trump did and they love him because he "loves" their vote.
The Harris campaign spent over a billion dollars on a candidate that could barely string 3 words together without a teleprompter. The public is not that stupid.
says Richie the moron that voted for dementia joe
Is that why the smartest man of our lifetime supported him?
Thank you for telling us the truth!!
Robert! You nailed this. The instability in the lives of most citizens has become absolutely insane. This has deteriorated exponentially since the early 90's. No stability in job security, home security medical care, vehicle ownership, debt, etc ...the powers behind the government, have found ways to get every nickel a person owns, by exploiting every dynamic of a persons lifestyle, for profit. The monopolies have destroyed free enterprise. We need very strong government and regulations on so many things, in the process, we need to remove regulations that enable the rape, pillage and plunder mentality of the ruling class. On the working class.
This is why it is insane how the democrats salivate over millions of migrants coming to this country. Its bad for the workers who are here . How can you possibly think it would be great to bring millions of uneducated and often unskilled people here. Kamala stated we have a housing shortage. Going to build 3 million. Yet over 10 million people entered the country in 3 years. Want to reduce our fossil fuel use yet all these new people will now need to drive when before they did not drive. Heat their homes. Complain corporations mistreat workers yet double the amount of people needing work. Many will work illegally under cutting american workers.
He totally missed the fact that the Democrats have ignored the working class since they rejected Bernie in 2016, and instead went full-woke on identity politics and neocon foreign policy. the Dems lied about Biden’s senility, chose a DEI ‘veep’ instead of having a primary, and ran on a campaign of “Trump is a bad man” and “abortion abortion abortion” (despite abortion now being a state’s rights issue). Dems proved their incompetence and elitism. And they had fare more money and billionaires than Trump. Last thing big corporations want to see are tariffs. The final nail in the coffin is Biden giving Hunter a pardon, going back on his promise not to. The Dems are ruined and need a complete rehaul. Now all of a sudden Reich is echoing what Bernie was saying 40 years ago. While Reich was outside Clinton’s Oval Office waiting for slick Willie to finish diddling Monica. What a clown and part of the problem.
Thank you Robert Reich.
If you don't have a choice between only two political parties, nothing will ever change in this country!
And as long as voters reject a change to that system like they did in the four states that had ranked choice voting on the ballot nothing will change.
At what point has this "Country" really ever changed? You may cite a couple of short periods when the ruling Caste threw the citizens a bone, but the fact we do not want to accept is the ruling Caste has _Always_ been the ruling Caste in America. "Change" is a pipe dream of hope sold to suckers.
@@xbubblehead At one point in my home state of Ohio, there were four recognized parties, then the Republican led government ratcheted up the qualifications. Now-surprise, surprise there are only two again!
Most Americans with college degrees have not felt any improvement over several decades. Especially if you include us IT people who, like the minimum wage people, got screwed over by congress. I love my subcontinent people but I know where my money went.
Yes, Dr. Reich!!! Exactamundo! Thank you!
Fonzie 😂
While Robert Reich makes valid policy suggestions; it will not help unless we get the message to voters in an effective manner!
Democrats can & have always (in the past 40 years) done far more for working citizens than Republicans. But none of this matters if the vast majority of voters heard Trump and his accomplices false narrative and lies ten to one hundred times more than they heard an accurate message from Harris and her campaign. This has the effect of brainwashing, not just persuasion.
It is the size and reach of the Democrats megaphone that failed us this election - with catastrophic results for our nation! We are still failing, and until we fix this, we will continue to fail. A Rogan audience alone reached over 70 M views of 3 hour Trump propaganda interviews just on RUclips (hundreds of millions of total views) in the last week before the election. RUclips Views are not typically measured in tens of millions. This clearly tipped the election across the country with proof in the last minute surge of male voters and the odd polling shifts regarding concern for our democracy. The concern for our democracy was, and is, a major legitimate concern of the Biden/Harris campaign; but it was turned upside down by the Trump's accomplices' lying megaphone in the last week. Democrats may have lost a couple swing states prior to this, but the nation wide sweep was after this surge. There is plenty of evidence, this should not be a mystery! This, combined with right wing media, paid entities and foreign trolls, ownership of social media and other news outlets, AI and bots, and massive threats and intimidation were all used to influence and magnify Trump's lies.
In spite of all this - it was still a close election - less than 2.5 million in a low turn out vote. We have nearly 336 million citizens; 245 M eligible to vote; about 150 M voted.
The majority of citizens are Not converted; and Trump has no mandate!
But the momentum - especially when news outlets falsely legitimize the myth of a landslide election - is frightening.
It is difficult to know how to counter this, especially in a coming repressive regime. But citizens need to be aware of the cause to begin to address it effectively! A free and fair election is more than counting votes.
Please bolster your communities this next month by networking on streets and neighborhoods, and with local groups.
Free speech = Free press
In hopes of a future free & fair election.
We all must be active if we want to save our Democracy.
Both parties have gotten addicted to corporate money, good luck changing that fact. It is time for another option to the long standing political duopoly.
It is time for a third... I would have been pushing for this, but I thought it could backfire and help Trump more than anything, but now I'm all in.
"I don't like how the billionaires have been screwing me. So I'm gonna vote for the billionaires who are screwing me."
Musk is now spending 100 million dollars in England to change the out come of their election, no one seems to talk about that either.
2/3rds of billionaires supported cackela.
@@srsmopar3808 3/4 of them supported Trump.
Billionaires tend to give money to both parties so they can cover all their bases.
@@scottlemiere2024 'Our breakdown records 83 billionaires supporting Harris and 52 backing Trump so far" - forbes
@@srsmopar3808 I mean, .. yeah. I don't know how people miss this. To be clear, I hate Trump. I hate him a lot. Not that I like Harris, .. I do not. But on the issue of billionaire support: do people not remember the entirety of 2019? Harris was for a long time being propped up by mainstream media, and more pointedly by so-called "liberal" media, as the favorite to be the Democratic candidate in 2020. Part of that was the fact that she was the absolute darling of the billionaire class. Funny thing happened, though, on the way to the election ... most of America just did not like her. As the debates for 2020 rolled out, Harris was struggling to maintain 2% favorability in polls -- again, despite being adored by the media and the billionaires. She ended up dropping out early (which turned out to be a sound tactical decision for her). It should have been a surprise to nobody when she was able to raise $1 billion in short order leading up to the 2024 election. A decent candidate with her media and billionaire support should have been able to runaway, not just with the '24 race but also the '20 race. Which of course folds into the point that she was just a lousy candidate. Despite all of the advantages she had, America still rejected her. She was awful. And running an awful candidate against another awful candidate (and, to be clear, Trump is awful) is not a great strategy. But money talks.
I also think we should get rid of the electoral college ... to easy to manipulate with technology.
What a crock. I have a degree and masters work. My income is static but expenses have gone up by 30%. Misogyny was not a factor.
Anti union, deregulation, neocons, shareholder, inequality.Private equity buyouts, Blame Reagan and Thatcher . Agree Robert.
Don’t forget about Bushes’ “No child left behind “ meaning nobody gets an education until the stupid people learn and memorize things their brains will never comprehend. Oops, kinda like they planned it!
Singing those same old lies is why you lost
Wrong, lefty. Unions have been on steady decline since the 1950s and the dems made Reagan a convienent scapegoat. If you really think the dems care about the working class, I have a nice summer resort for you in Anarctica.
You mean Biden and Obama didn’t change all that?? They were in office 11 of last 16 years. What happened that all your dreams didn’t come true yet?
Democrats corporate transparency act is worse for the working class and small businesses while giving exemptions to LARGE business making over $5mil. The Democrats are not for the working class. They are the biggest beneficiaries of billionaires and corporations for a reason, not the GOP
This should be called "Things That the Democratic Party Will Never Do."
How do they do that when the GOP blocks those at every turn?
This is why Bernie might be trying to start a new party. (To replace the democratic party not steal votes)
@@denM-ey3vb have some balls! All turn into Bernie Sanders!
It is simple, populism is in right now because of the two tiered system with live in. Republicans ran on populism and democrats ran on institutionalism and identity politics.
"Populism" sounds like doing stuff that's popular, but it really means anti-establishment and anti-political, or even demagoguery and simplistic solutions blaming minorities.
However, many of those policies Robert suggested have been shown in polls to be supported by the majority. Although whether that translates to a majority of voters or even eligible voters, I'm not sure. The Democratic platform had a number of policies that majorities in polls say they favor like abortion rights, but if the majority don't vote Democratic, then it must not be as important as the reasons they have for voting for Trump, or not voting.
In the past people left president box on the ballot blank in protest of Hillary or Trump. Some people in the U.K. may have voted "Leave" in the Brexit vote of 2016 as a protest vote on the current administration, not realizing that "Leave" could win.
how does trump give voice to working class anger when he talks nonsense whenever he opens his mouth? Now Musk who supported trump wants a 56B salary. wtf?
Salary?? Ha ha ha. Get knowledgeable. You’re not.
@@Akartavor the greedy mf wants 56b. check google.
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Spot on, Robert!! A few more things: Eliminate the Electoral College. Make Voting Day a national holiday. Outlaw red state voter purging. End gerrymandering.
But how will the slave owners keep control?
Why should dead people and people who moved to another state stay on the voting rolls?
i have a college degree and i haven’t felt much economic improvement .. like ever !!