“If you could get the working class to stick together, maybe it would make a difference” She said perfectly what you guys are working on with this channel. Keep it up. You’re doing great work.
Middle class and working class are regular people wanting a decent life….. but there are some people who have innate drive to build empires and accumulate power and wealth….. in the history you have such people like Alexander the Great and Genghis Khan …. But in modern time…. Political empires are not acceptable anymore so they pursue economic empires through unrestrained capitalism…. The key word is “unrestrained”…. Then they abuse workers, pollute, all for their god of money and profit …. So they are few in numbers but they have a more vested interest and power and money as compared to numerous working class with little interest in accumulating such things as their god ….
This channel has only supported people and policies that destroy the middle class. They’ve paved a beautiful path to hell and don’t even know it. This channel is about division and distractions. Very rarely do they post “good” content.
And there's the problem. Red Scare. She's literally talking about Socialism, and as a Socialist, I agree with her. Before the party flip to hide the white supremacists, Red State Democrats created the most Leftist legislation in our history (other than the Constitution itself), The New Deal. And they worked on it in cooperation with The American Socialist Party who at the time represented about 20% of voters. Then McCarthy, Nixon, and Reagan happened..
He's a rino...it's why we need term limits in the Senate and House...Schumer, Pelosi, Biden, Warren, McConnell all became one happy power hungry cult...claiming they are doing the work...but since Trump has been out look at the chaos in the world... these people are controlled by their anonymous aides that will be there forever that no one voted for..aides need to have term limits as well.
@@Teeveepicksures MCDONNELL IS A RINO REPUBLICAN IN NAME ONLY TRUMP IS NOT A DEMOCRAT ARE A REPUBLICAN HE IS AN AMERICAN (AKA MEGA ) I WANT TO PUT THE SAFETY AND PROFIT TO AMERICA FIRST I TIRED OF GOVERNMENT GETTING RICH OFF FORCED FAKE WARS SO GOVERNMENT MAKE MONEY OFF BUYING WEAPON AND GIVING THE TO OTHER COUNTRY BOUGHT AND PAID FOR BY WE THE AMERICAN TAX PAYERS DOLLAR UNDER TRUMP HE ENDED THE THE RUSSIA UKRAINE WAR THAT OBAMA HAD GOING STARTED NO NEW WARS AND BIDEN STARTED 3 WARS I,M VOTING FOR NO WARS NO DRAFT OF OUR CHILDREN AND GRAND CHILDREN I WILL BE VOTING FOR TRUMP
It's the same with Trump. He doesn't care about these people. And these people just care about how much they pay for gas and it was less during Trump so they vote for him.
The video focuses on how great the New Deal policies helped America back in the day and now it is a thing of the past, especially in rural Kentucky and how Democrats can win them back (sounds like a liberal Anti-Trump agenda piece). Donald Trump is fighting for domestic jobs and imposing tariffs on countries who are hurting our economy by trade imbalance. No mention of that which is why he won the election. His policy is America first not global interests, not social programs, but fair trade and keeping America safe. That is the message that should resonate - economy and protection should be our two highest priorities. My biggest problem with both sides is they don't care about our unsustainable national debt and only care about boosting the economy at any expense just to win an election.
@@tntstorms7969 Social programs are America first, they help millions of Americans. Also that all sounds nice but that doesnt mean its in the realm of reality.
@@tntstorms7969the reality is trumps tariffs hurt American citizens because there aren’t alternatives. So now you pay more for something made from china and its STILL cheaper to buy it Chinese made. All he did was funnel money into the government through a tariff instead of a tax.
@@tntstorms7969Donald Trump is a liar. You do realize imposing tariffs on foreign companies just means they'll pass on the tariffs onto us, the consumers. Please, carefully look at Trump's actions as president. He lost us 200k manufacturing jobs, he didn't decrease drug prices for seniors, he gave the rich a permanent tax break while it was temporary for us, his tax bill incentivized outsourcing. Trump has failed to keep his promises.
@@IdonttrustyouIreallyreallydont no until we get wages for the work me an my blue collar dudes do put ‘em in the assembly lines cause that’s all we are to them robots and I’m i republican if republicans and democrats would go back go focusing on blue collar America they would win all states im pro union but the Dems are more worried about pps and where they can pee as a redneck from Alabama idc where you pee can you run milling machine or a tractor that’s what we need in the states bring farming back bring manufacturing a painted nail can run a combine who gives a shit
It's only possible because most of the poor remain uneducated throughout their lives and don't understand the real value of a college education or of giving up their bigotries. They'd rather cling to their Bibles and guns...
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As long as the government claims to be fixing it... there will be far more poor as a percentage than before the government started to "help". Might question why the policies never meet the objectives.
poor people will always be amongst us. what counts is the truth. and the truth is, biden-harris opened the border and broke the law and favoring law breakers over US citizens. there is no issue of people wanting to come to the US but they have to come legally under any circumstance. i am not a US citizen but USA is my dream country I have not been there but I know I will once come legally because I love the value of the USA constitution. i could have come during this southern border crisis but I chose not to break the law because the law was put to protect people especially immigrants. if you think coming to the US illegally is blessed then you don't know anything about being a citizen.
Mitch McConnell has a long history in government, some good and some bad. Nonetheless, he has the support of his constituents! Democrats are for the working class, Donald Trump is out for himself and no one else. I’m a democrat and this has been solely Donald trumps responsible for. Never again will I cast my vote for another republican!
Many places vote traditionally; you vote how your parents voted, and how their parents voted. It’s time we took matters into our own hands, vote for who cares about America and will risk his life to defend it!
You're absolutely right, we should absolutely vote harris walz, because Donald Trump dodged the draft, clearly showing that he wouldn't risk his life for America
Good on the ground organization. I assume he has a machine like organization to get out the boat with him. I'm from Chicago and I know what a precinct level got machine looks like
I love the approach this channel takes, there is none of the sneering attitude of other "left" RUclips channels. As a lifelong trade unionist from a family that has always voted Labour for generations I feel a lot of sympathy with these people.
Poverty doesn’t discriminate. This should be an eye opener to so many racial divide in the country. Tired of identity politics. We need to just see each other as Americans
It doesn’t but what Republicans want to do to “fix poverty” and what Dems want to do couldn’t be farther apart and there in lies the rub and the lie in most of this dudes videos like this.
Brain dead take. Poverty absolutely discriminates. Poor whites are unable to access higher education because they're bracketed with rich whites in terms of a racial quota system that says "no new white hires." No company is willing to get rid of the old white dudes... so who gets fucked to keep the numbers even? The young white dudes. It matters nothing to the ones who actually benefitted from systems of discrimination... it completely fucks the youth who did nothing wrong.
Trump’s promise to “Bring Back Coal” was a blatant lie and he knew it. Natural gas outcompetes coal every day. Coal production declined all through Trump years. We’re producing more crude oil and natural gas now than ever before. Fact! Trump’s lying above the price of gasoline too. OPEC controls the price at our pumps, period.
@@down-to-earth-mystery-school shut up, the democratic party does and has. they have been pro-union for generations. they have been the only party to raise the minimum wage. they have expanded healthcare access, invested in infrastructure spending, and tackled climate change instead of calling it a hoax. if you think the only way they can prove they care about working people is to, i don't know, make capitalism illegal, you're in the wrong country.
But not the same intelligence to decipher to make those things happen so it's pretty pointless. I don't know why y'all keep saying that. These people are crazed. That one guy said the way Trump ran the country felt better to him yet it was Joe who passed that trillions of dollars. What did trump do for them
If you're voting republican, you're doing nothing to help yourself. Much is the ultimate republican representative, in it only for the rich and powerful, just like every republican POTUS we've had since Nixon
Mitch McConnell might suck but I bet he takes care of his constituents because he’s consolidated so much power. So they keep him around. Switching a senior senator for a junior isn’t very smart. You loose all the power and benefits that come with it.
@pnwlady McConnell doesn't believe in doing things for the people. The best you can hope for from McConnell is even his wife was in charge of Transportation in Trump's cabinet so a lot of money was directed to repaving roads. Otherwise, McConnell only helps his owner-donors.
How? By supporting unions and bringing in jobs? I know it's hours away and not good enough, I'm not lying that it is, but they at least did something, and other areas need that too. Meanwhile, the republicans tore down unions and reduced jobs, AND increased costs by their failed policies and refusal to sign on with the Democrats who put forward bills designed to deal with all the price-gouging. republicans have NOT put any bills up themselves, just blocked the ones Democrats have, then complained and blamed Democrats for it. Same with the border, Dems put up bills, and repubs blocked them and didn't put up any of their own, and now lie and blame Democrats for it.
politicians are just puppets of billionaires. And yes, mass illegal immigration is a major problem that has harmed the US economy. Printing money and sending billions to fight foreign wars has also destroyed the US economy. Americans are tired of being second class citizens in their own country.
So refreshing to be able to see people from opposite sides of the aisle have civilized conversations without judgment or hostility. This is why America is great already.
@@parxgirl2156Except on a wide range of topics the differences aren't "arguable". Often intentions, also, aren't arguable. And sorry, but the simple fact that SO many voters for the GOP have been motivated by racial Animus if not clear cut White Supremacy/Nationalism for many decades now says a lot about anyone who can hand waved all that away because "Well I just like the Right's tax policy". And to all the Proggies... No, you don't get to eject the fight against White Supremacy, Christo-Fascists, misogynists and bigots, you don't stop educating the public about America's systemic racial issues just because it makes a lot of White Americans uncomfortable to be confronted with historical truths, and that IS what these milquetoast "Progressives" on this channel with their MAGA Whisperer schtick want. It's willfuly naive. Again... "I liked Adolf Hitler's economic policy and how he talked about strengthening the nation" wasn't an excuse for the German's who went along with the Nazi rise to power in the 1930's and it's not an excuse now for large swaths of people who have lied to themselves that a lifetime sociopathic grifting con man piece of human garbage should be given the benefit of the doubt.
These folks aren't on the opposite side of the aisle, they're you and me. I am a Democrat, but understand that the party abandoned rural folks to focus on the suburbs and urban areas. The Democrats need to works towards regaining the trust of rural America and show them that Republican economic policy NEVER improves their situation. Convince them to stop worrying about the ten commandments and pay attention to actual policy.
@@michaeljohnson3770 Trump's trade war with China cost American farmers their biggest market for corn, wheat and soy. That amounts to billions of dollars. Then the taxpayers had to give support to the farmers. Trump promises more tariffs which will also be reciprocated making the price of every day goods higher.
@@beebuzz959 idk man, a county that voted for the same party for almost 150 years and then one election cycle go with a national candidate from the opposite party - that doesn't strike me as uninformed voters.
@@BelieveInJMH They said they don't know why they voted democrat except that's what the people before them did. They were just doing what their parents did, which is typical braindead religious conservative behavior.
yeah. sane people hate Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer as much as Trump. Pelosi's stock trading would have landed her in prison if this country had functional laws.
@@tommymorrison6478Biden and the rest of the dems blocked the rail strike and you want to claim dems support the working class? I'm not voting republican, but come on now
@@Hakumencvs Do you know what a sense of perspective is? My friend, you're missing one. Biden blocked the strike because, as President, he has a wider responsibility to the country as a whole and he knew full well of the economic consequences of such a strike. I shouldn't have to explain this.
What I like is there's a ton of videos mocking the ignorant trump voters. This video was respectful and honestly listened to these people. As well as asked good questions. I respect that.
We are ignorant you say! Ignorance is believing a 50 year politician without any positive achievements on his record in those 50 years. Unless you count locking up a whole generation of black fathers with his crime bill a success. Or enriching his family at the expense of the American people a success. Or letting in 10’s of millions of criminal illegals and then footing the bill for them at our expense a success. And you have the nerve to call someone else ignorant. Lord help us with people like you voting. We are doomed as a nation.
My belief is that the videos of the ultra-maga loons, are all pretty much taken at his rallies. These are normal folks living their lives. I'll admit I was taken by surprise by some of the responses. I really hope that the new democrat reality is taken well by people like these. They're ready for it, you can hear them say it in not so many words. Those other ultra-maga loons deserve every bit of ridicule they get. Just a shame they get all the attention.
I've worked my whole life , and worked for something more , now I own my own business . You can two . Handouts do not help they keep you down . That is why there are poor people
Great video! So many videos out there ridiculing Trump voters. The journalist is respectful and doing a great job at understanding the mindset of these people. Kudos!
@@swampsprite9 🤣🤣 If having a secure border is xenophobic, then I'm guilty. If not allowing males into women's locker rooms and prisons is sexist, then I'm also guilty of being a sexist. I love how people with TDS say things, but can never back it up with facts. I'm not even a Trump supporter, but I'm tired of hearing the same nonsense people have been pushing for nearly 10 years.
@@MassiveGarbage because it doesn't actually exist? @swampsprite9 - Legal immigration is fine - ILLEGAL immigration is the problem. Even getting leftists to acknowledge the difference takes much effort... why is that? Also, making sure a genetic female does not have to (unfairly) compete with a genetic male is now "sexism"? Kinda flipped that one on it's head, don't ya think? If you want to discuss having trans people compete in their own class - I'm open to that discussion - and I think it would be the fairest way - but letting genetic males beat on genetic females seems to my mind to be the worst kind of sexism. Please, get out from in front of the boobtube - and do a little more actual listening and reading of what Trump has actually said - the pundits in the MSM are lying to you about him.
Greetings from the Divided (and Conquered) States of America. I've never felt anything but loathing for King George, his wars, and everything else about his regime, and I felt the same way at the same part!
I think part of the answer is exactly what the Harris/Walz ticket is trying to resolve. Answer the question for people "What are you doing for me?" If people cannot see improvements in their own communities, I can see why big government is considered a bad thing. As far as McConnell and Paul, corruption is a major part of the issue.
Hint: if a political party says they are for the working class but does nothing to help you rise above it, then you are no better than slaves who vote to keep your masters in power. I’m voting for Trump because while he was in office he lowered taxes, lowered the cost of gas, implemented opportunity zones for the black community, Trump gave the Abraham Accords for peace in the Middle East, peaceful talks with North Korea, Russia and China, new trade deals that were cheaper for America, built more wall than any president before him as promised. We need four more years of Trump policy to put things back and make America great again and drain the swamp creatures and unfair laws in Washington that make senators able to do inside trading and get rich instead of helping their constituents. Trump helps all Americans have more money in their pockets and gives opportunities no one else has thought of to help us out of poverty and leave our kids better off than we are. That’s the American dream. MAGA 2024 🎉❤
Media deserts and political messaging. They heard Trump say tax cuts and that's all they need to hear. And you can't really blame them. Democrats do not message to these types of people. Walz is possibly an exception to this, but traditionally.
Trump is a 90s Democrat and the Left LOVED him until he became president. Interesting how you go from loving someone to calling them Hitler simply because they aren't part of the political establishment.
You don't care about corruption. The amount of cabinet officials from his prior admin with conflicts of interest were insane, and the media was completely silent about it. His opposition to the border bill and the pro-act are dis-qualifiers for people who actually pay attention to policy.
@@kinjunranger140 I'm independent not republican or democrat, they are both captured , the democrat party being completely captured..so yeah , evil vs not that bad .. Trump 2024
🎯 Yeah well said; the culture war stuff is a deliberate bait and switch to distract ordinary folk from who is really doing them wrong, the mega-wealthy and political elites - keep the people divided, blaming the wrong folks and looking the wrong way, it's insidious but effective, if only more people could see it for the manipulative lie and gaslighting that it is.
This is the most enlightening video on politics that I have seen anywhere in a very, very long time. I’m a 56 year-old life long independent and I appreciate your taking time to investigate this.
If all politicians watched this video, read the comments and acted appropriately, we’d all be better off. Educate yourself and vote with knowledge rather than emotion.
They wouldn't care. The republican party loves pretending they don't despise the working class while dismantling us, and the democratic party always does what republicans do but four year later. They're against us and love to hear us in pain
That we need it to maintain population growth or else we would already be in massive population decline like the rest of the Western world? Or that maybe there is just something about life here that, well, no one has enough time or money as it is, so no way they want to have kids that take even more of that, so we better have immigrants to do a lot of the jobs and pay into the system to prop up the next wave of old people? Because anyway you shake it, it comes back to needing a large amount of immigration. That or radically changing how our economic culture functions, which, good luck.
@@LackofFaithifylook at Europe. They took in a lot of immigrants and now they have a nightmare. When immigrants don’t assimilate into the system they have been brought into you have a big problem. It doesn’t matter whether you’re for or against it’s simply the facts
Figures……this would be turned against Trump. The working class has started to see that Trump is for them. The saying “I didn’t leave the Democratic Party, they left me” is so true.
I really like that you never once tried to tell someone their political opinion is wrong, or try to push your own beliefs on them. You clearly wanted to speak with them to find understanding, and I respect that. Great video!
They said exactly what they wanted from their politicians. A pretty lie is better than nothing at all. Start showing some real investments in the American people and they'll vote for you forever
This is so true. I can say this too. I live in San Francisco. I'm a gay man. I HATE the democratic party because of exactly this. They use shame tactics to get us to vote for them while delivering very little, and then come back around every few years like Mona-Lisa Saperstein (from Parks and Rec) yelling "MONEY PLEASE" If either party actually delivered for me, I'd be a dedicated voter for them for life. But so far I have one party who pretends to care and one party who is actively antagonistic toward me.
Yet this vote for a party or person forever gave us the very problem we suffer from. Voting without a thought is a bad way to participate in a democracy.
As long as people keep giving Congress majority to the repubs then the democrats can't actually help you like they actually want to help you. It's not the democrats stopping help to the working class. It's the gop!!! You really want to see change for the better then vote BLUE all the way down the ballot. That's literally the only way. trump only cares about himself and that is why the dirty elite support him and he supports them bc they pay him to. trump is not the answer for the American people. He and his billionaire friends are the problem and they have spent billions of dollars to brainwash millions into thinking it's the democrats causing all of the problems. It's called lying and gaslighting
@@anthonydelfino6171I pray for you and others to see the error in this thinking. It is the total opposite. I urge you to get the facts. Then reconsider. McConnell did nothing for your state! Trump has done nothing for anyone but himself and his rich pals. Kamala & Tim come from middle & working class families.
@@anthonydelfino6171what promises have the democrats not delivered to you. They have us marriage equality. They have us anti-discrimination laws. They gave us the Affordable Healthcare plan. They’re trying to make live easier for average Americans. It’s Thank you! Republicans that are standing in the way of more of that. So please… tell us what the DEMs have promised you yet did not deliver.
Agree, so until you can get everyone to quit implying Trump voters are stupid while at the same time promoting the other elitist party that is even worse on our constitutional rights, it is hopeless. Viewers of this channel need to encourage trump voters to support unions, not imply they are stupid.
It is a left- vs. right battle, you just don't have a left. AOC, Bernie and Warren all have the solutions. Perhaps Beshear does too. But if you guys dont gather the votes, you ain't going anywhere. Why do you think scandinavia is rich, happy and economically stable? Because we're perhaps, well-balanced socialist-democratic countries?
As a combat vetran raised in Indiana communities such as these are what break my heart because they are not wrong in feeling slighted just wrong on whos gonna help or fix it.
So they aren't paying attention to what their senators and representatives are voting against in DC and not paying attention to what their State Legislature is voting against. Yeah, voting against your interest. No wage increases, no jobs, no help with healthcare, wtf?
Can't say if it's the thing in this county, but my parents live in another very remote and small rural area in a deep red state. And they are also against increases to minimum wage (they think that wage increases drive inflation) and oppose the expansion of healthcare and government jobs as a form of communism (they're boomers and grew up during the red scare) so sure, they keep voting against they're own self interest, but it's because they can't see how they've been lied to about the policies that would actually benefit them
Artificial wage increases are the problem. When you increase the minimum wage you increase the cost of goods which will obliterate some jobs in the process. Also the reason why healthcare cost so much is because of government involvement too.
I believe in walz for sure. Have you seen that guy’s income? He makes less than the average American, he’s the closest we have to someone understanding what the working class is going through.
@@bonkgameing I heard people talk about how biden never took stocks or bribes from lobbyists, I doubt Walz makes 20-30k a year and if he manages to get into office he will come out rich, while none of the working classes problems get solved again.
@@bonkgameing The best thing about Walz is that he's been in government for nearly 20 years and only has a modest level of wealth. That says he never sold out to special interests (like, say, Sinema here in Arizona)
@@johnchedsey1306 It's also telling that unlike pretty much every Democratic politician of the last several decades, Walz isn't a lawyer. and on top of that, he has zero investments in the stock market. this makes him a real oddity not just in the democratic party but in politics in general.
I don't think he is a Republican. I view him as an Independent who knew he had to run as a R or D to win the election and Hillary already had the D nomination sewn up which just left him the R party. He's very different from the Bushes who I hated. Also look at how many permanent R politicians in DC hate him!
@@CouchSlouch- yes, he is a moderate...everything has moved so far to the left that his moderate views can now be considered far right, i guess.......that makes him a republican, but not a real conservative
These people would have rallied behind Bernie, I have no doubt in my mind about that. Hopefully the democratic establishment has come to that realization.
They haven't. They barely were able to force Biden out and when Biden all on his own and out of revenge named his assassination insurance policy VP as the next Democratic presidential candidate nobody challenged it. And Bernie Sanders is a year older than Joe Biden and three years older than Donald Trump. Just like we prevent anyone under 35 from running for president, we need to prevent anyone older than 65 from running. An 80 year old is not capable of doing the job like a 40 or 50 year old could.
No they wouldn’t-I’m from Kentucky, they call Bernie COMMUNIST, they would never, ever vote for a communist. Also, they have no idea what a Communist is.
Having Mitch as your representative voting against everything to help them just to stop democrats year after year and then vote in a Democrat that gets things done blows my mind and then thinking Trump will improve their lives
Lol I mean same could be said for Pelosi and San Fran. What has Joe Biden done to improve the country and what will Kamala do considering she's been VP for four years?
@@joshiewatName the powers invested in the office of VP that allows for a Veep to pursue policy independently of the office of the President? If you could do that, your premise wouldn't be so silly and obtuse, but... Par for the course with MAGA Goofs.
Course McConnell was against Trump all the way. The first year he and Ryan did everything to stop Trump's goals. And signed up with Dems to impeach him, so he could be removed.
An American president is not the president of the world. His duties are for his country and for his people. I am from Southeast Asia and I can see how my country was impacted with American prosperity back in the day. Everyone used to dream the American dream including me. Now, the greatest influence of America in my country is pop culture and liberalism, music and worse is the sexual culture. As harsh as it sounds, illegal immigrants should not be the responsibility of America, they shouldn’t take your jobs, healthcare or your school privileges. How can the government house illegals in a hotels while their citizens sleep on cold streets. That’s just cruelty for all the working class. Build your lives up, build your country up. Be prosperous and when that time comes that you are in a great place, be generous. Give from a place of prosperity and not from a place of lack. And as a Christian, I pray that you also come back to being one nation under God.
The rich took over our government, media, and military. The sexual stuff is to break the family unit. A person without a family has nothing to fight for.
Last Monday was Labor Day and I know a lot of people don’t know why it is a holiday. I’ve never been in a union, but I am very grateful for what unions accomplished for working people. That I work 8 hour days, forty hours a week, or overtime pay if I work more than that. I get breaks and lunch breaks. A work in an environment that is safe. I have benefits. I’m (mostly) appreciated for what I do. I’m grateful to the heroes who fought for working peoples’ rights and got it done. Despite incredible opposition they put their lives on the line. Keeping unions strong keeps our country strong.😊😊
Unions are not now , nor have they ever been supported by the Republican party.... because the Republican party does not care about poor/ working poor/ working class people
the teachers union in Vermont rams down, trans, lgbtq, blm, sex in 1st grade books in schools meanwhile paying off politicians to get teachers more and more money to teach kids that can't read, can't count, have no life skills and taxes keep going up.
That was actually one of the dumbest things I have heard in a long time. Think! If everyone was poor, would that make things better? No you moron, most rich people are what provide opportunity, you want more of them, not less. And while some of them got wealthy through ill gotten means (mostly through the government), the vast majority did it by providing value which makes things better for everyone. How many wealthy people live in Kentucky? I am guessing not many.
Well, surely you are aware that Republicans vote AGAINST raising the minimum wage from $7.25 per hour? Why do people vote AGAINST their own best interests?
Absolutely!! I can't stand hearing big corporations raking in billions of dollars in profit, then have the mult-millionares and billionaires at the top receive million$$$$$$$ JUST IN BONUSES every year and not having that money go to all the people that helped those companies make the profits they made - THEIR WORKERS!!! I'm sick and tired of hearing that "You can't raise the minimum wage, or else companies will just charge more for their products and we'll all have to pay more." What a dumbass response! Not because companies won't do that, but because it's such a "lay down and die" way of thinking. Why not DO SOMETHING about this and urge law makers to change how these companies handle such large profits!? I'm not one for loving when the government gets involved in things they shouldn't, but when it comes to things where their interference is done to HELP people that are being screwed and make things more fair to improve the lives of millions of people, then yes, they should interfere and make laws that help the average hard-working American.
The jobs you are talking about are not intended to be careers, but stepping stones. If people don't learn that and keep themselves down, they deserve the pay they are earning.
This was a very good investigation of our system. It’s programs like this that can generate a calm and well thought out discussion between citizens to solve problems not to vilify those you disagree agree with. Good job!
I don't get it. Why are the people in Kentucky not mad at Mitch McConnell and the other Republicans who represent that state? They have been voted into office for decades and haven't done anything to help the people of the state that they represent, but they blame the Democrats? They do like their Democratic governor, however? Crazy.
People here in KY do hate Mitch. I’m 43 and haven’t talked to a single person in over a decade who likes or voted for Mitch. Those are people who vote R and D. The RNC makes it impossible to primary a better Republican candidate, and the DNC controls which candidate gets to run against Mitch. The Democrat choices have been garbage. While we have turtle Mitch, we also have Rand Paul and Thomas Massie. Both are basically libertarians who don’t vote with the republicans. Massie is hands down the best leader we have in our federal government. He always votes for the people and against the machine.
Mitch McConnell might be the most perplexing thing to me in american politics. He does nothing to help the US domestic policies, and nothing to help US foreign policies either! And yet.... every new election there he is. And let's not even talk about his China connections, his wife is the most successful honey pot operation the Chinese government has ever pulled in history!
i think its because the representatives arent usually in the media, the president is some of the time and usually if its about some perceived grievance the media has with him. Take for instance where i live. Here in Missouri the senators and governors are almost never in the news, even the local news. Hell i didnt know about how much of a backstabbing coward Hawley was until recently, my aunt is always watching KY3 which is our local news but it never mentions anything important. People hear the global news talking about the president and they see the area around them change for the worst and they just chock it up to who is president at the time is the one to blame when in actuality previous presidents set in motion things that take time to cause ripple effects through the country, like when Bush sent us into a recession, people blamed it on Barack because the effects finally hit everyone just as Barack became president.
@@wildemthefem5773well, if you all hate Mitch so damn much, why TF do you keep voting him back in?? You had a chance to get rid of him last time around, but you all screwed that up.
@@sharonharris9782ok rudeass, no need for all that. i know you’re unfamiliar with concepts like gerrymandering and voter manipulation, but dont take your ignorance out on others.
Yup. If people bother to look up the wealth of these people... there are far too many millionaires in our politics. Mostly on the Republican side. But way too many.
My dad was 8n a union his entire career. It tried to screw the union members, they took the union to court and thank goodness they won. I doubt they would win today. Any and I mean ANY organization can become corrupt. Wake up, life is not black and white it is full of a lot of colors in between.
@@TheKavebear1mostly on the republican side 😂? Almost all millionaires in corporate America are Democrats 😂. Check out Hollywood almost 100% of them are democrats.
John, your videos are some of the best I've ever seen on this topic. More reporting like this, please. We need to wake up Washington and state houses around the country. Democrats as a party need to become champions of the working class again.
Once they stopped advocating for social degeneracy only favored by college bureaucrats & get back to economic issues (which they will never do), they will earn back these voters. I'd vote Democrat if they weren't promoting so much sickening social policy.
Ever since a certain Democrat president got into the WH, all of that went to sh*t. Ain't gonna happen. Too F'n late for that. Dems just don't care. I switched parties over it.
@@robertmoore7789 Americas political realignment is along nationalist vs globalist lines. Look at the neocons endorsing Kamala, who didn’t primary. Look at the classical liberals following rfk to the gop.
Globalism is just part of capitalism. Marx in 1848 already wrote that capitalist always try to get more and more land, resources, people into their sphere of influence, that's why they colonise and exploit more and more countries, more and more lands.
This is so important - listening to those who voted like that and why. How else can we understand one another and act accordingly if we don't ask and listen? Thanks for the work. I bet you made some people feel so much better, simply because they got to express themselves to an someone else they don't usually talk to.
Well her perspective is fine and if the migrants coming across the border were all like she would like to believe they are then by all means she could be right unfortunately half the illegal's coming across the border are Drug dealers, human trafficker's, murderous rapists and child molesters. It is the old dish of candy every piece of candy looks the same but there are 2 pieces that will kill you if you eat them would you stick your little fingers in that dish and give one of the pieces of candy to your Son, your daughter your grandson or daughter your wife or even yourself? I think not! The democrats care nothing about you or you family all they care about is your vote your vote to put them on power after they could care less if you live or die.
It was so good to see this because it laid bare that we were really divided and on a conquering quest by the politicians and not our neighbors for political end games. Thank you to these sensible people. You really help me to be a proud American. There are still good people in America.
What a sleight of hand! Convincing poor people that other poor people are the problem while lining their pockets. Until the monied class is held accountable for the disparity they’ve created on the backs of the working class, there will be more and more poor people.
Did you miss the part where they are building a battery factory....you thought they took up a collection at church to build that. Here's a cluse....Biden raised your taxes, brought that back to buy your vote in a battery factory which will be out of business in less than 10 years...While you vote Union, and the buyers of those batteries say F u...I'll buy from Mexico, China....etc....And you't go back to the voting booth, and vote democrat, for another 50 years. Better you stop voting for cheaper house trailers...One thing for sure...you people ain't starving.
@@kayzee2675 You’re right. I have a Communist inside of me. And a host of systems that have me wanting my fellow travelers to have their basic needs met.
I voted in the Democratic Primary & against Trump in 2016 & 2020. I grew up in NJ and we were blue in both elections. I will always consider myself a Democrat at heart, because that platform resonates with me. Sadly the DNC is corrupt as hell & for the first time, I'm voting for a Republican in November. Your dad & his beliefs were aligned with a version of the Democratic Party at one point in time, and that's his definition of being a democrat. Sadly the Republican party is now closer to that than the current DNC. I feel for your dad, it must have been hard having children who didn't want to understand him
@PowerWinsTop Yeah, and I can tell based on what you just said in your comment. You voted for Trump and 2016 and 2020. No one believes that you are a Democrat that suddenly wants to vote for Trump.
Same here - they moved all the jobs offshore and it devastated the South. The one thing I despise about Unions is get bailouts when they are not profitable - the people suffer and the leaders run off with the money 💰 and taxpayers suffer
Love this channel! The answer is state sovereignty. The average person will always have more impact locally than in Washington. We can govern according to regional needs when states are empowered.
If capitalism was allowed to run it's course nearly every worker in the economy would be only paid enough to keep starvation off and thrown to the street the first sign they might not be able to work for their company.
Honest questions; what makes you think you have the right to be guaranteed anything? What system will guarantee you anything? Human nature is the problem and capitalism isn't perfect but its better than anything else we've thought of.
I think you really need to research the two for real. These past four years have been harder on us than the four before. Plus I suggest if you own a home you really research Kammieallahs tax proposals and what that could mean for you. Not good.
yeh, when the interviewer took the time to listen and be compassionate, they sounded more like Democrats, ironically. It's the elitism that turns them to Trump, plus also there's racism in them rural counties. I know, I lived in one in Indiana for many years.
It's so tough to hear. I grew up in southern Indiana with a lot of family in Kentucky and still see the area as my home too, but post 2016 I don't even like visiting. This was a great interview. The inherent contradictions in these people's positions won't be solved by demeaning them, it will be solved by taking real action that has an impact on their lives.
Yes, Kentuckians have had a rough go in a lot of places but sometimes it's hard to feel sorry for them when they vote for the likes of McConnell and Rand Paul. Two folks whose political philosophy is every man for themselves.
The same that the Democratic party is a mix of aligned but distinct interests (Sanders-style leftists, vaguely progressive millionaires, and those concerned about civil rights for ethnic and sexual minorities), the GOP in Kentucky and elsewhere is made up of different interests too. I remember the primary race between Trey Grayson and Rand Paul back when the seat first opened up. Rand Paul won on a mix of educated, upper middle-class libertarian-leaning sections and evangelicals who embraced him for running to the right on things like abortion. The kind of people in this video had little to do with Paul being Kentucky's senator. The forces that drive the general GOP favorability in Kentucky is entirely unrelated to the Trump thing, which gives hope for people who want to use New Deal style politics to win back large portions of Trump voters.
Self sufficiency, as is Rand's philosophy, is not exactly everyone for himself. People are fully able to work together and help each other all they want to make a good life for everyone. He just doesn't believe that government should be your nanny to solve all your problems. That was a big concern people had with his father when he ran for president. Parents with disabled children or people with special needs were freaked out that he would eventually and gradually discontinue government checks. There are other ways to help people without taking from government. I have never seen a disaster, or a house burn down or many other things where people have not stepped up and gave way more than was needed.
@@georgefirth4502 "self sufficiency" is good in theory but as much a fairytale in the real world as the left utopian dream of "world peace." In practice, self sufficiency manifests as the rich and powerful exploiting the vulnerable all the while placing the blame on those born with less advantages and making them feel guilty for their circumstances. E.g. "you are poor because you deserve it." Are there lazy people? Sure. But the vast majority are honest hardworking people who do not understand the game in which they play. Self sufficiency is a wolf in sheep's clothing. A farce.
Agreed especially with Walz on her side and what he has done for MN and has shown he really has been doing the work and isn’t a billionaire and has this working class attitude. Coming from MN, and actually knowing him and his daughter, they really are just a normal middle class family. When I first met him, I didn’t think he was anything more than just someone I met’s funny MN Dad cuz that’s how he acts
I strongly support and like Harris, but I'm afraid she hasn't done much to reach out to rural working-class white people. The Harris campaign is trying to appeal to Never-Trump Republicans, who are mostly country-club Republicans (business owners and such), to women (but mainly educated women and women of color), and to various groups of color. That might be the smartest strategy electorally, but it kind of writes off rural working-class white people, and I think they know it.
Justice Matters this comes down to corruption vs the prosecutor. Trump repealed the Frank Dodd Act in 2018 that allowed banks to lower their capital reserve limits so they could billions off lending, he is totally against Unions allowed for the largest bank monopoly merger in a decade and uses scare tactics. Meanwhile he is flying around on Jeffery Epstein's Jet.
The truly rich can just move their assets, put them into legal vehicles whatever their called and shield them. Those who bought a house when they where cheap and saw the prices skyrocket aren't rich.
@Zoroasterisk what you are advocating for would destroy the economy. Would tax unrealized capital gains on people's homes, their retirement funds etc? Once you drove off all of the investment money it won't come back for a long time and you would be reliant on politicians whims
Kentucky voters need to stop harming America and get rid of Moscow Mitch McConnell. That sorry excuse for a human being has made Kentucky look bad for decades and he needs to be voted out of office already.
The top 10% of earners already pay 90% of our taxes. The issue isnt tax revenue, it’s tax spending. But yeah, i dont disagree with what you are saying. Just that if we brought in more tax revenue, thats not going to stop them from blowing it on dumb stuff.
Those that make 99% more will only cut jobs or raise prices on the consumer. They can easily move money around and up and move their businesses to another country. Democrats some reason can’t understand that. How sbout tell the democrats to quit giving all our taxpayer money to criminal illegals. They feed, clothe, house, spending money and transportation wherever they want. Don’t see them doing that for any American citizens or veterans. The more tax money sent to DC the more they will piss away on BS.
@@elephantintheroom3854 Ya no you are completely wrong - First off top 10% pay around 75% of all income taxes not 90% - Second of all of course there is a tax revenue issue, look at the national debt... - Third test there is a spending issue but mostly because of corruption - We do need to raise taxes on the top 1%, they hold freaken 32.3% of all the wealth in the US!!!
@@elephantintheroom3854 You're missing the point. FDR policies incentivised the rich and powerful to spend way more of their money on workers and ultimately get infrastructure spending (oh and while still being rich and powerful). It created tons of good jobs without borrowing. We had balance with the New Deal. Now we just have unfettered greed and wealth-hoarding, all at the expense of workers' livelihoods and the non-rich.
I thought that socialist dude was braindead AF. All of these people are pretty stupid, tbqh. If you were logically minded you would seek information and become misinformed (Dem or Soc) or informed (Republican or Nationalist).
There's very little criticism towards the Trump tax cut. When the working class gets a $500 tax cut and the wealthy get a $60,000 tax cut. When there's a stipulation that was put in to the Trump tax cut for them to expire for the working class, but not for the wealthy. You heard the woman. She appreciates it.
75% of career age people have a large amount of their personal wealth in a 401k, a corporate tax cuts directly increases the value of equities held in their portfolio
The amount of taxes cut for each individual is based on percentage of income (basically) so to compare someone making 25k a year and someone making 1 million annually is not comparable and in either case someone keeping more of their money that they earned wether it be from flipping burgers or managing hedge funds is a good thing because they will spend it on things that directly benefit their lives where as government will send it overseas or pay Dewayne Johnson millions for 4 post on X
I may not agree with everybody but we're all Americans, there is no more conservative Democrats, maybe VOTERS but not in Congress and definitely not in the white house right now I have voted on both sides of the aisle, and I'm voting trump Vance, when Kennedy and Tulsi gabbard joined with him just solidified my vote. I believe they are more for this country as a whole and the the Democratic party has gone way too far Progressive left, just to woke for a country boy. But I hope people in true need disabled and poor folks won't get mistreated because Republicans don't believe in handouts, that's not how America works we need to help OUR PEOPLE FIRST, so we can help others later.
The people of Elliot County in this community is conservative. They voted Democrat because their papaws did, not based on policies. Reagan turned Washington into Gucci Gulch, where lobbyists tell our officials what to do, not the people, and this is where a two party system fails. Both parties are right wing. The GOP is just much further right than the Democrats. For democracy (lower case) to work, you have to vote not based on loyalty, but principle. About policy. (And to be fair, federal elections don't do much, rather they choose which oligarchs get policy they like. That needs to change, but the public is not effective at applying pressure to the federal government over election reform.) Elliott County has no friends in Washington, and this makes them super vulnerable to confidence-playing Mussolini-wannabes. They got suckered by Trump, and now that they vote for Trump because their elders did, they'll continue to do so, against their own interests, not recognizing that while the Democratic party doesn't work for them either, it at least works according to coalition and wants to prevent one-party autocracy. To be fair, Obama promised _Hope and Change_ and gave us the same neoliberalism that Clinton gave us (and continuing a lot of George W. Bush policies.) The reason you vote for King Log in an FPTP election is to keep King Heron out of office, even Log does nothing for you. Elliot County voted for King Heron, and even though it wasn't by majority, the Electoral College put Trump in the White House, and we all suffered for it.
Uninformed I see! How’s 20 million criminal illegals helping these people in any way? Y taking any jobs that they might could’ve gotten by undercutting and working for peanuts. Or the $400 billion spent this year alone wining and dining and housing all those criminal illegals. Wasn’t Trump doing that the last 4 years. They remember living better when Trump was President compared to the shit show the last 4 years. But I know the lefts talking point. It’s Trumps fault! Just like it was Bush’s fault the whole 8 years of the great divider Obuma. When is it the Democrats fault for what they eff up? Amazing they never have fault according to CNN and their smooth brain followers.
Did you even bother watching that vide? That sneering, contemptuous attitude is precisely why people turned to Trump. Those people are very self-aware and conscious that Trump isn't any better than Biden, but they vote for him out of spite, because the Dems have offered them nothing and even working against them by signing up to NAFTA. Knowing what city liberals think about them doesn't help either. What's the point of cheap stuff from China or Mexico, if you can't get a job to pay for it or have to move hundreds or thousands of miles away from friends and families to get one?
It's true they voted for Democrats because it was part of their family identity and "what we've always done," but they did switch their vote to Trump, so that means they can switch back if another person or party does something to earn their vote.
This is so strange. They speak as if they are leftist too and yet the conservatives have convinced them that the right in the solution. How the hell do you bridge a gap where people agree with you on almost everything and want the same goals, but vote the other way?
It sounds like your mind is opening to the fact that we are more similar than we are dissimilar. Politics are supposed to be about agreeing on the problems but disagreeing on the solutions.
@@adambartlett2780this person didn’t just open their open their mind, the people in that town would rather hold on hateful talking points than admit the obvious! Hate tastes so good… smh
Dude it’s cause most of the trump voters are disaffected liberals. Hell even trump himself was a democrat. The problem is trying to get people like you to open your eyes to all the corruption on the left. Sure trumps a billionaire and so is Elon musk. But it’s way more billionaire funding the democrats. Like trumps main message is America first.. that makes sense to a simple person like me. Yet we look at the immigration policies in all the big leftist/ democrat cities like Chicago/ New York and they seem to be prioritizing immigrants over other fellow Americans who’ve paid into the system for better or worse. That’s what’s is pissing people off like myself. There should be a hierarchy to things. I’m all for charity but I’m going to prioritize in order of closeness to me. My immediate family first, my extended family, my local community, and then my fellow Americans. I’m sorry for the predicament the migrants are in, but not so sorry that I’m willing to sacrifice a fellow American first. Cause if it ever got down to a dogfight with another country it’s America first all the way… 9/11 was one of the saddest days in American history, but it was also a very clarifying time for the older American that it was US over everyone else, and it drew us all closer for a time
@@IMayOrMayNotBeNoelG Sorry, but this all relies on them literally doing something they simply cannot and will not - vote for it in the first place. The only person who has been able to do this is, Besher - so I guess it's possible.
I agree with you. I feel very similar. I wish more people on the West Coast could see through the DNC, or want what is right for America over their personal issues against Trump. Trump has an amazing team with RFKjr, Tulsi, Elon, and Vance. ❤
@@Synoopy2 I feel like this is both true and false. Congress is full of "rich" people, and if they have generational wealth, truly can be in the 1%, but billionaires are an entire different level. You can make the argument that they buy congress, but I don't think the ultra rich that are the problem are really *in* congress. I know there are some ultra wealthy people in congress though, but my point is the overall makeup
Biden did put a 15% tax on corporations and he was going to raise that in his second term plus, he was going to tax the rich their fairer share. Biden was doing things like FDR and MTG blasted him for it (Biden turned it into an add for a short time). Hopefully Kamala will do continue with those ideas.
In the 50s, the highest tax rate was 70%. Only on what you made over $10 million. That was when America was great. Going back to those great days is most rightly returning taxes to what they were when we were great. Who doesn't want to be great again?
no. find some one who are for the people and the country not the party. trump republican is not the answer. im a republican myself and this is why i voted trump twice but trump keeps saying the same crap over and over he had the chance for 4 years why didnt he do what he promised my small town was once 10k ppl its dropped really low cause union jobs left to go to texas instead. my town suffered under trump when biden came in we gained some union jobs back to where alot of us are getting back. trump is just a billionaire thats only for the interest of himself and the rich. union jobs are the back bone of this country. what we need to do is actualy voting for people that say they are for us for chance ignore D and R but the middle massies has been for the people hes not republican nor democrat
STOP with the race baiting! We are ALL Americans and poor is POOR. I will repeat the comment above- As long as rich people can convince poor people that other poor people are the reason that they are poor, there will always be poor people.
@jeanmoore1525 🤣🤣🤣 Republicans are racist but they just don't know that they are...theres a term for it but I can't think of it right now...Berry Goldwater and people like him are the reason you think Republicans aren't racist...your politicians who actually are racist don't say overtly racists things...but they say things like "Walefare Queens" or "Comminists" or "Illegals"...and those are dog whistles for "black people" or "smart people" or "Mexicans"...I implore you to listen to the southern strategy straight from Barry's moth...he literally says it
Has no one considered that with the exception of people escaping dictatorships accepting too many migrants hurts the country they come from. The poverty and failures of those countries will never be addressed if the solution is to just leave. The corruption that ruined these countries is still there oppressing the people that can't just escape.
Unfortunately, the leaders of those countries often aren't too concerned with critics of their regime leaving - even if the entire country's economy goes to 💩, they'll still be fine. There are also few levers other countries can apply: UN Resolutions are about as effective as a Strongly Worded Letter, Sanctions predominantly hurt the population rather than the leadership, while military action often causes more problems than it solves. Even worse: the tyrants will increasingly get support from China and Russia to prop up their regime as they offer few Ts and Cs, unlike Western countries who often expect at least token efforts at reform in return for their investment or aid money. The people leaving often have little to no future other than a subsistence existence back home, so unsurprisingly many want to leave - either with their families to start a complete new life elsewhere, or to make enough money overseas to send some back to support their families back home. Sending those from countries where dire punishments aren't meted out to regime critics addresses one problem (at the destination end) while doing nothing about the problems at the source end, which the world is effectively willing to shrug their shoulders and say "Not our problem". There's an even bigger problem with regimes which don't take kindly to critics, as not only do they not mind critics leaving (well, except for prominent ones in the public eye, who they'd prefer were permanently shut up) but as there'd be a realistic prospect of returnees being killed or subjected to torture on return, signatories to the UN Convention Against Torture would be prohibited from returning them. So that leaves the problem of what to do with this cohort of refugees, as (a) no country can take them all in, but also (b) you can't have too many countries refusing to accept any, as if that happens you'll have a growing number of Stateless people, welcome neither in their own country nor anywhere else. Conflicts also increasingly tend to last decades rather than a couple of years. Ideally, countries should hire sufficient asylum case handlers to be able to make decisions quickly, and perhaps also as a companion, ask migrants to compile a barebones CV, so if they have in demand skills, they can be sent to where they'd be most useful and productive in society. A multinational approach could also mean that if they had skills not in demand in the country they'd travelled to, but were in demand in country X, they could be resettled there (likely after some kind of basic skills check to quickly weed out overt liars). But then comes the thorny question of what to do with those that have no useful transferable skills but can't be returned to their home country.
Do these people realize that their reps are the ones that make the difference? Cause the President can put out his agenda, but Congress is the one that has to go through with making it into law, and the President only signs it
did you watch till the end? Their governor, that they identify more strongly with than Trump, is a democrat who ran primarily on strengthening unions and has added union jobs. These people are more politically aware than here in LA and SF
That's abt the best comment said on here. I don't think some people understand the roles of the 3 parts of government . Alot people think the president runs the show but he actually doesn't. Thats why I've been educating and teaching people the roles so they know it's not really the president ruling. The laws are made, congress passing it, then he aigna it.
Finally a video about what is actually going on in this country, it’s no longer republican vs Democrat it is what I’ve seen for a very long time, the working class vs the billionaires in Washington DC and we all need to unite around that fact!
“If you could get the working class to stick together, maybe it would make a difference”
She said perfectly what you guys are working on with this channel. Keep it up. You’re doing great work.
Middle class and working class are regular people wanting a decent life….. but there are some people who have innate drive to build empires and accumulate power and wealth….. in the history you have such people like Alexander the Great and Genghis Khan …. But in modern time…. Political empires are not acceptable anymore so they pursue economic empires through unrestrained capitalism….
The key word is “unrestrained”…. Then they abuse workers, pollute, all for their god of money and profit ….
So they are few in numbers but they have a more vested interest and power and money as compared to numerous working class with little interest in accumulating such things as their god ….
This channel has only supported people and policies that destroy the middle class. They’ve paved a beautiful path to hell and don’t even know it. This channel is about division and distractions. Very rarely do they post “good” content.
FEAR ,HATE ,ANGER ,LIES. -DIVIDE AND CONQUER Republicans Have Been Doing It.
And there's the problem. Red Scare. She's literally talking about Socialism, and as a Socialist, I agree with her. Before the party flip to hide the white supremacists, Red State Democrats created the most Leftist legislation in our history (other than the Constitution itself), The New Deal. And they worked on it in cooperation with The American Socialist Party who at the time represented about 20% of voters. Then McCarthy, Nixon, and Reagan happened..
Spoken directly from a person who doesn't care that Trump divides us all.
Absolutely Mitch McConnell has done nothing for my state but line his own pockets and his corporate donors
Totally
His last election results were shady.
He's a rino...it's why we need term limits in the Senate and House...Schumer, Pelosi, Biden, Warren, McConnell all became one happy power hungry cult...claiming they are doing the work...but since Trump has been out look at the chaos in the world... these people are controlled by their anonymous aides that will be there forever that no one voted for..aides need to have term limits as well.
@@Teeveepicksures MCDONNELL IS A RINO REPUBLICAN IN NAME ONLY TRUMP IS NOT A DEMOCRAT ARE A REPUBLICAN HE IS AN AMERICAN (AKA MEGA ) I WANT TO PUT THE SAFETY AND PROFIT TO AMERICA FIRST I TIRED OF GOVERNMENT GETTING RICH OFF FORCED FAKE WARS SO GOVERNMENT MAKE MONEY OFF BUYING WEAPON AND GIVING THE TO OTHER COUNTRY BOUGHT AND PAID FOR BY WE THE AMERICAN TAX PAYERS DOLLAR UNDER TRUMP HE ENDED THE THE RUSSIA UKRAINE WAR THAT OBAMA HAD GOING STARTED NO NEW WARS AND BIDEN STARTED 3 WARS I,M VOTING FOR NO WARS NO DRAFT OF OUR CHILDREN AND GRAND CHILDREN
I WILL BE VOTING FOR TRUMP
It's the same with Trump. He doesn't care about these people. And these people just care about how much they pay for gas and it was less during Trump so they vote for him.
The best thing they could have done was get rid of Mitch McConnell.
And Rand Paul.
Hasn't happened yet. I wish it would. I'd like to see Daniel Cameron take Mitch's seat.
@@GailPommainville I like Rand Paul. He pegged ole Dr. Fauci. course we all knew that it was a Plandemic from the start. china is tops in bio-warfare
@@earlofmar7987Oh yeah, that black bootlicker.
He is so wicked for the working people!
As a Republican I enjoyed this video. Thank you for letting ppl talk about what their thoughts and fears are, as real Americans.
The video focuses on how great the New Deal policies helped America back in the day and now it is a thing of the past, especially in rural Kentucky and how Democrats can win them back (sounds like a liberal Anti-Trump agenda piece). Donald Trump is fighting for domestic jobs and imposing tariffs on countries who are hurting our economy by trade imbalance. No mention of that which is why he won the election. His policy is America first not global interests, not social programs, but fair trade and keeping America safe. That is the message that should resonate - economy and protection should be our two highest priorities. My biggest problem with both sides is they don't care about our unsustainable national debt and only care about boosting the economy at any expense just to win an election.
@@tntstorms7969 Social programs are America first, they help millions of Americans. Also that all sounds nice but that doesnt mean its in the realm of reality.
@@tntstorms7969the reality is trumps tariffs hurt American citizens because there aren’t alternatives. So now you pay more for something made from china and its STILL cheaper to buy it Chinese made. All he did was funnel money into the government through a tariff instead of a tax.
@@tntstorms7969Donald Trump is a liar. You do realize imposing tariffs on foreign companies just means they'll pass on the tariffs onto us, the consumers.
Please, carefully look at Trump's actions as president. He lost us 200k manufacturing jobs, he didn't decrease drug prices for seniors, he gave the rich a permanent tax break while it was temporary for us, his tax bill incentivized outsourcing.
Trump has failed to keep his promises.
@@xtinkerbellax3if other countries less wealthy than us can do it, so can we.
TERM LIMITS WITH NO STOCK TRADING!! I BET 98% OF POLITICIANS WOULD NOT BE IN OFFICE
Never enrich yourself through public service
@@LeviathanRage Exile after office, like the Greeks. Send them to Puerto Rico with 2 million bucks to live out their days in comfort, but not plenty.
@@IdonttrustyouIreallyreallydont no until we get wages for the work me an my blue collar dudes do put ‘em in the assembly lines cause that’s all we are to them robots and I’m i republican if republicans and democrats would go back go focusing on blue collar America they would win all states im pro union but the Dems are more worried about pps and where they can pee as a redneck from Alabama idc where you pee can you run milling machine or a tractor that’s what we need in the states bring farming back bring manufacturing a painted nail can run a combine who gives a shit
They wouldn’t run cause they can’t enrich themselves
leave PR out of this
As long as rich people can convince poor people that other poor people are the reason that they are poor, there will always be poor people.
Yeah, and those people are exactly in that circle. That's why they blame one side and think their side is "helping" them.
Facts
It's only possible because most of the poor remain uneducated throughout their lives and don't understand the real value of a college education or of giving up their bigotries. They'd rather cling to their Bibles and guns...
As long as the government claims to be fixing it... there will be far more poor as a percentage than before the government started to "help". Might question why the policies never meet the objectives.
poor people will always be amongst us. what counts is the truth. and the truth is, biden-harris opened the border and broke the law and favoring law breakers over US citizens. there is no issue of people wanting to come to the US but they have to come legally under any circumstance.
i am not a US citizen but USA is my dream country I have not been there but I know I will once come legally because I love the value of the USA constitution.
i could have come during this southern border crisis but I chose not to break the law because the law was put to protect people especially immigrants. if you think coming to the US illegally is blessed then you don't know anything about being a citizen.
How in the hell have they elected mitch McConnell over and over again for decades?
Because these slack jawed provincial yokels are now and always have been politically and socially incoherent.
He is the worst A hole
Because, something, something, they just want help...ok, maybe they are stupid.
Mitch McConnell has a long history in government, some good and some bad. Nonetheless, he has the support of his constituents! Democrats are for the working class, Donald Trump is out for himself and no one else. I’m a democrat and this has been solely Donald trumps responsible for. Never again will I cast my vote for another republican!
Corruption RUNS DEEP!!! AND IS FULL OF IGNORANT AMERICANS
Many places vote traditionally; you vote how your parents voted, and how their parents voted. It’s time we took matters into our own hands, vote for who cares about America and will risk his life to defend it!
You're absolutely right, we should absolutely vote harris walz, because Donald Trump dodged the draft, clearly showing that he wouldn't risk his life for America
@@joshuaannis7718ridiculous joker
Throw your vote into the wind👏👏👏
My folks were democrats. I am an independent voting for Trump. Please 🙏. He has proven himself. The democrats have not. Promises not fulfilled.
@@joshuaannis7718je never would have been sent overseas anyway. Your lack of intelligence is definitely showing.
So refreshing to see actual journalism comment on politics like this! It feels like my brain took a bath rather than get tossed into the swamp
Lol
💯‼️👍🏽
I actually learned a couple of things
AT LEAST HE ISN'T "BIASED". REAL "INDEPENDENT" JOURNALISM".
Ask the journalist how they vote. Have them disclose thier 15:57 idolgacal believes
As a Republican I can’t understand why McConnell has secured himself a permanent seat.
Divide and conquer
@@limitisillusion7 infinity migration leaves us no choice but to vote R whatever the cost. if we prosecuted treason, it would be no problem.
@@IdonttrustyouIreallyreallydont Fear propagation around immigration is just yet another strategy to create division.
Good on the ground organization. I assume he has a machine like organization to get out the boat with him. I'm from Chicago and I know what a precinct level got machine looks like
He temporarily lowers taxes whenever his election comes up.
These folks sound like decent folks. God bless them and I wish them the best!
Yes . But some Media won't show THESE KING OF PEOPLE .THEY ALL PICK THEIR OWN TO SHOW .
@@Terry-w4r😂😂😂 Your Russian to English dictionary didn't come with your last vodka stipend, huh?
Most are good hardworking people.
I agree.
I love the approach this channel takes, there is none of the sneering attitude of other "left" RUclips channels.
As a lifelong trade unionist from a family that has always voted Labour for generations I feel a lot of sympathy with these people.
Poverty doesn’t discriminate. This should be an eye opener to so many racial divide in the country. Tired of identity politics. We need to just see each other as Americans
It doesn’t but what Republicans want to do to “fix poverty” and what Dems want to do couldn’t be farther apart and there in lies the rub and the lie in most of this dudes videos like this.
That's not what statistics say, stop pretending to live in a perfect world that everyone is equal and there's no structural racism
Brain dead take. Poverty absolutely discriminates. Poor whites are unable to access higher education because they're bracketed with rich whites in terms of a racial quota system that says "no new white hires." No company is willing to get rid of the old white dudes... so who gets fucked to keep the numbers even? The young white dudes. It matters nothing to the ones who actually benefitted from systems of discrimination... it completely fucks the youth who did nothing wrong.
We also need to see each other as fellow inhabitants of the Earth.
Yes!
Most democrat politicians need to take a page from Beshear if they want to win rural America.
Rural America needs to grow brain cells and bits of soul they've lost on Republican train
No I think you missed the point most Democrat politicians need to take a page from FDR instead of running from it.
Democratic politicians
@@damintten Absolutely! FDR was a Democratic politician and modern Democratic politicians would do well to take a page from FDR's playbook.
Trump’s promise to “Bring Back Coal” was a blatant lie and he knew it. Natural gas outcompetes coal every day. Coal production declined all through Trump years. We’re producing more crude oil and natural gas now than ever before. Fact! Trump’s lying above the price of gasoline too. OPEC controls the price at our pumps, period.
The perfect example of no matter what you are politically we all have the same class interests
General Strike in 2028.
and neither party gives a damn about working people
@@down-to-earth-mystery-school shut up, the democratic party does and has. they have been pro-union for generations. they have been the only party to raise the minimum wage. they have expanded healthcare access, invested in infrastructure spending, and tackled climate change instead of calling it a hoax. if you think the only way they can prove they care about working people is to, i don't know, make capitalism illegal, you're in the wrong country.
@@down-to-earth-mystery-school No, neither one does.
But the Dems aren't even pretending they do...
But not the same intelligence to decipher to make those things happen so it's pretty pointless. I don't know why y'all keep saying that. These people are crazed. That one guy said the way Trump ran the country felt better to him yet it was Joe who passed that trillions of dollars. What did trump do for them
"The National democratic brand has become toxic" hahaha😂 thats an understatement
I live in Elliott county Ky and I have never voted Democrat. Elliott county needs to vote Mitch McConnell and Hal Rogers out. Wake up Elliott county.
If you're voting republican, you're doing nothing to help yourself. Much is the ultimate republican representative, in it only for the rich and powerful, just like every republican POTUS we've had since Nixon
Mitch McConnell might suck but I bet he takes care of his constituents because he’s consolidated so much power. So they keep him around. Switching a senior senator for a junior isn’t very smart. You loose all the power and benefits that come with it.
@pnwlady McConnell doesn't believe in doing things for the people. The best you can hope for from McConnell is even his wife was in charge of Transportation in Trump's cabinet so a lot of money was directed to repaving roads. Otherwise, McConnell only helps his owner-donors.
@@sailordaigurren8225 you’re assuming he doesn’t get funding for his district. They wouldn’t vote for him if it wasn’t beneficial to them.
@@pnwlady McConnell is a senator. He doesn't have a district. And I live in Kentucky. I'm speaking from experience.
These folks didn’t leave the Democrat party, the Democrat party left these folks, plain and simple.
There is no Democrat party. There is just the communist party wearing Democrat clothes, and the resistance.
How? By supporting unions and bringing in jobs? I know it's hours away and not good enough, I'm not lying that it is, but they at least did something, and other areas need that too. Meanwhile, the republicans tore down unions and reduced jobs, AND increased costs by their failed policies and refusal to sign on with the Democrats who put forward bills designed to deal with all the price-gouging. republicans have NOT put any bills up themselves, just blocked the ones Democrats have, then complained and blamed Democrats for it. Same with the border, Dems put up bills, and repubs blocked them and didn't put up any of their own, and now lie and blame Democrats for it.
politicians are just puppets of billionaires. And yes, mass illegal immigration is a major problem that has harmed the US economy. Printing money and sending billions to fight foreign wars has also destroyed the US economy. Americans are tired of being second class citizens in their own country.
But it's not like the biollionaire new yorker, trump, is any better for them.
Democrats are incredibly out of touch with the working class people who keep society running.
So refreshing to be able to see people from opposite sides of the aisle have civilized conversations without judgment or hostility. This is why America is great already.
Expessed difference with respect.
@@parxgirl2156Except on a wide range of topics the differences aren't "arguable". Often intentions, also, aren't arguable. And sorry, but the simple fact that SO many voters for the GOP have been motivated by racial Animus if not clear cut White Supremacy/Nationalism for many decades now says a lot about anyone who can hand waved all that away because "Well I just like the Right's tax policy".
And to all the Proggies... No, you don't get to eject the fight against White Supremacy, Christo-Fascists, misogynists and bigots, you don't stop educating the public about America's systemic racial issues just because it makes a lot of White Americans uncomfortable to be confronted with historical truths, and that IS what these milquetoast "Progressives" on this channel with their MAGA Whisperer schtick want. It's willfuly naive.
Again... "I liked Adolf Hitler's economic policy and how he talked about strengthening the nation" wasn't an excuse for the German's who went along with the Nazi rise to power in the 1930's and it's not an excuse now for large swaths of people who have lied to themselves that a lifetime sociopathic grifting con man piece of human garbage should be given the benefit of the doubt.
These folks aren't on the opposite side of the aisle, they're you and me. I am a Democrat, but understand that the party abandoned rural folks to focus on the suburbs and urban areas. The Democrats need to works towards regaining the trust of rural America and show them that Republican economic policy NEVER improves their situation. Convince them to stop worrying about the ten commandments and pay attention to actual policy.
@michaeljohnson3770 so convince them to abandon God, for government that is against them....
@@michaeljohnson3770 Trump's trade war with China cost American farmers their biggest market for corn, wheat and soy. That amounts to billions of dollars. Then the taxpayers had to give support to the farmers.
Trump promises more tariffs which will also be reciprocated making the price of every day goods higher.
Damn. I've only watched two of your videos so far, but they have both been amazing. Please keep doing this, it's important.
Wow, actual, real people talking. Not dumb, but straightforward and informed people. Great content.
They aren't informed though. They don't know why their wages haven't gone up or the reasons prices have gone up, and they're blaming the wrong party.
Democrats have not been "for" poor people, and they are definitely not "for" working people. They are "for" keeping poor people poor.
@@beebuzz959 idk man, a county that voted for the same party for almost 150 years and then one election cycle go with a national candidate from the opposite party - that doesn't strike me as uninformed voters.
@@BelieveInJMH They said they don't know why they voted democrat except that's what the people before them did. They were just doing what their parents did, which is typical braindead religious conservative behavior.
@@beebuzz959 "they're blaming the wrong party." - and which party is that?
Elliott County is proof that the real fight is between classes, not red and blue
yeah. sane people hate Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer as much as Trump. Pelosi's stock trading would have landed her in prison if this country had functional laws.
Yeah, but red and blue represent the classes. The GOP represent the rich.
@@tommymorrison6478Biden and the rest of the dems blocked the rail strike and you want to claim dems support the working class?
I'm not voting republican, but come on now
people are clueless
@@Hakumencvs Do you know what a sense of perspective is? My friend, you're missing one.
Biden blocked the strike because, as President, he has a wider responsibility to the country as a whole and he knew full well of the economic consequences of such a strike. I shouldn't have to explain this.
What I like is there's a ton of videos mocking the ignorant trump voters. This video was respectful and honestly listened to these people. As well as asked good questions. I respect that.
It did give me insight on why he is so popular.
We are ignorant you say! Ignorance is believing a 50 year politician without any positive achievements on his record in those 50 years. Unless you count locking up a whole generation of black fathers with his crime bill a success. Or enriching his family at the expense of the American people a success. Or letting in 10’s of millions of criminal illegals and then footing the bill for them at our expense a success. And you have the nerve to call someone else ignorant. Lord help us with people like you voting. We are doomed as a nation.
They're still ignorant Trump voters whether done respectfully or not.
@@riverraisin120 bucks though-
My belief is that the videos of the ultra-maga loons, are all pretty much taken at his rallies.
These are normal folks living their lives. I'll admit I was taken by surprise by some of the responses. I really hope that the new democrat reality is taken well by people like these. They're ready for it, you can hear them say it in not so many words.
Those other ultra-maga loons deserve every bit of ridicule they get. Just a shame they get all the attention.
I've worked my whole life , and worked for something more , now I own my own business . You can two . Handouts do not help they keep you down . That is why there are poor people
Two? Are you American? I don't believe you are.
Great video! So many videos out there ridiculing Trump voters. The journalist is respectful and doing a great job at understanding the mindset of these people. Kudos!
Not necessarily. The ones who like Trump's xenophobia and sexism aren't gonna say it out loud in front of a camera.
@@swampsprite9 🤣🤣
If having a secure border is xenophobic, then I'm guilty. If not allowing males into women's locker rooms and prisons is sexist, then I'm also guilty of being a sexist.
I love how people with TDS say things, but can never back it up with facts. I'm not even a Trump supporter, but I'm tired of hearing the same nonsense people have been pushing for nearly 10 years.
@@swampsprite9 Wich is like hardly anyone.
@@MassiveGarbage because it doesn't actually exist? @swampsprite9 - Legal immigration is fine - ILLEGAL immigration is the problem. Even getting leftists to acknowledge the difference takes much effort... why is that? Also, making sure a genetic female does not have to (unfairly) compete with a genetic male is now "sexism"? Kinda flipped that one on it's head, don't ya think?
If you want to discuss having trans people compete in their own class - I'm open to that discussion - and I think it would be the fairest way - but letting genetic males beat on genetic females seems to my mind to be the worst kind of sexism.
Please, get out from in front of the boobtube - and do a little more actual listening and reading of what Trump has actually said - the pundits in the MSM are lying to you about him.
@@swampsprite9 TDS stage 5.
As an Iraqi , when he called George W. Bush a piece of sh*t my respect went up 100 fold! Real americans are anti-war! Greetings from Basra
You must love Democrats then because we've been calling him a POS for decades.
That war was bs.. most Americans know it. My respects.
and that is Donald J. Trump, the real American. Trump and JD Vance 2024!! 🙏 ❤
You got right. Bush was a peice of shit. But there more than just Iraq that proves it.
Greetings from the Divided (and Conquered) States of America. I've never felt anything but loathing for King George, his wars, and everything else about his regime, and I felt the same way at the same part!
I'm from Kentucky. Why do these folks keep voting for politicians that keep them down?
I think part of the answer is exactly what the Harris/Walz ticket is trying to resolve. Answer the question for people "What are you doing for me?" If people cannot see improvements in their own communities, I can see why big government is considered a bad thing. As far as McConnell and Paul, corruption is a major part of the issue.
Hate, ignorance and a lack of understanding politics.
Hint: if a political party says they are for the working class but does nothing to help you rise above it, then you are no better than slaves who vote to keep your masters in power. I’m voting for Trump because while he was in office he lowered taxes, lowered the cost of gas, implemented opportunity zones for the black community, Trump gave the Abraham Accords for peace in the Middle East, peaceful talks with North Korea, Russia and China, new trade deals that were cheaper for America, built more wall than any president before him as promised. We need four more years of Trump policy to put things back and make America great again and drain the swamp creatures and unfair laws in Washington that make senators able to do inside trading and get rich instead of helping their constituents. Trump helps all Americans have more money in their pockets and gives opportunities no one else has thought of to help us out of poverty and leave our kids better off than we are. That’s the American dream. MAGA 2024 🎉❤
Media deserts and political messaging. They heard Trump say tax cuts and that's all they need to hear. And you can't really blame them. Democrats do not message to these types of people. Walz is possibly an exception to this, but traditionally.
In a contest between a prosecutor and a convicted felon, who picks the felon? Kennedy, what a fool.
From SC and Trump has my vote. GOD BLESS AMERICA!🙏🇺🇸🙏🇺🇸
Trump is a 90s Democrat and the Left LOVED him until he became president. Interesting how you go from loving someone to calling them Hitler simply because they aren't part of the political establishment.
You don't care about corruption. The amount of cabinet officials from his prior admin with conflicts of interest were insane, and the media was completely silent about it. His opposition to the border bill and the pro-act are dis-qualifiers for people who actually pay attention to policy.
@@ricardobarahona3939 God bless
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I don't care about the political parties, I care about truth..
Did you just admit you vote republican? Trump2024?
You will not get truth from either party. Just a fact.
lame answer as truth is a subjective ideal and not quantitave. So it gets you no where.
@@kinjunranger140 I'm independent not republican or democrat, they are both captured , the democrat party being completely captured..so yeah , evil vs not that bad .. Trump 2024
@@alph8654 Agree
Working class people should stand beside working class people
Absolutely!!!!
They talk about unions, but when union leadership has been coopted it is hard for working people to be together.
Amen,
Not much working people these days .
They also need to oppose immigration as immigration is a downward pressure on wages
yet another instance of how we need to talk about class war over culture war with other working class people. great video
also, i dig this channel but i feel like the more perfect union videos recently have been extra good.
Exactly the filthy rich constantly manipulate people with "culture" fakery
Class war over culture war is how you get socialism... FOR WHITES ONLY!
You won't break capital by breaking solidarity my friend.
🎯 Yeah well said; the culture war stuff is a deliberate bait and switch to distract ordinary folk from who is really doing them wrong, the mega-wealthy and political elites - keep the people divided, blaming the wrong folks and looking the wrong way, it's insidious but effective, if only more people could see it for the manipulative lie and gaslighting that it is.
Whites have shown there's far too many that absolutely WILL choose BS culture war over Class struggle and pretending this isn't so is disingenuous.
Close the borders!!!
This is the most enlightening video on politics that I have seen anywhere in a very, very long time. I’m a 56 year-old life long independent and I appreciate your taking time to investigate this.
If all politicians watched this video, read the comments and acted appropriately, we’d all be better off.
Educate yourself and vote with knowledge rather than emotion.
And do what exactly
@@lokimiguel2452 Vote Trump! Democrats have almost succeeded at destroying the entire country. Give them 4 more years and it's over.
@@lokimiguel2452 Working for people rather than donors to start.
They wouldn't care. The republican party loves pretending they don't despise the working class while dismantling us, and the democratic party always does what republicans do but four year later. They're against us and love to hear us in pain
@@barondavis5692 bleeeeeh
People need to be educated on how the government works and how to follow it properly. The entire country needs educated on immigration.
Civics.
That we need it to maintain population growth or else we would already be in massive population decline like the rest of the Western world? Or that maybe there is just something about life here that, well, no one has enough time or money as it is, so no way they want to have kids that take even more of that, so we better have immigrants to do a lot of the jobs and pay into the system to prop up the next wave of old people? Because anyway you shake it, it comes back to needing a large amount of immigration. That or radically changing how our economic culture functions, which, good luck.
Good luck with that if Trump get into power again. They want to completely dissolve the federal department of education. ☹
Agreed 👍
@@LackofFaithifylook at Europe. They took in a lot of immigrants and now they have a nightmare. When immigrants don’t assimilate into the system they have been brought into you have a big problem. It doesn’t matter whether you’re for or against it’s simply the facts
Figures……this would be turned against Trump. The working class has started to see that Trump is for them. The saying “I didn’t leave the Democratic Party, they left me” is so true.
Trickle down economics and tax breaks for the rich isn't helping working class citizens. Didn't work for Reagan and didn't work for Trump.
Trump cares about the working class? He called them all suckers!
@@joshuaannis7718 That's a bold faced lie.
@@terrym7501 Sorry, i was wrong, he called the military suckers and losers
@@joshuaannis7718 That is also a bold faced lie that was debunked by 9 other General Officers who were at the memorial that day.
I really like that you never once tried to tell someone their political opinion is wrong, or try to push your own beliefs on them. You clearly wanted to speak with them to find understanding, and I respect that. Great video!
Did we watch the same video? The one lady even called him a 'leftist'! And he just laughed.
Well said
Amen .
They said exactly what they wanted from their politicians. A pretty lie is better than nothing at all. Start showing some real investments in the American people and they'll vote for you forever
This is so true.
I can say this too. I live in San Francisco. I'm a gay man. I HATE the democratic party because of exactly this. They use shame tactics to get us to vote for them while delivering very little, and then come back around every few years like Mona-Lisa Saperstein (from Parks and Rec) yelling "MONEY PLEASE"
If either party actually delivered for me, I'd be a dedicated voter for them for life. But so far I have one party who pretends to care and one party who is actively antagonistic toward me.
Yet this vote for a party or person forever gave us the very problem we suffer from. Voting without a thought is a bad way to participate in a democracy.
As long as people keep giving Congress majority to the repubs then the democrats can't actually help you like they actually want to help you. It's not the democrats stopping help to the working class. It's the gop!!! You really want to see change for the better then vote BLUE all the way down the ballot. That's literally the only way. trump only cares about himself and that is why the dirty elite support him and he supports them bc they pay him to. trump is not the answer for the American people. He and his billionaire friends are the problem and they have spent billions of dollars to brainwash millions into thinking it's the democrats causing all of the problems. It's called lying and gaslighting
@@anthonydelfino6171I pray for you and others to see the error in this thinking. It is the total opposite. I urge you to get the facts. Then reconsider.
McConnell did nothing for your state! Trump has done nothing for anyone but himself and his rich pals.
Kamala & Tim come from middle & working class families.
@@anthonydelfino6171what promises have the democrats not delivered to you. They have us marriage equality. They have us anti-discrimination laws. They gave us the Affordable Healthcare plan. They’re trying to make live easier for average Americans. It’s Thank you! Republicans that are standing in the way of more of that. So please… tell us what the DEMs have promised you yet did not deliver.
It’s not a left-right battle, it’s a up-down battle & we need to unite if we’re gonna win it
No it's a battle between Good vs Evil.
"It's an up-down battle" is what the left has been saying for centuries.
@@walkingwithstarz935both parties are messed up. But one who constantly endorses division,mayhem and corruption needs to go.
Agree, so until you can get everyone to quit implying Trump voters are stupid while at the same time promoting the other elitist party that is even worse on our constitutional rights, it is hopeless. Viewers of this channel need to encourage trump voters to support unions, not imply they are stupid.
It is a left- vs. right battle, you just don't have a left. AOC, Bernie and Warren all have the solutions. Perhaps Beshear does too. But if you guys dont gather the votes, you ain't going anywhere. Why do you think scandinavia is rich, happy and economically stable? Because we're perhaps, well-balanced socialist-democratic countries?
This is a briliant piece of documentary making.
Thank you for making it, and thank you for educating me.
As a combat vetran raised in Indiana communities such as these are what break my heart because they are not wrong in feeling slighted just wrong on whos gonna help or fix it.
Such truth.
True in rural California, too 😢
Well said.
They would not vote for Trump if he hadn't done something to their benefit.
Sadly in this world, waiting for someone to fix it won't get you anywhere. Either you accept the crap or do something yourself.
Bill Clinton and Newt Gingrich sold out the "fly over country." My home state of Michigan was gutted like a thanksgiving deer.
Thank you for uplifting these voices. It makes a huge difference when we can understand why someone in poverty would vote for someone like Trump
Trump, Biden or Harris nothing changes for the poor. only the rich get political support. wake-up
Rich and powerful people have known for ages how to dupe and control the poor. It's nothing new.
Lot medium businessmen will also vote for Trump.
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@@mistyviolet3825 Trump is not for the small guy. everything he has done has proven that.
GREAT video - the first I have seen this election cycle that actually provides nuance. Bravo.
So they aren't paying attention to what their senators and representatives are voting against in DC and not paying attention to what their State Legislature is voting against. Yeah, voting against your interest. No wage increases, no jobs, no help with healthcare, wtf?
Can't say if it's the thing in this county, but my parents live in another very remote and small rural area in a deep red state. And they are also against increases to minimum wage (they think that wage increases drive inflation) and oppose the expansion of healthcare and government jobs as a form of communism (they're boomers and grew up during the red scare)
so sure, they keep voting against they're own self interest, but it's because they can't see how they've been lied to about the policies that would actually benefit them
@@anthonydelfino6171 JFC all of our issues seem to date back to the politics of the 50s
@@gothic_ace2037 a little bit the 50s but more the 80s and Reagan
The cold war didn’t really end until 1989
@@anthonydelfino6171 The Cold War never really ended.
Artificial wage increases are the problem. When you increase the minimum wage you increase the cost of goods which will obliterate some jobs in the process. Also the reason why healthcare cost so much is because of government involvement too.
Tragic that anyone would be surprised by this, considering how long Bernie has been saying it. Harris and Walz better pay attention.
Harris & Walz can't create an economy in Elliot County...
I believe in walz for sure. Have you seen that guy’s income? He makes less than the average American, he’s the closest we have to someone understanding what the working class is going through.
@@bonkgameing I heard people talk about how biden never took stocks or bribes from lobbyists, I doubt Walz makes 20-30k a year and if he manages to get into office he will come out rich, while none of the working classes problems get solved again.
@@bonkgameing The best thing about Walz is that he's been in government for nearly 20 years and only has a modest level of wealth. That says he never sold out to special interests (like, say, Sinema here in Arizona)
@@johnchedsey1306 It's also telling that unlike pretty much every Democratic politician of the last several decades, Walz isn't a lawyer. and on top of that, he has zero investments in the stock market. this makes him a real oddity not just in the democratic party but in politics in general.
Everyone forgets that Trump was a life long Democrat until he ran for president.
I don't think he is a Republican. I view him as an Independent who knew he had to run as a R or D to win the election and Hillary already had the D nomination sewn up which just left him the R party. He's very different from the Bushes who I hated. Also look at how many permanent R politicians in DC hate him!
@ridgewalker5718
He's just a bloody con man!
HE'S neither party. Rhinos are evil,Demoncrat evil
@@CouchSlouch- yes, he is a moderate...everything has moved so far to the left that his moderate views can now be considered far right, i guess.......that makes him a republican, but not a real conservative
@@dra2146 lmao, a moderate ? You're such a clown
As someone who happens to live in a democrat run sanctuary city, fuck em.
Trump all the way. 😂😂
These people would have rallied behind Bernie, I have no doubt in my mind about that. Hopefully the democratic establishment has come to that realization.
Tim Walz probably should stop by that store and have a heart to heart with the guy who runs it.
They haven't. They barely were able to force Biden out and when Biden all on his own and out of revenge named his assassination insurance policy VP as the next Democratic presidential candidate nobody challenged it. And Bernie Sanders is a year older than Joe Biden and three years older than Donald Trump. Just like we prevent anyone under 35 from running for president, we need to prevent anyone older than 65 from running. An 80 year old is not capable of doing the job like a 40 or 50 year old could.
@@johnchedsey1306 YES!! They want to be seen and heard.
I'm sure the Democrats knew they'd have won with Bernie. They'd rather lose out of loyalty to their donors than win out of loyalty to their voters.
No they wouldn’t-I’m from Kentucky, they call Bernie COMMUNIST, they would never, ever vote for a communist. Also, they have no idea what a Communist is.
Having Mitch as your representative voting against everything to help them just to stop democrats year after year and then vote in a Democrat that gets things done blows my mind and then thinking Trump will improve their lives
Lol I mean same could be said for Pelosi and San Fran. What has Joe Biden done to improve the country and what will Kamala do considering she's been VP for four years?
What blows my mind is people thinking Trump is the establishment while voting for career politicians thinking they are fighting the establishment.
@@joshiewat kama-lama-ding-dong, you hit the nail on the head my friend!
@@joshiewatName the powers invested in the office of VP that allows for a Veep to pursue policy independently of the office of the President?
If you could do that, your premise wouldn't be so silly and obtuse, but... Par for the course with MAGA Goofs.
Course McConnell was against Trump all the way. The first year he and Ryan did everything to stop Trump's goals. And signed up with Dems to impeach him, so he could be removed.
TRUMP/VANCE 2024!
An American president is not the president of the world. His duties are for his country and for his people. I am from Southeast Asia and I can see how my country was impacted with American prosperity back in the day. Everyone used to dream the American dream including me. Now, the greatest influence of America in my country is pop culture and liberalism, music and worse is the sexual culture. As harsh as it sounds, illegal immigrants should not be the responsibility of America, they shouldn’t take your jobs, healthcare or your school privileges. How can the government house illegals in a hotels while their citizens sleep on cold streets. That’s just cruelty for all the working class. Build your lives up, build your country up. Be prosperous and when that time comes that you are in a great place, be generous. Give from a place of prosperity and not from a place of lack. And as a Christian, I pray that you also come back to being one nation under God.
The rich took over our government, media, and military. The sexual stuff is to break the family unit. A person without a family has nothing to fight for.
soooo amzing
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@@robertameuchel4786 ❤ Yes, and you said it well for me, too. 💯
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Last Monday was Labor Day and I know a lot of people don’t know why it is a holiday. I’ve never been in a union, but I am very grateful for what unions accomplished for working people. That I work 8 hour days, forty hours a week, or overtime pay if I work more than that. I get breaks and lunch breaks. A work in an environment that is safe. I have benefits. I’m (mostly) appreciated for what I do. I’m grateful to the heroes who fought for working peoples’ rights and got it done. Despite incredible opposition they put their lives on the line. Keeping unions strong keeps our country strong.😊😊
Unions are not now , nor have they ever been supported by the Republican party.... because the Republican party does not care about poor/ working poor/ working class people
the teachers union in Vermont rams down, trans, lgbtq, blm, sex in 1st grade books in schools meanwhile paying off politicians to get teachers more and more money to teach kids that can't read, can't count, have no life skills and taxes keep going up.
"How many people did they hurt to get there" the realest quote right there. Require businesses with high profits to pay people living wages!!
That was actually one of the dumbest things I have heard in a long time. Think! If everyone was poor, would that make things better? No you moron, most rich people are what provide opportunity, you want more of them, not less. And while some of them got wealthy through ill gotten means (mostly through the government), the vast majority did it by providing value which makes things better for everyone.
How many wealthy people live in Kentucky? I am guessing not many.
Well, surely you are aware that Republicans vote AGAINST raising the minimum wage from $7.25 per hour? Why do people vote AGAINST their own best interests?
Absolutely!! I can't stand hearing big corporations raking in billions of dollars in profit, then have the mult-millionares and billionaires at the top receive million$$$$$$$ JUST IN BONUSES every year and not having that money go to all the people that helped those companies make the profits they made - THEIR WORKERS!!! I'm sick and tired of hearing that "You can't raise the minimum wage, or else companies will just charge more for their products and we'll all have to pay more." What a dumbass response! Not because companies won't do that, but because it's such a "lay down and die" way of thinking. Why not DO SOMETHING about this and urge law makers to change how these companies handle such large profits!? I'm not one for loving when the government gets involved in things they shouldn't, but when it comes to things where their interference is done to HELP people that are being screwed and make things more fair to improve the lives of millions of people, then yes, they should interfere and make laws that help the average hard-working American.
Goverment interference in markets always leads to fubar.
The jobs you are talking about are not intended to be careers, but stepping stones. If people don't learn that and keep themselves down, they deserve the pay they are earning.
This was a very good investigation of our system. It’s programs like this that can generate a calm and well thought out discussion between citizens to solve problems not to vilify those you disagree agree with. Good job!
I don't get it. Why are the people in Kentucky not mad at Mitch McConnell and the other Republicans who represent that state? They have been voted into office for decades and haven't done anything to help the people of the state that they represent, but they blame the Democrats? They do like their Democratic governor, however? Crazy.
People here in KY do hate Mitch. I’m 43 and haven’t talked to a single person in over a decade who likes or voted for Mitch. Those are people who vote R and D.
The RNC makes it impossible to primary a better Republican candidate, and the DNC controls which candidate gets to run against Mitch. The Democrat choices have been garbage.
While we have turtle Mitch, we also have Rand Paul and Thomas Massie. Both are basically libertarians who don’t vote with the republicans. Massie is hands down the best leader we have in our federal government. He always votes for the people and against the machine.
Mitch McConnell might be the most perplexing thing to me in american politics. He does nothing to help the US domestic policies, and nothing to help US foreign policies either! And yet.... every new election there he is. And let's not even talk about his China connections, his wife is the most successful honey pot operation the Chinese government has ever pulled in history!
i think its because the representatives arent usually in the media, the president is some of the time and usually if its about some perceived grievance the media has with him. Take for instance where i live. Here in Missouri the senators and governors are almost never in the news, even the local news. Hell i didnt know about how much of a backstabbing coward Hawley was until recently, my aunt is always watching KY3 which is our local news but it never mentions anything important. People hear the global news talking about the president and they see the area around them change for the worst and they just chock it up to who is president at the time is the one to blame when in actuality previous presidents set in motion things that take time to cause ripple effects through the country, like when Bush sent us into a recession, people blamed it on Barack because the effects finally hit everyone just as Barack became president.
@@wildemthefem5773well, if you all hate Mitch so damn much, why TF do you keep voting him back in?? You had a chance to get rid of him last time around, but you all screwed that up.
@@sharonharris9782ok rudeass, no need for all that. i know you’re unfamiliar with concepts like gerrymandering and voter manipulation, but dont take your ignorance out on others.
We could solve a lot of problems in this country if we had more unions and less corporate owned politicians.
Yup. If people bother to look up the wealth of these people... there are far too many millionaires in our politics. Mostly on the Republican side. But way too many.
Unions suck. They keep the hard workers down and eventually cause a company to fall down.
I 💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯 AGREE .
My dad was 8n a union his entire career. It tried to screw the union members, they took the union to court and thank goodness they won. I doubt they would win today. Any and I mean ANY organization can become corrupt. Wake up, life is not black and white it is full of a lot of colors in between.
@@TheKavebear1mostly on the republican side 😂? Almost all millionaires in corporate America are Democrats 😂. Check out Hollywood almost 100% of them are democrats.
John, your videos are some of the best I've ever seen on this topic. More reporting like this, please. We need to wake up Washington and state houses around the country. Democrats as a party need to become champions of the working class again.
If you listen to Harris and Walz's speeches at the convention that appeared
to be their theme. Both grew up in middle class economic families.
Once they stopped advocating for social degeneracy only favored by college bureaucrats & get back to economic issues (which they will never do), they will earn back these voters. I'd vote Democrat if they weren't promoting so much sickening social policy.
How come Joe biden didn't do it this past 3 and yrs now
A wide open borde DOESN'T HELP the working class.
Ever since a certain Democrat president got into the WH, all of that went to sh*t. Ain't gonna happen. Too F'n late for that. Dems just don't care. I switched parties over it.
Deeply interesting. Good people. Plenty of common sense.
Make America Great Again
God Bless you
What’s really happening is globalism vs nationalism. Folks are sick of globalism.
And the establishment that just works for the billionaires. The rich get richer while the poor get poorer
Way more complicated than that.
@@robertmoore7789 Americas political realignment is along nationalist vs globalist lines. Look at the neocons endorsing Kamala, who didn’t primary. Look at the classical liberals following rfk to the gop.
Globalism is just part of capitalism. Marx in 1848 already wrote that capitalist always try to get more and more land, resources, people into their sphere of influence, that's why they colonise and exploit more and more countries, more and more lands.
Very much this.
And as for the way more complicated - how so? It always ends up pretty much boiling back into these, but I am genuinely curious.
This is so important - listening to those who voted like that and why. How else can we understand one another and act accordingly if we don't ask and listen?
Thanks for the work. I bet you made some people feel so much better, simply because they got to express themselves to an someone else they don't usually talk to.
The lady on the swing has a pretty clear perspective.
Well her perspective is fine and if the migrants coming across the border were all like she would like to believe they are then by all means she could be right unfortunately half the illegal's coming across the border are Drug dealers, human trafficker's, murderous rapists and child molesters. It is the old dish of candy every piece of candy looks the same but there are 2 pieces that will kill you if you eat them would you stick your little fingers in that dish and give one of the pieces of candy to your Son, your daughter your grandson or daughter your wife or even yourself? I think not! The democrats care nothing about you or you family all they care about is your vote your vote to put them on power after they could care less if you live or die.
She sounds willfuly ignorant and incoherent with a chip on her shoulder and THAT'S far too many voters.
Clear headed
A real swing voter
I see what you did there@@hirmusants1282
It was so good to see this because it laid bare that we were really divided and on a conquering quest by the politicians and not our neighbors for political end games. Thank you to these sensible people. You really help me to be a proud American. There are still good people in America.
What a sleight of hand! Convincing poor people that other poor people are the problem while lining their pockets.
Until the monied class is held accountable for the disparity they’ve created on the backs of the working class, there will be more and more poor people.
Did you miss the part where they are building a battery factory....you thought they took up a collection at church to build that. Here's a cluse....Biden raised your taxes, brought that back to buy your vote in a battery factory which will be out of business in less than 10 years...While you vote Union, and the buyers of those batteries say F u...I'll buy from Mexico, China....etc....And you't go back to the voting booth, and vote democrat, for another 50 years. Better you stop voting for cheaper house trailers...One thing for sure...you people ain't starving.
That's the Communist in you talking. You might want to look into the historical realities that always follow the up rise in such politics.
@@kayzee2675 You’re right. I have a Communist inside of me. And a host of systems that have me wanting my fellow travelers to have their basic needs met.
My dad always said he was a democrat but i never remember him ever voting for a democrat president.
My mother is the same way: "I don't support trump. I'm not a trump supporter"; 2 sentences later: "I voted for trump". 😕
@@zfolwicka lot of people are ashamed to admit they support him. Rightly so
I voted in the Democratic Primary & against Trump in 2016 & 2020. I grew up in NJ and we were blue in both elections. I will always consider myself a Democrat at heart, because that platform resonates with me. Sadly the DNC is corrupt as hell & for the first time, I'm voting for a Republican in November. Your dad & his beliefs were aligned with a version of the Democratic Party at one point in time, and that's his definition of being a democrat. Sadly the Republican party is now closer to that than the current DNC. I feel for your dad, it must have been hard having children who didn't want to understand him
@@PowerWinsTopYou voted Democrat UNTIL 2024, when you flipped red? That's... unique.
@PowerWinsTop Yeah, and I can tell based on what you just said in your comment. You voted for Trump and 2016 and 2020. No one believes that you are a Democrat that suddenly wants to vote for Trump.
The town I was born in, Tennessee. 30 years ago, we had a Tupperware plant, a muffler plant, and other small industry. It's all gone.
Same here - they moved all the jobs offshore and it devastated the South. The one thing I despise about Unions is get bailouts when they are not profitable - the people suffer and the leaders run off with the money 💰 and taxpayers suffer
Love this channel! The answer is state sovereignty. The average person will always have more impact locally than in Washington. We can govern according to regional needs when states are empowered.
Capitalism doesn't guarantee these people ANYTHING. Not acknowledging this FACT is the problem.
We are ALL suckers.
That's inflation. Capitalistic GREED.
If capitalism was allowed to run it's course nearly every worker in the economy would be only paid enough to keep starvation off and thrown to the street the first sign they might not be able to work for their company.
Honest questions; what makes you think you have the right to be guaranteed anything? What system will guarantee you anything? Human nature is the problem and capitalism isn't perfect but its better than anything else we've thought of.
I think you really need to research the two for real. These past four years have been harder on us than the four before. Plus I suggest if you own a home you really research Kammieallahs tax proposals and what that could mean for you. Not good.
you still live with your parents but think you understand capitalism
Brilliant! This is how communicating across the isle and bipartisanship needs to happen!
yeh, when the interviewer took the time to listen and be compassionate, they sounded more like Democrats, ironically. It's the elitism that turns them to Trump, plus also there's racism in them rural counties. I know, I lived in one in Indiana for many years.
@@down-to-earth-mystery-schoolthe aggressive name calling from both sides is what is making ppl switch
And look what happened to the bipartisan border bill...... trump 🙄
This hits home because Kentucky is my home and always has been. Also, John Russell may be my top favorite interviewer anywhere.
It's so tough to hear. I grew up in southern Indiana with a lot of family in Kentucky and still see the area as my home too, but post 2016 I don't even like visiting. This was a great interview. The inherent contradictions in these people's positions won't be solved by demeaning them, it will be solved by taking real action that has an impact on their lives.
His speech at the DNC was fire.
Columbia County NY resident here, I will be voting for TRUMP/VANCE ! Let's make 45, 45 and 47 !
Not me
@kalo924 If you are a citizen of the United States, I hope you voted.
Mitch completely turned his back on his State.
Andy will make a difference for you.
You're a great presenter, I really appreciate your obvious comradery with and understanding of other workers. This is good work, lad
Yes, Kentuckians have had a rough go in a lot of places but sometimes it's hard to feel sorry for them when they vote for the likes of McConnell and Rand Paul. Two folks whose political philosophy is every man for themselves.
The same that the Democratic party is a mix of aligned but distinct interests (Sanders-style leftists, vaguely progressive millionaires, and those concerned about civil rights for ethnic and sexual minorities), the GOP in Kentucky and elsewhere is made up of different interests too. I remember the primary race between Trey Grayson and Rand Paul back when the seat first opened up. Rand Paul won on a mix of educated, upper middle-class libertarian-leaning sections and evangelicals who embraced him for running to the right on things like abortion. The kind of people in this video had little to do with Paul being Kentucky's senator. The forces that drive the general GOP favorability in Kentucky is entirely unrelated to the Trump thing, which gives hope for people who want to use New Deal style politics to win back large portions of Trump voters.
Self sufficiency, as is Rand's philosophy, is not exactly everyone for himself. People are fully able to work together and help each other all they want to make a good life for everyone. He just doesn't believe that government should be your nanny to solve all your problems.
That was a big concern people had with his father when he ran for president. Parents with disabled children or people with special needs were freaked out that he would eventually and gradually discontinue government checks. There are other ways to help people without taking from government. I have never seen a disaster, or a house burn down or many other things where people have not stepped up and gave way more than was needed.
@@georgefirth4502 "self sufficiency" is good in theory but as much a fairytale in the real world as the left utopian dream of "world peace."
In practice, self sufficiency manifests as the rich and powerful exploiting the vulnerable all the while placing the blame on those born with less advantages and making them feel guilty for their circumstances. E.g. "you are poor because you deserve it."
Are there lazy people? Sure. But the vast majority are honest hardworking people who do not understand the game in which they play.
Self sufficiency is a wolf in sheep's clothing. A farce.
Actually voting should be straight forward if you vote on the issues alone ! , know you're issues guys, do you're homework !
So what do these people think about Harris now that she's the candidate? That would be an interesting follow up story.
Agreed especially with Walz on her side and what he has done for MN and has shown he really has been doing the work and isn’t a billionaire and has this working class attitude. Coming from MN, and actually knowing him and his daughter, they really are just a normal middle class family. When I first met him, I didn’t think he was anything more than just someone I met’s funny MN Dad cuz that’s how he acts
I strongly support and like Harris, but I'm afraid she hasn't done much to reach out to rural working-class white people. The Harris campaign is trying to appeal to Never-Trump Republicans, who are mostly country-club Republicans (business owners and such), to women (but mainly educated women and women of color), and to various groups of color. That might be the smartest strategy electorally, but it kind of writes off rural working-class white people, and I think they know it.
@@skylerlockwood1966 I saw that some wasn't to glad about the hotline and paintball.
Hey, Kentuckians, Mitch McConnell has never done anything for the average KY'ian. Bought and sold by BIG BUSINESS.
Yeah like every other politician across the country !
@@kennethschumacher7078bought and sold by a Russia Oligarch and received 3.2 million from Russia! People, if you have a phone, Google it!
don't forget mitches wife is Chinese, family huge in shipping.
All these billionaires backing their candidate for favors like he said so why they think he going to do anything for them....
Right, more reason why you should vote for VP Harris, she's here for everyone, he's running to be a DICTATOR and to stay out of PRISON.
Really great journalism. Thank you for all your effort!
I would LOVE you to go back to Elliott County now that the Democratic Ticket has changed!!!
They will never vote for Kamala Harris
@breezybreeze12 we shall see, won't we.... don't be fooled by the Dump!!
@@breezybreeze12 OMG, so ashamed of who you are, that you have to cover your face!! 🤣🤣🤣
@@breezybreeze12 why?
@@acebaker3623coz they have more braincells then she does.
Tax the rich!
Justice Matters this comes down to corruption vs the prosecutor. Trump repealed the Frank Dodd Act in 2018 that allowed banks to lower their capital reserve limits so they could billions off lending, he is totally against Unions allowed for the largest bank monopoly merger in a decade and uses scare tactics. Meanwhile he is flying around on Jeffery Epstein's Jet.
The truly rich can just move their assets, put them into legal vehicles whatever their called and shield them.
Those who bought a house when they where cheap and saw the prices skyrocket aren't rich.
@@jonathanjones3126stop carrying water for billionaires. There are ways around anything they try. Seizing assets in the country, for example
@Zoroasterisk what you are advocating for would destroy the economy. Would tax unrealized capital gains on people's homes, their retirement funds etc?
Once you drove off all of the investment money it won't come back for a long time and you would be reliant on politicians whims
@@jonathanjones3126You're either a billionaire yourself or a mark. I'm guessing the latter. I'm sure you are good at spit-shining boots.
Kentucky voters need to stop harming America and get rid of Moscow Mitch McConnell. That sorry excuse for a human being has made Kentucky look bad for decades and he needs to be voted out of office already.
Isn't McConnell retiring?
@@madjayhawk Yes - Mitch is out at end of this term - good riddance!
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We need 1950's tax brackets! If you make more than 99% you should have at LEAST 50% taxes!! Subsidize low income citizens!!
@@mrping2603 or put towards the debt
The top 10% of earners already pay 90% of our taxes. The issue isnt tax revenue, it’s tax spending. But yeah, i dont disagree with what you are saying. Just that if we brought in more tax revenue, thats not going to stop them from blowing it on dumb stuff.
Those that make 99% more will only cut jobs or raise prices on the consumer. They can easily move money around and up and move their businesses to another country. Democrats some reason can’t understand that. How sbout tell the democrats to quit giving all our taxpayer money to criminal illegals. They feed, clothe, house, spending money and transportation wherever they want. Don’t see them doing that for any American citizens or veterans. The more tax money sent to DC the more they will piss away on BS.
@@elephantintheroom3854 Ya no you are completely wrong - First off top 10% pay around 75% of all income taxes not 90% - Second of all of course there is a tax revenue issue, look at the national debt... - Third test there is a spending issue but mostly because of corruption - We do need to raise taxes on the top 1%, they hold freaken 32.3% of all the wealth in the US!!!
@@elephantintheroom3854 You're missing the point. FDR policies incentivised the rich and powerful to spend way more of their money on workers and ultimately get infrastructure spending (oh and while still being rich and powerful). It created tons of good jobs without borrowing. We had balance with the New Deal. Now we just have unfettered greed and wealth-hoarding, all at the expense of workers' livelihoods and the non-rich.
These folks you interviewed are all incredibly insightful. Goes to show how much all of this is on everybodys mind.
I thought that socialist dude was braindead AF. All of these people are pretty stupid, tbqh. If you were logically minded you would seek information and become misinformed (Dem or Soc) or informed (Republican or Nationalist).
There's very little criticism towards the Trump tax cut. When the working class gets a $500 tax cut and the wealthy get a $60,000 tax cut. When there's a stipulation that was put in to the Trump tax cut for them to expire for the working class, but not for the wealthy. You heard the woman. She appreciates it.
Seriously, man. It's ludicrous
75% of career age people have a large amount of their personal wealth in a 401k, a corporate tax cuts directly increases the value of equities held in their portfolio
The amount of taxes cut for each individual is based on percentage of income (basically) so to compare someone making 25k a year and someone making 1 million annually is not comparable and in either case someone keeping more of their money that they earned wether it be from flipping burgers or managing hedge funds is a good thing because they will spend it on things that directly benefit their lives where as government will send it overseas or pay Dewayne Johnson millions for 4 post on X
@@PlaySA IT'S TRUE. Listen to Robert Reich, a professor in economics.
@@monclerpaintSo you believe in trickle down economics, God help you
I may not agree with everybody but we're all Americans, there is no more conservative Democrats, maybe VOTERS but not in Congress and definitely not in the white house right now I have voted on both sides of the aisle, and I'm voting trump Vance, when Kennedy and Tulsi gabbard joined with him just solidified my vote.
I believe they are more for this country as a whole and the the Democratic party has gone way too far Progressive left, just to woke for a country boy.
But I hope people in true need disabled and poor folks won't get mistreated because Republicans don't believe in handouts, that's not how America works we need to help
OUR PEOPLE FIRST, so we can help others later.
THIS was/is a brilliant documentary! KEEP PUSHING AMERICANS. DEMOCRACY IS THE WAY FORWARD. UNITE ! HUMAN TOGETHER STRONG!
The people of Elliot County in this community is conservative. They voted Democrat because their papaws did, not based on policies. Reagan turned Washington into Gucci Gulch, where lobbyists tell our officials what to do, not the people, and this is where a two party system fails. Both parties are right wing. The GOP is just much further right than the Democrats.
For democracy (lower case) to work, you have to vote not based on loyalty, but principle. About policy. (And to be fair, federal elections don't do much, rather they choose which oligarchs get policy they like. That needs to change, but the public is not effective at applying pressure to the federal government over election reform.)
Elliott County has no friends in Washington, and this makes them super vulnerable to confidence-playing Mussolini-wannabes.
They got suckered by Trump, and now that they vote for Trump because their elders did, they'll continue to do so, against their own interests, not recognizing that while the Democratic party doesn't work for them either, it at least works according to coalition and wants to prevent one-party autocracy. To be fair, Obama promised _Hope and Change_ and gave us the same neoliberalism that Clinton gave us (and continuing a lot of George W. Bush policies.)
The reason you vote for King Log in an FPTP election is to keep King Heron out of office, even Log does nothing for you.
Elliot County voted for King Heron, and even though it wasn't by majority, the Electoral College put Trump in the White House, and we all suffered for it.
If the poor, middle and working class unite and work together we would be a force to reckon with.
Uninformed I see! How’s 20 million criminal illegals helping these people in any way? Y taking any jobs that they might could’ve gotten by undercutting and working for peanuts. Or the $400 billion spent this year alone wining and dining and housing all those criminal illegals. Wasn’t Trump doing that the last 4 years. They remember living better when Trump was President compared to the shit show the last 4 years. But I know the lefts talking point. It’s Trumps fault! Just like it was Bush’s fault the whole 8 years of the great divider Obuma. When is it the Democrats fault for what they eff up? Amazing they never have fault according to CNN and their smooth brain followers.
These politicians come in there and lie to all those people knowing that most of them don't know what is really going down in D.C.
Did you even bother watching that vide? That sneering, contemptuous attitude is precisely why people turned to Trump. Those people are very self-aware and conscious that Trump isn't any better than Biden, but they vote for him out of spite, because the Dems have offered them nothing and even working against them by signing up to NAFTA. Knowing what city liberals think about them doesn't help either. What's the point of cheap stuff from China or Mexico, if you can't get a job to pay for it or have to move hundreds or thousands of miles away from friends and families to get one?
It's true they voted for Democrats because it was part of their family identity and "what we've always done," but they did switch their vote to Trump, so that means they can switch back if another person or party does something to earn their vote.
This is so strange. They speak as if they are leftist too and yet the conservatives have convinced them that the right in the solution. How the hell do you bridge a gap where people agree with you on almost everything and want the same goals, but vote the other way?
It sounds like your mind is opening to the fact that we are more similar than we are dissimilar. Politics are supposed to be about agreeing on the problems but disagreeing on the solutions.
You present a platform that addresses the needs of the constituents, and if they vote for you, you deliver on your promises.
@@adambartlett2780this person didn’t just open their open their mind, the people in that town would rather hold on hateful talking points than admit the obvious! Hate tastes so good… smh
Dude it’s cause most of the trump voters are disaffected liberals. Hell even trump himself was a democrat. The problem is trying to get people like you to open your eyes to all the corruption on the left. Sure trumps a billionaire and so is Elon musk. But it’s way more billionaire funding the democrats. Like trumps main message is America first.. that makes sense to a simple person like me. Yet we look at the immigration policies in all the big leftist/ democrat cities like Chicago/ New York and they seem to be prioritizing immigrants over other fellow Americans who’ve paid into the system for better or worse. That’s what’s is pissing people off like myself. There should be a hierarchy to things. I’m all for charity but I’m going to prioritize in order of closeness to me. My immediate family first, my extended family, my local community, and then my fellow Americans. I’m sorry for the predicament the migrants are in, but not so sorry that I’m willing to sacrifice a fellow American first. Cause if it ever got down to a dogfight with another country it’s America first all the way… 9/11 was one of the saddest days in American history, but it was also a very clarifying time for the older American that it was US over everyone else, and it drew us all closer for a time
@@IMayOrMayNotBeNoelG Sorry, but this all relies on them literally doing something they simply cannot and will not - vote for it in the first place.
The only person who has been able to do this is, Besher - so I guess it's possible.
I agree with you. I feel very similar. I wish more people on the West Coast could see through the DNC, or want what is right for America over their personal issues against Trump. Trump has an amazing team with RFKjr, Tulsi, Elon, and Vance. ❤
tax the fucking rich!!!
Never going to happen. Congress is full of rich people - guess who writes the laws.
@@Synoopy2 I feel like this is both true and false. Congress is full of "rich" people, and if they have generational wealth, truly can be in the 1%, but billionaires are an entire different level. You can make the argument that they buy congress, but I don't think the ultra rich that are the problem are really *in* congress. I know there are some ultra wealthy people in congress though, but my point is the overall makeup
Biden did put a 15% tax on corporations and he was going to raise that in his second term plus, he was going to tax the rich their fairer share. Biden was doing things like FDR and MTG blasted him for it (Biden turned it into an add for a short time). Hopefully Kamala will do continue with those ideas.
Who's richer biden family or the trumps 🤔 🤔🤔🤣😂 this is something trump wants to lose or not. 🤔🤔🤣😂
In the 50s, the highest tax rate was 70%. Only on what you made over $10 million. That was when America was great. Going back to those great days is most rightly returning taxes to what they were when we were great. Who doesn't want to be great again?
Push Mitch McConnel into retirement! But find a good true Trump republican to replace him.
He is too old to retire. He will just crumble away.
no. find some one who are for the people and the country not the party. trump republican is not the answer. im a republican myself and this is why i voted trump twice but trump keeps saying the same crap over and over he had the chance for 4 years why didnt he do what he promised my small town was once 10k ppl its dropped really low cause union jobs left to go to texas instead. my town suffered under trump when biden came in we gained some union jobs back to where alot of us are getting back. trump is just a billionaire thats only for the interest of himself and the rich. union jobs are the back bone of this country. what we need to do is actualy voting for people that say they are for us for chance ignore D and R but the middle massies has been for the people hes not republican nor democrat
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End racism
STOP with the race baiting! We are ALL Americans and poor is POOR. I will repeat the comment above- As long as rich people can convince poor people that other poor people are the reason that they are poor, there will always be poor people.
Quit calling Republicans rasist. It's not true.
@jeanmoore1525 🤣🤣🤣 Republicans are racist but they just don't know that they are...theres a term for it but I can't think of it right now...Berry Goldwater and people like him are the reason you think Republicans aren't racist...your politicians who actually are racist don't say overtly racists things...but they say things like "Walefare Queens" or "Comminists" or "Illegals"...and those are dog whistles for "black people" or "smart people" or "Mexicans"...I implore you to listen to the southern strategy straight from Barry's moth...he literally says it
These people are real Americans…. Hard working and totally honest!!!!
Sad watching these hard working, lovely Americans, truly believe that WE vote in our presidents....
Has no one considered that with the exception of people escaping dictatorships accepting too many migrants hurts the country they come from. The poverty and failures of those countries will never be addressed if the solution is to just leave. The corruption that ruined these countries is still there oppressing the people that can't just escape.
Unfortunately, the leaders of those countries often aren't too concerned with critics of their regime leaving - even if the entire country's economy goes to 💩, they'll still be fine. There are also few levers other countries can apply: UN Resolutions are about as effective as a Strongly Worded Letter, Sanctions predominantly hurt the population rather than the leadership, while military action often causes more problems than it solves. Even worse: the tyrants will increasingly get support from China and Russia to prop up their regime as they offer few Ts and Cs, unlike Western countries who often expect at least token efforts at reform in return for their investment or aid money.
The people leaving often have little to no future other than a subsistence existence back home, so unsurprisingly many want to leave - either with their families to start a complete new life elsewhere, or to make enough money overseas to send some back to support their families back home. Sending those from countries where dire punishments aren't meted out to regime critics addresses one problem (at the destination end) while doing nothing about the problems at the source end, which the world is effectively willing to shrug their shoulders and say "Not our problem".
There's an even bigger problem with regimes which don't take kindly to critics, as not only do they not mind critics leaving (well, except for prominent ones in the public eye, who they'd prefer were permanently shut up) but as there'd be a realistic prospect of returnees being killed or subjected to torture on return, signatories to the UN Convention Against Torture would be prohibited from returning them. So that leaves the problem of what to do with this cohort of refugees, as (a) no country can take them all in, but also (b) you can't have too many countries refusing to accept any, as if that happens you'll have a growing number of Stateless people, welcome neither in their own country nor anywhere else. Conflicts also increasingly tend to last decades rather than a couple of years.
Ideally, countries should hire sufficient asylum case handlers to be able to make decisions quickly, and perhaps also as a companion, ask migrants to compile a barebones CV, so if they have in demand skills, they can be sent to where they'd be most useful and productive in society. A multinational approach could also mean that if they had skills not in demand in the country they'd travelled to, but were in demand in country X, they could be resettled there (likely after some kind of basic skills check to quickly weed out overt liars). But then comes the thorny question of what to do with those that have no useful transferable skills but can't be returned to their home country.
Do these people realize that their reps are the ones that make the difference? Cause the President can put out his agenda, but Congress is the one that has to go through with making it into law, and the President only signs it
did you watch till the end? Their governor, that they identify more strongly with than Trump, is a democrat who ran primarily on strengthening unions and has added union jobs. These people are more politically aware than here in LA and SF
That's abt the best comment said on here. I don't think some people understand the roles of the 3 parts of government . Alot people think the president runs the show but he actually doesn't. Thats why I've been educating and teaching people the roles so they know it's not really the president ruling. The laws are made, congress passing it, then he aigna it.
Good news!!! Select the person not the party!!!🎈
Finally a video about what is actually going on in this country, it’s no longer republican vs Democrat it is what I’ve seen for a very long time, the working class vs the billionaires in Washington DC and we all need to unite around that fact!