170. How to Move Forward: Changing the Two Party System with Andrew Yang

Here's Where It Gets Interesting

Sharon McMahon

Government, History, Storytelling, Education

4.9 • 15.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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On this episode of Sharon Says So, Sharon has a conversation with former presidential candidate Andrew Yang. After coming off the campaign trail in 2020, Yang began searching for a solution that could change the two-party system in US politics. He recently founded the Forward Party with the hopes to give the American people more viable options for leaders who aim to represent their constituency over party expectations and financiers. Join us as we talk about both the goals and the trials associated with changing the infrastructure of political campaigning.

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0:00.0	Hello friends, welcome, so excited you are joining me today and I am so excited to be sharing my conversation with Andrew Yang.
0:08.0	You are tired of the left right binary in the United States.
0:12.0	If you are tired of your only choice as being in the Democrats and the Republicans, you're going to want to hear about the forward party and about the plans.
0:20.0	Andrew Yang and others have for it.
0:23.0	Let's start.
0:25.0	I'm Sharon McMahon.
0:27.0	And welcome to the Sharon says so podcast.
0:31.0	Thank you so much for being here.
0:33.0	Thank you for having me Sharon.
0:35.0	I too am pumped.
0:36.0	I've been looking forward to this for a long time.
0:38.0	Oh, thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
0:40.0	So I would love to have you give people who have not been following you or not familiar with your movement to create a viable third party, the forward party of the United States who have not been following all of your previous campaign adventures.
0:53.0	I would like to give everybody just a very brief overview about your background and how you arrived at this point.
0:59.0	Oh, sure.
1:00.0	So I'm the son of immigrants, my father's a physicist, my mother was a statistician.
1:05.0	So I was a very nerdy Asian child grew up not really thinking I was going to ever do anything public or political became an entrepreneur, ran a company that was acquired in 2009.
1:18.0	And then I started a nonprofit that helped create jobs in the Midwest and the South primarily.
1:23.0	And I became convinced that our economy was transforming in fundamental ways that we're going to push more Americans to the side.
1:29.0	And then Donald Trump became our president in 2016, which I took as frankly an outgrowth of the economic transformation.
1:36.0	And so I decided to run for president primarily to inform Americans about these economic transformations. I propose something very dramatic, a universal basic income as a way to help us get through this time.
1:49.0	And I'm still trying to solve the same problems I ever was, but I've become convinced that there is no solution that does not involve mending our broken political system. So that's what I'm working on now.
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