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The David Pakman Show
David Pakman
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ποΈ 19 February 2024
β±οΈ 63 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I hope everybody had a good weekend. I want to start today by opening a conversation with those in my audience to see where you are on what I'm seeing as a trend |
| 0:18.0 | among some of the people who write to criticize me from the left. Now as you all not I'm sure know by now. 90% of the |
| 0:28.0 | criticism I receive is from the right. Why? Well because this is a left-wing show. This is a progressive |
| 0:33.8 | show. I am a progressive social Democrat in the mold of Northern Europe and the |
| 0:39.4 | Swedish Democratic Party, etc. |
| 0:43.5 | That's why most of the criticism I get is from the right. |
| 0:47.6 | But there's something particular |
| 0:50.0 | about the criticism I'm receiving from the left, |
| 0:52.4 | especially recently that I want. about the |
| 0:53.3 | criticism I'm receiving from the left especially recently that I want to tell you about to see where the core of my audience is on this issue |
| 1:00.6 | and what I'm talking about is the following. |
| 1:04.0 | There's a notion that I'm seeing increasingly prevalent in the criticism I get from the left. |
| 1:11.0 | That is, I am not left enough and implicit in that is that the goal, the ideal, would be |
| 1:20.3 | to be as left as humanly possible. |
| 1:23.0 | In other words, the litmus test or the standard |
| 1:27.4 | is that the further left you are, |
| 1:30.4 | the more virtuous you are, the more |
| 1:34.0 | deserving of support you are, |
| 1:36.0 | the more legitimate you are in the realm of politics |
| 1:41.0 | and social justice. |
| 1:42.0 | And the context, of course is people writing to me and saying David you're not really on |
| 1:49.1 | the left because you're not as left as this person or that person or whatever the case may be. |
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