This is not because the Democrats are incompetent or because sinister Republicans keep thwarting

the righteous liberal will.

It is democratic failure straight up and nothing else.

The agent of change isn't interested in the job at hand.

Inequality just doesn't spark their imagination.

It is the point at which their famous compassion peeters out.

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Welcome to the award winning best of the left podcast with clips today from Economic Update

with Professor Richard Wolff.

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Now.

Let me cut right to the bone here of what I think the problem is.

The name of the problem is capitalism.

The economic system that governs the United States, that shapes so profoundly our politics,

our culture, our very daily life.

I believe that that capitalism over the last 40 years has created a syndrome, a pattern,

a behavior that culminates in the victory, surprising so many of Donald Trump.

Let me explain.

Over the last half century or at least the last 40 years, capitalism in the United States

has functioned in a particular way.

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