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Hear the Bern

24 - Back to the Future (w/ Harvey Kaye & Cornel West)

Hear the Bern

Bernie 2020

News Commentary, News, , Politics

4.81.9K Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2019

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Briahna dives into the legacy of FDR's New Deal with the help of Harvey Kaye and Cornel West. Dr. Kaye, a professor of democracy at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, explains how Bernie is adapting FDR's populist vision for the 21st century. Dr. West, who has taught at Harvard, Princeton, and the Union Theological Seminary, argues for reviving a multiracial, working class movement that addresses inequality along racial, gender, and class lines. Harvey Kaye on Twitter: https://twitter.com/harveyjkaye Cornel West on Twitter: https://twitter.com/CornelWest

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0:00.0

For as long as I've been alive, conservatives have tried to own both history and patriotism as their exclusive territory.

0:10.0

You know what I mean.

0:12.0

They often seem to have a heightened affinity for flags, eagles, and

0:16.2

anthems as though those things are Republican symbols rather than symbols of our

0:21.6

republic. I mean, the Donald Trump literally has a

0:24.9

penchant for embracing the US flag like hugging it embracing it like a blankie. Conservative legal commentators cite the founding fathers like they're the voice of God herself,

0:38.0

despite obvious evidence of their ability to make mistakes.

0:42.0

Mistakes like not considering black people as right to having

0:46.8

human beings, for instance.

0:49.5

Even the slogan, Make America Great Again, hearkens back to history, and imagined history to be sure.

0:57.0

The good old days before so-called cultural Marxists, S.J.W.

1:02.0

Antifa, and other phantoms of conservative paranoia, infiltrated America

1:07.2

and ruined everything.

1:10.2

This is part of why we often dig into history here on Hear the Burn,

1:14.9

because the real story is more complex, authentic, fascinating, and ultimately

1:20.8

compelling than the distorted narratives bandied about by the right in service of a very specific, very monied, highly prejudicial agenda.

1:31.0

The real story is a story of struggle and slow transformation from the bottom up of

1:37.6

hard-won victories over opposing forces of setbacks and years spent with little to no movement on the ground only for sweeping

1:45.6

changes to take place seemingly overnight, of pressuring even sympathetic leaders to do what is right.

1:54.7

History is also important to Bernie,

1:57.5

who traces his politics back to key moments and figures

2:01.5

which made an impression on him in his youth.

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