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Hear the Bern

36 - Keep on the Sunnyside (w/ Kal Penn)

Hear the Bern

Bernie 2020

News Commentary, News, , Politics

4.81.9K Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2019

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Belén Sisa, Latino Press Secretary for the campaign, talks to actor Kal Penn about his time in the White House, that time she got arrested in Chuck Schumer's office, and making the US immigration system funny on Kal's latest show, Sunnyside. Then, Briahna sits down with the teenage leadership of US Youth Climate Strike for a quick conversation spanning TikTok, ASMR, and hot pickles. Kal on Twitter: twitter.com/kalpenn Sunnyside on NBC: www.nbc.com/sunnyside

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0:00.0

During his October rally in Queens, the biggest rally of any candidate in the race to date,

0:06.0

Bernie Sanders memorably asked the crowd.

0:09.0

I want you all to take a look around and find someone you don't know. Are you willing to fight

0:18.9

for that person who you don't even know as much as you're willing to fight for yourself.

0:27.0

That call to solidarity has resonated broadly, perhaps because many of us seem to intrinsically understand that without

0:36.7

solidarity the diffuse interests of diverse groups of Americans have limited political leverage. In other words, we are much

0:45.9

stronger when we stand together. Not me, us. Perhaps nowhere is the need for solidarity greater than in the context of immigration.

0:57.0

You see, non-citizens are already vulnerable,

1:01.0

with limited rights under the law and for decades the notion of

1:05.7

scarcity has been used to discourage the spirit of hospitality the Lady

1:10.9

Liberty's famous inscription claims to represent.

1:15.0

Anti-immigrant fear-mongering should never be accepted, ever.

1:20.0

But the sad reality is, it becomes more persuasive to voters when they feel like they're fighting a zero-sum game

1:28.0

when half of Americans are living a paycheck to paycheck.

1:32.0

Life expectancy has gone down for the first time

1:35.0

in American history and mine is the first generation expected to do worse than our

1:41.3

parents.

1:42.6

As a result, politicians often lean into the idea of a conflict of interest

1:48.4

between low-income Americans and immigrants, promising to protect one group at the expense of the other.

1:55.9

We must protect our borders from the ravages of other countries making our products, stealing our companies, and destroying our jobs.

2:07.0

They took our jobs!

2:09.0

Yeah, they're down, they're down!

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