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Hear the Bern

48 - Say It Ain't So, Joe (w/ Matt Bruenig)

Hear the Bern

Bernie 2020

News Commentary, News, , Politics

4.81.9K Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2020

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

With the race down to Bernie versus Joe, Briahna digs into the specifics (or lack thereof) of Biden's health care plan with Matt Bruenig of the People's Policy Project. The People's Policy Project: https://www.peoplespolicyproject.org/ The Bruenigs Podcast: https://www.patreon.com/thebruenigs Matt on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MattBruenig

Transcript

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0:00.0

You know if Bernie Sanders never said he was a Democratic socialist

0:04.1

based on what he's saying people wouldn't be calling him a Democratic

0:06.8

socialist

0:07.9

that's how he characterizes himself in sort of European terms of the

0:11.4

Democratic socialist parties in Europe.

0:14.0

But why is she having trouble?

0:16.2

Well, I think that Bernie is speaking to a yearning that is deep and real and he has credibility on it.

0:28.0

And that is the absolute enormous concentration of wealth and a small group of people with the middle class

0:36.1

now being able to be shown being left out.

0:39.8

There used to be a basic bargain.

0:42.4

If you contribute it to the profitability of enterprise,

0:45.8

you got to share in the profit.

0:47.9

That's been broken.

0:48.8

Productivity's up.

0:50.3

Wages are stagnant.

0:51.5

But Hillary's talking about that as well.

0:52.4

Well, it's, but it's, it's, it's but it's it's relatively new for Hillary to talk about that.

0:58.0

Hillary's focus has been on other things up to now and that's been Bernie's no one questions Bernie's authenticity on those issues.

1:09.2

It's been one week since this race came down to Bernie versus Biden.

1:13.6

And we're already seeing how Donald Trump would run

1:16.1

to the left of Biden on issues like criminal justice, trade,

1:19.8

and protecting Social Security and Medicare.

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