Anand Giridharadas: Democrats don't know how to talk
Andrew Yang Podcast
Andrew Yang & Audacy
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🗓️ 3 August 2020
⏱️ 110 minutes
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Summary
Andrew and Zach recap the Big Tech hearings in Congress and take a closer look at some of Amazon's anti-competitive practices. Bestselling author Anand Giridharadas joins to talk about why philanthropy won't save us and tries to solve Democrats' messaging problem.
Watch this conversation on YouTube: https://youtu.be/2Ye-Jkql_jA
Anand Giridharadas - https://twitter.com/AnandWrites | https://the.ink | https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/539747/winners-take-all-by-anand-giridharadas
Andrew Yang - https://movehumanityforward.com | https://twitter.com/AndrewYang
Zach Graumann - https://twitter.com/Zach_Graumann
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Democrats don't know how to talk. |
| 0:02.1 | Democrats are unable to take things |
| 0:04.1 | that would make 90% of people's lives better |
| 0:06.2 | and sell them to 51% of people, |
| 0:08.0 | whereas Republicans are able to take things |
| 0:09.7 | that make 1% of people's lives better |
| 0:11.3 | and sell them 51% of people. |
| 0:12.9 | Their package of appeals is more potent than Democrats. |
| 0:18.7 | Like maybe we need to try and take lessons |
| 0:20.8 | from some of the appeals they're making. |
| 0:23.6 | And so one of the things I said on the debate stage was like, |
| 0:26.2 | look, you know one of the best sell for fixing healthcare |
| 0:29.7 | in this country is like right now it's terrible for anyone |
| 0:32.8 | who wants to start a business, switch jobs, |
| 0:35.4 | everything different. |
| 0:36.6 | Where do you got the people we've got? |
| 0:38.4 | The issue is the people we don't have, right? |
| 0:41.2 | And we have a sense of what some of those people's values are. |
| 0:43.8 | Why don't you hear Democrats saying |
| 0:46.5 | when we sent our boys to Normandy, |
| 0:49.7 | I think they didn't leave one person down on the battlefield. |
| 0:54.4 | They ran back, they put themselves in danger. |
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