Biden v. Trump: The Perfect Picture of the Decline of U.S. Empire
The Socialist Program with Brian Becker
The Socialist Program
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🗓️ 11 July 2024
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Is Donald Trump on his way to a landslide victory? Joe Biden’s disastrous performance raises the question: Why are Democratic leaders sticking with him as their party heads into the abyss?
Brian is joined by Walter Smolarek, editor of Liberation News and a producer of The Socialist Program.
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| 0:00.0 | Joe Biden is insisting that he and only he can beat Donald Trump in November. |
| 0:07.9 | But the polls tell a different story. I mean all the polls. Donald Trump may be on his way to a landslide victory. |
| 0:17.2 | The two-party system enters a new era of chaos and uncertainty. |
| 0:22.5 | We need a new system. We need a new society. We need to demand that which may have sounded |
| 0:28.6 | impossible even a few weeks ago, but is not only realizable, but an imperative necessity. |
| 1:01.2 | Music but an imperative necessity. Welcome to the Socialist Program. I'm your host, Brian Becker. Today we're talking with Walter Smalerick. Walter is the editor of Liberation News. |
| 1:06.2 | That's LiberationNews.org. He's also a producer of this show. Walter, thanks for joining. |
| 1:12.5 | Thanks very much for having me. Walter, we've had you on a couple times. I know you're the |
| 1:17.2 | producer of the show, one of them, but we've also had conversations. You know, once a month, |
| 1:22.8 | we have a patrons-only seminar for the socialist program, people who are subscribers to the show, |
| 1:28.3 | supporters of the show, get to ask us anything they want to ask us. Well, I want to have a |
| 1:33.6 | similar conversation with you about what's dominating the news in the last two weeks in the |
| 1:39.3 | United States. And that is, of course, whether or not Joe Biden will remain at the top of the ticket for the Democratic Party |
| 1:45.9 | in the showdown with Donald Trump. Of course, there are many other candidates, many more capable |
| 1:51.6 | candidates in the field. Claudia de la Cruz, for instance, the Party for Socialism and Liberation. |
| 1:57.1 | Jill Stein is running. There are other independent candidates. But of course, the ruling class |
| 2:02.5 | capitalist political system, what they call the greatest democracy in the world, basically |
| 2:08.3 | guarantees that either a Democrat or a Republican will win. Joe Biden won the election in 2020 |
| 2:14.4 | with a 7 million popular vote advantage over Donald Trump. He narrowly won the |
| 2:19.8 | electoral college. All the polls show Donald Trump beating Joe Biden now. And as you know, |
| 2:26.4 | as the country knows, I think as the whole world knows, Joe Biden was so terrible in the debate |
| 2:32.6 | with Donald Trump. Couldn't speak, couldn't remember where |
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