Do Not Become Hopeless: A Conversation with Robert Reich

The PoliticsGirl Podcast

MeidasTouch Network, Leigh McGowan

News Commentary, Politics, News

4.9 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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As today’s guest, Robert Reich reminds us, wishful thinking won’t save us from what’s coming, but neither should we bury ourselves in cynicism. The truth is, the bottom 90% of the country have been ignored for 50 years and while Trump might have spoken to them and swayed them, he will not help them. So this is not the time to give up. This is the time to use every lever of power to stop the worst of authoritarianism from taking over and to stand behind the people and organizations fighting for our country’s integrity, its principles, and our freedoms. Perhaps we can even use this destruction as an opportunity to build something better. The mainstream media has let us down, so we need to support those doing independent work more than ever. The extremists have been able to shape the minds of fair amount of this nation because the far right invested in their voices. Please give people like me a chance to fight back. If you find worth in what we do, please SUBSCRIBE to PoliticsGirl Premium. You’ll get this podcast ad free, along with the rants, directly to your inbox so even if I’m off social media you will still get my work. I can’t do this without your help. If that interests you, please go to https://www.politicsgirl.com/premium and subscribe today!! Thank you so much! xoPG Guest Socials: https://robertreich.org/ Substack: http://robertreich.substack.com Inequality Media LinkTree: https://linktr.ee/inequalitymedia Twitter: @RBReich @InequalityMedia As always, please RATE and SUBSCRIBE so we can grow the show, open the dialogue, and inspire change moving forward! All show links here!: https://linktr.ee/politicsgirl This episode is sponsored by: https://ShopMDHearing.com code: PoliticsGirl https://calm.com/politicsgirl https://MarleySpoon.com/OFFER/POLITICSGIRL code: PoliticsGirl TEXT PoliticsGirl to 64000 for DeleteMe

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0:00.0	Let's be clear what's happened here. Just stand back. What you have over the past 45 years
0:06.2	is the American economy growing by leaps and bounds. Most people going absolutely nowhere.
0:12.8	I mean, in terms of their actual ability to buy just what they need, their jobs are becoming
0:19.7	less secure and more and more of the wealth
0:23.3	is going to this handful, 660 billionaires who now are controlling more and more of our
0:31.5	media and more and monopolizing, more and more of our industry.
0:36.3	This is the truth.
0:39.3	This is what's happening, and this is what we have to stand against. Hello, and welcome to the Politics Girl podcast. I'm your host
0:53.9	Lee McGowan. Let's get into it. In the days following the election, I'm going to have a host of different guests on to give perspectives on what happened and where we go from here. The goal will be to open your mind and best prepare you to manage what's coming for us and hopefully give you hope and insight on what we can actually do to not succumb to the worst instincts of our new leaders and our own fears.
1:15.3	As today's guest, Robert Reich wrote in his substack after the election,
1:19.3	a lot of people are coping with this election by choosing to minimize or deny the results.
1:24.7	There are many people out here who just believe that the second Trump term
1:27.7	won't be much different than the first, and as Professor Reich puts it, this is wishful and
1:32.8	dangerous thinking. Robert Reich, a graduate of Dartmouth and Oxford and Yale, is a professor
1:38.1	of public policy at UC Berkeley, a senior fellow at the Bloom Center for Developing Economies,
1:43.4	a man who served in three national
1:45.4	administrations, including as Secretary of Labor under President Clinton. He is also the author
1:50.0	of 18 books, co-creator of the 2017 Netflix documentary Saving Capitalism and the 2013 film
1:57.0	Inequality for All, as well as the co-founder of inequality media and the Economic Policy
2:02.2	Institute. Professor Reich also seems to have a very grounded conceptual idea of what happened
2:08.0	in this election, and he won't sugarcoat it for you, which as uncomfortable as it can feel is
2:12.5	exactly what we need to get our heads around. So without further ado, please welcome my guest.
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