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🗓️ 27 December 2019
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Since the economic crash of 2008, polling has consistently showed that young Americans are embracing socialism more than capitalism. Media outlets like Jacobin and organizations like DSA have emerged and they are mobilizing and informing new generations of political thinkers.
In this episode of "RUMBLE with Michael Moore," Michael is joined by Alex Press, an editor and writer at Jacobin, a labor organizer and a DSA member. She and Michael discuss the movement behind the Bernie Sanders campaign, health care, the Wizard of Oz, suicide, labor and more.
Rumble Reads:
You can read and subscribe to Jacobin Magazine here:
You can follow Alex Press here:
https://twitter.com/alexnpress
The laughable New York Times story from 2015 that Michael mentioned is here:
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/29/us/politics/bernie-sanders-campaign.html
The media and organizing project that Alex mentioned, Labor Notes, is here:
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0:00.0 | You know, I actually want to tell a story about this with Medicare for all because obviously |
0:06.4 | this is sort of Sanders, one of his key issues, but also something that the left has long |
0:10.6 | said is a bare minimum of what we need in this country. |
0:13.8 | We need to start having universal healthcare. |
0:16.0 | We need to remove the profit motive from the healthcare system. |
0:19.4 | We need to make sure people are not homeless or bankrupt because they got cancer, which |
0:24.1 | happens all the time. |
0:27.8 | I mean, Sanders, there was this moment where in a recent town hall, I think he was having, |
0:33.5 | I forget what state it was. |
0:35.1 | There was a veteran who stood up and said, and it was about healthcare, this conversation |
0:39.4 | that was happening. |
0:40.4 | He said to Sanders, I owe, it was something like $159,000 in medical debt because of some |
0:46.8 | condition or something. |
0:49.1 | He said, Bernie, I don't know what I'm going to do. |
0:52.5 | Bernie said, how are you going to pay for that? |
0:54.4 | He said, I'm not going to. |
0:55.5 | I think I'm going to kill myself. |
0:57.8 | It was this incredibly upsetting, terrifying moment, Sanders immediately said, let's talk |
1:03.2 | after, you're not going to kill yourself, we're going to get this all fixed. |
1:06.7 | I think last week, there was a follow-up where at another town hall, this guy was speaking |
1:15.1 | and he was alongside Sanders and he said that Sanders had assisted him in getting his |
1:20.2 | Congress people to help him with fixing these insurance problems that were keeping him |
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