Certain people in their neighborhoods have worse odds of getting shot or being a victim of violent crime than a soldier in a war zone.

And that is not an immaterial fact. That is a profound issue that has to be discussed.

In 2020, it was nearly impossible for people to raise their hands within progressive circles and say, hey, I don't like the rhetoric.

The debate was co-opted by white progressives who often were speaking from a position where they

didn't have to live the cost of the policies that they were espousing.

Welcome to The Lost Debate, a show for political eclectics.

I'm Robbie Gupta. And I'm Ricky Schlaught. Well, we have a guest co-host today, Camille Foster, who's the co-host of the fifth column podcast and a producer at Freethink. Camille, welcome to the podcast. Thank you for having me. Appreciate it and glad to join you. Well, we have a lot to talk about today. Emil. We're going to talk about the midterm elections and different battling messaging between Democrats and Republicans over

crime and whether we truly have a crime waiver or not. We're also going to talk about PayPal,

who's under fire right now because they have been censoring users. They haven't really been

explaining exactly why in certain cases. So we'll discuss why some of these

financial corporations have certain obligations around how they police speech or not, where they

should draw the line. We're also going to talk about a fascinating case making its way through

the Supreme Court this term. It may be getting a lot of attention in legal circles, but it really

isn't at that Dobbs sort of affirmative action level. And we'll talk about

why maybe it should be. But first, let's talk about inflation. Literally, as we were preparing for

this episode this morning, the new CPI numbers came out for inflation. It shows that CPI is at an

8.2% year over year increase. The expectation, I always wonder what we mean by the expectation,

but the expectation was 8.1%. So it comes at it slightly higher than the expectation was. I don't

know exactly what to make of the politics of this, but it certainly seems like we're just not

out of the woods yet on inflation. I think we've been promised for a long time that this was behind us.

And it just seems to be. Yes. So transitory. Transitory as in not really supposed to happen, at least not supposed to be permanent. This seems pretty durable at this point. I believe these are like the last numbers that we get before the midterm elections. Correct. Yeah. So this seems significant for the election. Yeah, 82% of voters say it's very, you're extremely important right now.

So that's up at the very top of priorities. Well, let's move on to a different debate that's raging in the midterms. And I think this is, strangely, if you would have asked me, what would be the dominant conversation in October? I would have thought it would be the economy. It would be inflation. And it's not that it's not a

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