Episode 166 - The Case for Electoralism (w/ Rev. Wendy Hamilton & Ally Dalsimer)
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🗓️ 11 April 2022
⏱️ 57 minutes
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This week, Briahna spoke to two progressive congressional candidates hoping to make a difference in Northern Virginia & Washington DC -- Ally Dalsimer & Rev. Wendy Hamilton respectively. Hamilton, formerly Andrew Yang's Director of Spiritual Outreach, is hoping to unseat Eleanor Holmes Norton, who has been DC's House Delegate since 1991. Ally Dalsimer, an environmental activist, is hoping to unseat Gerald Connolly, who has been occuping his seat in the 11th district since 2009. Briahna asked the candidates not only what it will take to win, but whether they've considered how to overcome disaffection for electoralism on the left, and why anyone should commit their hard earned dollars to a congressional campaign when so may elected progressives have been disappointing as of late. Also, Briahna asked how can the left hold their candidates accountable -- using as an example the tension between Jamaal Bowman and the DSA. Do organizations influence candidates or do they kowtow to them?
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Produced by Armand Aviram.
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| 0:00.0 | You're like us, your grassroots trying to raise your money. |
| 0:02.8 | And it's ridiculous. |
| 0:04.2 | And it's just so frustrating to me that the American people |
| 0:07.2 | are being led into the way that they think. |
| 0:11.1 | And they don't even realize it. |
| 0:12.8 | They really genuinely don't. |
| 0:14.2 | They genuinely think, oh my god, we have got to support Ukraine. |
| 0:17.6 | And don't realize that we need to look at Syria, Yemen, Palestine, |
| 0:23.1 | Western Sephora. |
| 0:24.4 | I mean, the US military is in 140 countries. |
| 0:27.9 | I'm so glad to be joined today by Reverend Wendy Hamilton, who |
| 0:57.8 | was running for Congress in the Great District of Washington, DC. |
| 1:01.5 | Welcome, Reverend. |
| 1:02.7 | Thank you so much. |
| 1:03.7 | Glad to be here. |
| 1:04.8 | And also, Ali Dalsimer, who's running in Virginia's 11th district, |
| 1:08.2 | welcome, Ali. |
| 1:09.4 | Thank you so much, Brianna. |
| 1:10.8 | I'm super excited to be here. |
| 1:12.6 | All right. |
| 1:12.9 | So people who listen to this show are going |
| 1:14.8 | to have one question top of mind, because there's |
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