when you talked about how K Street will never embrace them, unless they pull a

Christian cinema or a Nancy Pelosi, right? Pelosi went to Congress 30 years ago,

backing the policy that she now won't even allow members of Congress to vote on

or you know, wouldn't when she was the speaker.

And this pattern of co-optation that we observed from the congressional black

caucus to the contemporary progressive caucus from Pelosi to cinema to perhaps

another generation that's learning the allure of celebrity as an alternative to

the visionary governments that we've seen from this and some of our other colleagues

on the panel right now, Sean, that particular and this other theme that I'm

on he raised about how and this also reminds me of the letter from Birmingham,

Jail, you know, King says that we should expect the intransigence of our

enemies. There's not a lot you can do to change the views of people who are

committed to whatever model of hatred or militarism or capitalism or what

have you that we confront, but it is that allies, the so-called allies, the

people who claim to get it, who whether because it's selling out for their

career or selling out for, you know, some perceived political opportunity,

and I'm the only candidate in San Francisco to have ever stood in

November supporting universal healthcare and the Green New Deal.

And I had to fight the opposition of every group in the city that claimed to

be left and the ones that were smearing me called themselves socialists.

You know, I've seen not just the deference of the left to the

centrist establishment, but its wholesale co-optation and subversion.

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