I'm curious what you think the left should do. I mean, do you think that we on some level

in the absence of a genuinely left candidate or like a more, like a less financially

compromised candidate than Roe might end up being? Go ahead and throw a lot behind him because

he's better than the alternative, lesser to evil style. Should the left be supporting third-party

candidates?

Do you think that, you know, we should be trying to get ourselves together and run a

genuine left sort of insurgency within the Democratic Party on the Democratic ticket so that can be

in the debate stage and all of that stuff? I think that we should, first of all, dispense of the idea of the left because I can't really,

I don't totally understand what it is anymore.

Why do you say that?

But there are these general principles of class and war that we should all agree on and that

many people who don't identify as leftists would agree on.

Sure. And that it's not, you're not allowed. people who don't identify as leftists would agree on.

Sure. And that it's not, you're not allowed in the Democratic Party to advance any policies that would

materially change the established rules on class and war.

Yeah.

So I see history accelerating from now until the next case.

The midterms may change things internationally.

I mean, one of the reasons Israel is rushing towards war with Iran is they're afraid

Trump will begin to lose control after the midterms.

And so they have this window. But up until 2028, there, they're going to be a series of wars.

The financial situation in the U.S. is going to continue to worsen. And we will possibly,

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