Episode 762 | The Problem with Pete's Plan | No. You're Not Rich | Social Conservatives Like Bernie?

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🗓️ 2 December 2019

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Episode 762 |

Mayor Pete is pushing hard against providing college for the rich kids of CEOs. This is a disingenuous argument that creates a means-tested program destined to collapse in the future. It is also an argument that leaves the families that make between $100,000 to $150,000 a year without free college.
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The way Pete is able to make this argument is the same way Democrats and Republicans have been able to make this argument for years: people who think they're rich but really aren't are the ones who bare the brunt of these means-tested programs. This inevitably sows dissent and discord around the program. It eventually leads to more animus between the working class and people who think they're rich but they're really not.
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Ross Douthat of the New York Times put out a piece championing a case for Bernie Sanders based on the idea that Sanders will not stoke the wedge issues of social liberalism (abortion, LGBTQ rights, Race issues, etc.) The problem is, Republicans will still label Bernie a social radical and, even if he is, would we want him to go mum on these issues to appeal to social conservatives?

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0:11.3	Welcome to the Benjamin Dixon Show.
0:15.0	I am your host Benjamin Dixon.
0:16.0	Today is Monday, December 2nd.
0:18.0	Thanks so much for joining me.
0:19.0	I hope you had a fabulous break.
0:21.0	I enjoyed my two days away, and we're back in the saddle. Let's jump right in. I want to play a clip for you of Mayor Pete in one of his recent advertisements explaining why we don't want to pay for college for rich kids.
0:35.6	I want to go over that and then I want to explain to you why this particular messaging
0:41.7	is so insidious and if people don't understand
0:46.9	the vitriol and admittedly the ire that we are throwing towards Mayor Pete, you'll understand once we get done
0:57.0	breaking it down. Let's start with the clip.
1:00.0	I believe we should move to make college affordable for everybody.
1:03.5	There's some voices saying well that doesn't count unless you go even further
1:06.8	unless it's free even for kids and millionaires but I only want to make promises that we can keep.
1:11.8	Look what I'm proposing is plenty of
1:13.9	bold. I mean these are big ideas. We can gather the majority to drive those big
1:18.4	ideas through without turning off half the country before we even get into office.
1:22.1	And that I think is the best
1:23.7	governing strategy as well as what it's going to take in order to win. Lord knows we
1:27.1	got to win. I'm Pete Buttigieg and I approve this message. So the basic premise of
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