Norm Finkelstein Takes Down Bernie and the Squad

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🗓️ 11 November 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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For $5 a month, become a Useful Idiot! Get extended interviews, Thursday Throwdowns, and a chance to have your comment read on the show in the Absurd Arena at http://usefulidiots.substack.com Click here for the extended interview with Norm Finkelstein: https://open.substack.com/pub/usefulidiots/p/extended-episode-norm-finkelstein?r=je5va&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web Norman “X” Finkelstein returns to Useful Idiots, fired up and with a scathing critique of Bernie Sanders and The Squad. He begins with a definition of radicalism and The Left, citing the writing of Rosa Luxemburg: “The whole job of The Left is to constantly point out the conflict of interest between the ruling elite, the capitalist class, and yourself. To constantly point out: ‘Their interests are not your interests. Don’t be fooled.’” Historically, he says, Bernie Sanders has upheld this left tradition, calling out the crooks who steal your money. But when it came to Ukraine, “the bunch of crooks metamorphosed into a band of angels. You’re telling me the same people who are cheating you day in and day out, stealing your wealth, stealing your labor, those same people are suddenly heartbroken by what’s happening to the Ukrainian people?” Norm does not pull any punches in his assessment of The Squad and Sanders: “The day the squad and Bernie voted for war credits for Ukraine, that whole progressive enterprise turned into a rotting corpse.” Plus, subscribe to hear the full interview where Norm dissects the midterm election results, the Israel election, and the weaponization of identity politics. It’s all this, and more, on this week’s episode of Useful Idiots. Check it out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Useful Idiots. I'm one of your hosts, Katie Halfer.
0:09.0	And I am the other host, Aaron Mate. How are you, Katie? I'm good. You. I'm great. And
0:13.6	I'll be even greater if you go to Useful Idiots.substack.com. We can set up for all kinds of
0:17.8	bonus content, including our Thursday Throwdown, where we give you your exclusive dose of
0:23.1	midweek media madness, all the clips that we can't make fun of on Monday morning because
0:28.8	they happen afterwards. We make fun of on Thursday and the Thursday Throwdown. And also you
0:33.3	can get access to the absurd arena, which is where you can join our comment board and
0:38.0	interact with us and other use flooddiet. And we respond very exciting stuff. Yeah. And
0:43.1	we'll respond right now. Actually, with some questions from the absurd arena. Wilson,
0:47.5	what do we got? So we have two useful idiots asking very similar questions. And this
0:51.2	seems to be a big theme after election night. First, we got Joel Olman saying, are there
0:55.7	any races with significant third party candidates? We had only one libertarian and one independent
1:00.6	and one green running on my ballot. If none of these political parties can mount a full
1:04.8	blown ticket anywhere, let alone nationally. How are we ever going to stop outflank the
1:09.4	corporate Democrats and these party insider hack Republicans? And then along with that
1:14.3	Dave F asked, every week you show us just how much Democrats and Republicans suck. Is
1:19.3	it even possible for the working class to flush both of these parties down the drain?
1:23.3	Seriously, from where I'm sitting, democracy for the working class has been non-existent
1:27.1	for decades. Well, in terms of independent candidates, the example that stuck out to
1:32.3	me in this cycle was Matthew Ho. Yeah, friend of show. Matthew. From show US Army veteran
1:38.3	and Rand for Senate and North Carolina on the green party ticket, I believe. And you
1:44.2	covered this where basically the Democratic Party put a lot of effort to make it very
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